Der Wille als Weg (Teil 2) | Anthroposophie | Rudolf Steiner

Hello and welcome here on the Kanal Kultur Epochen to the second part of our new series the will as a way. Yes, after I recorded the previous video, I decided for this title, it seemed to me to be appropriate for the things that we will look at in the next episodes and I thank you for the numerous comments from you to this first part and I think for many of us this topic is will and how we can work in the world so that it is for the world for people but ultimately of course also for ourselves a gradual development and with that I would like to get started today in the comment area there was a statement whether the Christian way would now possibly mean self-giving and here at this point it is very important to me to say that it is a self-giving task in the sense that you lose yourself in the world that it is about safety can not go because a will training always means strengthening your own will there are very nice explanations by rudolf steiner that it is in a certain sense about finding a right position between altruism, i.e. giving up in the world, the service, the self-giving service for others and egoism, both are polar in a certain sense, but the power of Christ will lead us to the point where egoism and altruism are no longer polarities that is very difficult for our current mind for our current consciousness and yet in the end it will be that we are serving in the world without giving up on ourselves what should no longer exist in this form, however, are illusions that occur due to the love relationship to the contradictions because what does egoism mean from today's point of view behind this term egoism today often hides a somewhat developed concept of freedom because here, too, we have to make a very fine distinction between freedom and willpower, both mean first of all I want to go my way I want to claim my position against others but the difference between freedom and willpower is that true freedom includes the others and that willpower excludes most others when reality or reality does not result in the way it is acceptable to me in my personal feelings then I put all the levers in motion so that my illusions of reality can become reality and regardless of all obstacles regardless of all consequences of all losses that come with it and freedom means I want to go my way under all circumstances but this way does not go over bodies but this way is mine and I will take into account the freedom of the other and this fine difference between freedom and willpower we should be very aware of whenever aggressive feelings arise in our soul whenever we feel we are entering an inner restlessness at this moment it is already dangerous for us because this inner restlessness this anger these aggressive feelings have the consequence that I am at the point where our I should be you could say as the crown of our soul that at this point other beings are placed that means that our I either partially sometimes completely displaced and that is a process that does not happen often today we have what politics the political representatives contemporaries rudolf steiner's what his statements in this direction rudolf steiner's statements in this direction so we learn from him that with an influential circle of these political actors who were largely involved in the events of the first world war who made political decisions at that time who then referred to this world war disaster as rudolf steiner also called the world war that he says if you would ask these people what do you have had for a moment of consciousness when you made this or that decision rudolf steiner says they will then, if they are honest, everyone can only say one thing together, namely I have lost my mind in this decisive moment and if we concretize this statement that is meant here I have no longer understood how I do what I do then we have exactly this event that other influences other beings are able to take over the decision-making power that goes from us and this can happen particularly easily when our soul, that is, above all the soul of understanding, was prepared so that most of our consciousness of our worldview in materialistic sub-grounds, because as a result, our entire attention only extends in one direction, namely in the penetration, but you have to say in the superficial penetration of the sensual world and why superficial penetration because in the moment where we recognize the sensual world as what it is, namely a picture of the higher that has fallen out of the spiritual vitality has condensed into the spiritual death a deceased from what is behind the living in the moment where we recognize the sensual world as we open our consciousness in higher spheres and these are the spheres in which the actual reality that is, things happen that then have an impact that have an impact on the earthly event and which are actually sound-indicating for our whole but as long as our attention rests too heavily on the outer sensual world we are blind to reality and rudolf steiner says quite clearly that the longing for an earthly paradise the longing for materialistic perfection means one of the greatest illusions of our time this sensual world will never be a paradise that sounds maybe drastic and yet it is from a spiritual point of view the truth and I have also heard in the comments that there is a great desire to continue to found out how we can get into this spiritual work in a very concrete way and I would like to take this concern into action here it will be necessary as it was immediately necessary before the mystery of golgotha when johannes the devil said change your mind he gave us the way back then we have to expand our senses or you could also say our senses with the five senses with which we establish and close the majority of our everyday life behind these five senses there is also the ability to perceive the spiritual but these abilities are still very small are very quiet and so that our eyes our ears get the ability to perceive the things behind the material realities so that a conversion can take place it is necessary that we signal to the spiritual world we want to develop in this direction we have to approach the spiritual world today it no longer comes to us alone we had that in the michael videos and also in the first part of this series already said we humans cannot become free as long as the spiritual world does not question itself in our life and in our being, but this decision to move towards the spiritual world out of freedom must be made in the heart and in the soul of each of us, it will certainly not be possible with an inner attitude I now buy a book from rudolf steiner read it and then I would like to take a look into the spiritual world to see if what is said is really true so it will certainly not work and if we go a little deeper then we will also be clear why the seat of christ in us is the heart and if we want to approach someone to make him a gift, let's put ourselves in the position of a friend a family member has a birthday or we want to make him happy and then we coldly and impartially approach him and give him the gift and then we imagine we go to this person with joy with love in our hearts and give him the gift in this mood and it is not inconsiderable that we really play it through once in our soul because then it becomes clear to us that the actual gift in the first case is not handed over in the first case that I have described only a material form changes the owner but in the second case something radiates from man to man and is perhaps underlined by the material gift and so it is also when we approach the spiritual world when we approach the spiritual world in a cold, skeptical, testing and perhaps also egoistic way, then our attempts to come into a real encounter with certainty are not successful, however, and that is also a responsibility but also a danger of our time it becomes easier and easier in our days to get contacts through certain means the question is only with whom and therefore it is all the more important to train our heart to listen to our heart but it really has to be the heart not the illusions and not the forces of death in which you can fall in love as well there are certainly possibilities today with the help of the forces of death to achieve great success for one's own ego to exercise power over other people to threaten them to frighten them with a sad heart you often observe how people do with animals and one thing is certain if we want to follow Christ on the spiritual path then the power over others should stop completely the only thing or the only being that we should allow to come to the education are ourselves, of course, under the premise that we should of course not make ourselves a target for people who want to try this power-hungry on us, which means we have to also develop an ability that we bring up great tolerance that we do not drive out of the skin with every little injustice that happens to us in anger but that we, if we feel from this point on, it is no longer with me to agree how I am treated then we should also create a scale of reactions that address the matter up to spiritual reactions that means the ability to say up to here and not further here is my limit we will have it just as difficult and in relation to the love of the enemy this circumstance of course has a special relevance and at the same time a big question arises how can we exist without daring to restrict other people in their freedom and how do we always manage to strive for the christian center even if we are able to push out all facets in the direction of altruism and in the direction of egoism that is a big challenge but we can say one thing if our heart stays connected with the power of christ if we keep calling into our memory we all have our mistakes we all have our weaknesses and we are all good at taking ourselves back and letting the other live if in the best case this inner attitude will take hold of itself then the classic models of attackers and defenders of superior and inferior will dissolve and then you also understand, for example, the word of christ that if someone hits you on the one cheek then he also holds the other if someone hits you and you hold the other cheek then it may be that this holding of the other cheek in the other one triggers something that is very important, namely that the impulse of christ can take hold of his heart if, however, you notice that you have to do with people who are no longer with you who want to clear everything out of the way in a kind of state of rush that does not correspond to their ideas then we also have the duty to offer unity but here too we have to be very careful that we do not lose our grip on unity areas ourselves, that is, we rush to get under the violence of the opposition, but that we step in and never forget christ that we try to stay fully aware and at this point we can build a wonderful bridge to the side exercises I have noticed that some of you wish that we talk more about the side exercises we can do that we like to do the third side exercise means to train the courage of the life of feeling and that means to work in the same place that I have just tried to sketch through overwhelming emotions and here not only anger and disappointment are meant but it can also be addressed euphoria excessive joy happiness exhilarating happiness it is unfortunately the case that we have to do with two qualities of opposition and that means like a person who balances on a rope we can fall down in two directions that means just as we lose control when we get angry when we get angry when the anger takes possession of us, it can also happen very easily that we lose control through excessive joy through euphoria and even if it seems to us that losing control through joy is not as serious as through anger and aggression, we have to make it clear that with every time we make room for the crown, if we give the place of our ego, forces force beings into us, it is already enough for a short moment of inattention and these beings take their place in our soul and they linger there and wait for the right time to put us back on our feet again the reference in all tragic when we get involved with these beings in all danger that arises from it there is also a chance these beings are connected to us maybe we have created them ourselves that is also possible and if we change these beings in our being if we, for example, the power of euphoria when it rises in us in our center in our heart area and this joy, for example, on the christian left that we say inside I give this joy to you or when feelings of anger of aggression find their way home here, too, we turn to our heart and ask ourselves where this emotion comes from, do you want this emotion to come out in this form and usually comes from our higher self the answer no you don't really want that because you know how it feels when someone next to you lets his anger run free, hold this power in you and be happy that it can't go out, be strong, keep it with you, trust it to christ and we will see that this power will suddenly become an inner building power for ourselves what we do not expect from other people in this moment turns around and becomes something tangible for our soul which does not mean that we do not also have an obligation to address abuses from time to time but the way we do it is extremely important because in the extent to which we are such beings that rise from our inner being there are forces but behind them there are beings we are these beings how we allow these beings to step out we have to expect that the other people will also be sought after by them and can continue to grow in their souls but in the moment when we manage to keep these beings with us and entrust them to christ they are released they are released and we must be clear that there are of course different classes of beings there will be beings that you can of course not so easily solve it takes far greater forces that we will develop when we start to learn to deal with the forces and the beings that we have looked at today and if the thoughts bring us to say yes but against these powers that are out there now what should we use these skills then I would like to refer to the fact that whoever does not start small can never develop higher skills and we should never underestimate how christ tells us where two or three are gathered in my name I am in the middle of them that means here he indicates that in the moment where people come together who work together in this power in the power of christ , the forces increase in an unusual way and there will also be a part of the future an important part not only that we are becoming more and more individualized that is one big task the other task will be to find connections karmic connections to the people with whom we have already accumulated common fate and to clean this fate with each other because it is so that rudolf steiner says nowadays we hardly meet a person with whom we do not already have a common fate and this fate can be pleasant but it can also be an unpleasant way but that should not stop us from entering these connections together clean together approach each other without losing ourselves yes I look at the clock and would like to end the second part here many thanks for your interest in following the videos for the comments and also for those who make a donation to me or have done so many, many thanks it is all very welcome and I hope that we will see each other again for the third part of this series and until then I wish you all the best continues well through the autumn through the michael time and i say i'm looking forward to the next time thank you very much and see you soon