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I am still struggling with giving and receiving. I fully understand the concept of Equivalence of Form and the requirements to me more like the Creator. Now I have read the reading on Reshimot. I have been someone who has given too much for too long, at my own expense. It has taken me a lot of time (and therapy) to learn how not to sacrifice myself by giving so much to people who are happy to take. Being one who has given more than she took has been part of my learning, growth and history. Now, as I am reading I am wondering if my Reshimot is a predetermined suffering, that wanting to receive for the self alone, to put myself first instead of taking care of others, their needs and feelings and talking responsibility for things I am not responsible for is the path I should return to? I came to Kabbalah becuase I have a problem receiving. I ask for nothing, take nothing and give to the point of it being problematic. According to this work – that should be ideal?
Qeli,
There are layers to discover here.
First of all, let’s say there are two levels of you, like all kabbalists. For the sake of illustration let’s call it the donkey and the rider just so we can understand, or if it’s more graceful, the horse and its rider.
Your body, our body is the horse, it has a life of its own, this is the you that goes to therapy, had to relearn how to walk on the path correctly and not get hurt. The horse herself has to be healthy, as healthy as can be.
So arrange your life in a way that you don’t get hurt, etc.
Now on the horse is the rider who is thinking about completely different things than the horse. This is your soul, your internally. While your body says no to someone, inside you can still have the intention that you want love to fill their heart, even though they scowl when you say, “no”. It’s like your soul is having a secret love affair with the Creator. Let the body do the life of the body on Earth, but inside you can have a secret loving relationship where you and the Creator are bestowing love upon everyone, even if your body isn’t giving anything to any, because as we know, as you discovered, giving with the hands can be harmful to yourself and to others as it corrupts relationships. But inside you can be overflowing with love for all.Read that part again, because it must be clear to you what level you are learning about here. The wisdom of kabbalah is not telling you what to do with your hands and legs. The wisdom of kabbalah is talking about the direction of our heart.
Now let’s go deeper and for this you will need to take an accounting of yourself. All of that giving you were doing was because you felt that that would be the best way to be safe, or to be fulfilled or to be seen as the kind of person that you want to be seen as. In short, you were filling your ego up by being a so called giver. Some people fill their will to receive by taking and some people fill their will to receive by giving, but either way, every creature is a will to receive looking to maximize pleasure/safety/etc. So for this part, the main thing to do is to understand what is operating you and everyone, it is a will to receive (the donkey/horse). The wisdom of kabbalah doesn’t work on the donkey/horse level, it works on the soul level.
On the horse level you need to stabilize your life in this world. On the soul level, when your spiritual goals become big enough and you have the correct influences around you that model that life for you, you naturally move in that direction, steer the horse in that direction. For example, no one has to tell a teenager to stop playing with toys, naturally as the desires become more mature, the person craves new things. So here too as your spiritual desires become more mature you will naturally be drawn towards a more harmonious, spiritual, whole desires.
Seth@KabU
Reyna,
Each of us is a unique combination of all of these desires and also expand your definition of “self” to include all of your previous incarnations as well as those in your sphere and those in further spheres. Our soul is like a hologram that exists in full in each and every one, as you correct your part, that part of Reyna gets corrected in everyone else and as they correct themselves, their parts in you become corrected. It is literally as though all of humanity (even all of creation) is one soul that feel itself as separate pieces separated by our physical bodies from one another.
Seth@KabU
Hi Fawnette,
The answer to your question is found in understanding the language of the kabbalists.
A kabbalist is one who attained spiritual degrees and they write to us about what they attained.
They couldn’t say, “98eafjq4rp8uefj”. That would make no sense, so they use words of our world, they mapped from the spiritual world as the root down through the worlds to this world, so when they use a word from this world, they are “pointing to a spiritual object”, meaning talking about it’s upper root, not about the object of this world. Kabbalists don’t write about this world, they write about phenomenon they attained in the spiritual worlds.What they discovered is that everything emenates from one single, unified source that bestows life, love endlessly.
As soon as there is a creature who will one day attain that sublime degree, so for the creature, everything is measured, there is no one, single unity. We have a head and arms, the Creator doesn’t have a head and arms, in the Creator everything is one. For us we have our childhood, our current life and our future life. The Creator is beyond time, there is no past, present and future.So all the names are measurements for us as we approach the Upper degrees.
Below the single unity, in the perception of the creatures, all of reality is operated by two forces, light and dark, up and down, in and out, etc.
So when it comes to language, the male force is referred to as the giving force and the female is referred to as the receiving force. This is not an issue of gender or sex although a simple examination of sex and it’s obvious. The Creator is the giving force, He gives life and everything and all of creation, meaning every person, every beautiful bird, every star, all of creation which is a vessel that needs to be filled with life to exist is called female in relation to the Creator and all of life and all of our history is the story of the relationship and reunification bbetween those two forces until the end of correction when they are one together again.
Seth@KabU
Hi. I am very new to Kabbalah and understand the meaning. What are some of things that I should eliminate so I can better perceive the greater reality ?
Brenda,
Welcome. The most important thing now in your study is to make your spiritual goal as big as possible in your heart.
This will give you the fuel you need to make it on this journey.
Read the material, watch the videos, write in your journal about what you are discovering and what your biggest desire for spirituality can be.
Seth@KabU
I am curious about the four worlds, what are they besides ratios between a will to receive and a will to bestow? Also the 125 steps we descended seems like such an exact number of steps… to derive from a spiritual world where how close or how far is only measured by equivalence of form vs its disparity. Why not just say that we through shattering we have lost equivalence of form with our creator? Why the 4 worlds and 125 steps, such exact math, which seems only relevant in our corporal world?
Alexia,
From the side of the Creator, everything is one simple unity.
We are opposite from that, everything is measure..yesterday, tomorrow, up and down, in and out, right and left, hot and cold.
All of this is for us to measure where we are and from that deduce where He is.
All of the numbers in the wisdom of kabbalah are qualitative discernments, not quantities as in some number of things that we can count.
125 steps refers to 5 partzufim in 5 sefirot in 5 worlds. 5x5x5=125 but what does all of this mean, it is a full structure in a full degree of completeness.
Seth@KabU
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