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0:00 All right people say good morning. 0:08 Good morning. Let's begin. 0:10 Let's continue I should say. 0:11 So we are going to finish up perk B today in Oruro Satua which is page 17 second chapter. 0:20 So remember again just a quick recap cook has outlined in a incredible tremendous way these two different forms of chuva. 0:29 Chuva ptois this instantaneous or like sudden chuva whereas cook explained the lightning bolt goes goes off inside of my shama suddenly again I feel inspired to be able to fix all of the things that are broken to address all the 0:44 things they're in a state of disrepair and and everything becomes so amazingly and overwhelmingly and beautifully clear and if cook says again his lion which is so important is where does this where does this cha come from? 1:00 Where does this emanate from? 1:01 So remember again this is not really something that that I've done right or something that I've accomplished but rather again he calls it a result of a that this is the result of some some type of inner inner dynamic that 1:17 ultimately again is occurring inside me some type of inner kusha really what is referring to is the fact that I have an is every once in a while has the ability to break through and to kind of steer the course 1:32 of events. Then he said there's another type of chuva which is chvahadrogas or this incremental step chuva where again I take once I I understand what I have to do in order to change my life. 1:44 I put one foot in front of the other. 1:46 I take small incremental steps ultimately in order to go ahead and change my life and change myself. 1:54 Rif cook says there's no big lightning bolt that goes on over here but rather again there's a progression. 2:00 The progression begins with changing my midos and from changing my midos ultimately I move on to changing my actions at the end of page of cook saysu which is the higher level of chuva now again that that it matters per 2:19 se which is the higher one because we we we really as we'll see as we go on we need and we experience both but it's almost as if cook's trying to delve into the inner mechanics because it's very important as 2:31 as RV cook mentioned in the introduction a lot of what's happening over here is a quest to understand the dynamic of meaning as opposed to other let's say what is the trying to teach us invalu right and as such the 2:54 chva is really about the the mechanics right the mechanistic details the behaviors of chuva in orasa as as as rev cook mentioned in the introduction. 3:04 This is also about just exploring the concept of chuva. 3:08 Plumbing the depths of chuva. 3:10 Understanding philosophically, spiritually and of course behaviorally and mechanistically what is chuva and how do we access it. 3:19 So look what he writes here at the end. 3:21 So this is page 17 the bottom paragraph. 3:26 So this is beautiful. 3:26 The highest level of chuva. 3:28 Get ready for this. 3:37 See, interestingly enough, interestingly enough really says the highest level of chva is chivva pitois. 3:46 Isn't that incredible? I I I I never saw this coming, right? 3:50 As I always thought that the highest level of chva is chivvahus, right? 3:55 Incremental step chuva. A because I'm doing the work. 3:59 B because generally most change most change which is slow steady incremental usually has the greatest chance of of lasting of enduring. 4:10 Yet Cook so beautifully says the highest level of chva is actually chvis. 4:15 This sudden instantaneous chva. 4:18 If you look at footnote number nine for just a moment of course he says over here like this. 4:24 He says explains the dynamic of incremental step. 4:34 He goes back and talks about is so incredible. 4:41 Where does chuva pomis come from? 4:44 Sort of cook says it comes havra is like a like a lightning bolt like a flash of light like boar right. 4:49 It comes from an illuminating blast of light of the general good in this universe. 4:58 The goodness of divine goodness that exists in all worlds or so in the footnote he says very beautiful. 5:10 He says, So remember again doesn't come from a lightning bolt right it doesn't come from some flash of spiritual illumination by where does it come from comes from me right I make a conscious decision I want to change my life 5:34 I make a conscious decision I want to adjust the way that I do things okay and ultimately does that he says mikra mahalio So if Cook says comes from a source beyond me from a source beyond me which is really 5:58 an incredible inquiry. So whereas chuvah comes from within me cha instantaneous cha comes from a source outside of me. 6:10 There's something pulling me higher. 6:14 Of course that something is by the way very reminiscent right in the balas right what does the bal say anili is what I do is what I do and in fact right this is l is all about what I do 6:31 and if I put in the requisite effort then pulling me towards him so if I put in the effort to push myself towards reciprocates kind and pulls me towards him. 6:46 A really incredible idea which is very similar to what Cook is saying over here just without the sequence. 6:51 Whereas the understands it to be a sequence first do your chahus essentially right do your part put in your activity go ahead and bring yourself then the reciprocates and pulling me towards him doesn't have necessarily the reciprocity model everyone agrees 7:10 with the reciprocity model but he's not espousing that over here what he's discussing over here is just chuva pis is this highest level because what it represents is the ribonos literally pulling me towards him. 7:25 And what is there? 7:27 What what what what is there in this world that is holier than pulling me towards him? 7:34 There there there's nothing holier in this world. 7:36 There's nothing more beautiful in this world, nothing more powerful in this world than pulling me towards him. 7:43 It's just such a such a beautiful such a beautiful and incredible way to look at it. 7:47 So he goes on, let's finish up the peric. 7:49 He says page 18. 8:02 So I say that of course wording is very is very is very poetic as well. 8:07 So nishmas call right the the soul of everything ultimately again is in full form in front of us in its glory in its beauty to the best that the heart is able to absorb. 8:20 In other words what is saying is as follows there are certain dynamics in this world that we can't understand certain realities in this world that we can't fully comprehend but yet they're nevertheless incredibly true. 8:33 the notion that reaches out from the great beyond. 8:38 I don't know if that's a Jewish term, but whatever. 8:40 From the great beyond, right? 8:42 And actively pulls us towards him. 8:46 It's just the most magnificent concept one could possibly imagine because what does it represent? 8:53 It represents how much who loves me because can like can you you're saying you know how sometimes in life like someone reaches out to you you know someone says shalom and you're like oh like that person they're so busy with 9:05 like a million different things right there so so much going on in life they took the time to say like a shalom to me it feels so special saying the fact that the king of kings kind of takes time out of 9:19 running a universe to take and to pull pul it towards him. 9:24 It's the most magnificent and beautiful thing that one could ever imagine. 9:28 He goes on, he says, So this is very beautiful says that at the end of the day in truth everything is good right remember again we have everything is good who runs the world and therefore everything is good whether we 9:55 see the good understand the good appreciate the good everything is good and ultimately again that yosha that justice and that good that is inside of us really comes as a result ultimately again from our connection to the truth to the 10:11 world around us. Again, he's getting waxing a little poetic over here, which we'll get into more in the next par as well. 10:26 And how could I allow myself to be detached from the enormity of the universal good that exists in this world? 10:34 If I'm detached from the universal good, his lion over here is Musha I'm like a solitary crumb like a solitary crumb. 10:43 Meaning what? So just to kind of bring this back and root this a little bit more just in just this concrete idea is saying that chvetto is this moment this great holy moment where my soul is part of the great 10:58 continuity of this world right where my soul is part of my soul is part ultimately again of of just this universal cosmic truth and goodness and when I have that moment everything is in perfect equilibrium. 11:18 and from this moment of clarity, right? 11:20 That offers you this moment of tremendous clarity. 11:23 Well, I know exactly what I want to do, how I'm supposed to do it. 11:32 sort of. Now, by the way, I just want to point out this is the second time in two chapters that we're making reference to this chuva. 11:44 Now, Rafuk doesn't use the word as much he ultimately again chuva in parallel. 11:51 If you remember again in the last level of cha chuva, Rafuki explained that chuva has the ability to turn into mitz which is what the gimar termed ultimately as and here interestingly enough is calling chvis which again it's fascinating because 12:13 is one of those concepts the gimar puts it out there a chva motivated out of love only one problem which is the gimar doesn't explain what it like what what does that mean of what of a of my best version 12:29 of self like what is it that's why it leaves a lot of room for for interpretation so here fascinatingly enough is saying that from comes cha which is so beautiful is the result of experiencing this instantaneous spiritual awakening which is 12:49 really just an incredible and beautiful ideas will say fascinatingly enough we'll stop we'll have to stop over here for today but fascinatingly enough of cook I I think contrary to to what we would have thought that the highest level of 13:04 cha is chais now again why would we normally think that chvahis is a higher level on a simple level because at the end of the day chvadrais is something that I do so generally we ascribe greater importance to processes that 13:17 we quarterback versus processes in which are performed or or done to us. 13:22 But yet says what represents is reaching out and pulling me towards him. 13:29 When that happens, there is nothing greater in this world. 13:34 Reaches out and pulls me towards him. 13:36 And as a result, I experiencing this lightning bolt of clarity, of awakening, of holiness, of inspiration invido. 13:46 And when that happens, if cook says that paves the way ultimately again for children for today so much more to talk about by the way I just also want to point out I'm not really just because we have a bless you 13:57 just because we have a relatively short not relatively we have very short amount of time every single morning I'm not really getting to do the footnotes but I would tell as I'm giving you the PDFs also the footnotes are really 14:07 beautiful and contain just like a lot of supplemental sources some of which explain to you where of cook kind of philosophy comes from and also other supporting sources. 14:17 So I would urge you like you have a few minutes on your own take a look at the sources they're they're really profound really beautiful tomorrow morning we begin this version I don't know
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