Ask Anything

Hi Chris,

I found your response to Hing’s question quite meaningful. One comment, in particular, stands out and prompts me to submit further questioning of my own.

You (Chris) stated: “In Kabbalah, a person learns how to react correctly to the growing ego instead of blaming it on some other foreign force besides the Creator or trying to ignore or lessen it or restrain it.”

My (Dyrk) question: What does it mean to “react correctly to the growing ego?” Can you provide an example of what this means or how it might be experienced?

For example, we live in a time where there’s a lot of “activism” against a lot of unkind treatment (egoism) between humans and other humans (racism, misogyny, transphobia, terrorism, etc.) and all of nature (factory farming, strip mining, fossil fuel emissions, gene augmentation, etc.).

Is it my internal ego or my soul that is reacting in pain to these events? Am I to become immune to this suffering? Are “activists” (I’m not one, by the way) acting out of their own egoic consciousness when they react to what many of us perceive as injustices? If it is my/our ego, then does a state of correction mean that I/we should not experience pain because of these events? Does it mean that I/we should do nothing to try and stop other humans from engaging in committing these atrocities?

I’m drawn at this juncture to your (Chris’) comment: “I don’t need to “believe” in anything or really make any kind of physical action since there’s nothing in this world that we can do that affects anything in the spiritual, only work on our desire which we learn we get from our environment.”

This confuses me because it seems to say that any tangible efforts we make in this (corporeal) world are of no benefit. Is this true? Can you elaborate and/or clarify?

I apologize for the amount of verbiage in my questioning. It’s just that I truly struggle with the concept offered by so many spiritual teachings that seem to describe some kind of “bliss” or “inner peace” that people should strive for in this life and that if you don’t experience it, then you simply have not been “chosen” by God or you are not disciplined enough within yourself and, therefore, are a failure at spiritual practice.

In Kabbalah, it is explained that there are two paths toward attaining true spirituality: (1) path of suffering, (2) path of Kabbalah.

Am I on the “path of suffering” because I experience immense psychological pain due to my knowledge of the aforementioned atrocities (and more) listed above (paragraph 4). Am I on the “path of suffering” because I have been betrayed and targeted with violence? Am I on the “path of suffering” because, despite my personal efforts to live differently and my desire for others (including all of nature) to not suffer, I cannot change reality or the way I perceive it? Am I on “the path of suffering” because immediate family members are going through terrible events and my heart aches for them? If I embark on “the path of Kabbalah,” will my suffering and the suffering of others cease or at lease ease? Lastly, how will I know if I am actually on “the path of Kabbalah?”

Please understand, my tone is friendly in my asking. I am genuinely at a point of near exhaustion with my life and I REALLY want help with these difficult challenges. I have been studying Kabbalah off and on for 10 years, although I have not succeeded at working in a Kabbalistic group. I’m willing to become more connected through KabU, but I would be lying if I said I was not skeptical or untrusting due to bad experiences in other settings where I was involved in groups. Is skepticism and distrust a common part of the Kabbalists journey?

Thank you, Chris (and all at KabU), for inviting questions and, especially, for having the patience and understanding to provide meaningful feedback. This journey seems not for the faint of heart.

Many good days….

Hey Dyrk,

I just saw you had replied by chance! I apologize I somehow missed this.

“Reacting correctly” relates to first of all, knowing where it came from along with some kind of emotional or rational understanding for “why?”. The ego doesn’t just reveal itself as bigger or greater or stronger for no reason. Every moment in time is brought forward with one goal in mind which is to advance the created being towards correction. Whether a person is aware of this or not, this is the direction nature pushes us at all times. If a person finds Kabbalah and begins tuning in to what they’re made of (will to receive and intention to receive for itself), that the Creator created him this way – opposite to Him – gradually building in a person the sensation that they’re opposite which brings them some kind of negative feeling, they can react to feeling “bad” since this is the Creator awakening us. This reaction should consists of: a) acknowledgment that this comes from the Creator, b) He’s making me feel whatever way I’m feeling right now, even if it’s slanderous or hatred towards Him for doing whatever He did or arranging whatever seemingly terrible situation – it’s still Him, c) The goal is to bring us closer to Him, d) He’s “Good that does good”.

If I can somehow arrange those conditions in my mind and heart correctly, I should already be seeing and feeling something completely different regarding whatever situation I was given – some kind of glimmer of “purpose”. We don’t have the strength to hold onto that, and the next moment the ego grows again and we have to move to position ourselves above it once again. “Above”, meaning finding greater importance for the goal rather than how I feel – what my will to receive feels. The WTR is only interested in feeling good, in being fulfilled. Any kind of deficiency is like a hunger that needs to be satiated. He did not create us to fill our bellies, but to raise us to His level – above our “bellies”. He’s not interested in making our WTR feel good, He’s interested in developing us to care for creation as He does, and this is what ultimately will fulfill us.

He shows us what a world ruled by the force of reception looks like. What happens when the ego rules and when we are disconnected from the Source of life. He awakens the “lightest souls” first, those who were part of the initial group assembled by Abraham, those who had an inclination for existence above the ego. We can’t grasp with our egoistic mind that there’s “good” in the atrocities that occur in our world, no matter what, we’ll always be looking for some kind of “advantage” let’s say for example the Holocaust brought – “Good? What good? What could possibly be good about millions of people dying?”. There’s no answer within the ego. The Creator makes calculations only towards the one created being, the collective and since we don’t have that perspective of, “what’s best for the family?” since we dont’ feel ourselves as such so any judgement we have is from within our ego which is only what I see as whatever is “good for me”.

On the path towards correction, our focus cannot be judging whatever we see without eyes and how we feel since it’s all corrupted and all egoistic. The focus should be on correcting our perception as quickly as possible. Humanity is waiting for us to make this correction, they depend on us so we can show them how to correctly connect between them so they can rise out of their Earthly suffering and into contact with the their Maker where they’d then justify everything they’d gone through individually and as a whole.

Thanks!

Hey Kyler,

Are you talking about this?

Chris

Thank you so much Chris. That is very helpfull, and it ease my mind to know that I am acctually on the right path.

Cheers.