A Life of Freedom and True Happiness Is Not Far Away

According to Sigmund Freud, happiness was a very rare phenomenon. It seems that man, because of his inherent conflicts, cannot become happy. What is when true happiness and freedom could become like a second nature of ourselves? And what if I told you that it's just one step away?

Man is the only schizophrenic being in this world. Everyone is happy—the animals, the plants, even the stones are happy that they have a right to exist according to Cabbala. Everyone is included in the divine name YHWH. Just man is not yet part of this cosmic feast. Man, through his free will, is the bridge between animal and man. On the one hand, he has a divine soul; on the other hand, his body is part of the animal kingdom. The conflict between his sex drive and the drive to survive, and the higher capabilities of his divine soul, create suffering. Man often feels that he would be imprisoned between two worlds.

Nearly everyone is very much part of this world. The person who seeks constant physical pleasure is very much of this world, and the spiritual seeker who always runs after a spiritual goal like Nirvana or Gmar Tikkun is also very much of this world. His emphasis just shifted from the material to the spiritual, but the process is still completely the same. Everyone is running after something, and that's why tragedy exists. Quite no one truly lives in the now. How can we attain something that already exists? The enlightened state called Gmar Tikkun in Cabbala is, in fact, the only thing that exists. But when we think we can attain it, we approach it in an asymptotic curve, which will never attain its destination. Imagine you have 125 degrees before you that lead down to the divine Merkavah. Often in Cabbala the mystical process was described as a descent rather than an ascent because it describes the descent deep into the processes of our subconscious. Now you can, with much effort, make one step after another, very safely, as your teachers have told you. Or you have the courage to jump like Pierce Brosnan in the opening scene of GoldenEye. To die with the Messiah means to immediately cancel the processes of ego and the processes of seeking. It means to awaken to a new life of freedom and happiness. True life will only happen for someone who has become a zero.