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Hi Gianni, since you mentioned that analogy with the “meat suit” I kept wondering and wondering, how I can integrate that picture, while looking at all the pain people go through, I am wondering if truly nothing in this pain people experience has a purpose. And then, why it nontheless has to be. I get why it is called the path of suffering. But I don’t understand why it has to be like that, if it does not even have any relevance for our development… or maybe just a minimum , for even the path of suffering still is a path of development. I suppose this question has been asked a million times before… but how can I be true with that? I could pretend not to feel any pain or become negligent towards the struggles people tell me about, thinking, this is just the meat suits going through it, and once I am dead, I won’t remember anyways… my brain will be gone and so will the pain. But it doesn’t work like that… this illusion we are caught in, seems too real to pretend, it seems. I have tried to just split it… two different things… corporeal versus spiritual… but the question remains … how to deal with the pains of the meat suits, physically and emotionally, correctly?
We feel pain, are supposed to feel it as real, because otherwise we don’t realize our spiritual destiny. We don’t want to run for it, which is a kind of suffering, to exert toward it to a greater extent than I feel like it. So to ensure I don’t start thinking I’m already in the garden of Eden or I’m willing to settle for little, awakenings are sent. If I want different, I need to awaken myself through the friends, so I’ll run toward the goal.
This is a bit off the usual question, but I’m wondering how Kabbalah regards gay and transgender people. I’m guessing those are regarded as corporeal aspects that are not relevant in the spiritual world? How would Bnei Baruch welcome someone with a different gender identity than male or female?
Anything one does with their biological body has nothing to do with spirituality. I can replace my heart with a pig heart. It’s not eternal, it’s playing with the elements of the complete imagination that I’m having and think is real. It has no effect except the time and attention I’m spending on imaginary things.
Are the Reshimot the structure for the Kelim? If so, does the Surrounding Light refine the Reshimot and hasten progression? I think the Screen can also aid with that, as its sense is outwardly focused. The Kelim can only sense reception (the interior) without a screen. But after a screen is acquired, do the two work together? Sort of like we use our Right and Left Lines? Am I putting this together correctly?
The Reshimot define the future form. For example, we’re in a broken perception. Its unity is what’s ahead for us. The form of that unity is predefined. There are better and worse ways to realize the Reshimot. If it lands on us, it’s horrible. If we run toward connection, it’s wonderful. The Surrounding Light we activate brings it about optimally.
Are there, in the spiritual worlds, also structures containing 12 or 13 elements? I have red in Shamati an article which indicated to this, unfortunatly I can’t find it again…
Hi Gianni, there is just one more question adding to this: what is the essence of a piece of Kabbalistic music, say, you would want to write one. I understand how the “classics” came into being. But there are a lot of beautiful pieces on soundcloud. Now, what is the essence of composing them? Doing it with friends? Trying to feel the purpose of love, connection and unity? Raising a prayer?
I understand with other pieces of music, artists express themselves and their connection to this world including all the inner states. But what about Kabbalistic music?
Have you seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo44wb1j-bQ
We need to “express our inner ‘moo’.” The one that comes from our Point in the Heart, as removed as possible from our other inclinations.
The essence of our music, though it lacks the depth of a Baal HaSulam piece, written from the heights of the spiritual world – is that we do it together, there’s no star, it’s an expression of the love between the friends, their nullification to one another, that it’s only about this love between us, and that when the friends hear it, it’s easy for them to sing along. Baal HaSulam song lyrics are ‘li li li li…” and that’s actually great.
Thank you so much, Gianni, for your answers, and this beautiful clip, this is so helpful! I feel so much has clarified, just it opened up one last question…I am wondering if a Kabbalistic song can actually come from one single individual (if yes, probably only someone who really feels that connection from deep within) , or if essentially it is carried by what would be felt in the center of a ten, carried by the love that resides in the connection and nullification of the many? Expressed differently, does the song “get” its power through the intention with which it is played or listened to, or does it “have” a power (I don’t know if power is the right word… but even though there were all the doubts about the purpose of songs expressed in the clip, I feel , the Kabbalistic songs to be like a power plant for connection). And finally, I wonder if the words used in a song can actually express the ‘inner moo’ or will rather hinder us from getting there, as the mind will relate them to memories from corporeal life… thus, can we listen to these thongs innocently like children (which is what I do most of the time), or do we have to form our intention first?
It could be from an individual if they have true spiritual feelings. But there’s also a story that Baal Shem Tov paid a drunk klezmer musician on the street to play for him, to uplift his spirits, so from slightly uplifted spirits he could begin more correct internal work. We can use the music of our friends all the more so, without overthinking it.
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