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I’m sure this sounds egoistic, but I assure you it is altruistic. I’ve begun a real estate company with my sons, and I fully believe the Lord, that is the creator, bestows wealth upon individuals, in order that they may use that wealth to improve the well-being and lives of others. I fully intend to fund organizations that will accomplish things. I’ve often dreamed of doing for decades, would’ve been unable to do because I am not a wealthy man. These are things like improving the agricultural techniques in poor nations, establishing micro banking, and improving marketing techniques for small business people and establishing co-ops. However, my question is this: when my wife prays, and she very often gets what she prays for, she establishes a timeline for it. Is it egoistic for me to set a timeline like a quarter or a year, or such for success in our business, before I am able to have enough money or funds, in order to help the others accomplished the things I would like to do?
Guy,
You can ask the Creator for whatever you want whenever you want. As we develop just like in our material lives so our desires change, our requests will change. But a true prayer is not the words that come out of our mouths but the desire of our hearts and if we are advancing correctly then these desires are always developing and changing.
Regarding what is egoistic and altruistic, everything is egoistic. If a person behaves altruistically that is because they prefer to behave that way, it makes them feel better or they feel it is more moral or it is preferable but there is no action that can be done on earth that is above human nature (egoistic nature) until we acquire a second nature called the force of Bina, this is an upper force that stands opposite to our ego and then between the ego on one side called Malchut and the force of love and bestowal called Bina on the other side we stand in the middle in a place of free choice.
If the force of ego is too strong we follow the ego if the force of Bina is too strong we are like an angel, neither of them is free. Only the human can develop to stand between the two forces and have a chance to be truly free.
Seth@KabU
I’m feeling (or my doubt) is that I cannot achieve Lishma without being part of a goup of ten. Is this true?
So should we pray for anything other than to do everything for her name? Because the light of the creator is in all things all the worshipper myself included just wants to be able to perceive it. But if it could be perceived then there wouldn’t be a need for prayer so naturally instead of feeling closeness other feelings come up and those sometimes form thoughts, ideas so should we pray about those things too?
Dana,
Not quiet. We want to do everything “for Her name”.
And when we attain that at our next degree, then as you said, it will become our new “reason”, it will be attained in the mind.
And then again we will pray to be above that to the next degree.
And then we will attain the next degree in our mind, our new “reason”.
And in this way we will ascend degree by degree.
Seth@KabUDana,
If you were in Texas you could tell me about what you saw there, smelled there, how to get from Austin to Dallas.
If I was also in the same place, I would know what you mean about this smell and that smell and that sight and the other one. I’d know about those roads connecting the cities.
Similarly, those who attain spirituality can communicate with each other about what they experience there.
How did Moses write about what happened to Abraham so many generations before him? The answer is that when Moses reached a degree called Abraham, he saw and felt everything on the degree of Abraham.
So, as you read the articles of the kabbalists who attained all of these degree, you will recognize your states in what they are writing and you will know that you are advancing correctly.
Seth@KabU
hi
This was to me the best and clearest lesson so far. I wanted to understand what Kabbalah says about Angels. So, in the past I had prayed to the creator to thank Him and also to ask for blessings for myself or my loved ones and at times I had Angels to help me with certain situations. I realize now there is no one else but the creator, however, I have felt deeply the help from Angels and am wondering if this is real or am I just making up something that my Ego needs or wants. Can you help clarify.
Yvette,
Certainly whatever happened was from the Creator and certainly there are innumerable forces called angles and certainly our ego makes up a story about what is happening to us…the evidence for the last part is that as we develop we understand what has happened to us in new ways, see deeper into it, so what we see at any time is a as a result of our consciousness at that time.
There is no problem to imagine that this or that happened that it was an angel or that the Lord of Hosts sent angels, or that the Creator Himself and not an angel, the main thing is to thank Him for everything, to invest in the spiritual environment which is our support and our life and to continue to advance and rise.
Seth@KabU
Hi Seth,
Even asking the upper force to change the way i think and feel, so i can perceive the thought of the creator and see everything as good. Is this not also asking him to change his attitude towards me? since God either would or would not answer my prayer and ultimately its the creator who judges my prayers and decides weather or not to reveal himself to me. Is that not still a self centered attitude towards prayer? That im still pleasure seeking even in the worst circumstances even if its just to feel the satisfaction in understanding the creators mind in why things are being given?
Because of course if i did pray to understand and immediately understood and saw the good in everything i would always just pray and understand right?
My connection to God feels flickery, staticy, like trying to hear a radio signal through static. I always seem to be caught off guard, and i always feel like im missing the point.
Oliver,
Of course it is still, as you said, self centered. But this is the process we are on. It’s like you’re a kid and see someone play guitar and you say, wow, I want to do that. So you get a guitar and it feels impossible, you’re fingers don’t move the right way, everything sounds bad, but if you do the exercises that the experts do and if you do them correctly for a few years, then one day, you can close your eyes and fly on the instrument.
You picked up the guitar on day one and you’re like, “why doesn’t it sound like that guy I saw playing on the stage, it still sounds like I’m a beginner”.
Oliver, how long would it take to learn guitar, how long would it take to be a master plumber or a good doctor? So why do you think that achieving your soul is going to happen after 10 minutes of speaking to the Creator?
Be more serious about this. This is a method that takes time, years.
Of course if feels flickery. Your body is asking for food, water, some comfort, and you need to give it otherwise it won’t work and we are absorbing thoughts and desires from the society around us and we inherited all kinds of tendencies from previous generations, so of course the signal is coming in “staticy”. You are not missing the point. You are doing the right thing, you are simply not understanding the process you are in.
If we were on a mountain top learning kung fu and you had to carry water for 5 years in the cold rain, you’d be asking the same question…how does this have to do with kung fu, but there you’d see the masters around you who have done what you are doing and you see what they achieved.
Here, we are all virtual and we don’t have anything physical to rely on like that. So be patient and keep investing in reading the materials and turning to Him like He is your closest friend and tell Him to open your heart and bring you close.
Seth@KabUYes, well ive never been dedicated to anything in my life, so i cant say i really know what that means. Ive never really been serious about anything in the same way. My passions are always initially strong and burn out fast, weather its been trying to learn a language, or instrument, or learning about philosophy and religion even down to my sobriety and spirituality.
I always get discouraged. Like it says in the freedom, its like my internal calculation for pleasure always comes in a deficit, and so it seems like nothing is ever worth the effort i put in. Theres always a feeling of self-pitying hopelessness that washes over me, when i start a new venture. My hands are too small for the piano, im too stupid to really understand japanese, its never really specific, like i just have some sort of unknown quality that makes me incapable of success in anything i pursue. So i use the evidence of lack of immediate results and the frustration of slow progress as an excuse not to press forward. In lieu of things that i know from experience provide me with immediate pleasure, namely drugs and videogames, alcohol, entertainment.
Im blessed in that, the only person i every really lived for was myself, and somehow i destroyed my life. I grew up to be a 36 year old man-child with many aspirations and no real accomplishments, and still sometimes the only force motivating me forward is just not wanting to live my life the way i have been before i decided to pursue this path again, wherever it may lead.
And though ive been going through many changes i can see i am in many ways the same person and that change takes time, and progress will be slow and arduous at times, and i know i should be taking things more seriously. Its an aspiration to be a little bit more patient and a little less reckless, and to put in a little bit more effort. Though i know its not good enough, i pray i can just keep moving forward and find greater levels of willingness to do the work.
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