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@ Seth. I feel I have to explain a little further about my post. The rage and despair was not about me (although at times I have felt both in relation to myself) but about what I perceive in the world around me – especially in relation to cruelty to animals or the circumstances that people have to deal with. In my minds eye I can imagine a different way of being. I struggle to accept it, viewing it from my limited perspective. I do think separating my earthly life from my spiritual life is certainly a solid step to be working on. Thank you for your input
Charlene,
It is impossible to feel this now, that is clear, however if you pay attention to what the kabbalists are writing to us, they are saying that actually all of reality is my soul…your soul and for the time being you feel it as existing outside of you in four degrees: inanimate, vegatative, animate and speaking. And all we feel is a black point of self that is turned inwards and feels only itself. Through the process of advancement in the wisdom of kabbalah, we enlarge the circle around us to include more and more of reality…imagine like you are in the middle of an onion and there are layers around you and that is all of reality, starting with the smallest layer closest to you in the middle, as you go through the process of correction, that first layer is felt as part of your soul and not as “outside” of you anymore, and then the next outer circle feels as part of your soul and not outside of you anymore, until all of reality is felt as your soul, is felt as one, is felt as you and it all exists inside your “heart” and there is nothing that is outside, seperate, etc.In the meantime, all of these phenomenon that you feel as if they are outside of you is in order to give you the importance and energy to move, to acquire your soul.
The world is waiting for you,
Seth@KabU
I understand that all comes from and is of the Creator and that it’s all for our self correction but I find it overwhelming and struggle with the idea that we are caught in so much pain and hardship. I also understand that this is our own perception of the reality of the situation. Would you say that the way to overcome my raging/ despair would be to continue to hold faith – no matter what? I feel one cannot let go, not for a single minute.
Charlene,
We don’t know each other and I don’t know your psychological/emotional situation.
If your hand is being closed in a door and your asking, should I pray not to let go of the Creator? I’d say stop asking for spiritual advice and immediately take your hand out of the door, get some ice for your hand and then let’s talk about what is next.We are in a closed system that is advancing us all together towards an integral, whole, good, unbounded life.
If we are not moving forward of our own will, then we are pushed from behind. And also there is the soul, what is the role of this soul, what is it correcting, where did it incarnate, it is a complicated system.The first thing I would recommend is to open your notebook and write down what is your prayer, what is it that you want in your life.
Next, on a new page draw a horizontal line in the middle of the page to divide the page into an upper half and a lower half.
On the lower half is your earthly, material body/life. Write out the areas of your life that includes your physical health, your family, your money, your home, your hobbies, etc. and take inventory of them. If God forbid you have a physical health issue, then you need to do everything possible to deal with that in an earthly way. If you need to arrange finances, then you have to deal with that according to how those things are dealt with here on Earth.On the upper half of the page is your spiritual life, your aspiration for something out of this world, for something eternal, whole.
Write there what is your deepest desire.Being spiritual doesn’t mean “There is none else besides Him,” so that’s it, I sit and think that this all comes from Him and this is what He want for me and this is how it is and that somehow something is going to work out.
What does “There is none else besides Him” mean? That through me He acts, not that I don’t need to do everything.
I must do everything that is my hands to do and in every action that I perform, you will reach a state where he feels that the Creator clothes inside of you, but the physical actions remain the same actions.This is the correct approach. Do not put everything into the same bucket. Seperate the beastly, Earthly life from the inner spiritual world and a kabbalist lives in both worlds simultaneously.
Charlene, I am wishing you good luck and I hope to hear that things are stabalizing for you. You have found a profound spiritual wisdom. The deep desire should remain, that is the fuel, but there is no commandment to suffer.
Seth@KabU
“A person bears no responsibility for external or internal actions, including our doubts and descents”. I understand the context but it very hard to internalize. It is also hard to imagine the meaningful and appropriate internal process when it happens
Reading the Freedom Article created new difficulties for my emotions.. Threw me off the radar for some days and I felt like we are in Prison of existence which seems unnecessary at First.. But I grasp the only light of escape or freedom is intention only.nothing can change. My character is unchanged. I didn’t choose anything. I can only choose books,teacher and the group…
The goal is Faith above reason and we are told god made us to enjoy. The construction of the kli is an enormous task..how do I receive for God really (this is a difficult mountain to climb) To decide NY yourself or to feel it..when to say it is just to work.when does it fall off the path? How to resolve suffering that endlessly torture me? My family pains? How do one come home? Shamati is a great key but the hierarchy of forces are relentlessly painful.. I determine to walk along but I fall on my face again. Shame of suffering and facing responsibilities in life.. May god give me mercy to overcome my state..all I can do is pray..learning is easy but attaining is difficult.. May all find that one rope to loft you out of yourself and pray we also reach that door together..Figo,
The Creator has a difficult job here. For Him it is no problem to give us endless pleasure. He has no limitation, just an endless field of love, bestowal, beyond space and time. All of the problem lies in us. We don’t want it. I mean we would want it, but we don’t even know what it is. It’s like a person who lived in the jungle their entire life cannot desire an ice cream sundae because they never saw one, never heard of one, they don’t even know what is refrigeration, so there is no vessel even in the imagination for such a thing.
Well bestowal is the same thing for us, its from outer space, its not an earthly desire. And that’s the problem.
Because there is a law in nature that the more we crave something the more we enjoy it and so how can we come to crave the light? And for this there is a mechanism. It is called that the light enters the kli and gives it a “taste” and then the light departs from the kli. And this departure now leaves in the kli a yearning to be filled again.So, first of all now you know a little of the spiritual physics and can begin to look at things through this lens.
That we get scared, and that we fall, and that we are afraid of such states, feel ourselves really worse than death sometimes, this is a feeling within our bodies and we should manage our life in this world according to how it is customary and separate this world from the spiritual world and in the spiritual vessel this state must bring an opportunity for elevation. That is, discern within yourself two parts, your beast (as its called) doesn’t feel so great, but the soul must specifically elevate now, it receives an opportunity to awaken in faith and to receive the light of faith.
The first years, after about half a year, these are very very confused years, a person is very confused. Until discernments are created in him with which he somehow can cope, to arrange in some drawers, shelves this to here and this to here, it takes time. It takes years, three, four, five first years, this cannot be passed.
To acquire a spiritual vessel this is a different nature, what does it mean. Look how many people suffer and give exertion in order to acquire something from this world, in straight vessels of will to receive, what development of all the sensations and qualities and desires is needed, what needs to be invested, and you want to receive a vessel that is not from this world?
Be patient and work on gratitude that you found a true method. Arrange your corporeal life the best you can and let’s rise spiritually,
Seth@KabUIf I am found in this nature then everything is fine, yes. From the four phases of direct light that I study, phase of root, Aleph, Bet, Gimel, everything is arranged nicely. From the point of view of phase Dalet that begins, beauty. Immediately she has troubles, reaches the Tzimtzum. Before phase Dalet there is no Tzimtzum. There is no will of mine, nothing, I am activated from above, the Creator gives me thoughts, gives me impulses, desires, yes? Fears, anxieties, hormones, all kinds of impulses, I go and perform it like a puppet, like a real puppet, yes? Like a yo-yo. That’s it. And I have no problem, no contradiction. I am in will to receive, He activates me like this from above and everything works nicely.
When there begins to be within this will to receive a point in the heart, this is already a messenger from that world, from beyond the barrier, from will to bestow. Then a person becomes split and then there begins to be in him a problem. Two things contradictory to each other, spiritual nature and material nature. In the same subject, in the person. This is really going to explode, to go crazy. Of course this, this cannot be together. Therefore we are such miserable ones.
And we need to understand that we have no choice, the Creator will insert in us, against our will, in everyone, in all humanity, the will to receive and will to bestow together, and we and it won’t help us, we will need to be in this split until we do not cover this split, that the will to receive will also be in order to bestow like the second nature, like the spiritual nature. That is only to spirituality you must arrive, about this they don’t ask you at all. So you will remain in the split until you turn your will to receive into will to bestow. Then everything will be the two types of nature these, nature of this world, nature of the spiritual world, they will again be as one.
And then you will have tranquility, quiet, peace and that’s it. Only to this extent. That’s it. So you say there is some contradiction, what is contradiction, this is the greatest contradiction. And until the end of correction this contradiction is actually found in us. This is how it is.
Peace and blessings.
I understand the principle that “there is none else besides Him,” and that all thoughts, desires, and circumstances ultimately come through the Creator. Conceptually, I can appreciate that this teaching is meant to help us attribute every state to a single source rather than to multiple competing forces.
My question is about responsibility and free will.
If even our destructive impulses and actions are said to come from the Creator, how do we clearly preserve personal accountability? It seems possible to misunderstand this teaching as if harmful behavior could be justified by saying, “This is what the Creator wanted.”
I understand that the real work lies in our intention and in how we relate to what arises, but I would appreciate a clearer explanation of where conscious choice and responsibility actually exist within this framework.
In other words, how do we reconcile the statement that everything comes from the Creator with the lived experience that we are responsible for our decisions and for learning from our mistakes in order to move toward equivalence of form?
Ricardo,
This is one of the most important questions.
In spirituality everything happens at once, but in our world everything happens at different times.
And so we learn it like this, at the beginning of each state we say, if I don’t do it then it won’t get done. And then at the end of each state only then we can say, even if I stayed home and sat on the couch and did nothing, everything would have turned out exactly the same since it is all in His hands and He does everything.
You only mentioned the second part. The first part is called that “everything that is in your hand to do, do”.
They will resolve later as we attain the unity of spirituality.
Seth@KabU
Are the acts of evil determined by the human mind, or is it the creator? When the creator is all good, there should be something opposite, no? What is evil, then?
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