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Greetings!
I met my friend today and he told me that he is very disappointed from his friends.
"Well come to inner work" I said to myself.
We can not blame anyone out side, as every thing is inside us.
our friends are inside us - as 'I's, as thoughts, sensations, emotions.
From the Kabbalah [Rav Laitman]
"We do not erase the differences between us; we preserve all of our desires. It is written, "Love your neighbor as yourself," not "nullify yourself and disappear."
"As yourself" implies the depth of each person's desire which remains between us, our differences and the hatred that we rise above, like over Mount Sinai (Sina means "hatred" in Hebrew). We use our ego, the entire depth of the egoism, in order to turn it into bestowal. If we were to cancel our desires, we would have nothing to rise above.
Therefore, we should not destroy anything about ourselves. Even the worst qualities have to stay. We just add correction to them without creating anything new; we simply use what exists in us initially. Until the World of Infinity, we ascend by the degrees of our egoistic desire, transforming it to bestowal."
So
we can continue thinking that the friend is the problem, and sit on the naked branch with the black birds
or
We can rise above the desires to fulfill our lower self and celebrate
the fruits of divine presence
Love
Anicca
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