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Force operates people like puppets on strings, and we will understand what It wants of us.
I was reflecting on this idea from the reading. So if someone cuts me off in traffic, the Force made him do it in order that I can better understand what the Force wants of me? Like, the force wants me to be more forgiving? Or to look at my own life and see places where I cut people off or something along those lines? Please help me understand how to do this process of self reflection in practical terms. Thanks! 🙏🏻
Hi Mona,
I can never tell what the Creator means by what He’s showing me because He is not found in that guy cutting me off on the road. That’s not the Creator. Weird example – let’s say you get really up close and personal with my little toe and become familiar with all its movements. I go to the store or a board meeting or the moon and you’re tracking my toe and trying to interpret me by it. You haven’t even started getting to know me. In fact you’re tracking an inanimate part of me that tells you absolutely nothing – though it does bear some connection to me, but from this expertise about my toe you find out nothing of any relevance. I need a silly example because it is silly that people look for signs in life and messages from the Creator while being in a completely shattered perception of the singular all-inclusive force that operates the whole reality as one system. To hear let alone see the Creator and understand His language I need to rise to His level. If you’re following only my toe, you need to rise to my height and learn that there’s much more to me than that – and same with Him, you must first get to know the None Besides Him that includes all drivers, all people, planets, past, present, future. Thus, one’s work is in thinking and feeling this force animating reality. Yes, He moves that bad driver, but not with some small message like “be patient” (who knows – maybe I need to be less patient; sometimes being patient is simply letting bad things happen, in the name of some questionable interpretation of some spiritual principle that isn’t related to my world at all) but always with the message “unite all of reality to one force and don’t forget Me for even a moment.”
Gianni,
I am grateful for your illustration because I had been deeply misunderstanding. So the Creator moves the bad driver and the resulting emotional trigger is like an alarm clock to remind me of my mission to unite the whole of reality to one force. Would it be the same if there were a positive trigger like winning the lottery or a more painful one such as a pet dying? Irrespective of the type of emotional stimulus, my only response is to be reminded that I am trying to rise to the level where I can see more than the little toe? In other words I use my experience on the highway to re-boot my intention and drive on? 🙏🏻
Yes. Every stimulus is dual-purpose: (1) Remember the Creator, and do something toward that (2) Do, in action, what makes sense, in this world. On this latter point, if someone cuts me off on the road, I should be patient (or at least not react outwardly), not because that is spiritually correct or moral (Kabbalah has no such concept) but because it’s irrational, unsafe, and possibly illegal to do some revenge on the road with my vehicle toward him. If I curse him out or whatever, I start driving worse, plus it’s unhealthy for my physical body, while imparting no harm upon that driver, but only upon myself. I only need to be intelligent and rational to see that everything in our world has a best appoach, because the Creator arranged the laws of our world, and I have to deal with it as if there is no Creator. And He’s not going to help me win the lottery or anything else – because He already determined from the beginning of Creation what would be good or not good to bring each person closer and closer to Him. So I use this whole world to come ever closer to Him while navigating what actions to do in this world simply by what’s most wise and logical. That makes my whole life spiritual in direction.
I experience some fears around the idea of the Ten, I worry that for example the schedule will clash with my life, I worry it will be to personal with other people sharing “intimate” feelings about ourself etc, the way it’s described makes me a little uneasy and I don’t know if that my ego, but what happens if I can’t take part in the groups, will my kabbalah journey be over?
Does crossing the Machsom change the animate experience itself, or only the identification with it? And why does Kabbalah insist on keeping the body fully within the laws of nature even after spiritual attainment?
There’s no “insist” because when we attain what the Kabbalists attain, there’s no question about it. This attainment needs to happen within one’s time left in his lifetime. That’s how all Kabbalists did it, and they write to us from the perspective of that Upper World, from having one foot in this world and one foot in the Upper World. Meaning, the experience of the animate body is a certain dream one is having. If he rises above that dream, of course this profoundly alters the experience of the dream, which still serves some purpose we will then understand, until he makes all the corrections he should make.
Hi Gianni,
This was the clearest lesson for me about the nature of egoism and how to correct it. There is one thing though that remains a mystery,
Does having more desire potentially increase more hatred and violence towards things in the limited perception of the creature ?
In the second reading, Rav Laitman states that egoic desire increases when spiritual desire does, and that is what we’ve been learning until now. This seems to contradict my understanding of the creator, who is pure love, and therefore tolerant.
to show this in an example, let’s say a farmer with a greater desire, on the path of correction, grows lettuce. His duty and responsibility is to his crop first so that’s where his desire is oriented. However, a cow wanders onto the field and eats his crop so he kills it.
A second farmer, not on the path of correction, experiences the same thing–but since he has less desire towards his primary objective, he may be able to rationalize this behaviour before acting. Realizing that a cow compulsively eats crops, he has tolerance for the behaviour. It might even turn out that the cow belongs to an important person so by allowing i to live his plants were protected even more.
What I mean is both desires exist in us, but by increasing all desires, the desire for hatred, destruction, violence, can also increase, and it may turn out that the action is done because of a false understanding.
Yes, but we’re talking only about one on the path of Kabbalah. For everyone else, of course the increase in ego makes us more cunning, brutal and heartless. Smarter as well, and he uses it for bad. But Kabbalists, alongside this growing ego, have much more of the quality like the second farmer who can take into account a much broader, integral calculation. In short, he’s much wiser. Because he has 2 lines, and others have only 1 line. So in his case, more ego is good because he can turn it into good.
To evolve into a Kabbalist (of receiving from the Upper World), one has to give of themselves by not internalizing but through external behaviors that relate to loving your friend as yourself. Putting egoism in its’ proper place by allowing it to expand gives us the ability to correct egoism into auteurism.
As I come to understand each lesson, I try to put it into practice in my everyday life. Some days don’t always allow me the opportunity, but when it does, no matter the situation, it’s an opportunity to put others before myself. It is truly a freeing experience because at the same time I am putting someone before me, I’m also sensing a freedom like a bird that is flying on the wave of the current – a frequency of the light – the pathway to correction – a pathway that is producing merit by obeying the pathway of the light – the Torah – the Truth – Emet. It takes me into another dimension that is only attained through trusting the process.
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