HUGE Identity crisis caused by Corona Virus.

[Music] Shalom and welcome to practical spirituality here in the in Asia Tyra which is at this point in my dining room in the New Rochelle I'm overlooking my courtyard outside so here's the deal the it's a it's an age-old process that we're involved in and when it comes to dealing with this with the coronavirus but it's but it's particularly intense see I've been teaching classes now for about 28 years my one of my main topics that I bring up a lot is is the illusory you know the in the illusion of creation meaning that we're living inside a you know a digital simulation that the Creator is creating and we've discussed that over and over and over and over again I've given a million talks on that and there's a reason why I give talks on the on the illusory nature of creation and there's several reasons one of the reasons is this because you know great ticket out you know because this is all there is you know that's pretty lame so it's it's nice to to you have to take that kind of mini vacation to know that there's something way beyond this creation that's running the show but it's also it's also subjective peace of mind it's getting us to you know to be able to let go of needing to be in control of everything has you know it's no it's not in our controlling that we can you know let something greater than us run the show and that's that's a big part that's a big part of knowing that we're being we are projections where basically it's just a very complex hologram coming that's shooting out of the mind that God into creation and God is running the show because it brings us it brings us to peace of mind I think people like that but they like it in a way that it's kind of like getting high they're like in a way that they might like to have a big beer at the end of the day they like in the way they might like to show up at some meditation or yoga class but I'm generally teaching from Jerusalem from you know most of the time 90% of the time my classes are coming out of a place where people are giving this full time this isn't like you know it's not like it's not a yoga class you show up to and from work it said you know it's a reality and it's not just us the truth is the further we're the beginning I mean we're the essential part of the Semites people who are the children of shame and shame means mean meaning oriented people people who are looking for the intrinsic meaning of things that's why it's called chin as Chinese to shed means to - call - to give name to something the work sham literally means name and it means to give name to get means to give context to give understanding - and then and we need to get to whatever that means is to get to the bottom of things that's the word sham sham means to get to the bottom of things and what's what's real and being shameiess you know I know most you're listening to this from western places you know whether it's Europe from America you know the the EU the European Union of the children of a sufferer it's the United States of a sufferer or it's the ace of living in Canada but they're all it's all Western mindset which is basically you know the main thing is to work and to be you know significant and be a significant cog in the wheel of the industrial complex but that's that's for people who are not semis I mean Semites we have to work got a paper I shot of this food and stuff but but Semites work once you cross the Mediterranean and then you might have to a little hop skip over Tel Aviv cuz they're pretty Western but but they're also having their coffee shops are filled with those philosophically discussions that are pretty meaning although I don't know where they get to in the end of those conversations but the once you cross Tel Aviv you start hitting up to it mr. Modine all of a sudden the discussion is get deep and the point of it all gets important and the point of it all gets you know as you go further east you start heading into Jordan start seeing people living simpler and simpler and simpler across your name to the other Arab countries and besides their city centers that have been deeply affected by the West you otherwise you're you got super simple living eventually you get to the stands you know hi Kyle come on camera if you can then you get to the stands you know Afghanistan and Pakistan then you hit all the stands and people are like you living in like caves and stuffing and then you finally head over to India where you know if you can just meditate all day on the meaning of life you've succeeded that's called success and and of course they all have their city centres which are obviously deeply affected by Western thought anyway but the the main point is is that word mana Westerners we are Jews and Jews are are interested in the reality of life is that there's God and that God projects reality into existence and the reality of being a projection of God therefore must be of God because if all of us was God so God's what he made the world and now of course the world's not God but it's made of so it's you know there's no home depot go to Home Depot to create the world created the world from his own cuff mabini does his own first ones Russell Kenton his desire for creation and then and then he created the world projected from his own his from his own you know basically his desire for creation and so that's what's meaningful so I was talking to my father on the phone yesterday and I noticed that he was pretty down and I asked him you know what's going on and what was what was making him so down was the was the fact that he couldn't watch any sports there was no sports because all the sports were canceled and then I got a phone call Kingdom in favor there's a there's a microphone stand against the wall behind me that's very distracting to the picture releases distracting me the whole time nice comment Rafi you can under your felt your microphone if you want to say things now if you're in a quiet room especially feel free to chime it anyway rocky said teaching and watch highlights I'm sure he's watching some highlights but it you're right teach him is probably a good idea because he probably wouldn't know how to watch the old things anyway anyone coming on if you can put your camera on and be appreciated later I spoke to someone who's into entertainment and they've had all their tickets cancelled meaning like they have two season tickets to various concert halls and theaters and stuff and that was going then I spoken a couple people out there who are some away from spoken to a couple people out there who are very social types and and so they go dancing or the code of the restaurants well those are all flows now and and and I bet probably the most interaction with students who are in the New York world where money is king and and so they're taking these big hits and and so we're in touch about that and and we're and so they're you know hurt him pretty badly there and and it's been it's really crazy too because they're it's a shame that people didn't realize to sell when we got the news of the coronavirus then and there's there's there's a couple other Rabbi green rabbi G there's a couple other people on but there are just some students of mine or who can see you but it's just a few a few Jews anyway that might tell me them like Kyle Rafi to be actually to tell you everyone anyway the it seems that no matter what anyone's into no matter what anyone's into there they're not able to do that right now and so and so what's happened is they they're people are going through a major identity crisis right now people are in a situation where where they would their identities have become attached to activities and wealth social social interaction in sports that's a huge identifier and and you know another entertainment and shopping these are all identifiers and and if you look at the word identity it's or to identify it means to make something Latin it means to make this to become the same as and and when you know when you have a little infant when you have a little child so they don't have much identity at all they don't have a lot that they with and there but when they get a little older so they start identifying the toys and stuff that's why if you take a toy away from a little kid you better replace it with something else you don't just take it away they've got to have something else too - sir sir sir replace it because for them they could really get go into full anguish gets a total identity crisis to lose something that they had the identity of a person we become we can't help but identify with things external to us and the retail world likes this very much that we identify with these things because it'll never be enough you know you know there's always gonna be something else you can identify with and though well you know you can wear a shirt with someone's picture on it you know a movie star or you can wear the outfits that a movie star that sunglasses in it that's someone famous war and all of this is set up so that you somehow would augment your identity you know that you could that you could somehow you know like a bit like be someone that's you know more like it's all offering to add to augment you in some way and and it's a it's a trillion dollar industry to be augmented you know whether have to do with that people using plastic surgery to trick it to change their bodies to to hair color to all that stuff is all supposed to somehow make you more and apparently getting thinner makes should make you less but it makes you more as well and and sports affiliation makes you more and and it's it's also very interesting the watch when people's team loses like they might have they they might have just missed there they were sitting 50-yard line but miss the greatest game of the year it missed the greatest game of the year how'd they miss it because their team lost and so they weren't able to see first of all the amazing plays of the other team like let's say they have a really great team so they're so excited from pain and and but it turns out that the other team did was of such excellent excellence but they missed it they missed it I can tell you as a kid growing up as a with the father as a sports fanatic you know I know any of you sports people listening to me right now would be jealous to be raised on the 50-yard line of the the Rams and the Rey tourism and that right behind Laker bench right behind the home plate at Dodger Stadium season tickets for season tickets that every game even and that's it that's how I grew up but I I always true for the other team you know I mean I didn't want to become like ridiculed by the people sitting around me so I I waited until something really great happen so that way I could at least look at the people sitting behind me over getting angry and say did you did you miss that pass like did you not notice that pass yeah that was that was an amazing vets you know how can you not cheer for such a player anyway but again it's this its identification that when it when their team loses you know and then LA's in getting a lot of rain lately and so I was speaking to someone from LA yesterday told me the weather's terrible and he's all depressed about it yeah is raining and like I'm like here you are like sucking Northern California's Lakes dry you know and you you finally get a little of your own water and and in like oh now it's like it's all bad news but again that's just more identification on identity argumentations oh I'm in sunny Southern California that's like now who's raining on my parade you know so so let's talk a little bit about what the what the although I'm saying oh yeah okay by the way anyone watching this can join the zoom meeting um if you go just go on zoom calm and click join a meeting and then you can just hit the code six one three four the 613 commandments then the number is two four eight for the positive Commandments and then zero three six five for the negative Commandments then 365 negative commitments again six one three are the commandments which break down to the numbers 2 4 8 positive commitments and then the negative ones are 365 but you gotta put a zero four zero three six five that's the code six one three two four eight zero three six five and you can join in because right now have two students watching and it would be a lot nicer that share this with with more people's cameras on on the screen anyway let's talk a little bit about the effects of a cool on the virus on things so so how's this everything is shut down how's this total identity practices you know its massive financial pressures the great uncertainty great unknowns so it brings us tests Semites to ask ourselves the following question is what what's life about what's real what's true what's something that is what rocky said it's like shabbos forever I don't know it's like it's so funny we've been offered Shabbos for the forever yeah we're like you can't believe do anything or go anywhere but thanks for joining Donna please try on your camera so that we can see you a double chin I always forget you have a middle name Shimon hey Donna welcome thanks for turning on your camera Shimon please drive double bars please drive carefully okay and anyway yeah it's funny Ravi that we've all been given Shabbos forever and no one wants it you know it's like like we don't want to be in Shabbos forever we want to get back to you know making our mark and it's amazing how how making our mark is like so important to us and you know it crushes most men I don't think women worry about it as much but it crushes most men that no one will know who we are a hundred years from now I'm thinking if I do enough live feeds for like the next 3040 years like maybe someone will stumble upon one a hundred years ago and say who is that bozo you know but like it's like no one's gonna have any clue who we are and how do you know this for a fact is that anyone named is someone your name any name anyone from your own ancestors that lived a hundred years ago and tell me like anything they did know if they wrote a book she could okay or they painted a painting and it's been sitting in your parents living room Skokie painted already wrote a book but you know that makes it easier but but otherwise if they didn't write that book or they didn't make a painting who remembers anything of anyone and for some reason women are more chill about this than men are men we just can't take it you know like word where we just can't get over the fact that no one's gonna know who you were like we look we like to mark every lamppost we walk by as our personal territory and the it's hard for us and shot this is hard for us and I think a lot of men are in some level of crisis you know because many of our earning ability is has gone you know has gone away and and and that's a big mark of a man that's what happened with Adam you know God said Amen here you are such a nerd that you let some woman no offense to Eve obviously but you let some woman convince you to go against the one commandment I like you're a spaz so why don't you just get your spazzy self out there and work with it between the thorns and thistles and you know bring home the bagels and maybe she'll start respecting you for being someone who can actually do something with your self you can move your bag of bones around and the people the feedback that you actually did something is people actually paid for it and hey hey you're someone you know but I right now gods panicked playing hardball with us because he's taking all this away from all the men and we're supposed to like sit home with our kids now you know it's just like it was cute and sweet at the beginning you know but like us men need to feel like we do something this is part of the meaninglessness of the of the millennial situation is the millennial community you know many of the men feel you know because of the the I'm not gonna go into details of this play but the feminist movement is fully fully set into the young man growing up not feeling manly at all of course having their pants tightened in their their their pants have been tightening in there and their lower cuffs have been raising in their socks of and purple izing and their shoes have become these little booties and in there and they've got scarves around their necks and stuff and I'm not too many scarves and and you know shawls if you will and they it's like busier none of the men even notice that they put the furry things around their winter coats now you can actually buy a winter man's winter coat with full of fur all around the rim of the winter coat and like the fact that I pointed that out to a man like about a month ago he had no idea what I was talking it was like what do you mean this is a man's coat I'm like as of like 2020 maybe you know gets to wear women's clothes woman's coat and anyway the but but what's happened is the men have not felt the they haven't been able to identify with they basically aren't identifying with the fact I've taken responsibility for themselves this is gonna bring great meaning to their lives self-respect but again there's a higher level of all of this and that's when that's shot this where you can't go move your bag of bones around and get get the feedback that you did something with money you can't you gotta just pull in your sales and that's exactly what's being forced upon all of us is the whole planet is being asked to do that and also to be isolated what are they calling it social Ruffy has sent me that what's that's called social distancing yeah I got I got interrupts ended social distancing you want to know Sam I heard Trump safe in one of his speeches because one of the reporters had called him out for shaking hands cuz she saw him still shaking hands with people on Mises his best his Trump can admit anything he was like doing his best to admit that he had done that but he didn't deny let's just put it like that and and he he said yeah it's better and it so we're all trying to do that we're working hard at that and then said already said and then he says maybe it's better that people shouldn't shake hands at all meeting not just during the virus but like in the future he said and it's like oh great yeah that's what we need to hear from you know the leadership of the most powerful country in the world that we're gonna just stop connecting all together it's also kind of an interesting thing that you know a lot of people have said that that all the social media interaction has you know it's been very good for lowers that we can't people who have spent a lot of them alone who now have these like identities online okay it's been I don't think we can deny it's been good for them but I think a lot of people were more normative and their social lives have pulled away up quite a bit as a result of their online usage they've become more isolated as a result and and so now they're saying like hey everybody isolate totally like get totally isolated and by the way I'm not commenting on any of that I think we're doing our utmost I know the Glazer house is doing their best to to be as disconnect as possible so that anyone breathin on us doesn't affect doesn't anyone that we're leaving them that affect them and whatever works we're not paranoid mummy never refill on hot water in this cup please we're not paranoid but we are but we are you know we also we want to slow this thing down and and also you know every country has a per capita of people in hospital beds per size and Hospital meaning there's an amount of beds every hospital has an average amount of people filling their bed today and Israel way over the top every day and we have an amazing medical system but apparently it's always flooded and not because there's more not because there's more sick people I think there's actually less sick falen that's why you'll notice we don't have deaths with the virus partition should continue that way please guy but the but the but we don't have extra beds one art I saw one I read one editorial but that's the reason why they're going so intensely on the shutdown this because is they want everyone shut down as much as possible because uh because it's just not not it's not an option that everyone hits hospitals and it would be automatically going to like you know whatever three-star hotels into you that would become the hospital nobody wants that so what do we do and the answer is is that we do what we do in Chaves that's we have our relationship to real things like we were Semites we like to talk about what's real okay so what's right let's have a little discussion on what's real so what's real what's real is is that I I'll keep I'll save in the eye right now but you can say it in your own eyes what's real is unconscious yeah I'm a conscious be I wouldn't have that in mind as you're listening okay what's real is I'm conscious you can say that so it's not I don't want it to be about me just saying what's real is unconscious okay that's real I am conscious okay where did my consciousness come from everything has to come from somewhere cause and effect where's that consciousness well hmm it's this awareness I have it's an awareness it's not the data you know the data for example that I'm wearing this outfit and I'm sitting on this room that's all the data it's nothing David's it's an awareness of that awareness it's the awareness of the awareness there's my consciousness as this awareness of the data but it's not the data itself it's it's it's the date is reporting to the awareness so my consciousness it's this awareness of the data that I'm wearing this clothing and I'm sitting in this room okay and where does that come from well I know I couldn't create okay I could make it with some training kritis weather and with some training credits shirt and maybe I could learn construction create a room but but or maybe that painting would that my mother maybe that tuffets claim over there that my son painted over there and I mean it could build an electric panel but consciousness I think no way no nobody even being crazy okay so I'm a conscious being and I've got a consciousness that has no apparent source because I know I can't make it and if I can't make it my parents no offense can't make it even and and what Judaism calls it is the soul there's multiple levels of the soul but it though but that bottom membrane is the lowest level of your giving it giving awareness to to the soul so okay so I have a soul so where'd that come from the answer is well it would I ever had to have come from a higher consciousness because because only a consciousness can make my consciousness okay so I want everyone listening to this to breathe into the fact that you have a consciousness and that the source of your consciousness must be a higher consciousness it hadn't been created everything was created so a higher consciousness breathed this consciousness into me okay so there's me and there's this consciousness and or I am this consciousness and a higher being created that higher beings is present because okay let's go to the next step is the consciousness encapsulated in me or is it being projected into me whoever came on the iPhone please turn on their camera that's good oh it's it's the next teacher that's funny yo what's up glad your phone's muted since you're on guitar anyway so the consciousness is it encapsulated in me I mean that can't be because it's not found in me it's not gonna show up in a brain scan or an MRI and so therefore that consciousness is coming from outside of me okay so this consciousness comes from outside of me well who's who's that coming from and the answer is well it's coming from the higher consciousness so there's this higher consciousness that's creating my consciousness and in other words this higher consciousness is lending its own consciousness not its encapsulated consciousness because obviously if it's showing up at all of you and it's an infinite being so it's infinitely beyond all of us but this infinite being is your muted no press command shift a to unmute command shift when I say hey hey that's weird okay you hear me now that was weird it's spontaneously muted anyway so there's my consciousness is coming is being beamed in via this greater consciousness I think to myself sometimes I don't know where this would stand with Jewish Kabbalistic philosophies but that that cuz people always have the question what was God's problem like was he bored he was bored just being this onion undifferentiated being beyond all reality a reality yet there was just this consciousness of God was he born was he lonely and what was this problem you know but what's what's very interesting and I wonder if it's a hint to the answer and Nick Meyer you can unmute if you want to chime in on this and appreciate it if you did unmute on this is iron if you unmute I'd love to hear your thoughts on this is is thank you is that so the question about like why did God bother now we don't have an answer for that that some people like to apply the rum halls answer but but they're starting with me to solicit they want to say cuz it's good good once to bestow good yeah we're not there yet we're far from Esther's fears of to--you being maintained we're talking about God in his undifferentiated one this by the way the Kabbalistic Spartans say that there's no answer for this because for two reasons one is you can't get into guts you'd have to get inside the mind of cotton ass to know the ended like there's no way you can extrapolate this one you know you'd have to get into the mind of God if you saw me walking down Misgav ladach Street in Jerusalem you know you'd have to interview me to find out where I'm going yeah you know and and it's not an obvious answer if I can you find me in an ice cream shop buying coffee flavored ice cream my favorite you know that's not gonna so the answer could be I changed my mind on the way could be I I I have a ten things I'm gonna be doing and that was not one of them you know and and I just on a whim jumped in there for ice cream so anyway but we don't know why but here's what I want to play with I thought Nick Amaro would play with me but he's not playing with me here it is is that could it be that God's consciousness which is all there was wanted to wanted to so I don't want to say divided up but so to speak like like you know we keep seeing on on the news stations the where people are like you know their laboratories they're like squeezing in little things into dishes and stuff where you want to like squeeze into each of our dishes consciousness have us identify with all kinds of stupid stuff which is called Gullah Safina where we like get totally distracted and out of it and then finally come together as an as a globe as a country god-consciousness and that that was that is what this experiment was really all about meaning could God put an infinite oneness consciousness inside of every human being meaning the godly voice inside of all of us and and yet have this huge identity crisis called Who am I you know like what you know the the we're weird this little kid who like starts trying to identify with his toys and that with his car and then now we're big kids with automobiles and jobs and like are in our houses and and like we're totally overly identified but to come back to you know this back to the semi living in caves is to come back to the consciousness that because God is basically ripping everybody down he's just everyone's gettin ripped down and I've watched people get ripped down just going in the Shabbos you know I've had I've had Torah struck with my door you know and there they were invited for Shabbos nothing but they had no idea you're not supposed to carry certain things and no idea that we're not driving to the Western Wall and there were a lot of things they had no idea of and I'm like this a man when in Jerusalem what did they say when in Rome do like problem I can't win in Rome be like when in Rome do as Romans do what's that what they say I forget how it goes but anyway when in Jerusalem do us Jerusalemites too and I come out with a bag and I'm like put all your stuff in here and like whatever I do like in the bag man what about money in the bank man what about my passport in the bag man and then when they ask you for your password this Chaves they put in it what are we gonna beg Saturday night free stars you can have a backpack and the guys just like and and by the way if he said no I would just say fine you know just you can eat the meal just put your phone on silent then I've done that too and I've told people like to put it away don't take it out during the meal you know if you got a smoke smoke outside somewhere away from our community but but I have given them the opportunity to just let it go and it's been it's real interesting to watch them let it go so right now our blows being us to litigate everyone's being asked to let it go and we don't know where it's going which means let that go to me that's the whole fear of the unknown so we gotta let that go as well and I know there's people who are listening to this who have heavy responsibility you know I know a banker for example I mean a private investment banker and he's you know he's got a lot of angry people right now as if he did anything but you know part a part of not investing yourself and using someone is you have somebody yell at you know like most most people who do their own training you know they can only yell himself that's I guess the you know you're paying him fees that you have someone to yell at so they're yelling at them but I know a lot of people are losing sleep because they're getting thrashed by investors and people are counting on them and etc yeah we got to let it go and we're gonna let back though we're gonna look back though we're gonna let that go and all these industries are enmeshed you know it's not just the hotel it's all the chain of supplies to the hotel motel the workers of those so and all those workers now were fired there are no longer spending money in stores and so you know it's like I mean it's just like a collapse like we've never seen before at least in our in the last generations and but we keep God in perspective you know we've got to keep God in this you got them you got didn't pull out here and this is excuse me drinking hot tea these days inner blows their nose like oh great he's got it it's an amazing how self-conscious everybody I mean anyone I see sneeze I like walk a mile away from them anyway the let it go let the future go let it all go I mean obviously do what you can do like do what you gotta do be responsible let it go because there's certain things we know we know there's a gun you know we know we have a consciousness we know that consciousness came from somewhere also the physical world like there's a I know there's a room around me and I know it's made of minerals will gel some books and that's vegetable up there and like there's there's my wool sweaters animal so it's the skin then and there's human you know and all of that also that didn't you know according according the Big Bang theorists it came out of nothing yeah okay great we've got something else to sell me you know nothing made something not never happen before well it happened before and yeah because the something that then nothing that made the something is called God hey that's how it works when an infinite being creates something then there's something from nothing otherwise forget about it and so there's things we know and that's all we got left you want to feel solid in your life you want something solid I'll give you something song simplicity soul love God connection with loved ones like yeah stop stop what's the word when you give someone else in the job you delegate delegate at stop delegating your parenting to your preschools and your the elementary schools you know you know half the news reports are better outsourcing yeah Thank You Rocky after you're good at words so yeah outsourcing live so so we've all gotten so used to you know people outsourcing our children's lives to others it's time to be a parent full-time like Aboriginal stuff working yeah I think I get all day all the specific women listening the live fish women right now I have to go after I don't know if Amazon still works is there still Amazon I know I saw that they're good that they're saying that people have to be patient but I think everyone has to order slings now and carry their infants on their bodies you know have you noticed that infants have a Vulcan grip you know they can't hold over the head up their most important organ their head is like you know you got to keep the baby's head up but Vulcan grip they got these like crazy grips cuz they're like ready to hold on for the right like God created those infants to be connected to their parents and we've been outsourcing with cribs and when they screaming crying utter isolation won't say they're hungry instead of say no they actually want to be connected I just want to be connected they don't have long just have been fed regularly they'll never know what hunger is okay everybody so that was today's share I know I wasn't very alive but I'm doing my best staring at three people on my screen and the mica Bruce is sitting next to me so now it just shows how generated I am by people I'm a extreme extrovert and love being with people so Shalom everyone a beautiful day and soon enough everything good Adam wack stop by and said no one was home to