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why do we suffer throughout history if our desire was only for lesser things (not spirituality)? wouldn’t we simply not feel the suffering because our desire wasn’t great enough? or do we in fact suffer only to the extent that we have a desire?
i’m really confused about what egoism actually is. it’s not the will to receive itself is it? and i know you guys say something like egoism doesn’t really exist until the spiritual? i don’t understand what the mechanism of suffering is before we have developed the ego or attained spirituality. aren’t we supposed to be like animals?
Hey Michael,
True egoism is something spiritual already. It’s the quality opposite the quality of bestowal. Without the revelation of this force, we can’t truly feel or understand egoism. What we sense in the meantime is just the confirmation that we in fact do think only about ourselves, but this isn’t an illumination of essence of the quality itself since there’s no contrast to bestowal.
We suffer like animals suffer, just more since we have more refined and broad desires which just means we have more ways to suffer–like you mentioned–but before the point in the heart awakens, it’s just this “program” that runs on us that brings us from state to state: carrot>stick>carrot>stick and this is our development. This is how the Creator created the system that gradually raises us to feel a need in something more. We don’t know how many times we have to take a stick before the point in the heart awakens–this has to do with the root of the soul.
Thanks,
Chris
I find it hard to give gratitude to G-d because my mindset is we should experience infinite pleasure from the start can you give advice thx.
Hi mrc,
Gratitude is more of a reaction and less of something you force. That’s not to say aiming to want to be grateful for each moment even though you’re just hearing the Kabbalists tell you that each second is tailor-made for your path of correction, yet we don’t feel this but we can certainly wish we would. That’s a prayer. However, the aim should be less about the pleasure and more about the Giver of the pleasure.
Chris
You may not be able to answer, but, What are the stat numbers of dissemination of Kabbalah to the world, between KabU, the Hasidic Ashlag community, and i guess kabbalah centre ? Maybe you only know what Kab U is doing but i thought i would ask.
Hey Brad,
The Ashlag community we would not know, but we have MAC which is in the Russian language and it has the widest reach, there of course is dissemination here in Israel too in Hebrew, KabU is in English, and Spanish, French are probably the next largest. Turkish we’ve found has responded well, and then after that are all the lesser-spoken European languages and Asian languages. We, as of last year, began live translation into Arabic as well as translation of the source texts.
It depends on what “circle” you’re talking about. There are probably a couple of million who have really been exposed to the content and somehow have a connection to what’s going on but are not active in any way we could track. Well over 10k though as far as more active interaction and around 5k who are daily active in some capacity but these are rough estimates.
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