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Hi Gianni, pardon my confusion, still trying to understand it bit by bit. I understand that the world of AK happens even before the creation of our world. Even BYA happens before the creation of our world.
My questions:
1. Does our world created because the upper light somehow manages to pierce through the tabur, creating BYA, and further into our world?
2. Can the restrictions in the world of AK (with the reshimot) be relatable to our daily lives? If so, can you give example?
Thank you.
The Upper Light is gradually restricted, restriction by restriction, until we feel what is called Our World, and I’ll confuse things even further by adding that what we experience is not even that, but some special imaginary reality after the very last restriction, but one that is still founded on that penultimate degree called Our World (olam haZe). It’s so that we have a sandbox from which to climb without doing damage to ourselves.
No, AK is really very far from our lives. As understandable as it seems, it’s an alien reality. Because there it’s a single Kli (vessel) against the Upper Light, and here, we are shattered vessels and the Upper Light departed accordingly.
(Sorry this is long to give context.) I want to know if the creature retains access to all the reshimot, or if they disappear to some degree when we move on from one to another?
I understand that time is an artifact of our perception of different states. And I think you are saying that a reshimot is any complete state that exists, or existed. It sounds like they possibly build on each other, like the next one includes the memory of the last one, or is influenced by what happened in the last one. Is this like a version of a video game or an episode/chapter in a story?
One thing that bothers me my whole life is that I can’t access past states, or the states of other people. I want to go back to any time and examine it with new perceptual abilities. I am on the autistic spectrum and I didn’t develop normal awareness of feelings until I was an adult, and it is thrilling to revisit things I knew before with sense I have now and I couldn’t even conceive of then. I want to go into the minds of other people and experience their preferences, their feeling, their identity, their life.. I want to know the WHOLE story. Every second of every life of every creature everywhere.
RPG games are very cathartic to me because I can go into every nook and cranny of that world and know it. I can replay the story as many times are I want. I can feel it from my own perspective encountering it for the first time, or sense how it’s different after I’ve played it once, or imagine it from an NPC’s perspective, or play as a new character, or play with another person. It feels like I can squeeze every drop of experience from every facet of it. I can save it all. If my appreciation of it is incomplete, I can go back and complete it.
It frustrates me that in this world I only have access to my own perspective, except in my dreams. I have extremely elaborate and varied experiences, identities, and lives in my dreams. This makes it annoying that I keep coming back to this one (this life) where there’s really nothing to do but study Kabbalah and observe how much of the world that I don’t have access to. I love the opportunity to study Kabbalah, but what is the point of all the rest of this tantalizing detail? I can’t even clearly remember my own memories that I experienced myself. And I have almost no access to other people’s. I can talk to them or read their stories or watch a movie about them. But, for the most part, each one is an entire universe I don’t have access to, and I don’t have the time or the conceptual capacity for it even if I did. I travel a lot, but I mostly see tiny hints of huge stories and places I will never get to know.
When we reach correction will it all be saved? Can we go back and examine every one of a quadrillion stories and moments that we each took to get there? Will we be able to fit every corner of the world into our perception?
Sure, like a version of a video game, which includes everything – what was, what is, what can be. But does anything exist other than what’s in the frame you’re seeing?
Everything in reality turns out to belong to you, and you will know it in greater depth than we can even imagine. What we experience now, we cannot even call knowing, let alone understanding or attaining. We drift in a dream, not knowing what we see, not even knowing ourselves.
All the desires one has, exist for a reason. The Plan of Creation includes everything, all possible fulfilments. This life is supposed to be frustrating – not as an end in itself, but for one to understand that we were not meant to relax here, in this classroom. But to elevate from here upwards.
I am still thinking about what you said here and I have another question nagging at me. In my reality I can see desires or hints of desires out there that seem like they should never be fulfilled. Never. I know many times you have talked about the coarse desires not used at the bottom of the body, (I think corresponding to legs?) And at the end of correction the Creator deals with those for us. Does He just dispel and get rid of them? It seems like some of them should only be depictions of evil that we might achieve more contrast in our capacity to perceive the light, but never to actually exist or be fulfilled. It is hard to imagine that even the Creator could find a way to make certain desires corrected to be in bestowal.
But He created them and they’ll all be fulfilled. We can’t imagine since we’re in such a broken perception of reality we can’t imagine the correct application of some desires or really any desires for that matter. Importantly, we think that some of our desires ARE good ALREADY, which shows how truly far we still are from the truth.
Ok, that really makes a lot of sense.
I had been learning about how we don’t actually need anything but correction, and seeing it to be true a lot in my life. But I decided I would still pray for water because my trees in my yard were thirsty and how could water be anything but good? And the next day my area had a “1,000 year flood” that swept away a lot of houses.
This idea that no egoistic desire of any kind can be good is an important concept I somehow missed because I haven’t seen it explicitly stated.
Thanks for that answer.
This isn’t directly related to the course, but it’s something that’s been weighing on my mind: How can we continue to appreciate and enjoy kind gestures in real life when we’re aware that, behind every action, there may be some element of self-interest? Thoughts like, “She’s only doing that because it makes her feel good,” or “He’s saying that just to avoid feeling guilty,” make it hard not to question people’s motives. It starts to feel like you’re second-guessing every act of kindness.
When we correct our perception of reality, we see that all we’re seeing are our own intentions. Since my intentions are for self-love, all I have in my world are people who act out of self-love. Therefore, I don’t need to judge them, but judge myself. In truth, they’re found in perfection in the world of Eyn Sof, except for the projections from my inner qualities that stand between Eyn Sof and my degree.
My intention is all for self-love, so does everybody around me. correct? if no judging is required, shouldn’t that include not judging myself? accept that’s my essence and try to use it the right way?
I guess I am a bit lost here. we are all created as this desire to receive, me, you, him, her… how come they are found in perfection in the world of Eyn Sof? if they are, am I not?
also not sure that I understand ” except for the projections from my inner qualities that stand between Eyn Sof and my degree.”
My intention is all for self-love, so does everybody around me. correct? if no judging is required, shouldn’t that include not judging myself? accept that’s my essence and try to use it the right way?
Yes
I guess I am a bit lost here. we are all created as this desire to receive, me, you, him, her… how come they are found in perfection in the world of Eyn Sof? if they are, am I not?
You are, but that doesn’t matter. What you feel and have clearly in your senses is what matters.
Also not sure that I understand ” except for the projections from my inner qualities that stand between Eyn Sof and my degree.”
Between the perfection that is the perfect, connected Vessel, which includes all of humanity, and what you feel now, is a projection of all the possible intentions of yours that are something other than for the sake of the Creator. With them, you’re in a world. That’s why you can’t judge anyone and can’t correct anyone except yourself. All is futile except for this.
With all the knowledge I have now, I feel at peace with the meaning and goals of life—but I feel lost when it comes to the path to get there. I’m waiting to be assigned to a group of 10, and in the meantime, I’ve often been told not to mix spiritual life with the life I’m living. I understand that I shouldn’t apply the “will to bestow” blindly to everyone, but knowing my own nature, and the nature of those I love, while feeling powerless to change anything (at least not yet), leaves me feeling deeply depressed.
Am I the only one who feels this way? Will this pass?
Sometimes it feels like knowing the why and where, but not the how, is even more painful than not knowing anything at all.
what am I doing wrong?
You need to simply be good to those around you – approximately according to what’s generally expected of generally “nice” people. Not exceedingly nice though.
On top of that, I need to study the Wisdom of Kabbalah in all of my truly free time (which everyone has plenty of, when we look honestly).
These measures ensure that one has a balanced approach to corporeality, first of all, because beginners often waste their energy and thus tire themselves trying to “do something” spiritual in relation to corporeality. Corporeal life is one surface, on which the most spiritual thing is to not do anything, by which I mean not to do anything “spiritual” because all you’ll think to do will be wrong, and about this it is written “sit and do nothing – that’s better.” But your barometer is what I said above, to be good, normal. A Kabbalist beginner usually has some problem or other with this advice, and doesn’t realize how much of a problem keeping it, is. In fact, just with this, one stumbles for many years usually.
The rest, the Light will take care of. It advances you, when you study. Additionally, the precise spiritual work will become clearer. No, it’s not normal for Kabbalists to be depressed. On the contrary, to be in great elation. But yes, it’s sometimes that way at the start.
Is the Reshimo a memory bank for a person’s soul or for each individual desire / Kli?
Based on your explanation, it seems like a memory bank is being constructed with the future corrected state of a desire. And after each correction, we would be going up the memory bank trying to fulfil increasing amount of the desire. Is that right?
I’m in a Reshimo right now. It contains everything. If it contains a spiritual element, called the Point in the Heart, it could lead to more spiritual Reshimot than the one I’m in now. This way I come to more and more spiritual Reshimot. Finally, after a very long path, what we call our world disappears entirely as it no longer serves any purpose. These Reshimot exist; we only reveal them.
About Reshimot there’s nothing more written or to know, not about the one you’re in. Only about spiritual degrees Kabbalists write. All you need to know is that sometimes there’s a spiritual Reshimo, that’s when one is inclined to spirituality, and to realize it maximally. That’s what’s in one’s hands to do.
I am wondering about the preparation question… how we would try to show the upper light that we would like to connect… and since I just at the beginning of this journey… I am wondering a lot about this process… which as I understood as an inner process, and not a deed or words. Is that something that just forms in us, like a felt prayer (not necessarily a spoken one), with the hope to thus find the right direction?
because of the screen, whatever pleasure we feel is immediately extinguished in the material world. is it possible for us to feel spiritual pleasure even for a bit while we are in this world? may you give an example ?
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