Ah yes….it’s hard to see this as “help from above” at the moment, probably, but if you were the Creator – how would you begin to entice the one you love to begin on the path which leads to enjoying spiritual pleasures? It’s uncomfortable to the ego now because what it’s used to enjoying from it can no longer enjoy from them, even more, you force yourself to try and enjoy them, you actually feel worse. Ya, its uncomfortable but it’s part of the path – kind of this “no man’s land” state on the way until you can start orienting yourself.

Hang onto the environment, absorb the values and desires from it and you’ll see how you need to handle these states. You’ll become thankful for them, they receive a sweetness to them as you begin to understand the ine who gave them to you and His intention. This is fulfilling more than the pleasure received directly from the old desires you used to have.

Good luck!

Too advanced!? Sounds like the ideal situation. This is a better case than seeing yourself as more advanced. You’ve now got the opportunity to put yourself in their hands, to melt into them, integrate with them, have your desire be their desire, to yearn to be in their degree – to participate in the connection they have between them and you are willing to do whatever it takes to serve their spiritual goal.

I envy your state 🙂 You could say it’s easier to work with those conditions as opposed to the conditions you think you’d prefer.

Good luck friend 🙂

Hi Todd,

Just a tune to hum. We heard it from Rabash on his recordings so we just kind of continued it.

Chris

There is a matter of quantity and quality here however, the way we understand it now – the quantity will come only when our quality improves. So we do the most with what we have got now once we have something to give to the world – meaning an actual example – they will receive it. Until then, it’s as the sages say, “there is no coercion in spirituality” – you can’t force someone to have a desire. Whoever trickles in we are certainly happy to accept them, but we know there won’t be any masses studying the wisdom.

To answer you question more directly, we will rise once we raise ourselves to a higher level. We’ll still need to do the actual work. Having more people join the work doesn’t necessarily decrease the work we have upon ourselves to assume. You could mention the matter of “lightening the load” which our teacher has mentioned but I haven’t heard of it referenced in the context you’re speaking about here.

Thanks!

Chris

Hey Todd,

This is certainly something he’s been preparing us for and something the students often probe him for answers about, but thankfully we have thousands of hours to return to and the group would stay strong keeping the same framework. He has made it clear nothing is to change.

Hopefully, we have many more years!

Chris

Hey Todd,

I’m not exactly sure what you’re trying to say here with this one. I don’t know what kind of ‘inventions’ there would be for a Kabbalists on their way to correcting their soul that the Creator hasn’t already put in place for them to use. There is something to say about “a true desire”, that until we have this true desire within us as a prayer (the ability to bestow without any return for self-benefit) then the Creator cannot answer that prayer. Let me know if you meant something else.

Chris