Meditation in THREE steps | Tanya & Meditation Part 2

this is the normal time of our weekly Tanya text based Tanya class we just finished volume one of Tanya chapter 53 chapters of Tanya a couple of weeks ago so in the interim we've been doing like a little meditation Workshop so that's been for the people who went through all of Tanya especially those who patiently went through chapters 41- 50 which was all about meditation we we were learning about the meditations and we w weren't really doing the meditations this is sort of like uh a reward for you for uh getting through that for those who didn't go through those classes so then this will be a taste of some of the the style the flavor of Tanya um so last week we did a we did a little meditation and we spoke about how it works if you weren't here who was here last week okay more than half you but if you weren't here last week that that's okay if if uh if you don't know everything I'm referring to it'll it'll be okay we'll we'll catch you up basically let's talk about uh meditation and we we'll do another meditation like we did last week remember last week we we did a meditation did yeah what SP us was that last week yeah we did a little hisban inness yeah we did yeah so God willing we'll do a little more hisban this again also okay but before we do a his BOS a meditation uh just want to share with you a an entry from ha ha is from day today that's a safer that the laba compiled which has a daily thought or reflection for every single day of the calendar year and I want to share with you what today's it's not today's no um I mean we could do today's but no I'm I'm sharing it with you not because it is the days hay but rather because it's about meditation and it happens to be in Hay okay so did I say the date of which hayum it is in case you want to look it up in your own okay it's it's the 20th day of the month of T if you ever want to look it up um by the way every entry of hayim is taken from the previous Reb's writing so it's either from a m or or a letter of the previous reab but the easiest place to find it is in okay here we go there are three types of his BOS all right who wants to know what they are do I have your interest three types of his binos all right as we explained last week his binos is the technical precise term we have for a very specific type of meditation or contemplative process okay and there are three types apparently of this very specific type of process alive one the first one is called liis heos is that word That We're translating is meditation reflection contemplation actually last week we explained it's from the same word as B which is to build and it's also from Bina which is what what is Bina the mother of thought right it's where you take little ideas and build onto them you flush them out you unpack them right so he's BOS means that type of cognition where you're taking a kernel of thought and unpacking it thoroughly through analysis he's B liis what's that word liis Lear yeah it's from the word liud except it's an adjective liis so the adjective is modifying the noun his so it is a type of meditation which we'll call learning meditation what is learning meditation well it's similar to learning but it's not learning otherwise it wouldn't be learning meditation it would just be learning right so it's not liod and it's not his b well it is his Banus but it's a specific type of his b it's not Li it's not learning it it is his b but it's his b Li it's learning style after you understand the idea thoroughly whom is he reflects or meditates on the depth of that concept until the intellectual aspect of it mayor shines for him okay so is a type of reflection that you do after you have properly learned if you haven't properly learned the subject matter then you're not yet ready to start so if you're still asking questions of what does that mean what does that what does that say what's that concept then you're not ready yet for B you're still learning is that what we did last week that's Tye I'll let you decide after we learn all three types you'll decide which type we do the P of something he says the the the int the intellect of itn't emotion yet well that's a very interesting assumption you're making and you are correct yeah we didn't say that explicitly but that was implicit yes yes it is what's the goal here what's the goal of his b well yeah that's what we did last week what's the goal of his I love that you're saying that because I convinced you so much last week but this is a different type of hisb interal I like that word I like that word to let it sink in he's B is not what we were speaking about last week what we were speaking about last week was aimed towards some type of emotional takeaway he is just to let it I'll use your term SN in now it's different than learning something properly that's another type of letting it sink in but this is after you already have the it and now it needs to sink in so it's not learning cuz you already learned it and you understand it um but it's still very intellectual we're not yet getting into emotions we're still just understanding but we're understanding on a deeper level so what shines for him he said that the the the the intellectual content of the idea so really it's a process of deeply internalizing the meaning of an idea and it doesn't lead to any emotional takeaway that's not the point of it it leads to Greater Clarity greater appreciation for the depth of the concept and that's why it's called he's Bly mud this because it's kind of similar to learning but it's not learning because you're not still learning it you already you already know it at least on a level that's good enough to go and take it into a meditative process so you already know it but now you're let it sink in I I I like that word I'll use that okay you're letting it sink in but again to to what to what extent and toward what end is it sinking in for greater intellectual Clarity okay so that's that's the first type ofos um I would say that we sometimes did that in our Tanya class sometimes meaning after we had already properly understood the concept I think sometimes we had discussions where we internalized the idea on a deeper level obviously when we speak about hisb this we're not talking about a discussion we're talking about an internal process with one person alone but I'm saying similar as far as the uh the level of thought that it's it's taking something that you know well and just understanding it on a on a deeper level okay so that's that was the first level Bas this is called that is before prayer meaning that is before prayer he's B that's a hybrid phrase of is that why the men why why is it only men who do that many men do it yeah well more men do it okay I don't know what you want me to say well let's let's say we let's say we yeah that's yeah sure is that why we learned cus before daving yeah in other words we learn cius before doing in order to carry yourself to doing to have something to meditate on before doing and to possibly become that well yeah that's the ultimate lifelong goal is to become that ban from Tanya at least during DAV okay yeah are these three types mutually exclusive well you'll find out the second type of daving I mean second type of his BOS is called his Bess before daving yeah so well you you're asking isn't isn't daving itself meditation interesting question I I'll I'll put that on hold for moment what this is called his Bess reflection or meditation that is before prayer the way that it's described is merely when it happens it happens before prayer now that's I mean that's the name of it but what happens in that yeah process okay what we didn't read it yet in its concept the idea of it Shalom is to feel the the Vitality the energy the life of the concept that he learned not an intellectual feeling like it was with the previous type of meditation which is called learning meditation let's unpack that so the second type of meditation is called meditation before prayer and its concept is sh to feel the Vitality of the idea that you learn that's what it is and here's what it ain't his b leus not just feeling the idea or the intellect of it like it was with the previous type of his BOS so what what are we describing here well it would seem I would think this would it would seem that one leads to the other in in in terms of like it's literally a procedure like a process a process right it's okay and does that answer your question about being mutually exclusive yeah but it's it's a it's a process okay so you first what's the first thing you do understand understand it learn it properly right so the first step in any recipe they don't tell you is you got to go to the store you just you magically have all the ingredients there yeah usually sure I guess it depends what you make yeah amazing you have a very attentive staff then so Step Zero is you have to learn something and by learning something I mean I mean a kind of like for instance those who come Wednesdays and learn the mimer with me so that's the kind of stuff that you would be using as your material for meditation okay so you learn something and you learn it proper L you're not still wondering what it means you know what it means I mean at least on a on a level you know there's always endless levels but at least on some level you you know what it means you could explain it you could probably even teach it a lot of teachers by the way only do that and then that's it they're qualified to teach because they know what it says they know what the text says you can tell the difference by the way when somebody's teaching you the text based on the fact that they know what it says or based on the fact that they've lived it so this procedure here is to get us to live it yeah okay yeah that's right so the first thing is is now that you know what it says you're not doubting anymore what it says you know what it says but now you're going to let it sink in but it's purely intellectual it's purely intellectual he that's first step Second Step he's been the meditation that happens before prayer now I'm getting to what he calls I'm feeling the life of the idea not just the idea as a as an idea but the idea has some type of energy to it something that that motivates that drives there's a there's a life force in that idea and I'm trying to connect to to it not just to connect to it on an intellectual level so he doesn't use the word emotional here but we would you know part of the word emotion is motion it motivates motion motivates the same same ET eological route the idea is it drives towards something you can learn something and understand it well and even appreciate it it doesn't necessarily translate into something it doesn't necessarily become a driving force in the second type of meditation we're trying to connect to there's there's an energy in this idea that's it's it's not just intellectual anymore it's a it's a v he calls it K it's a Vitality the idea is alive the idea has a life I'm connecting to the life of that idea is it technically supposed to push you to action well if it's connecting to life I mean life is growth life is movement so it's going to push you to something now you're asking to action well ultimately anything that if you push far enough the bottom line is always action so yeah I would I would assume that that's how it should be cashed in that it should translate into action but most immediately it's bringing the idea into an emotional level so I'm going from the intellect to the emotion now I can't skip the intellectual level see that that's what makes his BOS and I should use maybe the more accurate term here his because this is the approach of the AL this is the approach of of kabad this is what makes it characteristically kabad we're trying to feel something but not directly the emotion is the product of understanding that's what is the the cognitive process so first you study first you study then you meditate on what you studied but it's an intellectual meditation then you connect to the feeling and you get an emotional reaction from what you learned so the emotion is the product of the study as opposed to what I mean there are other ways of arousing emotions there are other ways of getting people excited but this is a very specific process where the emotion is the natural outgrowth of understanding an idea somebody was giving me some feedback this week uh he he actually watched the recording of last week remember what we did here last week so he watched the recording and he said that I made a claim but my claim was not what you call evaluated by the FDA is that what they say these these claims were not evaluated by the FDA right or the or the what FDA yeah when you make like a health claim when you I understand this is a right no I'm just using a sh musal like just an expression or if you you sell somebody like a business plan and you say this is for entertainment purposes only really what's the entertainment watching myself lose money that's the entertainment okay so I I didn't make a disclaimer I made a claim last week without a disclaimer that if you meditate and I said meditation is a cognitive process you will feel meaning the in intellectual process will lead to an emotional conclusion do you kind of remember me saying that last week yes yeah okay so this guy's like well I think you're overselling it a little bit or you're over promising a little bit who says who says and and what are you GNA tell me and if it doesn't work you can tell me just go do more I didn't lose weight on this diet okay well how long do you stay on it he not doing it prop you're not doing it oh so yeah I could tell you guy you're not doing it prop but the problem with saying that is it was sort of inherent in my claim that it's a natural thing if you remember from last week I said it's a natural thing what whatever you think about you're going to have strong feelings about I even think I used an example where it's a negative thing or even something that we're not even doing willfully um like when we are being passive we're worrying we're allowing the the animal soul to grab hold of the this incredible machine called this brain and it's just feeding us with all types of crazy things to think about and then before we know it we're feeling it so we know that's how it works is the the the intellect gives birth to emotions and I kind of posited that it would that the same thing would work automatically if you focus on holy things and you're going to have positive feelings so he said it's a little bit you're you're a little bit over promising so was that the first class you listened to no no he listened to a lot of different classes yeah and he had all the complaints in the past but anyway and I know who this is I actually know the guy in real life I know the guy in real life and I can't discount him done this process for years and I feel like me to so you're saying that your experience bears that it does work okay abely so he was saying his experience wasn't so so you get him into this class we'll we'll straighten him out so I'll tell you what I told him I'll tell you what I told him and my T students will back me up here he's listening he'll probably listen to the recording okay and I'll probably get a text from him being like it was a little bit cringey when I heard CU I wasn't sure at first were referring to my thing that I told you okay a lot of wom yeah so remember in Tanya chapters 16 and 17 I don't know how many people were around for those chapters but right before aav right before aamus very good aamus was chapter 18 but what was 16 and 17 you are correct Aus was 18 what was 16 and 17 16 17 we spoke about meditation ananya but he doesn't give you any specific meditations the specific meditations are in chapters 41- 50 however he makes some statements about medit ation and one of the things he says is that only a sadic and I'm not going to if you weren't through all the chapters of Tanya and you don't really understand what that means I'm not going to give a whole long explanation I'm not even going to give a short explanation I'm just going to say only at sadic only somebody who truly is only driven by holy desires and holy ways of thinking and holy emotions only a totic is capable of having the full-fledged love and awe of Hashem meaning emotions in the most powerful palpable visceral sense and the ban meaning the person who's still struggling with the internal conflict is going to have something which we call tun that's the plural yeah tuna tuna tuna actually is related to the word Bina cheese in Israel there is a cheese called tuna yeah yeah okay but this so is related to the word Bina and the way he explains it over there is that he also calls it by a a sort of a nickname he calls it a a good thought like when when our sages say that a good thought is combined with action takes a good thought and he combines it with an action and the AL says what does it mean he combines it what's this word combine um like there are other Expressions that it could use in fact that it does use sometimes like uh sometimes it'll say like the to will consider it as if although that's an idiomatic translation as well but at any why does it say that it's it's there's a it's that it combines it so he says that um really real palpable emotions like what a sadic feels for Hashem is a is a physical experience like he feels that love and that awe in his bones it's a real physical experience like the way that we feel love and awe of things that for whatever things we feel strongly about okay right but it's a physical experience it's not abstract it's not but with the B okay so with a ban it's going to be more abstract it's not going to be so visceral it's not going to be so tangible it's going to be more lofty than that more ethereal than that that more theoretical than that so in other words if I have to describe it in basic English instead of it being this this powerful feeling in your body it's more like I get it it's in my head it's more in my head and it's more of like an appreciation like it's not just a fact that I'm repeating like the annual precipitation in the Amazon is what you know you it's not just spitting out a fact it's personal to me in fact maybe I'd call an opinion and I and I'm using the word opinion not the way people use opinion nowadays as a put down word people use opinions they say oh that's not a fact that's your opinion well I'm using opinion here in a good way I'm saying you're not just spouting some fact you're saying what you really feel an opinion that's how I feel now is it a feeling like real visceral tangible feelings it's not but you'll still say that's how I feel yeah but AR different people built different ways yeah yeah yeah yeah people are built different ways so then you're getting that like some people are more emot yes yes yes easier Le let's just talk about this on the most simple level instead of getting into the yes yes there are different people with different capacities and different styles and obviously this one model that we're describing is going to translate into innumerable innumerable different ways based on how many different people it'll probably be completely different or somewhat different for everyone who does it but yeah what's a higher level or well we're going to come to this we're going to come to this but anyway you're talking about a b okay so so listen to what he explains he says like this when a when a sadic has an emotion that emotion is in his body like he's literally feeling it like adrenaline well adrenaline is one of the you know like if when yeah when you have awe when you experience awe and and it and it's you're feeling it in your body right you're your heart rate goes up and you're sweating right that's a physical feeling I'm suppose you could feel that from love also your heart rate could go up and your pupils dilate and there are physical results from from this real palpable love okay so it's sadic gets that and then when he does a Mitzvah with that emotion it's a very obvious flow because the emotion is physical and of course the Mitzvah is physical because Mitzvah is are physical acts so the physical experience the physiological experience of the emotion flow straight into the physical performance of the Mitzvah when a B has an emotion it's not that that type of intense experience it's more up here and that's why we say hasem combines it with the action because naturally it doesn't flow with the action the action is physical this or is abstract so Hashem has to come and put them together and sort of pair the intellectual appreciation or opinion with the appropriate action that came from it but there's sort of somewhat like a disconnect between the two because one is in the world of abstraction and the other one is very tangible okay so what I told this guy was if you're GNA say that my claim was that anybody who thinks about Concepts fromis is going to experience palpable love and awe in their flesh and they're going to actually have this physiological response and no I'm not I'm not making such a claim although I I wouldn't rule it out but I'm not making such a claim but if you're saying that I'm suggesting that it's true what Tanya says in chapter 16 and 17 that by thinking about an idea well enough you'll at least come to have a personal connection to it it won't merely be repeating facts it'll actually be something that is personal to you yes I am making that claim and I'm stating that that it is an inevitability and yeah it it does sound kind of annoying whenever somebody says that this process works it just takes a certain amount of work and then you come back and you say well it didn't work yet and well go do it more you know like the story the guy who lived to 100 and they asked him you know how did you live to such an old age he says well you know my secret is I eat Herring every day and uh they saidwell I know a guy ate Herring every day and he he he died when he was 70 so well he didn't do it long enough he didn't do it long enough because they okay I still don't understand is the B on who it's not a natural reaction get more credit or is if it's I don't know about credit I don't the credit is not relevant the point is that we're not talking about such intense emotions nobody is expected to fall on the floor over here nobody's going to start weeping okay but what can happen and if you do it long enough I'm making the claim will happen is that an idea inis will no longer just be an idea that you're repeating or even an idea that you understand well and can even teach but it'll be something that you feel personal about it'll be something that informs your world view that drives you to some extent meaning it is a motivator to some extent meaning when you do make decisions let's say it drives the way that you favor one outcome over another because it becomes it becomes personal to you okay so that's what we're describing I'm not promising anyone's going to have these crazy intense emotional experiences what I am saying is that something that we used to be abstract can actually be something personally meaningful to you personally meaningful personally significant that you now say I appreciate that I get that not just intellectually I get it like I I I feel like that's something that that drives me in life to some extent now will the feelings of your animal Soul sometimes be much more powerful than that yeah okay I'm I'm not making any claims about what will happen in that area I'm just saying if you'll do the hbos it will take things from a more abstract objective level to a more practical subjective level and and again I want just clarify what the same clarification I made when I used the word opinion opinion became a dirty word now we put things down because they're opinions so same same same thing I want to say now when I say subjective we we often dismiss things well that's subjective subjective is not a dirty word opinion is not a dirty word when we say that something is it is an objective fact but it's not only an objective fact I've now made it my subjective reality that's a good thing that's a good thing that means that you've personalized it okay so we could even call this whole process the process of personalizing information okay fine so let's just review well what's the third typ well I before we get to the third I wanted to review because everyone forgot the first two that's before we do the third we want to do the first two because I want it to be scaffolded what's the first type of meditation what do you call it learning meditation okay what about the learning itself have to do it prerequisite good word okay so that happened already so the first level he's and what am I trying to connect with over there he calls it a haish what am I trying to feel the depth of the understand the depth of the understanding sinking in sinking in right so it's a haish but it's not an emotional feeling it's an intellectual sense right are you meant to add to your understanding by doing that yes you're you're adding to your understanding B oh that's a very good question B from the word b to build like we said last week so yes you are adding then you asked a very good question adding information are you adding information no you're not adding information do you remember what we said last week by the difference between andina so kma is like the little kernel of the idea Eureka yeah B father is like the father right and then be is like the womb where the the that little packet of genetic code gets unpacked and it gets turned into this this whole child right so it's not adding new information it's bringing out from potential into actuality that's why remember again we said the difference between uh is like seeing and hearing that you can look yeah so I did say right you can look at a picture and the picture may have thousands of brush strokes and you see it all in an instant so it's hypercondensed then I said a symphony a symphony maybe has thousands of notes you can't do it in an instant it takes as long as it takes it's the process it's the unpacking it's going through it one at a time so beina is by definition okay let's lay it all out let's open up the closet let's get everything out on the table let's see what we're dealing with maybe that's why it's female that's what we do right like we're going to organize the spice rack right right absolutely 100% okay bune you're building new connections or what they would call today new neural Pathways between the information you already have have so you already have a coin now you're going to take it to the currency exchange and you're going to make different you're going to break it down to different denominations right so that's what Bina is it's m like he says in chapter three of Tanya understanding one thing from another so it's almost like you have a new thing but it's not a new thing it's one idea but now you're turning that gem in the light and picking up different facets of it and realizing that there's so much diversity and complexity to that one thing that's what the Bea process is so you're not getting new information but it's it's as if new connection new connections new connections which is as good as new information if not better it it's interesting um it says about uh re AA that he initially I'm sorry about Reby mayor that he initially studied uh with with RAB and learned from him the entire the entire oral tradition all of the mishas and then he switched he went to RAB AA so the question is well if he learn the entire t with RAB is then what RAB May learn with Raba so it explains the difference between garar and sa the first one garar means he just learned the information means he learned the methodology what to do with the information how to put it together how to combine it how to reach conclusions so by the time he went to reab AA he knew everything he didn't he didn't have any new information there wasn't new information Rea could teach him but Rea could teach him what to do with that information and that's very much the concept of beina what were we going to say is there any value in learning meditation you don't move to the next level what's the value It's a Wonderful question everyone hear the question is there any value in just doing the first level if you never advance to the second level and we don't even know what the third level is but we said there is one what do you think I'm going to say naturally lead that way but you're saying it's not natural everyone there's always value in doing something more so if somebody will say I don't learn right now should I start learning but I'm not going to do the first level of meditation I'm just going to learn I would say okay so if you're not learning start learning and then if someone would say I learn but I don't do meditation even the first level but I'll only do the first level okay so only do the first level there's always value of course there's value what's the value in terms of con in terms of relationship to God what's that value in that well information it's information but it's Godly information and it's having an effect on your brain and it's wiring your brain in a more Godly way and that's worth something the values that it's internally shift something because it's it internally shifts something that is correct the only question is how deeply internally shifted are we going to be yes that's right so we're talk how deep how deep what what deter that which level of the process you engage in I thought you were talking about the first level talking about the first level she's asking about is there value to just doing the first level without the second level I'm saying yeah the value is you'll have an internal shift but it'll only be so deep and if you want the internal shift to be deeper so then you'll do the next level maybe I mean have so much information of godlin you okay let's let's find out the third one oh no hold on we just reviewed the first one so the first one was called what learning meditation learning meditation fine the second one what is that one before prayer before prayer and that's when it happens but what happens what do you do and how is it different than the first type en okay the energy the emotion the Vitality okay internalize internalize it yeah I mean the first one was also internalizing but it was intellectual internalization yeah being yeah the whole thing is a process of Kenyan is as of acquisition making something personal yeah owning it yeah but the first level is owning it on an intellectual level a transition emtional the second one yeah yeah it's a transition to the emotional it's a prerequisite for the emotional but it's not yet emotional the second level is now it becomes more emotional okay is that bringing it to your heart bringing it to your heart you should know it you should place it upon your heart yeah okay giml here's the third level that is in daving in prayer he's B the meditation that happens in prayer so we had basically you learned that was Step Zero then you have the meditation happens after learning he doesn't call it after learning but it it's a follow through or followup from your learning then the meditation happens before you're praying and then the meditation happens in prayer in its concept is feeling the godliness in the idea that he learned so first of all I just want to point out that even the third and highest level is still based on the fact that there was some learning session cuz what is he yeah what what's he connecting to the concept that he learned just what happens and the first level he's connecting to the intellectual content of what he learned and the second level he's connecting to the Vitality the energy of what he learned not so much what it means but what it calls upon you to to Aspire to to want to be driven toward and then the third level is also still based on what he learned but it's connecting to the elus the godliness the godliness what's the godliness isn't this whole thing Godly call it the infinity when you're having an experience of the infinite we spoke about this a little bit interestingly last week in our chapter 41 all meditation I think I think we did if not then it was some other class where we spoke about that um the totality the the Oneness the everythingness of the infinite one really is all consuming and if you're really connected to it then it's not even a conscious experience anymore because it overtakes you how can it be infinite and you're still holding out and preserving your selfhood in order to subjectively experience the infinite do you even be human how can you even be an angel can you be even any entity can you be anything discreet and separate and distinct What's Happening Here is you are losing yourself in the concept but not the intellectual aspect of the concept not the emotional aspect of the concept but the Infinity of the concept and obviously that's a very lofty experience and that's why it's the third level it's like a rung on a ladder it's not something you just jump to but what's Happening Here is it's not even so much more about I understand which is level one or I feel which is level two it's like the idea now becomes I don't there is there is no I I'm surrendering yeah and this is both sadic and Banger applicable uh apparently it's applicable to everyone yes that on everyone on their own level can have this experience an example from like learning it's well that was the original plan but we're running out of time okay are we going to do it next week I don't know just learning okay but let's finish off the this entry from the okaya these three things are the rungs on the lad of sensitivity or feeling awareness there rungs on a ladder like we said a process and he uses the yish it is only an act of gratuitous Divine kindness that once in a while meaning in isolated cases will we ever get a Godly feeling without any work in other words he's not ruling it out as a phenomenon it could happen that you would spontaneously have a feeling of godliness but it's very rare it's very rare and it's just a kindness that Hashem sometimes just throws at us but it's it's not really something that happens very often uh but then what's interesting even to regular person what what it wasn't mean even to regular person like generally speaking if you want to have a a sensitivity to Godliness you're going to have to go through this process or at least a process so somebody who doesn't learn who doesn't internal canot be sensitive well he'll wait around until he gets until lightning strikes he could still be he could win the lottery yeah I'm I'm going to win you're going to win the lottery okay but you understand winning they say by the way the people win the lottery they end up bankrupt within a few years okay not me on okay so he says it is very rare that somebody would spontaneously have a deep sensitivity to Godliness out of nowhere and by the way I would assume this even means somebody who engages in this process meaning when he does the work he gets the results but if he's not doing the work why should he expect results it's like you have to to death you have to stay of course it's a unless you're in a field taking care of your of sheep but that what but that's but that but that that what you're saying is actually incorrect why were they in the you're talking about the oice that they were in the field all day with their sheep why were they in the field because they wer into sheep what were they doing in the field his bonus that's why they were there they chose jobs that allowed them to meditate all day so wasn't that because of the sheep oh there's something about the Sheep if you hang out with sheep all day you'll have this Godly awareness no they chose to be Shepherds so they could do this work right that's what when it says when jasf says my brothers are all Shepherds y was the exception that he had like a regular job in Manhattan and he worked for par but the the A and the they all stayed in the field and what did they do in the field they meditated did this process okay let's finish off now how could it happen that somebody could spontaneously have this experience which we said is not very often it's because of the essence of godliness that is in the soul so after all the fact that you're able to connect to God Isn't So inexplicable because the connection is there already it's in you it's it's not something outside of you it's not something foreign to you so it could happen that without any work you'll luck out and everything will align and you'll connect to the godliness that is intuitively innately there okay but that's that's not a plan that's not that's not not uh don't rely on don't rely on that exactly okay but when you talk about actual work with your own effort you must use these three levels so if you want to hit the spiritual Lottery and the the essence of your soul will just spontaneously have this incredible awareness great then just I guess walk around and wait for it to happen but if you want to actually engineer this process and caused the result then these are the three steps this is what it is this is what it is okay I wanted to actually go through another meditation today a real example but no we don't have time so um I have one question yeah someone so your question what if someone does not possess the intellect to do this is the question that's asked at the beginning of chapter we actually mentioned this chapter today yeah 16 or 17 no 16 17 says to meditate and 18 the atis comes in says and if you can't do the mental work so we have this other thing that'll work it's like a a side door okay like the guy wenter and said Cole yeah yeah sort of yeah simple Jew type stuff yeah but nobody here can get away with that this class no not in this CL this is the highlevel class by the way it is what it is this is like the spiritual think tank of Long Island basically true