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Hi, In spirituality, is there a difference between egoism versus destructiveness? Like „receiving to receive“ versus „harming to receive“? I suppose, both can be formed in feelings, thoughts and actions, but is both on the level of „egoistic desire“ or is there a difference, because whereas egoism can at least be neutral to its environment, destructiveness will essentially cause harm.
Yes, there’s a degree called “Do not do to others that which you hate.” This is actually very serious. Were we to implement this in humanity, what foods would we be able to sell to people out of what’s currently being sold? What ads could be run? What would we see on the news, in social media? We’d see that the world would basically grind to a halt because before we even get to the illegal stuff, we’d see everything is based on hate of others. So, just stopping, and not doing that which you’d hate done to you, is the midpoint, after which comes love of others, love them as you love yourself. Even that midpoint is already spiritual. Meaning I need an x-ray to show me all the ways I’m not yet even at this midpoint.
Hi, thank you. This is an important answer. Itś how I feel it..and it is moving me a a alot. I am just wondering, if I keep this to a circle of friends, the ten, and then go out into corporeal life and „play the game“ like everyone else… how can I ever become true in this? If I keep all this in my mind, but dońt act accordingly, because no one else does, it may save me from loss or harm or whatever, but wońt it corrupt any efforts my point in the heart makes?
Your legs and your brain can’t both work according to the same principles. Each has to do its role in its place. So, too, we can’t do the work in the group, on the outside. One work is not appropriate to the other. But later we see these compliment each other, and do not infringe upon each other. For now, without seeing why, keep them discrete.
Hi Gianni, just starting with the young group, I have got a practical question… how can I distinguish between a psychological effect of the work versus a spiritual effect? For example, when I read in the Zohar, I can perceive it makes a difference. When I take part in a Workshop, it makes a difference. I can sense it‘s about connection, it’s not always the same sensation, so I perceive something is happening there. Since I am working in mental health, I am used to analysing things, group work, self-reflection, all that, and I dare say there is a profound difference if I compare it to spiritual work. But how can I distinguish between what is an effect of feeling. welcome, equal, appreciated due to this open-hearted environment versus true spiritual sensations. Or in case of the Zohar, how can I distinguish between maybe just wanting this sensation, like a placebo, versus simple experiencing it?
Everything is psychology, including the whole perception of reality, that you feel things as liquid, solid, and so on. It’s all in one’s perception. So, the fact that all you feel so far are what in ordinary parlance are ‘psychological effects’ is because you’re on the beginning of the path. But, later, in this same direction is the spiritual perception of reality.
The right direction is that in which you’re aiming at connection among friends with the expectation for the Light to work, for the Creator to be revealed in that connection.
I guess my follow-up question got lost in the sea of questions 🙂 so here it is again, please Gianni.
Yes, I am sure that everyone perceived it differently. And I am also not referring to infantile giggling all the time, that was never my thing really. I am talking about the joy that one feels inside so intense that it leads to deep gratitude and humbleness. When you feel your heart so open that it can swallow the world. When you don’t think of yourself at all or what will happen to you next or what happened in the past, when past and future disappear. And you’d more get on your knees and cry with joy than giggle.
In that state, you cannot say that you are forcing yourself to do anything, or you feel a burden because there is no you in that kind of joy because all you can feel is love and mercy.
Or maybe the Kabbalists talk about a different kind of joy?
Hi Gianni,
My ten reads the Zohar for a half hour every morning, are we accomplishing anything here? Would it be better to read one of the four introductions to the Zohar?
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