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Line 30 – And when this question is asked (thus from his bad side, not bad side, but common
sense, but we call it a wrongdoer in himself), he then starts to ponder/contemplate over it
and agrees with the advising of his ego, which he calls wrongdoer.
Then he falls into a trap, web. Therefore we can explain the verse of the first psalm (he says
it one more time, it doesn’t matter if he says it one more time, it’s all about the work we
have to do and not… therefore you often see me following in the footsteps of others, that
we sometimes repeat certain things etc.)
“Happy is the man who doesn’t go into the advice of the wrongdoers, meaning, that in the
time when the wrongdoers give him advice that it’s not worth working (with work we mean
for the sake of giving, for the sake of the Creator) if he sees that by his work he doesn’t have
an advantage for himself (so if he doesn’t gain something for himself, then it has no point),
that at that moment he mustn’t listen to those voices, but has to strengthen his work and
say: (say to what we call wrongdoers, that whisper in himself, we always speak of one man,
that at that moment he has to say to himself), now I see that I’m walking the path of the
truth (you have to always say it like this), but they want to throw me into confusion.
So the man who concurs this (the advice of the wrongdoers), then he’s happy (so this is what
the psalm speaks of, about a man who concurs the advice of the wrongdoers and the
thoughts that are being whispered in his head.
What do you think my people think? They usually think: I don’t sit outside, I don’t go to the
marketplace, I don’t hang around with people who waste their lives doing nothing, and
therefore I’m good, but what does he say to us?
That every man has those kind of thoughts and don’t think that it’s that simple, that they’ll
set you free, because that is also a part of reality and it’s also a part of our growth and not
that you follow for a while Kabbalah therapy, become free of those thoughts, feel nirvana
etc.
Mirjam says: if the thoughts don’t come up in your mind anymore, then it moves and settles
in your body, because when I play the piano, then my fingers act very strange.
Michael says: Yes, it absolutely works in this way.
You have to see it like this, the wrongdoers have different ways to disguise themselves in
good guys. This is very special. They for example whisper: “you know what Henk, go and
work on yourself now, do this and do that.” There is someone for example who types out the
Zohar lessons for us. And if the wrongdoers notice that you have an interest in something,
then they’ll try to take advantage of your goodness and so they’ll disguise themselves as
good guys and say: “go and type out the lessons, it’s a good thing you’re doing. Do it at least
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