Welcome to Messages from Samuel Ben-Or Avital

A possible Journey of Exploration.

לֵב טָהוֹר בְּרָא־לִי אֱלהִים וְרוּחַ נָכוֹן חַדֵּשׁ בְּקִרְבִּי: תהלים נא - יב

Create in me a pure heart, Elohim, and renew a right spirit within me. Psalms 51. 12.

I am happy to welcome you with a beautiful and meaningful story, I keep telling my students and friends, in order to illustrate the importance of uttering words, as it is said in Proverbs 18. 21.

מָוֶת וְחַיִּים בְּיַד־לָשׁוֹן וְאֹהֲבֶיהָ יֹאכַל פִּרְיָהּ: משלי יח. כא.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those who love it shall eat its fruit.

And to communicate ONLY when it is necessary, and not abuse the power of the word. I call this story:

W O R D   E C O N O M Y

“My beloved grandfather once told me that we are born with a certain number of words in our “word bank.” If one uses too many words (like over spending too much), it empties our word bank account. They become overdrawn, or we become mute. So, when we use words only when necessary, we practice word economy.” It is known by now, that words are only one of the ways to communicate. Ninety-nine percent (99%) of real communication happens through silence, stillness and through body expression, language, emotion and through the senses.I highly recommend to practice one day of silence a week to achieve the ability to speak less and do more and to “produce more and consume less” practicing consistently the active wisdom of “Word Economy.”

I grew up in an environment that my immediate family, my father, my mother and my Grand father talked ONLY when it was necessary, this fact in itself shaped my whole being since my early age, and I found myself practicing it without effort. So words mean a lot and very important to live a life of meaning and purpose.

Strange for me to say, that I was directed to learn and become a MIME ARTIST and PERFORMER, one who communicates IN SILENCE, without a word, and even called my school in Boulder, Colorado, “Le Centre du Silence” and the body work I developed called “BodySpeak.™”

These messages will be of practical nature and wisdom, comes at these times, and must be said, or expressed in order to balance the verbology rampant these days from everywhere, without saying any thing, and cultivate the power of speech and speak ONLY when necessary.

The following saying I know from Paris is a good guideline for what one say, how and why, that may be of inspiration to you. “Si ce que tu veux dire n’est pas plus beau ou plus fort que le silence, ne le dis pas, garde le silence.” Anonymous“If what you are going to say is not more beautiful and stronger than silence, do not say it, keep the silence.”

These messages of that of practical nature and wisdom, comes at these times, and must be said, or expressed in order to balance the verbology rampant these days from everywhere, without saying any thing.

Strange for me to say, that I was directed to learn and become a MIME ARTIST and PERFORMER, one who communicates IN SILENCE, without a word, and even called my school in Boulder, Colorado, “Le Centre du Silence” and the body work I developed called “BodySpeak.™”

This is good moment to welcome you to our new KABBALAH NOW, and share with you a story that marked my life and directed me toward my “spiritual journey,” which I also call my “Spiritual Archeology,” a way to explore and enjoy the process, and share with my students the practical wisdom accumulated and use it for the benefit of all who need to learn and be.Although words and language are very inadequate to express oneself, but that’s what we have now and we must use words to communicate in various ways for a purpose and a meaningful way of life and being.

We live in a very special, positive, negative, dangerous, promising and pregnant times of the greatest potential humanity has ever experienced. What a great occasion! Many of us are perplexed of how we interpret of what is going on in this beautiful blue planet. Most are in a search for that state of perfection and harmony we aspire and yearn.

So, I welcome you to read, share and respond when you are touched or feel a necessity to write to express your way to the point or topic that is spoken about here. Or even dare to ask in you are more than curious. We have a Mime School in Boulder Colorado called: LE CENTRE DU SILENCE MIME SCHOOL that I founded in 1971, and also our popular International Summer Workshop held every year in July here. During next year of 2008 we will celebrate our 37^th anniversary of our existence. You can visit our site: www.bodyspeak.com for more explorations and inspiration to discover and rediscover your being and “Water Your Garden” of spiritual beauty and being.

Another just launched website we call: KABBALAH NOW, A Journey of Exploration, in which we will explore with various articles, and hopefully some exercises and future Seminars Workshops, to assist you in your journey of “Spiritual Archeology.”I encourage you to visit there and learn something about yourself and the purpose of your being here at this time.

As you are aware by now, that we live in a very special, positive, negative, dangerous, promising and pregnant times of the greatest potential humanity has ever experienced. What a great occasion! Many of us are perplexed of how we interpret of what is going on in this beautiful blue planet. Most are in a search for that state of perfection and harmony we aspire and yearn.

The authentic study of the Kabbalah can guide us toward that aspect of perfection within ourselves and begin the work of the TIKKUN = Restoration of oneself and the whole creation.

The sacred knowledge of the KABBALAH is very “popular” now, and as long as we study properly and authentically and profoundly, we make more great discoveries that can assist us in our daily lives.

Kabbalah is a way of life that teaches us to develop new tools, new tools, new senses to restore our being as we were meant to be, and overcome all the illusions and obstacles and conditions to practice within and without our true being.

One of the great goals of the Sacred Kabbalah is simply “to transform that which we call the “BAD” to the “GOOD”, and one of the ways to begin this journey is to GUARD OUR TONGUE. That is, to be very careful of what we say, and how we say it, utter it or talk to ourselves, and others. Especially BE PRESENT every moment, and be fully aware and mindful when we are being with the “other” person.

I will deliberately repeat it here again, please read it with your gift of deep awareness:

“The increased popularization of the Kabbalah of our time has both positive and negative aspects on the psyche of humanity. The gullibility of accepting ideas, concepts, assumptions and ways of beliefs without examining them can cause great damage to many brains now pretending that they are “on the right track.”

However, as you will visit often here, I know you will make discoveries and have questions, comments or statements. I hope these questions are with the attitude of “Life and Death” questions, and not just curious questions to satisfy the limited being in you, but questions that soars within you with great urgency and demand a true exploration to KNOW. This is the genuine attitude to ASK QUESTIONS. It is a REAL QUEST.

I like to he illustrate this suggestion to use this golden nugget of practical wisdom: with the following words:

THE THREE GATES OF WORDS

There is a wise and practical proverb my Beloved grandfather told me once. It says that:

“Every word should pass through three gates before being uttered.”

At the first gate the gatekeeper asks, “Is it true?”

At the second he ask, “Is it necessary?”

At the third he asks, “Is it kind?”

If you answer in the positive, then by all means, open your mouth and speak. The following words also I keep emphasizing to my students is:

“In The Beginning Was The Word, Before The Word, There Was Movement.”“Movement is vibration, life, vision, the stuff of creation and the essence of everything.”

“An intelligent being thinks and talks.

An emotional being sings.

A totally integrated, conscious being thinks, talks, sings, moves, and ACTS.“

Enjoy this beautiful journey, and…Bon Courage!

Thank you for BEING HERE.

Samuel Ben-Or Avital

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