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„Love thy neighbor as thyself“…with all the explanations in the video… that is really getting me in a positive way. And I understand that it’s all about the intention behind the action. And also I am getting that out intention precedes the action. Now, as a beginner, is there any such thing like a compass for intention?
Verena,
Of course, but it’s not where you think.
The good news is you are asking all the right questions.
But in the wisdom of kabbalah, the answers don’t go in your ear.
You need to make a lot of efforts and a lot of discernment and then the answer will live in you.
Review what you have learned already. The only creation is the will to receive. That means that you, me, every animal, plant, atom, it is all different forms of a will to receive.
Start to identify that that is the software operating in you.
When you become clear in your mind and emotions that you are governed by the will to receive, then you will be able to ask new questions, like where to find a place to act without the will to receive, but the ego is slippery and it is hard to locate (on purpose), since this process develops us towards more and more accurate questions and eventually answers.
Seth@KabU
I have got a few basic questions about what to expect when working in a group… after all, even in a Kabalistic group itś about humans 🙂 So one thing, is, that I am very appreciative of starting this „Kabbalistic lab group“… to have a safe space to try out to enhance love for others ,support others, to correct myself. I can really resonate with it in terms of working on my desires, in terms of self-experienance and learning how to reflect and correct and support. It sounds like a great chance to practice. However in about half of the threads I read it sounded like there was some ambiguity. Rather, that there is two ways of acting… egoistic in the corporeal world, altruistic in the kabalistic group. I understand why it is important to have a safe space, but I do not understand why there are possibly excuses made for how we act in the corporeal world. I am not saying that we should not protect ourselves, not at all, but I feel we do have responsibility also in the corporeal world, … we always have responsibility how we act towards others. How is this referred to in Kabbalah… and if it is not adressed in terms of the corporeal world, then why?
That doesńt mean I would allow for me to be trampled on. It´ś just, how is this responsibility we always have, also in the corporeal world, and especially if we gain deeper understanding, referred to in Kabbalah?
I hope this is not a too provocing matter. It´ś just making me feel really reluctant to think I would go and give excuses for being outwardly egoistic in the corporeal world, and claim this was not included in my way of spirituality, for itś not my group… I know it might be easily answered by „you will learn… then you will see…“ but I really feel if I am to follow a path, I have to understand the responsibility within.
Verena,
Our work is not to convince you of anything and you as a mature person need to test all of this yourself.
Let’s say you came to the best nutrition school in the world and we teach you how to live the optimal nutritional life possible.
After you go out and open your own clinic where people come to you and learn how to live a healthy life and they go on to live healthy lives. So when you drive down the highway and see McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts and KFC and you stop at the gas station and by the register it is rows and rows of high fructose corn syrup. How exactly are you going to help all these people? 40% of the US is obese, so how are you going to walk down the street and not help 4 out of 10 people you see? Are they ready to listen to you? If they listen, do they have the habits to turn their life around after speaking to you?
And how about the hundreds of millions of children living in poverty. Of course we want to feed every single one of them, but when you get up in the morning, which child are you feeding first, the one in your home or are you going out to feed all the other ones?
I’m using extreme examples to illustrate a point.
The goal is to bring love to everyone in the world, and more than that to bring all of reality into a harmonious, integral balance, all people, animals, celestial objects, everything.
We are here learning a method for that.
If you learned a musical instrument, you don’t master it in a day. If you learned anything well in life, you don’t learn it in a day, it takes time.
Similarly, in the spiritual work, we start with the corrections that are closest to us and slowly slowly stabilize those circles and then move to more outer circles.
In whatever path you choose, wishing you good success, it will take us all,
Seth@KabUHi Seth, thanks a lot for your answer. I really appreciate it… as well as the chance to learn and eventually turn it to practice… the examples you gave here are actually addressing exactly the core of my question and the underlying confusion (…doing what I am doing in my life out there it’s how I wake up every morning and go to bed every night… so for me these examples are so to the point…and it’s actually why I asked…thanks a lot for this clarification).
Thanks also for phrasing the goal so clearly;
„The goal is to bring love to everyone in the world, and more than that to bring all of reality into a harmonious, integral balance, all people, animals, celestial objects, everything“
This is the most beautiful goal I can imagine, and I am totally fine to start with the smallest group … and even if it will take ages to learn… if I can manage to keep this in mind. The way you summed it up, is exactly why I started studying … so thank you for busting my confusion ☺️
It’s difficult to imagine loving those who commit acts of terrorism. Is there really an expectation to show compassion to terrorists? Wouldn’t that risk making the world less safe? For instance, if instead of stopping them, we simply responded with kindness after they carried out an atrocity, like the mass murder of civilians, wouldn’t that undermine justice and security? and make it easier for them to commit another similar act.
Moshe,
Soon in your study you will have the opportunity to be part of a group where we apply what we learn.
Due to the structure of reality, within this structure, by making corrections there in love, this is the most effective way to effect the system.
We as kabbalists are not going out to find the most vicious criminals and try to love them.
Those acts they do are already results of thousands and thousands of small actions that preceded them.
We are aiming to the root of all of the problems.
Seth@KabU
To discover a new perception of the concept of “love others precisely as you love yourself” is an exciting journey to be engaged in. I know that this is the sum of the commandments — Love the LORD with all your heart, soul, and mind — and love others as yourself. I love the idea that this is beyond what we “do” in the corporeal world, and drawing us toward changing/gaining our perception of the whole…as we practice meeting the need of the others we actually meet the need of the self—to be like the Creator — altruistic and bestowing—in a spiritual world perception that creates an intention to improve the state of self “by” improving the state of the others— which is actually the complete self. We are being called to understand — seeking one to stand in the “gap”. Ezekiel 22:30
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