Overcoming Ego and Cravings - Chovot Halevavot: Cheshbon Hanefesh - Gate 6

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dov Ber Weisman’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

you're not going to live an amazing life unless you take time to contemplate if you're not contemplating your life what you want to achieve who you want to be how to do that then you're going not give a give her live a great life you're going to float along and you're going to live a mediocre life and you're going to be 55 years old and you're suddenly going to look around you and be like how did I get here is this where I want to be get here is this where I want to be is this who I want to be with is this what I want to be doing is this is the person I want to be so don't do that start contemplating your life start thinking deeply about what life is about and what I'm meant to be achieving and to that end we're going through the duties of the heart the Gate of self accounting and the typical is just to accounting and the typical is just to ask yourself what was my day like today do you do that at the end of the day you sit there and say you know what let me think about my day and you start with the good things you know what I'm really proud of myself today because I got up like a Manch because when that person insulted me I didn't roast them back I was just like yeah man that's okay I said the right thing I thought the right thing I did the right

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1. 0:00you're not going to live an amazing life unless you take time to contemplate if you're…
2. 2:32person maybe if you become some Psychopathic mass murderer whatever then we We can question that…
3. 5:06you should and this is the first one we've had where it says a specific time…
4. 7:41l in your thoughts in your speech in your action you're being pulled you're being dragged…
5. 10:13lovely but we think there's got to be something more and budha himself went around teaching…
6. 12:48like amazing here's the game now there's nothing neutral let's go we're either in the game…
7. 15:26everything you have in your life emotional and physical is all for me now I'm asking…
8. 17:59you here we go to stay healthy Jeff says to you you you got to do…
9. 20:32crazy and the whole universe would created for us now obviously they don't have a y…
10. 23:07that's good the fact of evil is good because you can choose not to do it…

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