Not On A Mountaintop - R. Tzvi Sytner - TorahAnytime.com

So I want to give a little introduction to what what Mosha Finstein answers. But if in life in general for all of us it's much easier to just kind of lay low. It's easy to lay it's easy to to aim for um doing well in life perfection by avoiding situations that may uh challenge us too much. putting ourselves out there in certain ways that may uh bring invite, you know, problems into our lives, challenge into our lives, difficulties. Better to just lay low. Lay low. Stay in your dalamos. Stay in your lane, as they say. I I had a f a friend who was a balabas whatever a long time ago but he I remember he told me before he became balui he was a Buddhist monk and he said you know in retrospect looking back it was so easy to be spiritual out in the east you know you're sitting on a mountaintop somewhere it's serene it's quiet you hear the birds chirping just the wind blowing that's it so easy to be calm tranquil patient. Try to have the same patience in carpool on a Monday morning. He said you you want to talk about spiritual challenging spirituality becoming spiritual because spirituality doesn't happen on a mountaintop. It's very easy to just like sort of seclude yourself and look I've attained self-perfection in life. Of course you have. You have not had one bit of adversity and challenge ever. It's just been you and your thoughts on a mountaintop. So what's so difficult? Go get married now. See if you can be so spiritual, you know? Go uh children, go to the office, have an employer, have an employee, have co-workers, then go see what it's like. Now I want to see how spiritual you're going to be in life. It's very easy to say, you know what, let me just lay low, keep my dal amos, let me not put myself out there. Let me not challenge myself. Let me not aspire to anything great or big or you know try to make a difference anywhere because that invites a lot of challenge into our lives. Instead, let me just lay low cuz I can attain