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Hello teacher! My question is.. is it normal to fear final correction? And how does one overcome this fear? Thank you for your time.
Hey Ty,
I responded but I don’t see that it appeared here, I’ll try again….
It’s normal to feel fear towards anything from within the ego since fear for the ego is the sense that it will lose something, that it will need to sacrifice something since of course, the ego gains nothing in spirituality.
Spiritual fear will be felt as something completely different – a fear that you will not be able to bestow and do good to the Creator as He does to us.
Thanks!
Chris
Hi Ty,
Any fear we feel at this stage is only in favor of the will to receive. Meaning the calculation is it will lose out on something, need to sacrifice something that’s dear to it. Spiritual “fear” can only be that I’m unable to bestow to the Creator like He bestows and does good to me. Therefore, however we imagine the final correction within our ego at the time being is really only fear from within the ego which is certainly justified since the ego gains nothing in spirituality.
Thanks!
Chris
Hi Humehr,
The tree of life, meaning the diagram if that’s what you’re referring to, is just a diagram showing us the order and the concatenation of these different forces – building blocks – of the soul.
If you want to “use” them, then you need to build these qualities within you by making yourself more and more similar to the upper force, the quality of bestowal. If you can build these qualities within yourself, then you’re building your spiritual vessel with which you can bestow to the Creator like He bestows to the creature. This is equivalence of form.
Thanks!
Chris
From the further reading: Week 3: Attaining the worlds (page 98-118) At the end of the chapter: “Perceiving ourselves as beings that were created means perceiving ourselves as being separate from the Creator. Since our egoistic nature causes us to instinctively withdraw from anything that causes us suffering, the Creator uses this to lead us to the good. He removes pleasure from the material world that surrounds us and awards us pleasure only through altruistic acts. This is the path of suffering.” I am confused… is this not the path of light??
Hi Zealot,
The meaning here is that if it’s done on the side of the Creator to push us and advance us on the path, it’s done by removing pleasures i.e. suffering, and the only pleasure, at the end, would be in the form of altruistic thoughts.
The contrary would be if we would want this goal from the beginning and ask for it without needing the suffering to push us from behind.
Thanks!
Chris
My question is what is Zion to kabbalah? Before discovering kabbalah ive only ever heard negative explanations of Zionists. Thank you
Dear all,
Question: by reading shamati 1, that is to say that there is sorrow in the shechina when the organs are detached from her, and she cannot nurture her organs. Can I say that because we are not connected, the nature is generally in pain, so all the nature disasters are happening because of that, not that we are 100% responsibible for it. It would defininetely happen as a result of detaching of the creator which is nature.Hey Danielle,
Good question. The “sorrow” here is what the creature attains that its “body” was severed into pieces and cannot be in connection with the upper force. It’s something that is felt in our vessels when we are able to contrast the state of disconnection to the state of returning to that connection.
If you’re referring the whole of nature or from the side of the Creator, everything is working in complete harmony and it’s only the level of the speaking degree that would feel this disconnection from that harmony, but to say that we feel that disconnection is also not accurate since we would have to know what that connection is first to say that we are disconnected from it. We’re in more of a “preparation” state – neither here nor there, yet nature has been working on us, growing us and developing us towards feeling that we’re disconnected and thus the disasters and “pain” like you said.
We’re not “responsible” for anything, this is the main principle in Shamati 1 – there’s none else besides Him, that’s what’s written. It’s like blaming a baby for messing in its diaper. All that happens needs to happen in order for us to develop correctly and naturally and of our own accord. The problem is only in those who have been awakened towards the work of reconnecting “her organs” and they become negligent in that work. If we were already able to practically begin the true work of mending those connections, nature would seemingly have no reason to continue its blows since we would already know what it wants from us and would act accordingly. There’s also the matter of bringing the rest of humanity to a certain state of despair from its “old ways”, for it to be ripe to receive a new method of existence and that also can’t happen until the previous method has been completely exhausted.
Hope that helps, thanks!
Chris
How do Kabbalists deal with nostalgic memories?
From my experience it happens that sometimes memories occur, especially while studying Kabbalah. And these are memories who were deeply buried and didn’t occur for many years. But especially while studying Kabbalah, they come back.
Is this part of a cleaning process to let go? What does it depend on that these nostalgic memories will finally be erased?
Hi Andreas 🙂 Fellow student here.
I have only recently started learning about Kabbalah. Before that, I worked quite a lot with this “inner purification process” that you are talking about. There are many concepts around this in other spiritual paths. They talk about inner blockages etc. and that life will always try to solve those blockages. In the process, old memories and painful emotions come up.
However, what I have found is that the best way to deal with this process is to “simply let it happen”. There is nothing really for us to do to help this process along. In order to be able to “simply let this happen” my mind created all sorts of systems, stages that the inner blockages go through, so I would have some kind of gauge. To know where this purification process is at the moment and where it is headed.
Since Joseph (the instructor) talks about distractions, meditation helped me a lot to deal with distractions and to keep my mind focussed on a single intention. However, at its core, everything you do while meditating is setting a specific intention (for example watching the breath), and as soon as you notice that you have become distracted, you appreciate your mind for telling you about your distraction (positive re-inforcement) and then you set the intention to bring your attention back to the breath “firmly, but gently”. You can apply this principle to every “object of meditation”.
So, if Joseph suggests that you keep your attention on the texts and lectures instead of your nostalgic memories and emotions, then that’s that. I just want you to know that it can be hard to keep our attention stable (on anything). In the end, there is nothing else to do then to just bring your attention back 100 times, a million times to the object of your meditation, and by that you train the mind’s ability to stay focussed.
As far as I have understood, in Kabbalah this will draw the “reforming Light” upon you and therefore actually speed up your progress tremendously. So, previously I thought that there is “nothing to do about the purification process”, but Kabbalah seems to offer a different, faster, much less painful path to us, which does not speak or think about any “purification process” at all.
I, for one, am excited to try out the Kabbalistic approach. I had gotten pretty deep into this “inner process of purification” and it helped me a lot, but it was also tremendously painful. In the end, all it did, was prepare me for the Kabbalistic approach. Perhaps, you don’t have to go through the same painful experiences as me by focussing on the “inner purification process”. Perhaps you do.
Hi Andreas,
Kabbalists don’t speak about memories because the general approach to this path is to not look to the past. One should say what happened up until this moment was performed by, There Is None Else Besides Him. Only now do I have the freedom of choice to do something that can elevate me. But about the past, I say it happened the only way it could of happened, and the way it happened was for my best, even if I don’t yet have the developed mind to understand it.
This will continue to happen. It’s one of the ways the Creator awakens a person. The purpose, however, is for a person to simply rise above them. Try not to focus on them and eventually you won’t notice them so much. Especially if it is during the study. During the lesson, a persons mind should be focused solely on the words of the teacher, the text, and the subject of the lesson. Any thoughts that come that don’t fit that are simply distractions, and dwelling on them will not help a person advance spiritually. Good luck!
Joseph
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