Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 224): Mindful and Meaningful - Mesillas Yesharim

good morning B may it be a good day B toos for cl I want to thank our generous sponsors of 10 minutes of meeting esta shyt in honor of their parents and children and continue to invite those who have not yet contributed to our Global campaign if you are a member of BRS you're doing your part if you're not but yet you come to DAV here and benefit from our minan if you enjoy the coffee and donuts if you listen watch read online please join our Global campaign BS online.org Global we got an incredible matching gift of $50,000 the next $50,000 matches and helps us complete our campaign and we thank you for your help be us online.org Global we're on the 26th chapter of M is finishing his formula to the best and better version of ourselves with the mid of kadha with the attribute of how to live with Holiness and sanctity how to live with mindfulness and Consciousness how to attach ourselves to Hashem such that every decision everything we do all all is uh connected to him here's the says when we live for Holiness not happiness every decision every action every thought every behavior is guided informed inspired by what does Hashem want me to do what does Hashem expect me to do what will hasem hold me accountable for what I do I can't separate from that it's part of our conscious our identity it's part of our thought process and the filter through which we experience and perceive the world as a result of physical objects that we make use of will be transformed and will be elevated by the use of them to a greater degree than we will be declined meaning we're made up of a Nish and a goof we're a soul and a body when we interact with the physical material world it can bring us down we are indulging the lowest part of who we are our physical being but when we do so with a Consciousness and a mindfulness of godliness that instead of being somehow diminished instead of being lessened or lowered by our contact with the physical Material World we actually transform it we raise it up we bring it with us it means when you go to sleep you say to yourself I'm going to sleep so that I have the energy to beyond my mission of serving Hashem when I eat I'm eating to the extent that this is healthy and good and fuels me to be able to serve Hashem when I say this am I fulfilling my purpose and my my mission every decision every Behavior what I look at where I go what I do it's all about him this depends on and here the essentially outlines the most important quality what will Define our very lives and that is it depends on constantly focusing our mind and our intellect and hashem's greatness and how exalted he is on his Holiness until we find ourselves until we are attaching ourselves and are acting Angelic even while we are in this world this is our mission and this is our purpose Mindful and meaningful yish it's what all too often is missing and lacking even within environments where we are inspiring and teaching our children to memorize to spit back to have incredible knowledge what to behave and do and perform in terms of boundaries all that's wonderful but is it informed and animated by a relationship with with are we Transforming Our Lives to live Mindful and meaningful Torah lives mindful always that he's watching that he's with us that he has expectations that he holds us accountable that we are on a mission that we serve him and meaningful because when one leads that mindful Life One Taps into what is Meaningful so this is our mission this is what we're trying to do m is revealing the secret how do we get to this mindfulness mindfulness mindfulness mindfulness and as we've shared before it's a challenge in every generation it's particularly a challenge in ours because the world we are living in is designed to be mindless to distract us to tempt us to divide us to fragment us it is designed to entice us to be mindless in all that we doing all the marketing and all the technology it is all designed literally social media get lost in scrolling and watching and losing yourself in other people's lives and reality TV it's all the whole world world and the marketing world is designed be mindless don't be attention don't be thoughtful don't don't be uh focused don't have good judgment be mindless be mindless so the inertias against us the effort it takes to say in this world that we're living in despite what might be in our pocket buzzing and beeping and vibrating and trying to get us lost in it I'm choosing to be mindful all the time nonetheless t t like we read lastas T most important the med or the enyak quotes voted on the real the real mission statement and motto of the Jewish people is tmid to consistently and constantly live Mindful and focused lives to not lose our cool t and t means I'm always whatever I'm doing I'm calm equinity calmness Hashem is with me however this is meant to go and what am I meant to do and how am I meant to behave what am I meant to learn from it and how can I be accountable to it all of this is all of this is the path towards kadha to live a life of Holiness and sanctity is not like other religions it's not to live a life of abstinence it's not to live a life apart from physical pleasure that's not kadha that's not Holiness to live a life of Holiness is when we sleep it's to serve him and I eat it's to serve him and if I'm experiencing Recreation it's to recreate myself so I can get back to serving him and what I say and where I go and what I look at and what I listen to and what I do and what I wear and what I buy all of it is because I'm serving him I have a mission I have a purpose I'm mindful of his presence in my life that's kadha nothing wrong with eating and drinking and going and enjoying the world Hashem gave us but when we transform it and elevate it that is our definition of kadha another definition of kadha is contributing to the global campaign expressing gratitude and appreciation if you benefit again if you're not a member please do your part help us 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