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[Gil]

Ask, connect, inspire.

[Verena]

Hi Gianni, how can we work out how to deal with this momentum of having to flip back into corporeality with all the beastly rules and exploitation going on, after moments of connection and contemplation in the spiritual realm? I wish to be able to give the right credit to both, but especially after moments of  connection, reading articles, that really change the inner states or perception, I feel this flip back into corporeality to be rough… like leaving a place of color and going back to a black/white place. With which inner preparations should we take this “ flip” and the possibly felt, inherent “loss” of connection / “colours”?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Eventually we see the balance between corporeality and spirituality and they compliment each other.

[Todd]

So the ten agrees to do things a certain way.  People show up and do what they want.  I point out we had already determined to do things a certain way.  People get defensive.  Wash. rinse. repeat.  Nothing changes.  I feel like I would get farther herding cats.  How do I increase importance of the goal in the ten?

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[Todd]

Is the answer something like things are not simple and will never be simple and will always require constant attention in the ten because it is a living system and things will never stay the same?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

New desires emerge to be corrected until they are all corrected. So it seems as if it goes on endlessly. But no, after all the corrections, we have something else to do. Everything is simple, but how I am, I complicate it, and lengthen it.

[Amy]

Hello. I would like to join a young group. What do I need to do? Thank you

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Amy,

You’ll receive an invite email when the next round begins.

[Amy]

Thanks Gianni

[Magsy Kapoor]

Dear Gianni,

What is the difference between a prayer that a thief in hiding prays to not be discovered and how my prayer should be? He is also praying with urgency and from the bottom of his heart, maybe even more than me…
I, too, can want fervently, but I only know how to want egoistic desires, so when I am asking the Creator to save me from this narrow place, how is my prayer different from his?

Thank you ❤️

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

He has a natural prayer. For bestowal, I can’t have a natural prayer. So, you’re prayer is crucially different from his.

[Zorica Kostadinovska]

Hi Gianni,

I’ve been thinking that when I am in descent, I can feel and describe all the nuances to the tiniest detail (that I can see at the moment) and how they are connected and flow from one to another, but it’s impossible for me to do the same in an ascent. In an ascent, I am blank, although I feel good and fulfilled, I am blank, no nuances, no discernment, nothing… and after a short while, I feel lost. So, I am starting not to be very fond of ascents, I feel foolish.

Can you please help me figure this out?

Thank you in advance!

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

It should be clear, and even if it isn’t, it will get clearer. But an ascent isn’t necessarily when I feel good. Ascents and descents are entirely detached from my feeling. An ascent is when I move toward the Creator through the friends. A descent is when I’m moving away. If a good feeling is moving me away from them, then I’m in a descent; if a bad feeling is moving me away from the goal I’m in a descent.

[Verena]

Hi, Gianni, sorry, I accidently posted this in the wrong thread…and the question was too roughly shaped… so I put it here again:

What is a description and truly the meaning of a friend in Kabbalah that allows to open up deeper layers of connection and work on them? I have been thinking about this for a while, and as the topic comes up again now, I thought maybe to ask . I understand it’s important not to repeat the patterns of relationships we find in corporeality, but if I stick to your allegory of the dojo dojo … which usually I do, because in general it helps me a lot to restrain myself more and stay focused in the work… in terms of the definition of friends and connection it confuses me.

me… If I simply  maintain the attitude of a working environment or a sports club…whoever is there to train with, it’s fine as long as everyone sticks to the rules… I suppose it’s really good to get the work started, helpful to build a functional circle, to maintain the text work… but then…how do we get to deeper layers of connection  if we limit ourselves to this? How do we make sure we develop real love of friends, and not a reading circle? How do we get to bestowal if we keep everything in the virtual realm of a lab, ignoring any corporeally induced pain/state towards each other? Would that not be using the friends… as training partners… rather than really wanting to be for them, care about them, wanting to bestow to them?  I used to train Karate and Judo… and it was easy basically to work with any partner… due to the rules. But it equally meant,  no connection needed. Now, I feel training  „love of friends” in a spiritual dojo is of course truly something different… but if we shut out all the parts that come from corporeality, what remains? And how can we be true in our work if we pretend whatever the friends go through, needs no place there? This might be a too one-sided interpretation of the dojoallegory, but I did that, because this is the point where I don’t get a clear understanding of the work and of implementating love of friends , while sticking to the allegory at the same time.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

I answered you there. I understand, it seems all there is to me is my corporeality. “That’s the real me, and that’s how the friends will really get to know me, and then we can have a deep connection. Not just a superficial one over Zoom, based on texts.” And I explained why it’s the opposite, even though I may feel that corporeality is the main thing about me and thus the deepest parts of me I can share.

If it’s my group of ten, and for example, my mother-in-law was in the hospital recently, and I shared that with the ten in relation to how it was going to affect my spiritual work due to how it would revolve my corporeal life. My friends understand the emotions of our world that would accompany that, I didn’t need to go into it. Nor did I share the play-by-play of all the goings on with the medical care, etc. That wouldn’t bring the friends closer but overbalance things toward me, and corporeality.

[Verena]

Thank you, that’s been immensely helpful ☺️

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