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As I watched the video “Perception of Reality”, I remembered the quote, “God is love and love is God.”
Love is a thing, the video says, and not just a thing. It’s THE thing I should be working to let in. I can ascend with that.
What is it? I feel it, but I can’t really define it. Where does it live? Is there a lot more out there? Can I please have more of that? Can I build something beautiful with it? What would that big, beautiful thing be and for who? I don’t want it but I want others to have it!
Eugenio,
Imagine that you are a king and you must go on a critical journey to save your kingsdom, you will travel overseas on a ship and you won’t return for 20 years and your Queen is holding your newborn son in her arms as you hug her goodbye.
How can you give transfer all of your knowledge, all of your wealth, power and experience to your infant that your Queen is holding?!
Can you put piles of gold coins and piles of books at his feet? Even if you do, he won’t understand what that wealth is, what that knowledge, power and responsibility are. It will take many years of preparation to understand all of these things, and not just knowledge, but especially experience, the prince must feel his countrymen, understand their lives, their needs, their problems and joys.So you can understand a bit the problem of the Creator. Of course we want Love and and all good and 5 minutes later we want tacos and air conditioning.
And so, we are like that prince, in a field of endless light, but until we prepare ourselves that light has no vessel that it can dwell in inside of us, where we can feel it, in the meantime, it remains as “surrounding light” that surrounds our souls and draws us and all of creation towards our purpose.How do we develop so that we can assume our sacred role?
The answer is to equalize with the light that is outside of us, to understand it, to become more sensitive to it and we do that by studying the books of the kabbalists, not in order to gain knowledge, but in order to attune ourselves to higher frequencies. They wrote from their degrees of attainment and when we open their books and make efforts to equalize with what we wrote, we as if tune ourselves like tuning a string on an instrument.
And simultaneously we work with the group of others in our group that are doing the same thing and we make efforts to calibrate our hearts which are tuned to satisfy ourselves and tune them to the frequency of the others, this is the secret of love your friend as yourself being the great rule of the Torah. It is not ethics or morals, it is specifically by calibrating ourselves to the others outside of us (specifically starting with the closest spiritual circle, who is also calibrating themselves to the kabbalistic books) that we begin to be more sensitive to the frequencies of the light of love and bestowal that in the meantime is surrounding us and when we equalize with it, it resonates within us.
Seth@KabU
Tony says here the body is a machine but modern science tells us otherwise and a reductionistic view has separated the body into parts causing a disconnect in knowing how the body actually functions and can be treated holistically. Can you elaborate of this view of the body as a machine? I do understand how the internal programs run the experience that we have.
Thank you
Christina
Christina,
Let’s use the sense of hearing as an example. An cellist pulls the bow across her strings and causes them to vibrate. The hollow wooden body of the instrument creates a chamber where the vibration builds and is projected out, the vibrating air passes through the air and if a person is close enough so that the vibration can reach him before it dissipates, then those vibrating airwaves strike the membrane inside of the ear.
That membrane inside of the ear is like a thin screen that does not let the waves pass through. The waves cause the screen to vibrate and that vibration of the screen creates electrical signals in the brain and then the brain releases hormones and then your fingers tingle, your body feels light, your imagination soars.And this is a similar process with all of our organs.
Now this may not be your question exactly, so ask further and make your question point deeper to the root of the question you want to solve.
Seth@KabU
So how is empirical evidence categorized in Kabbalah, and is it considered as true reality?
We might all perceive reality in different ways as well as experiencing different levels of reality (for instance, one particular dish may taste delicious to one person and disgusting to another, or a dress may look white and gold to a set of eyes whereas different eyes may see the very same dress as blue and black). However, it is universally known that if one touches fire they will get burnt, if one looks at the sun directly they will get blinded, if one tastes a lemon it will leave a sour taste in their mouth. We may also argue that if one sees a car crossing with a red light they have just witnessed an infraction. Since we have experienced the above events from inside our own box, does that mean those events are not real?
When do we draw the line between what is real and what is not while experiencing reality with our own five limited senses?
Thank you very much!
Claudio,
We are creatures that live in this world.
This world has natural laws such as gravity and the laws of thermodynamics and electromagnetism.
And we also live in a human society that has traffic laws and laws against stealing.
There is some shared reality between the creatures.
The kabbalists come and begin to describe the reality to us, who we are, what forces are operating on us and where we have free will.
And each person whose heart awakens is brought to the books and to the group and he can try to implement what he is learning and then he will know for himself if this place is worthwhile for him.
Seth@KabU
Before the destruction of the 2nd temple was everyone able to perceive the true reality? Why did the Creator allow egotism to enter this world?
There are things that have been feed to us or the things that we have accumulated since childhood to present, how to alter this accumulated perception ? This can be hatred, jealousy, anger, fear of not good enough, rejection, etc. As this perception is holding us back each time when we try to “act like the creator”.
Jai Prakash,
Yes, we all have such complaints. What matters in our spiritual advancement is our effort towards the goal. We need always to discern whether we are in it or not; if not, we need to try to do it.
As they write, “Do what is in your hand and in your power to do.”
There is no natural inclination with which a person is born that can help him in advancing toward the Creator; in this everyone is equal. There are people who are more sensitive, with better upbringing, better qualities…it doesn’t help in spirituality.
We will help each other and advance together,
Seth@KabU
Excellent lesson. If our five senses and inherent egoism naturally block us from perceiving true reality, what are the first practical steps we can take in our daily routine to begin developing that ‘sixth sense’?”
Dave,
Baal HaSulam wrote it like this,“It is known that nothing is revealed in its true form, only through its opposite, “As the advantage of the light from within the darkness.” This means that each thing points to another, and precisely by the opposite of something, the true existence of its opposite can be perceived.
Hence, it is impossible to attain something in complete clarity if its parallel is absent. For example, it is impossible to evaluate and say that something is good, if its opposite, pointing to the bad, is absent. It is the same with bitterness and sweetness, love and hate, hunger and satiation, thirst and saturation, separation and adhesion. It turns out that it is impossible to come to love adhesion prior to acquiring the hate of separation.”
So what can we do?
We are a will to receive, that is what the Creator made and we don’t have a sense that can feel the eternal light of fulfillment that surrounds us right now.
First thing we can do is to identify what He made. To feel it, to look around and identify it everywhere, in every blade of grass that reaches for the sun, in every squirrel that runs to fill his belly, to all of the people around me who run to fill the desires that arise in them without even knowing where these desires come from.
And we are not judging them as good or bad, we are much more scientific and understanding. Just to recognize it, see it operating everywhere and be an undercover agent, don’t go ruining your relationships by telling everyone around you how smart you are that you see the system operating them. But start winking at the Creator as you see His handiwork. And then start to notice yourself, how everything you do is only to fill yourself and also, don’t judge it as good and bad, just see that that is what He made.And slowly, as we study more and draw more light that influences us, we will want to be more like Him, who is all love and bestowing and then we will come to see that the nature He gave us is keeping us separated from being like Him, adhered to Him, and then after we have gone through a recognition period and a stabilization period, we then want to escape from our will to receive (all while still remaining a normal person in this world, but inside we go through a transformation), this is called the Exodus from Egypt. We will learn about it in the future.
Seth@KabU
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