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Hi Gianni, sorry, but there is one more question. I really feel that I am struggling with the impact of how we feel separated as humans. Separated from the light, each other, and even ourselves. Like someone blindfolded us to give us this illusion, spinned us around ten times, pushed us away and said “go,find the light”. Of course, there are these precious moments of connection, like in the ten, in the morning lesson, in a congress… and then the blindfold covers everything again.
I don’t know how to relate to this. Because the impact these blindfolded states have, are getting heavier over time. And from what I understood this is not getting better but worse in the work. I discovered it’s possible to overy, but hard inner work to not remain there. Now, I am willing to battle that. But I don’t understand how I can relate to it. Is it just an illusion… a random one, out of many other options, something I have to overcome and that’s it… or is it the mechanism of creation? That we are separated until we reach correction? And if it is the second, how can we EVER overcome this? Or how can we work with it without falling in despair?
We’re always shown a broken system, on every degree, so that we will want to connect, see that it’s impossible, as we are only the croutons in the soup, which can’t connect without the soup between them, which is the Creator. People are trying in our world to create all kinds of right connections on their own – relationships, political systems. That’s why they’ll never never never work. Not like this, not like that, not a third way. Until we bring the Creator into the connection there is no sanctity in the connection.
Hi Gianni, adding to my previous question… I also find myself struggling with the wording “evil inclination”… I understand it’s the will to receive, it’s our inner program, like the the engine of our beastly existence. But why do we call it evil? If I feel evil, I feel low, dragged away from the light, and I know it’s part of correction… but evil feels like a judgement made based on my mere existence… on anyone’s existence… so how is this not supposed to lead to despair? How can we understand “evil” without loosing hope? Probably, the only way for me to work with it, if I use the interpretation of evil as “opposite to the creator”… because that’s opposite to bestowal… and that’s many lifetimes worth of work to overcome.
But I might be deceiving myself. So, how , in the work, shall I relate to “evil”?
No, you don’t have any evil. You’re an angel. Evil is only what I find directly opposing connection in the ten – because that’s my interface with the Creator. So, whatever persuades me to procrastinate on the connection I could already make this very moment, and in the next and next moments, is evil because it’s intentionally pulling me to waste my opportunities. There’s no evil in the past either because it’s all accumulated into the present moment, like a traffic ticket that the city keeps adding fines to. But I pay it all off when I reach connection with the friends.
Hi Gianni, how should we relate to the concept of sin as in “the sin of Adam HaRishon”… like in Shamati 68? I feel this is confusing because it would imply choice. But all I learned is we are talking about natural laws here, not about choices. So, what is a sin then?
Sin is not what I do wrong. It’s what is found within my nature, that if given the opportunity, I will steal the Upper Light, meaning I will receive it without a Masach (screen). Adam, which is the state of the soul before I broke and fell to our world, discovers that as much as he would have liked to be aimed only at the Creator, to bestow, that there are desires in him that, if opened up, he will receive in order to receive in them, and he will even realize that he is receiving in order to receive, and these are such desires that he can’t stop himself and will even receive in them with foreknowledge that this reception will be in order to receive. Now, we’re after the descend of degrees through the worlds of Beria, Yetzira, Assiya, down to Our World. And so, these sins are all ahead of us to be discovered. Except now they won’t let us uncover what we can’t already correct with a Masach in advance. Meaning: build the Masach or you won’t even be given the opportunity to make a mistake. We can’t sin. All we can do is prolong our time in our kindergarten, like you won’t let a child into the street to learn lessons on his own because it’s certain that he lacks the vessels and wherewithal to navigate that environment.
Hi Gianni, another question:
are we in the “preparation period” right now? then Lo Lishma, then there is crossing the Machsom, then Lishma?
what marks the transition from preparation period to Lo Lishma? is it that I notice I do things not because I should but I want to? how to make that transition happen?
thanks again!
Hi Gianni
what need to happen in order to increase the importance of the creator? is that a result of prayer or a result of my own effort such as: attend a class whether I feel it or not, read an article whether I want to or not, make time for friends etc…and eventually by doing those things that I don’t deem to be important (yet) will eventually increase the importance of the creator?
thanks as always
Yes, you raise the importance of the Creator for yourself, by those things and others, and also for your friends. With that importance, they can make efforts, and raise the importance for themselves and for you. Then you do the same again for them. This way the goal becomes higher and higher, and helps you rise above every degree of egoism that gets revealed in you, until upon the great egoism you reach the Creator.
In Shamati 1, the right and left hands are described as two approaches in the work. Can these also be seen as the states of ascents and descents, or are they a different kind of discernment?
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