The Ultimate
Unending Championship
Have you ever noticed that
no matter how much we battle our negativity, there is always more to work on?
And that once we overcome a challenge, there’s another one waiting just around
the corner?
In order for us to reach our full potential, there is always
going to be something for us to rise above.
It is the natural order of
this world that we will be pushed to grow. The game is constant. We can feel
frustrated and victimized by it, or we can see it as the ultimate unending
championship, and get excited about winning game after game.
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Welcome to the month of
Taurus. This month, in particular, can be a healing and balancing month for all
of us if we are willing to open ourselves to learn and apply what we learn in
our lives. So what can we expect? Well, let’s start with a little bit about the
sign itself.
Usually, the first adjective that comes to mind to describe the
Taurean is stubbornness. But in that stubbornness, there is also loyalty,
friendship, and compassion. In fact, many times there is nothing more important
to a Taurean than to remain loyal to a friend.
Ruled by Venus, the planet of
beauty, Taureans enjoy nice homes and beautiful surroundings. They are also very
good with banking and investments—that is, if they can manage to continually
move themselves forward and not get stuck.
I mention this point because
Taureans are also known to be resistant to change, not because they fear the
future but more because they find life so comfortable where they are at. It’s
similar to the feeling you get when you cuddle up in a place that’s comfy and
secure, and you say to yourself with a contented sigh, “Why move?” But then
after some time, you ask, “How can I ever get myself out of here?”
Nevertheless, Taurus is a sign that knows what it wants and it insists on
getting there. Therefore, this month will bring all of us the opportunity to
have the fortitude to stay on top of the things we believe in and to overcome
those things that stop us from getting to our goals. After all, our goals are
often what give us the strength and ability to grow.
How many times do we
come to a point in our lives when our ego gets a real shock or we are broken by
some event, and we decide we just want to throw in the towel and give up on our
spiritual path? Suddenly, the concepts we learn in spirituality don’t exist for
us anymore. We kick over the whole “bucket of milk,” and it spills over into the
ending of relationships, even the ending of marriages.
We say to ourselves
in disgust and despair, “To heck with it all! I don’t believe in this stuff
anymore! It doesn’t work for me.”
This month, we can truly overcome those
things that cause us heartache and pain. Recently, one of our teachers in the
Kabbalah Centre told me a story about a student from Mexico who had had an
addiction to marijuana for 18 years and had suffered a lot because of it.
Last year, this student came to visit the Centre in LA where she approached
my husband, Rav Berg, to say hello. The Rav told her simply, ¨What are you doing
with that box? You are not doing your spiritual work!¨
When the student
returned to Mexico, the first thing she wanted to do was smoke, but she couldn’t
get what the Rav had said to her out of her head. Unsure of how to move forward,
she asked for a message in a dream or a vision to give her guidance.
Immediately, a movie of her future life as an addict started to play in her
mind. It was so powerful and vivid that she took all of her smoking materials
and threw them into the dumpster outside her house.
That was a year and half
ago. She hasn’t smoked since.
The key for this month is to give of ourselves
when we don’t have the strength for it. When we come to the places that are the
most challenging for us, let’s understand that these are also the places where
we will uncover the most Light.
Remember, if you are in a pool and push
water away from you, the water comes back to you with the exact same force as
you used to push it away. In other words, whatever you put out there is what
you, in turn, will receive back.
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