The 6 Paths To develop a REAL Connection With God. ALL THE TIME

[Music] practical spirituality urination time the Old City of Jerusalem overlooking the Western Wall were we saying where we great amazing Kobe right Kobe's back from India I'll go over to Kobe now I brought you in sense because I figured you might price smelling incense while you're in India where you yeah here's some incense for you Chris it's gonna smoke this you know this is any like that yeah they have this is called frankincense in Hebrew it's called lavona it's what this was one of the main ingredients in the Temple Mount you you don't all have little incense burners in your thing you guys don't travel with incense oh it's very important sure I've got another one here it's a spinner and it's got this one has something very cool this one has in it is from Central America this is called Sun parlo check this out what do you think of that try this unfollow you don't have to inhale it these days you give that give people incense today they're like no no you you just smell it you all smell it do you smell you smell the you probably smell more the frankincense it's nice right you something you may not be used to smells but this is your big chance to get used to it because you know there's gonna be a temple built you know eNOS on a Temple Mount near you yeah and it's gonna it's not gonna be just frankincense it's gonna be 11 spices and it's apparently like so intoxicating to be around that and and you'll notice that a lot of people they don't like the smells so much because because they're they consider it like gentle gentle Gentile or something like Jews and incense like come on work we're synagogue Jews but Catholics or yeah I've had that same association a little bit and it's like chief you know III actually once someone was lighting incense years ago and and I was like get that stuff out of here and and the guys like you must have some negative association with it but the funny thing is no one was more intense since than the Jewish people no one in fact putting those eleven spices together in the in the exact measurements has the death penalty I promise you know we're in India has a death penalty anywhere around incense okay that's not where death penalty is gonna be and not only that but sorry making this making that that same concoction without meaning making it for yourself as opposed to for the temple that's the death toll not just making if you have to make the only way you could ever make it is for the temple another thing you could get kosher stuff made for the temple but but like get a little bit and burn it outside the temple death penalty not been any whatever has ever put to death even if you did it no one would put you to death but it's it's still it comes it comes with not the kind of death penalty that a court meets out it comes from heaven a spiritual excision we take incense way more seriously than any Gentiles do and the only reason they're burning it if their Western Gentiles like Christians is because of us anyway you know they're just they're just trying to take the service to the out into their world or or or if you have one things interesting is universally all throughout the planet they wherever there are indigenous people in the jungles or deserts or wherever they live in forests those indigenous people all have very similar structures to the temple of what happened in the time even though they've had no contact with it but they all have very similar structure so when you want to feel like something feels a little Gentile if it has anything do with meditation music which we had probably the biggest meditation band ever you know thousands of Levites playing instruments a giant singing choir you know so if it's meditation music Jewish if it's incense burning Jewish if it's if it's crystals you know like new-age crystals stuff the the high priests of Israel the cocaine God all had 12 crystals on his chest at all times on a he had a breastplate with 12 crystals and they actually gave information like they were there all the letters were in those crystals they have the letters of the Hebrew alphabet specifically in the names of the of the tribes and they and when they had a question of import like a national import they would ask it and it would answer you know go show me some master of crystals who has those crystals answering questions I mean that might be a genie with a crystal ball you know but that's their probably selling you the Brooklyn Bridge we had the high priests of Israel the holiest person of our people who would wear this thing full-time so if you see crystals Jewish it's not it's not some Gentile thing and the reason why I push this later and I really been pushing this lately and I feel bad for my veteran students are probably tired of me pushing this but the reason I've been pushing it lately is because we have to be we have to be more aware like God's got God's doing stuff behind the scenes summer in front of the scenes like exhibit a here out the window the Temple Mount you know like we're staring as free Jews in a Temple Mount in in Israeli hands I mean they've given it to the Jordanian Gua for whatever it's called I forget what it's called quaff coughs what you do with a shot of whiskey anything but whatever it's gonna name walk they've given it to them just to keep the peace for now but it's really Israeli territory and so God's doing all this stuff behind the scenes sock and some of the stuff right in front of our faces so history is moving and so we ourselves have to be waking up to to the service to get ready to do this service to be part of this service can be amazing and then of course the question of animal sacrifice I mean you can't think of anything more Gentile sounding than animal sacrifice I mean you imagine if you found out where do you guys live where do you live up front nice nice and where are you guys we're New York stat man very nice but where are you from before it from oh really I grew nearly what neighborhood Oh your valiant people I grew up in Brentwood you're from the tar sands office yeah it's office in Tarzana I got to make a broke on this so but just imagine like your home in tears in or your home in Staten Island that you like hearing strange sounds throughout the night so you look out your window into the neighbor's backyard and they're slaughtering a lamb oh really were they slaughtering yeah for food or ritually who were these people person but they were Jewish Persia yeah but they were no I understand but they weren't they were slaughtering it to eat it they were doing what's called ritual slaughter kosher slaughter but I'm not I'm talking about like a bunch of people like bowing down while they all danced around the spit you know that while it turns you know the I'm time an animal sacrifice but you matter of your neighbors were doing that how would you feel like there goes the name right you know sell sell quickly you know so quickly when they start doing animal sacrifice and your next-door neighbor's house but I mean no one's sacrifice I don't think anyone's sacrifice more animals on this planet in all of the planets history than the Jewish people during our two temple periods you know we were we were constantly offering up animals to God you know and that's that's like you know why why sure the a couple things now first of all these were it's really money with a life because today we don't look at animals as money although if you would like to eat some chicken this Chaves you're gonna need some money but they but in those days everyone lived through them your animals was your money I think that was your that was your life force you had your agriculture you had your your animals and so and so when you wanted to give something to God you gave of many different things you might have given of your your own handiwork you can help another person a lot of things you can do you can give charity there's different things you can give you can give of but you can also give of your own animals they're all eaten anyway I mean as long as you're a carnivore there's no big deal to offer the animal to God before it gets eaten it's foreign but that's why I'm pushing the service so there's a lot involved with that like one of the things is that you lean on the animal you've stared in the eyes and you say this should be me because because why should it be you you know why because we you've been ignoring God I'm telling this to you now not in the temple times you've been ignoring God how much time do you think you ignored God a day like if there was a counter with like you know those millisecond counters and then the second and then the minutes and come at you if you had a counter like that and every night before you go to bed you look at the counter and it tells you how much of the time you spent focused on that which gave you life all day how would you do each day well what would you again you know what would be your score each day and and it's not even that big a deal like you don't have to do anything to think about God it's like one of the freest mitzvahs there is you know it's a one of your free mitzvahs is just think about God and you got a mitzvah you know there's six mitzvahs we don't have to do nothing yeah you don't have to do anything you know spend anything you don't have to shake anything around you you just think about it let's do it together I'll tell you the six you can memorize them know with a K no means to know there's God just right now if you know there's God you're in the middle of the Mitzvah I mean think about where this world comes from if you put the fan on low in case it's already on low it's already all know just leave it's the bottom right corner of the so it's already on low that's low that's ridiculous let's turn off for a minute just give ourselves so let's give ourselves a little break here as long as you're doing it it's going as long as you stop it stops starts again when you start thinking about it again yeah like let's do it oh yeah and it's a biggie - it's the first of the ten commandments it made number 1 on the top 10 list it's not a small it's not a not a small commandment and you do nothing to get it so let's all take a moment everyone just be aware that you didn't make you the world didn't make itself that's not possible rather there's a God okay there's a God now think about that for a moment your while you're thinking about the fact that there's a god now by the way there's plenty of people doubt God and I spend an inordinate minute in an ornament of an ornament amount of time discussing that in this room which we're not gonna do right now we're gonna skip to the chase this is Asia tour people love talking about whether there's a God or not but that's not the Mitzvah that's how you get to the Mitzvah once you realize there is a God then you get then you can do the Mitzvah just by thinking about God so let's take another moment I'll be quieter should I burn some incense for thinking about God maybe that I'll tune you in I mean really we could play some anyone here got Apple music you got Apple music good for you I forget what to put on what's the name of the night thing what drink will sleep drink will sleep and the second track on drink will sleep okay great we're all going to sleep yeah I wouldn't think there's a God that created the world just think that and turn it down Allah and not only and not only is there a God that created the world turned down a little bit no not only is there a God that created the world but he's creating the world it's not like God created the world and then left to go parasailing in a lot for the rest of the week he's either creating it or it disappears because all the world's made of is God creating so if God's not constantly doing that and then it doesn't exist this is a full-time job getting hot sorry but listen listen how quiet it is we're gonna turn on in a minute after our little meditation so God's creating the world now and you want to know what's cool about that is that your brain interface is really what your brain doesn't but you're we could call it your mind interface as well with it why because think about it have you ever had a moment that wasn't now in your whole life you had a moment that wasn't now I know you've thrown yourself into future situations that you're gonna have to deal with like I'm flying tonight I mean I I have to deal with that I got things I got a bye you're gonna get ready a little bit I think I basically picked everything up and now I got a pack so that's me throwing myself into the future but but am I in the future am I here now worrying about the future I'm here now have you ever been in any other time than now do you have one life experience your entire life so far that wasn't now if I walked up to you two years ago and said hey what time is it guess you're right it's now still now still now so it's pretty cool that your entire life you've only had one experience and that was now and it turns out that God's only creating the world now which means God's never ever created anything but now why would he I mean God would have to be pretty crazy to create yesterday I mean that's a total joke it's over why would God create even a minute ago and future he's aware of what will be ease beyond time but certainly not creating it not till it's happening so that's the Mitzvah and we're all doing it you're all like in Mitzvah mode right now in fact if someone came up and down the aisles and said Mitzvah sadaqa Mitzvahed suka you could tell him I'm sorry sir I'm in the middle of the Mitzvah already he'd be like you could do both he'd be like multitask but it is true that when you're doing a Mitzvah you're exempt from another Mitzvah turn down more or something suddenly they I don't know what came on you turn on the AC for a minute yeah what yeah it's just something sit no ready for this you have an six you have five more of these the second one and there's a little weird but it's not to not to believe in any other power than God so the first one is to to know I feel bad to say no because it's like there's a bit of an argument but the Rambam holds that belief is not enough you have to know okay so just sitting there and knowing it we did that the next is to is others and others is an interesting one because how could it be constant that there are no other gods but besides God that could only be a mitzvah if someone put a Idol in front of you and you were like and he says bow down and you're like man and now you did the Mitzvah but how could it be constant no one's putting idols in front of you how could that be constant so the other the way you get that is is it's other powers including you there's no other powers including you which means that I mean it's the ultimate when you do this Mitzvah it's really recognizing that you're like a puppet nothing you don't have free will you have free will but on an older mid level you don't the ultimate level gods pulling this room pulling the strings I mean raise your hands if you've noticed how much maybe not every day you get this but often you notice how much life's orchestrated around you originate if you notice how much life's Orchestrator around you never notice that you don't like need something and it'll be right there sometimes or you're running late and things needed to kind of line up and they do line up for you you need you need there to be no one in line in that pharmacy for your skit for your schedule to work out and there's always a line in that pharmacy and you walk in there and there's nobody there you just walk right up to the counter get a prescription and move on to be on time for the thing you had to be on time for with the prescription things get are orchestrated quite amazingly and every one of us has story after story after story of the orchestration well have you ever thought about that that means that all the players in the story that was art stood around you we're being orchestrated yet if you asked any one of them if they have free will what would they say sure which means you're being orchestrated for others with full free will when you realize that you are being orchestrated you're you're you're making your own choices at least you're having the experience of your own choices and you are moving around the way you move around just like I'm saying words that are coming out of my mouth based on free will but am I really well the second I realized that I'm being I'm being what's right word there's probably a great word I'm not teaching right now I'm being what what's the right why yeah I know what's what's happening to me right now as I speak cuz cuz I'm not doing this I mean oh yeah I'm like a medium but what's happening God's teaching you through me I'm like an instrument by the way if none of you were interested in this class and you were all forced to be here this class would never have gotten off the ground it would never started because they wouldn't need and therefore I wouldn't have anything to say and it happens it happens sometimes I'm speaking in a high school and the kids have to be there and that means I need a class plan for that hour I'm gonna have to come in with something prepared because none of them want to be there and they don't have any questions right now at least not yet boy when I finish they do but they don't till then and you know when the class really starts at the end when I open up for questions and there's a now in need and then all then I get that and wild feeling again that that God's talking through me to the people and that's why I also appreciate when this class has a lot of people in it because it's just more need which means more will come out of me and when I do that I'm fulfilling the second commandment of there's no others because this is not my class this is your class you understand this is really your class when you go to a class that someone has prepared you're going to his class when you come to my class you're going to your class you get that and so if you if something goes wrong in the class like it's not a very compelling class or good class look yourselves in the mirror isn't that so la the teacher blames the class for his lame class it's like the narcissist comes out la but it's true it's really true and there have been times where I've been feeling lousy I'm either hungover or whatever I haven't slept the night before one reason or another I'm feeling lousy or I just got terrible news or I'm dealing with troll or whatever I got to deal with and and I come into the class and as the class begins slow at first because I'm really not in my game at all and and but after a while the need of the class draws out this class and I'm fine just for the class I'm gonna go out I gotta go deal with whatever I was dealing with but I'm fine during the class people ask me sometimes what do I do to prepare for class and I ask answer as a joke I say I go to the mikveh that's what I do to prepare for class meaning I go to zero when you're going to make fat you're zeroing out water is the ultimate solvent if you put a screw in water and you come back a year later what's in there nothing it's just water it becomes water causes everything to become in the mikveh takes a scatterbrained egomaniac and reduces them to two oneness because it's really one in the water sometimes I think and the make I have a lot of different thoughts and they make from one of the things I think in the mcfist is that weight the human body is what how much percenter we water 75% water and I'm in a hundred percent water so what's left here it's like 15 20 percent 20 percent maybe 25 percent of nothing you know what's that so like 75% of us is water and the truth is there's a lot of moisture in all the organs too and all that like this there's not much left I've heard that that the the actual human being is you can put inside like a match box if you just like completely dehydrated you know there's like very little left but that doesn't make any sense with our bones but I think the bones themselves if you get rid of all the marrow and you know all the softer parts of them like very little is left of us so sorry about that kind of gross thought but the anyway but when you feel that feeling that wait a second everything's being orchestrated around me that means I'm being orchestrated which means that I'm just like this this book is getting ghostwritten through through me that's a mitzvah and you're doing the mitzvah when you feel that way and when you focus your attention on the fact that God is totally running this show and you're not and nor is the cops or the government or the rabbi or the anyone else but but God is it's 100% gone running the show when you have that thought and you'll be like driving back to a front today your driver you take public so when you'll be driving back you're thinking like hey man this is my Cadillac you know yeah I press the gas it goes you have to remember on your way back you can remind him women are good at reminding men of God but you you remind him that it's I don't know if you're driving what are you driving but he'll drive so so the will remind them that don't forget it's God driving this car you could take it as a compliment now only when you go through Beth lat or we don't have to go through Bethlehem anymore so no other and then the next one is one and this is a fun one this is very Kabbalistic one is that that is that none of this exists except for God because think about if God made the world that of all there was what was there God you've gotten made the world out of all there was which was God so then he made the world out of himself so what's the world made of made have got and that's the name in the Hebrew Elohim or the state of God inside my backpack or inside my vest or my shirt the state of God inside of this is called Ilocos or allo coot so everything's made of God and that's one that's a mitzvah you do with your brain by just thinking about the fact that all there really is is God is is you know it's really amazing because that means we don't exist we're in us this is a digital simulation and the only thing that exists is the simulator and the simulator is gone God's the simulator of the simulation and so he's causing this simulation to happen he's the simulator so the simulator it causes simulation that means the simulation meaning our world is really missing it's just a projection of the simulator or so it's really one with God let's all try that for a moment oh let's do all three so let's start first just spend that moment knowing there's God okay spent a moment knowing that God is just like using you as a medium you're just a vehicle your body's just a bit like you hear the music you think that's you hearing the music like you're just this vehicle this instrument that's being played it I mean it is hitting a drum they're called eardrums but is that not just an instrument being played on you that's all and that's and then realize that that's all God everything's made of God including you and then there's a lot of air force like therefore you're not dumb because God doesn't make dumb people you may be dumb about some things but there's things you're really smart about because God apportions the wisdom differently so that we work together and that we can make a beautiful world by synergistic interaction so you have been no offense but you are dumb but you're brilliant about other things in between your brilliance and dumbness and let's say you marry someone who's got their own brilliance and dumbness and it something happens there that's synergistic and special I have a whole team of people I work with and I'm really dumb on many of those subjects I'm really dumb on those subjects and they're really smart and some of those subjects I'm dumb about others so no other it's all one and given that it's all one you're brilliant you're beautiful because you're God you're of God you're godly beautiful powerful make a difference you're wanted think you wouldn't be R if you weren't wanted isn't that what we all really want is to feel like necessary in this world like we matter if if all there is is God and it's all there is and somehow you're here well how'd you get here well it must be he wanted you here so that makes you want it you're like permanently wanted no matter what situation you're in you want no matter where your marriage goes you're wanted no matter where your your occupation goes or your employment goes it doesn't matter you stay wanted because the creator that's all there is obviously wants you here you're one with the next one is that you know you didn't deserve your life no none of us did much to deserve our lives and and there's some kind of being that's that's that was crazy about us like there's a being that's crazy about you he's created your whole body as one giant pleasure module whether it be the skin the touch of the skin whether it be the the society the eyes are covered in nerve endings all for your pleasure taste God didn't have to give us taste you didn't have to create the Swiss Alps or Joshua Tree National Monument he didn't have to create any of this stuff snowy mountains beautiful seas and stuff it's all just eye candy us to feel the greatness the awe so you are loved so what's our commandment to love back I mean who do you love the most people who love you think about it who are the people you love the most people who love you unless you gave birth to them which is a predicament because they can be real jerks and you still love them so you feel all conflicted you just cannot hate your own kids as much as you wish you could and the proof of it is that as nasty as a kid could be if they'd - if he even currently apologized like even a fake apology what do you do it's instantly forgiven it could have been years of Hell forgiving in a moment but to forgive to forgive others yeah it's not a specific commandment but it's it's a mitzvah okay so everyone get a moment we're gonna we're gonna end this class very shortly there's only two more so the people we love are the people who love us well no one loves you more than God God's the one who sent you up for this and and by the way if you're suffering for any reason loneliness poverty health if you're suffering whatever you may be suffering the that's also love you know a parent doesn't just feed their kids ice cream you know they put them through parents put their kids through all kinds of stuff kids cry their way into school every morning little ones squeezing them grabbing they're holding your pants there's wrapped around your leg and you're like now get in there shake them off your leg and close the classroom door and get educated you little varmint and I mean if you the kid doesn't get it kids like what kind of horrible betrayal is this after years of constant contact for you to drop me in this little yellow bus or to leave me in this classroom with strangers and yet all of us all of us have God putting us in and out of situations and relationships and all of which has made us grow and become great and and so we see the problem is that too many of us have been looking at God like a grandparent you know like an old grandparent you know your grandparents will just keep giving the kids candy you know they just my grandkids when they come to me at my Shabbos table it's like there's no like I'm not making an account of how many little things I give them it's like just keep coming kids and you'll keep getting you know like parent my parents are Mike my children have to eventually extract their kids before they get too spoiled by their grandparents but we've been looking at God like that that God aren't you supposed to just give me everything I want guys like know I love you too much I love you too much to give you everything because you'd never grow never become anything you'd never feel a sense of even autonomy that you actually broke through some challenge and did something rather I'll give you all kinds of challenges so God really loves us a lot and that that was just a little prophetic all subject of our suffering but it's also love it's the love of a parent more than the love of a grandparent but to stop looking at God as your grandfather and then there's the NYX is the fear wait let's take a moment and feel God's love whatever your life situation is right now just feel the love he's spinning every atom in your body it's giving you consciousness that's eternal remember that's the part that only senses now he's giving you consciousness eternal consciousness will not die with your brain when you have brain death at the end of your life your conscious will not die it's not located in the brain it's not there so brain death does not affect consciousness it's nowhere you could take an MRI you're not gonna find it there's no I in an MRI so feel that love with all your challenges and love back love love this creator who create soon next is fear and that is to to you know like recognize God can just SWAT you like a fly like that he could knock you out in two seconds you can take away everything you got you're you're grateful that God doesn't open up your file and you can magic God open your file and say hey let's see how much she pays attention to me all day you know what God does God just looks away and it's like my father when my mother when I was little my mother used to complain that I was stoned you know on cannabis or whatever in and she would be angry and and she'd say look at his eyes just look at his eyes and my father would take them like oh no buzz dude yeah cuz my eyes are bloodshot red you know and my father would come and hold my shoulders to hold me still and to look at my eyes and I'm you know right there and then watch his eyes he would look this way he looked that way look this way and that way and she look over and say he's not either he's not either it's like the 1950s version of he's not meaning he's not stoned and you just like totally protect me hey give it to me later you'd always say why don't you quit smoking pot and I said dad you always taught us never quit so anyway the the fear factor is the fear factor is that God's like could look at your file he could look at your file he would never do that he's just like my dad he's just like not opening that we're not gonna look how much you deserve your life we're gonna avoid that and just give you life and orchestrate everything for you so you can grow and so but there is a fear factor because he could open it up and that'd be scary cuz you do not want to tit-for-tat relationship we've got that's for sure you want him kind of glazing it all over and saying he's fine he's good she's good so that's scary and that's scary in this world because you could lose everything in a second and the other is that in the next world every thought speech in action will be will be reviewed you know you're gonna sleep in the bed you make in this world and that's something worth reckoning with while you're alive so yeah that you make good choice of what to be thinking about what to be saying what to be doing you make sure your thoughts speech in action or are you know acceptable before God at all times and if you blow it do teshuva repent for having done it so you can wreak lean the slate but it's scary it's pretty scary and you got to fear that so everyone take a moment let's all fear it fear both losing it here and losing it there maybe we should put on more scary music I think we're on the love music for the fear partly and the last one we'll end with this is to not stray and and straying means on the course level it means just going after your base desires like a way from you know a good life to a bad life doing the wrong things don't straight but then you would have to ask the question how could that be a constant commandment it don't only be if I had someone put a cheeseburger in front of me and boy do I want that cheeseburger but I'm gonna nut stray after my desires so you understand that you you're understand the question you have to explain your joke later but the you understand that stray part is that well how can I have that constantly and the answer is is that and we already discussed this is that you your brain hijacks your consciousness it hijacks your sense of being all the time so you're an old-time string in one way or another because you can't help but follow your thoughts and so this is a very deep commandment and a lot of people don't realize how deep this commandment is but if you read the rest of the paragraph in the Torah carefully of the sits this paragraph if you read it carefully what it's really saying is in order to be Kadosh iam in order to be really holy people you have to take control from the vicissitudes of the of the talk and the chatter the endless chatter of your brain which you stray after all the time we all get hijacked all the time by our thinking that's not your consciousness that's just your brain on thoughts and your brain on thoughts hijacks your consciousness and and all - at all times unless you catch it and when you catch it you've done the mitzvot so let's all take a moment and catch it get into your consciousness realize you have thoughts like think about the mosque you can hear the mosque there's an sound of a mosque outside maybe that was the music I don't know but those are your thoughts okay you ready stay with me no other one love fear straight together no other one love fear stray say no other one love fear stray keep on no other one love fear strike you go on no other one love stay say ladder no other one love fear stray memorize no other one love fear straight don't look no other one love fear stray keep going no other one love fear strike you're going no other one I've been clearing this table no other one love fear straight no other one love fear straight 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