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The lesson make me think deep. and a question came up.
[we can choose only one environment] mean “choose good intention ” ?
choose something not only for me but hoping to be good to others ?
Putting love/caring into your intention/will?” is key ??
I am confusing ??
Hi Miho,
We don’t choose our thoughts, we choose to be influenced by a specific environment and our thoughts and intentions are a result of that choice. So our spiritual work essentially boils down to choosing to be influenced by the spiritual environment (meaning the Kabbalistic books, group, and teacher). Everything else is a result of that choice.
Baal HaSulam writes about it in the article “The Freedom”. Here’s an excerpt:
“However, there is freedom for the will to initially choose such an environment, such books, and such guides that impart to him good concepts. If one does not do that, but is willing to enter any environment that appears to him and read any book that falls into his hands, he is bound to fall into a bad environment or waste his time on worthless books, which are abundant and easier to come by. In consequence, he will be forced into foul concepts that make him sin and condemn. He will certainly be punished, not because of his evil thoughts or deeds, in which he has no choice, but because he did not choose to be in a good environment, for in that there is definitely a choice.
Therefore, he who strives to continually choose a better environment is worthy of praise and reward. But here, too, it is not because of his good thoughts and deeds, which come to him without his choice, but because of his effort to acquire a good environment, which brings him these good thoughts and deeds.”
Albert @ KabU
The videos on free will have been very affirming for me. I have long suspected there is no free will as I haven´t seen any evidence of it in my own life. However, finding that there is a small point of freedom that I can aim for is a liberation. I am reminded of something Tony said in another video, I can see myself as a sort of prisoner of my experience with no choice or as a ´treasured guest´. That is such a beautiful way to see it. And, I am not without power, I have the power to put myself in the right environment, so as to connect with my spiritual root, for myself and for the coming together of the one, unified soul. That can be a powerful guiding force for my journey in this lifetime.
Since I have learned here, from Tony, that “there is none besides Him” , I am living some sort of strange, confusing scenario. It seems that I am watching my life sitting in a 4D movie theater, full of sensorial effects, and where the other people, and maybe also myself, are just “not so real”, i. e. some sort of unconscious actors, or actors’ images, who channel the Creator’s will through words and actions. More, I went so far as wondering that what I do not experiment, do not exist at all….
So I feel kind of in between being bewildered and amazed. Very happy, in the end, but confused, dizzy.
Is this normal or it is just me getting crazy? XD
Thank you
Hi Elena,
It’s normal. We go through many states on the spiritual path. The main thing is to just keep going, to keep placing yourself under the influence of the light, and it’ll balance everything out.
For this reason, it’s important to set aside some time to regularly return to the Kabbalistic writings, weekly lessons, videos, books, etc. Such a habit of regularly returning to the source of the light will help you throughout your entire spiritual development.
Albert @ KabU
Looking up from the earth to a cloudless blue sky I see a single stock of wheat, golden and ready for harvest. The light dances between its sways. When abruptly and without warning it falls to ground. The sun, moon, and stars come and go and come go. The rain beats down fiercely upon it. Soon no gold remains. The sun, moon, and stars come and go and come go again. Then from the one fallen single stock of wheat did many more grow.
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