What life has taught me:

By zevi770 · January 7, 2012

Man cannot rely on his own opinion for his ego will work against himself (ego is highly offendable, tyrannical in revenge – and focuses all energies in this ignoble pursuits and distorts all truths to feed its infantile need for recognition and not be ashamed.)
Hence one must appoint a Mashpiah – a spiritual mentor to decipher truth and ask, seek and get his or her advice (a Maspia, is someone who is schooled in Judaism and Jewish mysticism and you can relate to) for in this way the inherent bias of the mind is overcome.
Furthermore, we all have an inherent Yetzer Hara, desire of an evil trait such as laziness, depression when things don’t go our way, women, other instinctive pleasures, perhaps men for a woman, drugs etc. a natural tendency for recognition as mentioned, including the enjoyment over idleness and comedy – these are evil in that they will drive a person away from his meaning in life namely, accomplishment – giving – helping – unity etc.
To overcome the Yetzer Hara one must be happy – for when a person is down the Yetzer Hara easily convinces him or her to fall for an instinct pleasure as it is a quick fix esitina and no one desires to feel down and hence we easily succumb to the quick fix; and happiness gives us energy
To be happy a person needs to say Ein Oid Milvadoi, There is Only G-d (for all reality consists of G-d as its essence; merely a few wavelengths are what we see, hear, experience etc.)
Furthermore a person needs to always literally count their blessings, for blessings which are great become curses when we don’t express gratitude for them as they make us arrogant and hence we lose them.

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What life has taught me:

Man cannot rely on his own opinion for his ego will work against himself (ego is highly offendable, tyrannical in revenge – and focuses all energies in this ignoble pursuits and distorts all truths to feed its infantile need for recognition and not be ashamed.)

Hence one must appoint a Mashpiah – a spiritual mentor to decipher truth and ask, seek and get his or her advice (a Maspia, is someone who is schooled in Judaism and Jewish mysticism and you can relate to) for in this way the inherent bias of the mind is overcome.

To overcome the Yetzer Hara one must be happy – for when a person is down the Yetzer Hara easily convinces him or her to fall for an instinct pleasure as it is a quick fix esitina and no one desires to feel down and hence we easily succumb to the quick fix; and happiness gives us energy

To be happy a person needs to say Ein Oid Milvadoi, There is Only G-d (for all reality consists of G-d as its essence; merely a few wavelengths are what we see, hear, experience etc.)

Furthermore a person needs to always literally count their blessings, for blessings which are great become curses when we don’t express gratitude for them as they make us arrogant and hence we lose them.