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The Zohar is for drawing the light that reforms – the hidden upper force in nature that acknowledges our desire to return to be one with our Maker and makes the suitable changes in us so we would start working on the next step. It’s either this force that we awaken on ourselves or suffering which forces us to search for a change of state.
~Chris
That’s really what”ascents” and “descents” are all about. The fluctuation of what’s important for a person.
Really so like the descents is when a person chooses lower pleasures (but he might don’t know that it is lower) and the ascents when we choose higher ones..? So is there a list of higher-lower pleasures that Kabbalist wrote like compassion is more preferable than justice, forgiveness than sacrifice, love than doing good, romance than sex, creativity than smartness etc.?
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Yes, but everyone must go through these states. It is on the way. We should aspire to exit our ego because it separates us from the Creator and we want to be in adhesion with Him.Joseph – KabU
What do the Kabbalists say to a person who thinks that God is evil when the person feel pain and good when he feels pleasure..? And reason that if God is good then He should give the person all pleasure all the time at least not suffering but still believe that in the end God is good because we all go to heaven but not at the time he feels pain
Pleasure and pain is how we are steered through life. We always only want the good, the pleasure, this is our nature. Kabbalists would say, “good, now you know what you’re made of.” As well as, “Good, at least you have some attitude towards the Creator.”
Certainly He only does good, so what “bad” is pain and evil in the world, right? Kabbalists define good and bad a bit differently. “Good” meaning, towards the Creator and “bad” as distance. The only “bad” that exists is a force (also the Creator) which pushes a person away from Him, while a person might feel negative sensations, if they are cleaved onto Him, knowing and feeling that it comes from Him and knowing and feeling what the goal of the torment is for, then the pain is actually received in joy since he feels he’s actually coming closer to the Creator by this.
It’s living in two different worlds at once, but it’s how we can feel the existence of the Creator at all. This gap between our desire to receive pleasure and our desire to be like the Creator. We will always be opposite to him in our nature, however if we learn to use our nature for a different purpose then we can clothe His likeness on us and we can sense His thought and purpose. For us creatures, this brings the ultimate fulfillment and how we feel whether it’s good or bad has much less importance since we’re striving only for adhering to Him.
It’s not easy, but this is the path. Experience brings a person to feel the truth in this and that is what will help them continue forward until they can sense it within themselves completely and at that point their “I” stops serving themselves which actually brings the most relief as this “I”, receiving for myself was the sole cause of all my suffering to begin with.
Best of luck,
Chris
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