Wow. Ok. I don't know that I am comfortable with the word ego as it is being used here. Ego in the spirit of aquiring.

I never would have thought that you could be a Cabalahist and Buddhist. I do "sort of" buy into the concept of needing to have a system of belief. You see so many today who profess spiritualism and sort of take the best of various schools of thought and leave the hard stuff.

This fellow speaks about the Kabbalah-- but really everything he is saying, is about Judaism. That's why he says, "a Buddhist... a Kabbalist... you can't belong to several places."

He must be one of the chosen people. When the interviewer asks, "How does he compare the systems he replies, "All the wisdoms, other than Kabbalah are based on suppressing us."

Wow! This guy is an embarrassment to all Jews. He must have gotten beaten up a lot when his was a school kid. This has got to be a comedy act. This guys hilarious. What a blatant bigoted perception of Kabbalah. Every chance he gets, he puts down eastern religion. Good thing Buddhist's don't have superiority build into their faith, the way he does, otherwise he'd have someone else to fight with.

It's a very sad video. So... lets forget the video for a moment.

In my own words, what this fellow was trying to say, is that people in the East, being generally poor, are much more able to give up physical and mental attachments. Thus, their goal of going within, to find intelligence beyond the physical world is well suited to them.

Here in the west, where materialism is very much a part of our society, nearly impossible to get away from, a different tack is needed. The struggle in the west is much about striving for perfection, as in our acquisition and use of material objects-- our capacity to help and uplift the less fortunate. Here in the west, it's all about charity. And this can certainly be done without an getting all egotistical.

If you ask me, Cabalah is a combination of Buddhism and Qabalah. Be careful though. You will run into this over and over again: watch for yourself-- 7 out of 10 times, when I hear someone talking about Kabbalah, they're really talking about Judaism.