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I was watching Kabbalah Explained Simply – “Why the World Is Always at War”, and there you say that if you’re about to do something that’s not good for you, and you know in advance that it’s not good for you but you do it anyway, then it’s a sign that you’re growing.
And one step further is when you feel that you’re going to do something that’s bad for you, but you feel like you have no choice at all.
So my question is:
Is everything I do actually predetermined, and what’s really changing is how I feel about what I’m about to do?
In other words, are my actions actually correct in relation to the purpose of creation? So it’s actually a correct action, but I perceive it as wrong because it’s not for my own personal benefit?Just adding to my previous question, because it is really confusing me a bit… I always thought that the mind is so limited it naturally creates separation, and that the ego uses our mind giving us distraction, doubts and all that. But in Art 184 it says that faith is related to separation, because it is related to corporeality. Does that refer to the fact that faith is something we feel in our bodies as sensations or states, and as states in a human beings come and go, so does faith? And does that mean it is impossible to have persistent faith?
Hi Gianni, I just came across Shamati 184, about faith and mind. Actually itś funny, because I thought a lot about how to keep faith. But from what I read, it sounded like by nature, keeping faith persistently, is impossible. So this quite striked me, and some questions came up:
1. How comes faith is related to corporeality, and the mind to spirituality and not the other way round?
2. Is this why we get moved through ascends and descends all the time… because faith is naturally non-persistent?
3. Does that mean if we aim at faith above reason, itś by nature, that we will have to rebuild this again and again?
4. With respect to the definition of faith and mind in this article, how comes we aim at faith above reason and not the other way round?
It says there are five partzufim, AA, AVI, and ZON. Why are Aba and Ima paired, as well as Zair Anpin and Nukva? Do I get it right, that this is „Father and Mother“ (AVI) and „son and daughter“ (ZON)? In how does this refer to their qualities? Is this about complementing each other?
There is a complimentary relationship between these parts. But don’t get married to these definitions as they are flexible, based on the degree. For example, ZON can also be husband and wife. But the relationships from Above to below and from below to Above are relatively always the same. So, AVI are always the Upper of ZON, and ZA is always the Upper toward Nukva. Aba is always the Upper One toward IMA. This roots are eternal.
Hi Gianni, I listened to the first part of the morning lesson, and we also read Shamati 34 in the ten. And I felt it was both about „faith“. How can we combat the fear of loosing faith ( especially in the face of knowing that horrible things are happening in corporeality?) Itś not about questioning the creator in being the good that does good, but about the fear of not being strong enough to maintain this perception, or even get back to it. The fear of loosing faith and getting completely lost. In Shamati 34 it says itś „double torment“. And that is exactly how it feels to me. But what is the remedy?
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