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you have 10 minutes for yourself right
now to do something that will leave you
with a profound feeling of desire for
closeness and attachment with your
creator here's a little guided
meditation I made sit back relax enjoy
when you think about the soul look it's
very hard to think about a soul but just
think about an entity which has pure God
Consciousness it knows nothing but the
reality and truth
that God is real God is
everything it's not in any way troubled
by any type of philosophical
questions it has a very very
clear understanding of reality and that
reality is is just pure
godliness and that situation is
profoundly pleasurable as
well and it's hanging out in this state
which is timeless because it's in the
spiritual Realms and it's very
comfortable obviously it's like a fish
being in water for a soul to be in
heaven for a soul to bask in the Rays of
Godly Revelation is the most natural
thing the most comfortable
thing and one day it gets a tap on the
shoulder and they say put on a parachute
you're
jumping and it comes down to a
body and immediately it feels incredibly
stifled it feels
like
it's being
constricted both the input and the
output it can't see what it used to see
anymore it's all covered up all of its
spiritual sensitivity is being drowned
out by you know imagine you're trying to
hear a very very very important
conversation lifechanging
information but it's being spoken in a
whisper in the next room and in the
meantime in the room that you're sitting
in there are 100 radios playing
different channels at full blast think
about that
pain if you have sensory issues like me
you
know I didn't it doesn't even have to be
100 radios it could just be being in a
public
place she's plunged into this world of
this over
stimulation all the the physical stimuli
the sights and the sounds and smells and
everything and it's not what she wants
she just wants to be purely connected to
unmitigated God Consciousness the way
she was for eternity and now that's all
being covered up and it's very
frustrating it's very frustrating okay
so we're feeling the feeling we should
be feeling now is compassion it's a very
frustrating situation for this poor
little
Nish and maybe even in this physical
world she sees things that are
scary like people who do things that go
against hashem's plan for this world and
that's
very
frightening and now okay get ready you
can handle
it the host body that this soul
is trapped
in starts doing stuff that the Soul's
very uncomfortable with whether it's
actions or speech or even just thought
in some ways thought can be the greatest
torture for the soul cuz thought is the
most intimate and action is the most
extraneous is the most
external but thoughts going on inside of
you and that's where the soul is it's
inside of you so she's being exposed to
this movie and she doesn't want to be
there and she can't close her eyes it's
not comfortable for her
okay so we're feeling compassion for
this
beautiful spiritual entity
that's being subjected to this really
painful scary experience all
right and now we're going to up the anti
we're going to reflect on the fact that
this Soul even down here is Tethered Is
Anchored In God
himself and as it were by extension he
is experiencing everything that the soul
is experiencing he is undergoing this
pain and this is called gas the Exile of
God's presence he is experiencing the
frustration and the the the the
distraction and
the the Fright of being in such a a
world where godliness is not obvious and
clear
and this is a
very painful very painful situation and
our natural response should be that of
compassion this is
pitiful okay and now we think
about that there is a there's a way
out there is a way out there is a
way to relieve the
the
pain and to bring the soul
back to Oneness with its
source and that is what we call the
kisses and the Hogs which is Torah and
Mitzvah the kisses is the mouth to mouth
speaking hashem's words that's
Torah the hug is the body to body being
hashem's body being using your body to
do his
actions his hand becomes your hand when
you give Saka when you engage in
kindness and we're thinking
about this
feeling of
reunion and the possibility of reunion
and the accessibility of it that it's
really accessible that there nothing
really preventing us as as awful as the
situation is that we were just
describing it and yet nothing can really
stop us it's not like you know go become
rich well I don't have control over that
go become tall I I don't I don't have
control over that but learn Torah do
Mitzvah you can do that anytime anywhere
even under the worst conditions nobody
can stop you from that so we have this
ability now to remove this whole
terrible situation that was
so tragic and we can make it all go away
we can heal the whole
situation by returning to Hashem through
Torah and
Mitzvah now the feeling that you should
be feeling right now even though you may
disagree with this categorization is
love and you're going to say I'm not
sure it's love
well I can't promise you what you're
feeling right now but let me tell you
what it might be and let me tell you why
if that's you're feeling it's actually
love and
maybe this is a better
definition of love than what we're used
to if you're feeling right now A
motivation to be closer to Hashem if
you're feeling like you know what
there's a problem it needs a
solution wow I have that solution I want
to go and engage in that
Solution that's called
motivation it's pushing you it's
compelling you in a Direction that's
that's what an emotion does an emotion
is a an engine that pushes us in a
direction well think about it it's not
to go away from Hashem and by going away
from I don't mean God forbid in
Rebellion I mean sometimes in reverence
we shrink away from hasem in in awe we
make ourselves smaller but this isn't
backing away in reverence this is
getting closer I mean it's described
literally is kissing and hugging so it's
real closeness
here well what do you think Love
Is Love is a feeling of
motivation to seek out
closeness so how did we come to that
place of feeling motivation to seek out
closeness we came to it through a side
door called compassion we told the story
of the plight of the Soul which by
extension ultimately is the plight of
Hashem himself and then we arrived at
the feeling of the possibility of
closeness that's that's the
love hi this is rabie shab I hope you
enjoyed that guided meditation if you'd
like to watch the full class that that's
an excerpt from it's right here it's
actually part of an entire series on
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