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I understand that the group is a system, how is it we can be connected to the system at any place even while at work. How does that work?
That’s in the thought, and in the heart. Through many actions and efforts in the right direction, it’s possible. In the graduate program we learn all the ways of connection. Connection is something fairly complex, comprised of a combination of inner attitudes toward the group, which have to hold together at once for it to be called connection. They’re summarized also in the first, say, 20 articles of Rabash.
I can completely understand why a spiritual environment is needed. But most of the time, we are in our daily environment(s). My question is: how can i transition the work that i do in the spiritual environment, into my daily environment? There also i would like to work with the right and the left line, in order to come to middle line.
You have to first build the device, and then go out with it. You can’t build some new invention in the street, and it won’t be better if everyone will add their two cents on the matter; you have to build in a lab. That’s what the grad program is. And you will always need to start from this lab before you’ll know how correctly to relate to the world outside it. So, first you have to really build it strongly and correctly.
For now, what you have in daily life is to behave as if you don’t study Kabbalah, while on the inside you live in the discernment that there is None Else Besides Him, the Creator that controls you and everyone, and that He only does good to you and everyone. Try to stay in those 3 inner and outer modes so that there is a split between what you’re doing on the outside and inside.
We are already in many environments, our families, our friends, our colleagues, our neighbors, and random people we meet. since none else besides him, I would think all those existing environments exist for good reasons? I get it to have a new environment where you can meet people with the same spiritual goal, but how do I or how do Kabu decide the make-up of my 10? Â what’s our definition of the right environment for this case? thanks as always and can’t wait to join the group.
If we’re talking about real spiritual work, one needs an environment of those presently awakened toward the goal of life with a drive so sharp that its tributaries led to authentic Kabbalah. Among these friends, it’s not so important which ten, but it’s good it’s some fixed ten so that against that lenticular spiritual background I can work and accurately measure my growth.
got it. now I have finished all classes and it looks like I need to pay another annual fee on top of the annual membership I already have in order to continue the journey… sorry my skeptical mind starts to work again, if there will be so many layers of paid membership, why not spilling it all out upfront? don’t want to scare people away? I get it, but at this point it really leaves a bad taste. not about the payment itself, but somehow it feels deceiving… I actually emailed the support team before I started this course, they replied and said I do not need to pay another fee, I will be assigned with a group. yesterday I was so excited that I finally finished it, then I was sent to a membership payment page….
I’m not affiliated with money/memberships, but it’s interesting to know what memberships were like with Kabbalists throughout history. Almost as soon as you entered the study hall, you were approached – and asked to place on the table a jaw-dropping amount of money! I understand this is, as usual, opposite of how we think spiritual things should work. Even if after you left the lesson, the Kabbalist would throw your money out onto the street (which they sometimes did), the teacher had to charge, proportional to the student’s income, a sum commensurate with the value of a wisdom by which one can burst out of the dark bitter radish of this world to the wide wonder of the spiritual world – in a way that the Will to Receive feels it’s paying. Otherwise, the Will to Receive doesn’t allow me to advance spiritually, and I’ll never reach the spiritual world. Whereas to the extent the person pays, the Will to Receive itself demands one’s spiritual advancement rather than digging its heals in against it, even though spirituality is opposite its nature. These are the conditions from Above. It’s not up to the teacher.
How can I choose to raise in the middle line of tree of life? Through yesod, tiphareth, daath…?
How will I know that I have become a “kli “ and that I attract light in it?Hi Rula,
It’s not yet a question of how, with these or those Sefirot. It’s a question if I have Sefirot to begin with. Without several steps, effort, and time, specifically in a group of students trying to walk the same path, I don’t have sufficient integration with the other parts of my Kli (vessel). When these efforts and the operation of th Upper Light are sufficient, I will have Sefirot like one has their hands and legs. Then we learn how to use them. Until then: more studying with the intention of drawing the Reforming Light.
Now i am just a step to graduate. I am concerned to not having  quality time to invest in my learning. Con i go to my one pace  in continuing this journey?
If you want to continue, continue. At the end of the day, each has their own inner journey between them, where they are – and the Creator. That stretch of road exists, and one has to traverse it, over a series of inner spiritual efforts. If not in this lifetime, then we continue in our next lifetime.
In the past week I saw some things that made me question if I have the right attitude about the Left Line.
In one of Julian’s videos he described it as something that we should strive to avoid because we will always be given it by the Creator, as we are ready to deal with it. In last week’s “Kabbalah Explained Simply” on YouTube, they talked about the futility of self criticism. And in the final link to the Rav’s blog he talks about not losing your head in the left or the right.
Previously, my perception was that the Right is faith above reason, where no matter what happens we trust that it is exactly what is supposed to happen according to the Creator’s plan. And when we are in that we feel no need for anything. It’s easy to pay attention to the needs of others because that sensation of faith kind of nullifies any feeling of lack we would be feeling if we were not studying.
And my understanding was that the Left line is a relatively tiny portion of the time where we acknowledge our fears and feelings about the specter of the corporeal world, and that in doing this we acknowledge that these are our own qualities, our own coarseness, our own helplessness to keep these issues from spilling out onto the rest of the collective soul.
I thought the point of the Left line was this discernment… a criticism of the current state of the self in order to obtain the desire to rise, and that would then trigger the upper to give us faith, and the faith carries us back to the Right.
My objective was to spend only a tiny time in the Left, and most time in the Right, but to basically be content to dwell in either one while I am in it, because it’s doing its work.
That has been my experience of it. But between these three sources from this week… especially the Self Criticism episode of Kabbalah Explained Simply, I am not sure that I am approaching the Left with the correct attitude. If it really is ok to try to avoid and ignore self criticism and negative discernments about corporeal reality… I would love to give myself permission to do that. But it doesn’t seem right.
Can you explain what your intention is when you are in either state?
I am also wondering, in the Graduate environment, if I will have access to groups and events on weekdays. It’s rare for me to have an opportunity to be alone on the weekend. And will I be able to ask questions about The Zohar in there? Thanks!
Hi Logynn,
We don’t need any self-criticism because I didn’t do anything – the Creator did it. Anything deeper than that is already a Klipa (shell) in disguise. About the future though, I have to act as if there is no Creator. After I act, the Creator did it. However counterintuitive it seems, this is the only way to see the reality of There Is None Else Besides Him.
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