Light darkness and everything in between
By zevi770 · March 4, 2012
Why do people dissociate?
Why do people think everyone else is evi?.
Why?
Why?
Why?
The answer is so simple it is only sad that it isn’t funny.
You see, people have a love fear mechanism that regulates their heart, hence their head, hence their behavior.
So love is the ultimate – it feels good, it unites us with others – it is our humanistic need, state, and basic soul-makeup.
But what happens if you get afraid.
You now are presented with a dilemma – on one hand you desire to love the other person – on the other hand you heart, instincts, biology tells you “keep away from that person.”
As one person told me (not sure if it’s an accurate quote but true nonetheless) it states in the Talmud, when you burn your hand in hot water you get afraid of cold water.
Once bitten twice shy, the saying goes.
In other words, if one person is a shmuk and makes your fearful you then become fearful of all people – something that causes the host of mental disbalances all based on anxiety – known to man.
Many people live in social phobia.
Obviously this could only occur if they experienced some kind of situation that made them fear people in the first place.
In fact to a large extent due to the fact that we all crave acceptance we are all manipulated (not evilly but nonetheless for the bad) by societies ever shifting standards of truth.
So how do we extricate ourselves from such a mess?
The answer is to understand that the stimulus you received hence fear is simply not real.
Every morning we wake up and ignore all the rubbish / garbage in our dreams.
As it states in Kabbalah, often the demons specifically give us nightmares to freak us out.
But as you wake up – you say to yourself that wasn’t real.
Poof, the situation is gone.
Now is it true that what you feared isn’t real?
Absolutely.
Let me tell you why.
You see there is three realities, one real, one half real, the other completely unreal.
The first reality is love, this is God, this is truth, this is the normal human behavior, the proof is every child given adequate care is a loving person.
The second is hate, now what would cause a person to hate another person, say antisemitism, say the Germans or the Arabs, when the Jews not only did nothing wrong to them but helped them (Israel is the only country where Arabs have freedoms and much higher standards of living than all their other countries combined.)
The answer is jealousy – so if I am jealous of you, there is nothing you can do – as our sages teach, for every hatred there is a balm, so if I God forbid hate you because you insulted me you can apologize, if I hate you because you insulted my family you can apologize to them, if I hate you because you stole my money, you can repay it – except for jealousy.
When a. is jealous of b. there is no balm except to ignore it.
The proof of this is, four thousand years of baseless antisemitism.
Jealousy is an evil within the hearts of the jealous that in fact isn’t real.
For jealousy is based on another false premise and this premise is literally imagined.
I think I am important hence I am jealous that you have more than me.
I see this clearly in Africa where the blacks who think they are in a lower socio-economic class are not jealous of the whites.
In fact as they are not jealous, though one may think they should harbor resentment, they are polite, helpful, kind and sweet. In fact it is precisely those blacks who become middle class who often develop antisemitism and a host of other virulent jealousy based evils.
In fact American radical blacks are a good example of this.
Had they been impoverished they wouldn’t think they have a right to say reparations to the tune of the GDP of the American economy for their humility would prevent their association hence ability to believe they have a right.
So behind all jealousy lies the imaginative belief that God somehow doesn’t really know what he is doing.
The world has gone awry – a good important man such as myself has been unduly raped.
My fair share of the booty has been stolen from me.
Of course in the antisemetic model the Jealousy is ever deeper for it is over the dignity, the joy, the joy-da-vive of the Jew who dedicated to a higher cause (and this is why we find similar to antisemitism, anti-American jealousy today) lives a tranquil, blissful, serene life – or at least knows his own goodness is valuable, something antisemites and jealous people coming from anger and grenvy (the combination of greed and envy) obviously do not have.
As they say, the jealous person eats better, but the righteous person sleeps better.
All in all, it all means that all hatred due to jealousy is simply delusional.