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    • #420569
      Mitch
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      What’s a goal without knowing where you come from and where you going?
      what goal have to do with the creator?

      • #422422

        Mitch,
        There are 1000s of religions and beliefs.
        We need to understand who we are and what is happening to us, what process we are in.
        That is what we are studying together.
        Seth@KabU

    • #418063
      Boe Smith
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      I love to help, my hands are always open, I do these acts of love for others because I feel that the Creator does the same, Bestow. It’s only natural that a child wants to be recognized or acknowledged by its parents. I only look out for people because I feel that God put me here to help and I want to please Him.

      How can I make the above process Ego free, or am I being delusional.

      • #422421

        Boe,
        You’re one of the small percent of the population that enjoys from doing for others.
        But as you understand, some take and others give, but all of this is still to fulfill our egos.
        You would feel pained to not help others.
        So no matter what we do here, we are created to fulfill ourselves, whether we can do that from receiving or from giving.
        The next degree will be to rise above the ego.  That is what we are in the process of learning to do here together.
        So that whether my hands are giving or receiving, my heart is eternally one.
        Seth@KabU

      • #420354
        Logynn
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        I think the recurring theme I see about this concern is “fake it till you make it.” Trying to emulate the Creator will attract the assistance of the Light, which will set up scenarios for us where it is possible to be like the Creator through our natural desires combined with our new intentions.

    • #417959
      Akosua Marie
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      In christianity, especially in the evangelical church, they teach about always doing anything within the will of God, everybody’s goal should be to live by the will of God at all times. Is this what Lishma means? How does that compare?

      • #422419

        Akosua,
        Lishma is something above us.  Above our head.
        For example imagine the difference between a rock and flower.
        Now think of the difference between a flower and a zebra.
        Now think of the difference between a zebra and the Queen of England.
        Now imagine that above the human level is the next degree of our evolution.
        That is where Lishma is, it is a spiritual degree above our biological human degree.
        Seth@KabU

      • #420355
        Logynn
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        It sounds like coming from that belief system that instills a habit of intention to agree with the Creator might be a big help in advancing in Kabbalah. In my experience the difference we have to bridge, coming from Christianity, is to understand that there are no exceptions in the Creator’s will to bestow on us. His will is all love and good to all of us all the time. . . none of the judgements or exclusions we’ve learned in church apply.

        • #422418

          Logynn,
          There is this and there is that.
          In the wisdom of kabbalah we are talking about natural laws, forces.
          We will spend a lot of time studying these laws, how they operate and who we are, how we operate and how these two systems, bestowal and reception work together in the plan of creation.
          Also there is your family and your culture.  You don’t want to disregard and throw them out.
          Seth@KabU

    • #417329
      Mark
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      Kabbalah teaches that a person’s actions change the person himself. Are those actions considered Free Will?

      True prayer is called self-judgment or self-analysis–when a person judges and analyzes himself with regard to the upper invariable force, rather than appealing to the Creator to change something. Is true prayer an act of Free Will?

      We ask the Creator to change us, to change our perception so that we can understand Him, instead of asking the Creator to change His attitude towards us.
      The Creator doesn’t listen to the words that we utter, but reads the feelings in our hearts. We must strive to understand the essence of our desires and to ask the Creator to correct them. Do those questions come out of our Free Will?

      • #417392

        Mark,
        It seems you are interested in Free Will.
        For the time being we operate like children who feel free, meanwhile their parents are watching over everything.
        We didn’t choose our parents, not our school or the food we were fed, we didn’t choose what movies would come out during our childhood and what wars would be fought and how the weather would blow.  So all of the things that formed us are beyond our control and all these traits that we inherited from 1000s of generations we didn’t choose those either, so it should be clear that there is no freedom here.
        What we can do is plant ourselves in an environment that is connected to the sources and be influenced by that environment to value spirituality, to grow one’s desire for spirituality.  When that desire grows so strong, then a light comes from above to fill it, there are many operations here, in short a person then stands half way between his will to receive which is his matter and the influence of the Light and there in the middle between both of the those influences a person can say he is free.
        Seth@KabU

    • #409908
      Melanie
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      As I understand it ; in religion we ask our creator to give us things do things for us or make things better, although in our imagination those kinds of prayers do work sometimes as bandages for a short while but it doesn’t really make things better in the long run.  Whereas the kabalistic approach of prayer is to ask your creator to change you to see the truth and make corrections which is more of a permanent fix that will lead to the stairway to heaven.  Am I understanding this correctly?

      • #409958

        Melanie,
        Yes, the kabbalists reveal to us that the nature of the Creator is Good who does Good and all that extends from Him is good.
        So what is left for us is to be with Him.
        Seth@KabU

    • #409756
      Katrina Leeks
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      I know the Creator is the source of everything in this world, yet I have a friend that was severely abused and almost murdered by her husband. While I reconcile my own life experience with the Creator, I also think about her experience. He harmed many people and took personal satisfaction in it, but now he is in prison. I know that it wasn’t my personal experience, but where are people like her ex husband in spirituality?

      • #409763

        Katrina,
        We cannot simply justify this behavior, but we need to understand what is happening.
        We saw that even Nazism was not a German phenomenon.  The German people are very wise people and have a distinguished culture,  however the human is a malleable creature and even people with good tendencies can be brain washed to do bad through daily sermons and education.
        That is with civilized, good people.
        We also have depraved people like the one you are describing who certainly was neglected as a child, didn’t have a good upbringing or education or he has serious psychological problems.
        This same person raised by loving parents in an environment that teaches a person who he is, what forces work in him and how to work with what awakens in him, this same person could use all his qualities for the good.
        In the future we will understand why everything happened the way it did, until then we try to calibrate ourselves more and more towards the force of Love.
        Seth@KabU

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