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[Gil]

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[Michael]

how can i realize that egoism is the cause of all my problems if we haven’t obtained a true ego yet?  (the spiritual ego)

because i was thinking about how all my problems are because of people who try to destroy me, and i guess i am egoistic because i can’t forgive them or something (even though i don’t become vindictive and try to hurt them).  you know, so i’m trying to understand how that is the real cause of all my problems in life, why i’m miserable now for instance.  but i can’t quite grasp it, because i have no choice but to survive and i never really did anything to anyone.  i don’t get what the spiritual ego is.. like am i wasting my time trying to identify it?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hi Michael,

Realizing it’s the cause, meaning feeling it in the deepest part of you where you actually begin to hate it is a very advanced state. We have to undergo many stages, many different sensations and discernments for the accumulation to build in us in a sufficient manner which is called “recognition of evil”. There are a few layers to that, but the true form actually becomes a prayer for change. The only way to really identify it is the inner work a person does towards others that are with them on the path. When you want to try and be opposite of the ego, when you want to try and do something for the sake of others truly, this is the only way you’ll be faced with the rejecting force. The more you work in that way the more “colors” and gradients you can perceive about what it is, this thing called “ego”.

Thanks,

Chris

[Michael]

why do we suffer throughout history if our desire was only for lesser things (not spirituality)?  wouldn’t we simply not feel the suffering because our desire wasn’t great enough?  or do we in fact suffer only to the extent that we have a desire?

i’m really confused about what egoism actually is.  it’s not the will to receive itself is it?  and i know you guys say something like egoism doesn’t really exist until the spiritual?  i don’t understand what the mechanism of suffering is before we have developed the ego or attained spirituality.  aren’t we supposed to be like animals?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Michael,

True egoism is something spiritual already. It’s the quality opposite the quality of bestowal. Without the revelation of this force, we can’t truly feel or understand egoism. What we sense in the meantime is just the confirmation that we in fact do think only about ourselves, but this isn’t an illumination of essence of the quality itself since there’s no contrast to bestowal.

We suffer like animals suffer, just more since we have more refined and broad desires which just means we have more ways to suffer–like you mentioned–but before the point in the heart awakens, it’s just this “program” that runs on us that brings us from state to state: carrot>stick>carrot>stick and this is our development. This is how the Creator created the system that gradually raises us to feel a need in something more. We don’t know how many times we have to take a stick before the point in the heart awakens–this has to do with the root of the soul.

Thanks,

Chris

[mrc s]

Is humbling myself means forever thinking I’m a sinner?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

It means knowing you are a will to receive and the Creator is the quality of bestowal. This quality is His quality which is of course Good that Does Good–and you want to be like Him.

[mrc s]

Is praying through words necessary, I thought we always pray if we want something.

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Words are just how you interpret what you feel in your heart. What you have in your heart is the prayer, not the words.

[mrc s]

I find it hard to give gratitude to G-d because my mindset is we should experience infinite pleasure from the start can you give advice thx.

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hi mrc,

Gratitude is more of a reaction and less of something you force. That’s not to say aiming to want to be grateful for each moment even though you’re just hearing the Kabbalists tell you that each second is tailor-made for your path of correction, yet we don’t feel this but we can certainly wish we would. That’s a prayer. However, the aim should be less about the pleasure and more about the Giver of the pleasure.

Chris

[Brad]

You may not be able to answer, but, What are the stat numbers of dissemination of Kabbalah to the world,  between KabU, the Hasidic Ashlag community, and i guess kabbalah centre ? Maybe you only know what Kab U is doing but i thought i would ask. 

 

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Brad,

The Ashlag community we would not know, but we have MAC which is in the Russian language and it has the widest reach, there of course is dissemination here  in Israel too in Hebrew, KabU is in English, and Spanish, French are probably the next largest. Turkish we’ve found has responded well, and then after that are all the lesser-spoken European languages and Asian languages. We, as of last year, began live translation into Arabic as well as translation of the source texts.

It depends on what “circle” you’re talking about. There are probably a couple of million who have really been exposed to the content and somehow have a connection to what’s going on but are not active in any way we could track. Well over 10k though as far as more active interaction and around 5k who are daily active in some capacity but these are rough estimates.

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