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I am understanding in order to receive correctly, we need to receive from the perspective of the creator and not from the bias of our world. I’m excited to learn.
Debbie,
The Creator we are learning is a force that is 100% to bestow, to give, to love.
The thought of creation is to create a creature and fill it will all of that delight and pleasure.
Therefore, the creature needs to receive that is the law of nature and that won’t change.
However, our intention is currently in order to receive, meaning that we receive for ourselves, at the expense of others.
The correction of creation is that we receive but in order that that abundance passes through us and doesn’t stop there and we block it and keep everything for ourselves and don’t behave as parts of one, whole, integral system, instead we connect to the whole system where every part is receiving and bestowing upon each other.
Seth@KabU
I am the will to receive pleasure and that does not change. What needs to change is my intention to receive. I need to be more like the Creator who is the Will to Bestow pleasure. How do I do this practically? What steps do I take to attain this?
Ngozi,
Now we are in the preparation phase. Soon we will get on the trail to lead to this. What is important now is to grow the desire for this and to learn the fundamentals. In the next stages of the work you will have the opportunity to enter this in a more practical way. Slowly slowly we will discover places inside of us that are empty and then we will draw light into those places and again another larger vessel and again more light.
Seth@KabU
Hey Seth, ‘d like to briefly summarize my current understanding to see where I stand or where there might be gaps: The will to receive remains fully intact and will never change because it was part of the divine plan (to create a creature that He can fill with joy). However, the “someone” who receives changes – it’s no longer the individual who only wants to receive for themselves, but a natural “attitude” emerges from which one receives, but without the “inner pressure” perhaps (not only for me alone) – more out of enjoyment (since enjoyment is also not the same as tormenting desire, the need to “have” something). This entire process seems to be made easier by the existence of the “Point in the Heart,” which is apparently “part of the whole” and thus doesn’t “need” anything, but is already complete – meaning it should already possess the qualities of the Creator!? I’m also wondering what exactly the Point in the Heart is – it’s been a recurring question “What is this self even?” If I follow this, follow the self, then I also feel like I end up in a place “beyond the ego,” and that this has something to do with the Point in the Heart!? Do you have any hints or corrections to this current understanding?
Anna,
In our protein body that has constantly renewing desires, there is also an eternal point from above, like a single sperm of Bina, a seed of our soul that is in us. When that point awakens, then a person feels that he needs to be filled by something that is not of this world. Our work is to create a womb, a spiritual environment to feed and nurture this seed so that it will grow into the full NRNHY (Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya,Yehchida) of our soul .The “self” is given to us to feel that we really exist, 99.999% of us exists outside of our self.
And our spiritual work with the screen and the reflected light is to bring all of the light which now surrounds our soul into our soul until all 100% of the surrounding light becomes inner light, slowly slowly. At first 1% of reality enters my soul and I feel that it is now part of me. Then another percent and another percent. Until everything is inside of me and I feel that it is all me, all of reality is me and I am one with everything.
Seth@KabU
Hello !
Can you define exactly what the Shechina is? Is it comparable to the Holy Spirit in the church?
Thank you !
Frédéric,
All of reality is permeated with the Upper Light, however we don’t feel it.
Imagine that you bring your cat to the opera and you both sit together and you are emotionally moved. At one point your heart is racing at another point tears flow from your eyes from the beauty of the story and the performance. But your cat…she just sits there licking herself and sleeping and is not impressed. She has no vessels for these emotions.
Similarly, although reality is permeated with the Upper Light, we don’t have vessels to feel it.
The kabbalists explain to us that our “self” was given to us only to feel that there is a reality outside of it, in fact 99.999999% of reality is outside of it. Without the self, we would have no awareness of this, we would be as a tiny spark inside the sun with no feeling of our self.
When we connect together using the method that the kabbalists teach us then between us we rebuild, we correct the shattered vessel that can perceive the light. This vessel that we build, is the place where the Creator can dwell. He is called the Shochen (the Dweller) and the place of His dwelling is called the Shechina.
Seth@KabUbecause your self was given to you only so that you would feel you are outside of it. This is essentially what we need to do.
The way I learn is by translating the concepts presented to me. In other words, egoism is a very bad concept for me. To hear that we are all egoistic sounded very sad. I tried to think of times that being egoistic fit me. At first, it was harsh and difficult to believe. However, and please correct me if my concept is wrong, I searched very deep into myself and sort of disassembled myself into pieces. I looked at every aspect of myself from as far as I could remember, maybe six years old up until today at 74 years old. The word egoistic, in my mind, matched people who had everything, boats, planes, etc. I began to break down from the very top (the boats, planes, etc) to the lowest level which could simply be someone who is selfish or in any way egotistic. I questioned my lifestyle. In being egoistic, does that include wanting more pair of shoes, clothes, things like that? I hear “unconditional love.” As a mother, I think I have given my children unconditional love. How do I reconcile that type of being unconditional as a mother with the unconditional love that I need to achieve to begin climbing the steps upwards toward the Creator? I believe the response is simple. I just need to understand it better. I do not have a problem with transitioning from egoism to unconditional love towards the Creator. That is why I am taking this course. I want to know. I want to learn.
Regarding week two, the clip of the baby getting for the first time a hearing aid was very eye opening. In this realization, hearing for the first time is like seeing outside the box of five senses. Seeing their reactions brought tears of happiness. Another great example regarding our adhesion to the Creator was the embryo. As an embryo, all of our needs are being met. We are receiving from our mother unlimited pleasures. Once we are born, we forget and enter the world of egoism as we grow and become adults.
Elisheva,
Everyone who comes to the wisdom of kabbalah has to learn new definitions.
You know when teenagers say that something is “cool” it does not mean that it is a cold temperature.
So you are coming with your definition that you brought to the wisdom. Let’s now try to understand what the kabbalists who attained this wisdom are passing on to us.
They describe to us a reality where the Creator is 100% to bestow, to love and He wants to bestow all of that love so He created a created being upon who He can bestow 100% of His love.
That “thing” that He created is called creation. Everything in creation is a will to receive pleasure from the Creator, from an atom that does what it does to maintain its structure to a plant that opens to the sun to receive its nourishment, to a fish that goes out to eat in the morning to us who have developed brains and all kinds of ways to satisfy ourselves. Some of us enjoy by taking from others and some of us enjoy by giving to others, but we move only to enjoy. This applies to everything in reality, every part of creation is made of one substance called Malchut, called the will to receive the pleasure that the Creator created.We have examples in the world of what it could mean to love, as you said with your children. But we can also see that we feel this way about our children, we do not have the same dedication and feelings towards the neighbor’s children or children on the other side of the planet, we feel this way about our children.
Kabbalists are not talking about morals we are talking about the most fundamental laws of spiritual nature upon which all of the rest of our study will be built.
The Creator is 100% to bestow.
Creation is 100% to receive.
The wisdom of kabbalah literally means the wisdom of reception. It means, how can we receive what He wants to give us, how can we exit the boundaries of our material world and feel something eternal, something whole, some endless love?
Seth@KabU
Hello,
How the barrier between our world and upper worlds is called in Hebrew ?
Thank you very much, I appreciate the lessons of Kabbalah very much !
Thank you, Seth. You are wisdom and I am learning. However, I do not think I expressed myself correctly. I do care and love all children. Living in Puebla City, in my comings and goings, in the late evenings, I would come across a child from six years old to 11 or 12 years old on the steps of a building entrance covered with newspaper because it was a cold evening. I would stop and ask if I could help. The response was always a “yes.” I would take the child home. I would ask the child to take a warm shower. I would have clean clothes for the child and a warm dinner. The child would spend the night on a bed I always had extra. I would wait until breakfast the next morning to ask the child why he had run away from home. He would tell me. It was usually because the father’s, a farmer, crops would fail. He would get drunk with the little money from the crops and would take it out on the child by beating him. I asked that if I could help, would he accept for me to take back home. The answer was always yes. I had a friend who was a doctor. He would give me medicine and vitamins to give to the mother and I would give the mother money. After speaking to the father and assuring him that I would continue helping, he would agree to stop beating the child. All children are precious to me. When I pray, I ask Hashem to protect all the children around the world as well as the mothers. I do care Seth about the neighbor’s children and children all around the world given the world we live in with all the violence. This does not mean that I think I am special. I am not. I exist on the egoistic world. I understand this and this is why I am taking this course. I just did not ask the right question and did not express what I truly wanted to express. However, within your response, I think I a ready, although at an old age, to learn the wisdom of Kabbalah in its entirety. Shalom
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