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I can see how we can relate to the things your saying (Gianni) because if we think a bit there are things like shame canceling pleasure it would be like when you take the last piece of candy because you haven’t had any and you’re really enjoying and you hear your mom asking “who took my candy ?” and you stay quite but the candy doesn’t taste sweet anymore, jajaja Yes my friends…that was me!!
And just wait until we find out that we ourselves are connected to thousands of people who depend on me, and because I took candy, they starved. A person who has a Point in the Heart discovers that he is a hub to which many nodes connect and depend, and his internal correction or lack thereof is moving the whole world around.
Hi! First of all thank you for this course.
I am having a question regarding the 4 phases of direct light and another regarding the Tzimzum Aleph.
Regarding the 4 phases which, if I understood properly, represent the 4 steps of the Upper reality – do they have any translation into how oneself consciously feels (as a fragment of such Upper reality)? Rephrasing the question: does oneself supraconsciously go through these phases as one evolves?
As for Tzimzum Aleph, in which way is it more important than the decision to transit from Hochma to Bina? They both seem to be a rejection to the nature of receival. If I understood properly, the difference is that in Malchut, the creature understands that it is made to receive, while in Bina it does not yet know of that entirely. Is this the right way to understand it?
Thank you!
Hi Francisco,
One is very far from feeling these matters. The 4 Phases do animate reality, and a person as part of it, but he does not feel himself operated by this program, like a small child doesn’t feel himself as a link in a chain of a million generations. Even when we learn about all those generations, as adults, we don’t feel that (and thus we don’t really understand that either). In short, we perceive ourselves as independent operators, free, and we’re wrong about that – thus, to perceive ourselves under such governance is opposite to our ego, undesirable, something we don’t want to know. And so it’s concealed from us, utterly. We would suddenly have to behave altogether differently, in every realm of life were we to feel it. We actually need to assemble ourselves in a Kabbalistic group to as if awaken ourselves to the stages that are precursors to entering the bottom of the bottom step of this spiritual system.
As for the Tzimzum, we can’t say that it is more important than anything else in the system, as the system is perfect, and so all its actions are indispensable. Metaphorically, the transition from Hochma to Bina, though, is like an older child that leaves his parents’ mansion and goes out on a trip in the great outdoors, but, you know, just in case, his servants wait a few hundred yards away. But it’s as if he’s on a spartan, rugged coming-of-age adventure. Of course, some such safari is not the same as one who is outside because they have no home and no nothing. The Tzimzum isn’t leaving the King’s Palace but I can return at will, and I have it standing behind me; the Tzimzum is that I as if burn my bridge back to the palace, renounce my name and birthright. The decision of Malchut to restrict is forever. It doesn’t matter that later the Plan of Creation will have to be realized, because for Malchut, in that state, it’s a decision that is as-if forever, final. And there are many more details to why Tzimzum is different from the transition from Phase 1 to 2.
“He created the desire to receive in me, and I’m ashamed of how I use it.” This is one of my favorite quotes from the lesson. Will we learn how to use shame as a corrective tool for our egos?
Hi Jj, This refers to either a state in Eyn Sof, after the 4 Phases of Direct Light, or a very high spiritual degree when one is awarded a similar state from below up. Because we, in our current state, lack all the components that give rise to Shame in Malchut. Shame resulted from the feeling of the Creator (we lack such a feeling), that He is the bestower (of course we also lack this sensation), that there’s no universe and other people like we feel, but rather it’s just me, the receiver in order to receive, and Him, the force of pure love an bestowal. In fact, we lack even the sensation that we are truly receivers through and through, which is the only thing that is called ‘evil’ since it is opposite to the Creator’s quality. Therefore, we have no reason to feel shame, and we also can’t move towards anything that might cause that sensation to arise. In fact, we live our whole lives only in order to avoid that feeling, due to the entire reality we feel being the result of that high root of spiritual shame. So, we have to begin gradually, in a group, to begin building the inner discernments, to approach gently the concept that There Is None Else Besides Him filling the whole reality. It starts only as an axiom, but later we’ll attain it, when we can handle it. And still later, in a pleasant way, we’ll discover what actions we need to do back to Him in order to not feel shame per se, but to use the shame as a guide-post that helps us navigate only to use our desire in a form that will be equivalent with that all-inclusive singular force of bestowal that we reveal.
SHAME: I don’t live my life in shame and I never really lived it in any shame. I wasn’t always perfect and I know I’m not perfect and I accept that. I choose to live each day learning and growing to be better than yesterday. Mistakes can be made as long as you can grow and learn from them and be good to people. When I was a small child, I remember always being preached about shame (catholic religion), and I had to pray for forgiveness. Even then, as a child, I didn’t agree with the guilt and shame they tried to make me feel when I knew in my heart that I was good and kind. None of that made any sense to me and I quit going to church.
I believe if you live life from your heart to do good and mean well to others, you have nothing to be ashamed of. We are all human and are here to receive the good and bestow. If I make a mistake unintentionally, I will not feel shame, only look to do better for myself and others.
Kabbalah agrees that we have nothing to be ashamed of. We are under a law that was arranged before our universe, that says that we shall never again feel shame. That’s why a person lives their whole life never allowing himself to get into a shameful situation. By the same token, people would like to cause others to feel shame, especially when they do things we disapprove of. But spiritually speaking, the Shame that was felt in the Upper Worlds, will never be again because we will correct our desire to receive that lacks an intention to bestow, and then we will be able to receive the true pleasures without shame. Until then, what we experience in our world is called “thin candle” and not the true fulfilment that awaits us.
Hi Gianni,
Do we all have shame? People who have a big strong ego for themselves, to take from others, to build their personal success, do not seem to suffer from shame. (Maybe they are unconscious of the shame.) But people who are more inclined to seeking “spirituality” (even conventional spirituality not aligned with Kabbalists’ definition) seem to suffer from lots of shame and guilt in them.
Thank you, again!
No, I don’t need to be ashamed if I’m Jeff Bezos. I earned all this because I’m diligent and smart. I deserve it. But not only that. Humanity is indebted to me. Look what wonderful convenience I’ve created for billions of people. Look what wealth my company has given its shareholders. If anything I deserve a Nobel prize. And no matter who you give as an example, they will have justified themselves similarly. Even a thief has his self-justification. Man lives his whole life as he does only to avoid ever feeling shame, and he never does. He would first die than truly feel shame. Every decision he makes is a calculation to avoid shame.
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