BALAK

Shalom Shalom. This week’s DEVAR TORAH is BALAK, king of Moab, meaning to waste.
•     Understand the power of perception. The events external to us are like the screen at the cinema. The movie/event is temporary. We are to be like the screen; it is not harmed by what is on it. Just be a witness to it.  The sensation that we receive from the event is to be transformed into Stillness. It is designed to aid in reaching the Goal of Creation.
•    For Israel who are focused on the Goal of Creation, there is no weapon formed against it that will prosper. We are to transform the Knower into a visible manifestation of the Power to Know. In transformation, nothing can harm us. In stillness and peaceful, we will be saved. This gives us confidence. Uncertainty makes us vulnerable to what is on the screen.
•    Egotistical intention separates you from your higher self. Right action with egotistical intent separates you. You must have the right intention. Bilaam’s intention behind the action is wrong, selfish. Use introspection constantly to check your intention before speaking or acting. Use perception correctly then the mind will be under the control of the Spirit.
•    Bilaam is a prophet who ascends to Binah to see Israel. He ascends to Chayah I which has the sense of an “I”; it is dualistic. At Yechidah, there is no “I” but a sense of the ALL. Higher than Yechidah is One Life. The purpose of the correct Reshimo (pressures) is to bring out the hidden life. Acceptance rather than reacting against it. 
•    Recognize who you are. Have the right kind of self esteem. Israel is primeval, first born, the Soul People. We study our own soul. We have to have certainty and not doubt. There are no mistakes in life. Nothing happens by chance. If you are out of harmony with G-d, you can get back on track. 
•    Most creativity is used in an egotistical way - with a sense of “I.” Remove sense of “I” to be pure. All thoughts come from the Creator. Don’t try to do something about the thoughts. It is temporary. The “I” is developed by engaging with what goes across the screen.  Allow it to go and get control over the mind. Bilaam loses sense of “I” and enters into the prophetic, creativity. When the Spirit is on Bilaam then creativity begins. You can’t run out of creativity. You create; it is finished; stuff comes across the screen, then more creativity. Leave all emotions out of it. Purity is stillness - creativity comes out of purity.
•    Everything has a certain purpose, an immense value. Waste is an illusion of the mind; a superimposition based on ignorance. There is nothing to waste; it just needs arranged. We are to have dominion over the works of G-d’s hands. Events come as vibration, a blow that registers on the screen. You have the ability to determine it’s meaning. This is how to gain control. Israel became attached to what was playing across their screen. That put the blow in control. What causes the blow to have dominion over you is attachment whether affinity or aversion. Israel attached to Baal-peor and caused the universe/energy to be against them. Pierce within yourself attachments no matter what they are. Let go of it.