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Dear Gianni, is there ever a time when the burden of the kingdom of heaven stops feeling like a burden? Does it still feel like a burden when He who knows the mysteries testifies that he will not turn back? What place does the prayer of Moses come from?
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There is the matter of when one knows who one serves, a greater load becomes a greater pleasure – and one can have infinite energy and strength, which aren’t limited. Importance is what’s in short supply.
There’s also the matter of different work above the Machsom (barrier).
There’s also the matter of, until the end of correction, Faith Above Reason is the patent by which it is possible to transcend another piece of the Will to Receive, and reach bestowal.
I listened to “Isaac and Jacob” with Yerganat, and towards the end there wasn’t much time for some of the slides. This is the quote from Slide #7:
Regarding how to include fear in love from the side of judgment, he cites the saying: “But he who hardens his heart will fall into trouble,” which means that one must not harden one’s heart during judgment, no matter what happens in the world. For then he will fall into the sitra achra, which is called “trouble.” But one must then awaken fear as strongly as possible, experiencing fear before the Creator, and connect fear with His perfect love at that time. But both the first and the second fear are not for his own benefit, but solely out of fear: lest the pleasure he gives to his Creator be diminished.
First, I want to know if I understand what the first and second fears are. I have heard this described as the two yods. One is the fear of missing out on getting something for your ego. And the other is the fear of missing out on giving something to the Creator; and always you choose from these two. Is that right?
Second, they were not able to cover the last part of this quote. What does it mean to have both fears, but not for your own benefit? And how does failure at this diminish the pleasure of the Creator?
Without Yod and the rest – I need to worry all the time, “Am I coming closer to the goal now or not?” If not, then I’m distancing without knowing it. If I worry about this, I replace what I’m usually doing, which is like a bird pecking around for food, in every second having to be filled by one pleasure, another, and another.
Also, when does the next young group start?
With the classes over it’s like being on a roller coaster still, but this time with a blindfold on.
It’s weird because when I started all this I was dreading having to add group work to the private study of the materials. But now that I’m through it, the materials feel more like a security blanket than a rope or a ladder.Do y’all have like a Discord server were you can go and be in the group even if nothing is happening and nobody is talking, just by having that server open on your app?
You have about four classes per week live with other students, in the grad program. That will have to do for the next couple months until the next young group starts. We don’t have a chat because we don’t want to create interaction that is simply so, but only once we know why and how we’re interacting so it will be purposeful. Otherwise it will quickly run according to our regular nature, and that will be unbeneficial.
Hi Gianni, I have got a question about how to deal with the contrast of the abundance of light in spirituality, versus that darkness of corporeality. I am truly just a beginner, but I feel this contrast to be increasing so rapidly. How can I prepare myself to deal with this contrast? I feel the more light surrounds me, the harder it becomes to deal with the darkness … like when you are in a dark room, you can still see some shadowy shapes as your eyes adapt to the darkness. But with the contrast of light, the darkness appears even darker, the lack of light becomes tangible. Now, this would be easy if it was in equivalent measure, but it is so opposite the way life is designed.While Kabbalah shows all the light, the true internal reality, all happens technically in a virtual surrounding. As with corporeality, it is the other way round… it is giving such a limited and blurred version of existence, an illusion, but it is what surrounds me every day, what is tangible and perceivable with the 5 senses. How can I overcome this state of tension, and painful realisation of how contrasted spirituality versus corporeality are, while stile giving the needed credit to both?
In the last morning lesson, Dr. Michael Laitman said we “solve all our problems in the connection with the friends.” How do I bring an internal deficiency to the ten—not to be understood or to gain wisdom—but purely with a desire for correction, in a way that aligns with the purpose of our work and supports the ten’s adhesion with the Creator?
If in the ten, we all have this one thought, to connect the friends to the Creator, and I see their effort by thinking the same thought, “A tower filled with goodly matters” and asking for the revelation of the Creator to His Creatures in this world.
Am I in anyway doing the right thing within the ten?
My questions/thoughts:
If I am understanding Kabbalah correctly it teaches: I have no control over anything. My biggest impact in this reality is my intentions and the connection to “the friends.” I am a network, not an individual. The Creator will move me along the process at the appropriate time.
The ah-ha moment is the awareness that my senses perceive a false reality. If these ideas are actual, then my problem is I feel neutral, and this “nothing feeling” makes it hard to pursue Kabbalah.
I can learn, but that is only head knowledge. If my perception is true, these feelings and thoughts have been a burden for a while. So, now what?
If my perceptions are incorrect, please provide some insight. I would greatly appreciate it. It feels like I am fighting between living to gain knowledge or waiting on the Creator to make a move: a chess game.
Without choices…what’s the point? Just curious…..Thank you!
Hi Beverly,
That’s true, advanced science too is starting to suggest that life doesn’t arise from the universe, but rather the universe arises from life: from the perception of an observer springs the whole of reality. In fact, what you see is how in egoistic senses you perceive the spiritual reality.
Now, whether to pursue that axiom further and realize its applicability in practice is up to you. First is to study the wisdom of Kabbalah as knowledge, and later in feeling, because during the acquisition of knowledge the Reforming Light works on a person and builds the vessels required to perceive.
Thank you for this answer! I have been struggling with this perception for a while.
So, I think I understand you to say that my perception is creating this negative experience. If I study enough and am open to the light, I will gain a different perception. Is this correct?
If so, this is the story of my life, LOL……. Next…. chapter of the book in changing my perception. It’s interesting how things change as they stay the same.
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