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Hi, I am wondering, if we work with self-scrutiny, how can we distinguish between relevant and irrelevant states? If for example a friend feels low,… it could be anything… a „descent“, a corporeal-life-based „low state“ or even an adversive life obstacle that will hinder him/her from staying on the path. So how could we differentiate that in order to raise his /her spirit ? Is there any way at all to distinguish between spiritual and corporeal low states and their causes? Or is that irrelevant because it only depends on how it feels internally and how to „get back“ on the spiritual path? I understand, corporeal life should not really have a place in spiritual work, thatś why I wonder how to distinguish these states.
Dear Gianni,
When speaking of raising the importance of the Creator in order to give ourselves fuel for the work in Lo Lishma, there are two types of importance that I can distinguish here:
1. External importance (which is imparted by society – I think the Creator is great, because the people around me regard Him as such, but this means that I don’t truly regard Him as great, I just want to belong to this society, so I would adopt whatever pleases them) and
2. Internal importance (the greatness of the Creator is personal to me, regardless of what my society thinks, like a child is inherently important to their parents, but this also seems like a very basic, natural regard, which is kind of animalistic and not really useful).
So the question is, what kind of importance should we strive for while still working in Lo Lishma?
Thank you ❤️
A minor comment :
The two types of importance you mentioned; the first one (1.) the external; sounds like the basic of religion , which is common.
The second importance, (2.)The internal, is the urge of the point in the heart to grow, that’s the spark of the light, glowing, bringing you to the right environment to discover it and work on it. Thank you and welcome 🙏🏼
This division is only in our perception. Also, I can think my dad’s great, but that’s nothing compared to many people around me telling me ‘your father is a great man.’ However we look at it, it turns out that it comes back to me when I raise the importance of the Creator – that is, the quality of bestowal – in society. If it will exist in them, in will exist in me. I can even inject importance into them that is less than genuine, and it comes back to me as real.
Hi, to make my question more precise, what I tried to ask is if „life“ as a learning environment is constructed in a way that through our thoughts/feelings/actions /encounters we are exposed to different „states“. So that the purpose of life would not be about what we do / achieve in life, but how we scrutinize, develop and learn to deal with these states. Does that make sense at all? I relate those states to disconnection versus connection, ego versus love of friends.. and finally learning to bestow. I am not sure if I manage to find the right words here, because what I call a „state“ is a sensation that is based a lot on that very first steps in the group work, and even though I am just a beginner, it left an amazing and deep impression. Still, I am not sure if this strong feeling of love, of connection, of home in the work is just grace „from above, like an incentive, or whether this is the right „state“ to look out for (and whether one should be attentive for this at all).
Hi, I understand life is like a „learning environment“ for the soul. And I feel it is all about the states we go through, and less our feelings /thoughts/ actions which create these states. Is that correct? And how to work with these different states? How do we evaluate them and how do we evaluate the change they bring within us? They currently impress me very much, especially as they seem to be shifting so much. Still, of course, outwardly life goes on as usual.
When time feels so short and the work so vast, how can we approach fulfilling our spiritual purpose in this lifetime
How do we find peace with the idea that our time in this world feels too brief to accomplish all that we are meant to?
Briefly ; as we learned from RAV’s lessons, there is no short of time, when sensing the present, continuous presence that allows the person to connect to the whole system of creation, the term time will become of a meaningless in the connection. Time does has values and calculations as agreements for corporeal matters, we need to consider it for work.. etc,
The presence, now where everything happening, all the efforts focusing to achieve the perfect connection, it’s the sort of effort that start with struggling and turn to joy in the state of now, no waiting for a next moment or tomorrow, you live it now , and you grow and advance within that now, briefly commenting 🙏🏼
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