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1a – Is the intention and action the same?
1b For example, I heard that everything is taking us back to that state of oneness, and whatever we do must align ourselves according to that. So if I try to see that my friends are thinking to achieving bestowal and behind or within that thought of achieving bestowal is an intention to be one with the friends. It is just like there is no separation. Is this calculation correct?Â
2- Is it ok to see the effort the friends are investing to exist self-love? And to appreciate them? What am I appreciating? What is appreciation?
1a – No, there’s an action, and on top of that I need to add an intention
1b – I don’t know. Usually, I connect with the friends in order to give the Creator contentment, etc. The Creator should be the beneficiary, in the end.
2 – I want to see the friend in a perfect state. Only I’m in self-love. I’m blemishing them, so they look that way.
I got an impression from a video I watched when Rav said the desires are only to realise the action. And I was asking myself, what is the action? During the Sunday meetings with friends, we read an article from Rabash, it says and I quote…”In other words, this is the purpose of the act, that the created beings will receive delight and pleasure.”
Is the action the ability to bring delight and pleasure to my friends?
1- We want to come to resemble the Creator’s action, so we need to play a game, this game of imitation? Mimicking?
2- In other words, do we want to imitate or mimic the Creator’s actions toward our friends with the sole intention of bringing contentment to the Creator?
3- What is delight and what is pleasure?
How does the reforming light actually bring about change in us? Is there a particular analogy, narrative or mechanism that can be explained simply?
We’re so in it, and operated by the Light, that we’re trying to imagine a situation in which it works, as if it’s not already doing everything. That’s it’s greatest miracle. The question is if we move sooner to the actions it wants to bring us to, than it’s already bringing us to them – that is, toward connection.
Hi, Gianni!
Another question for you: to remove the concealment one has to equalize with the screen, but which part of it? It has different properties. Is equalizing with the Aviut enough? Or is it just the first step? Can you explain more about this?
Thank you <3
Equivalence of form is absolute equivalence – so that’s Aviut (coarseness), Kashiut (hardness), and Ohr Hozer (Reflected Light) upon each layer of Aviut.
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What are your thoughts on feeling bad for not doing enough to advance spiritually?
What do you recommend reading, when I’m not in a young group or ten yet?
If I dwell on it I’m in the Klipa (shell) and I’m even in a negative advancement. If the bad feeling spurs me to correct my actions, it’s good.
I recommend reading Shamati or Attaining the Worlds Beyond.
May I jump in here Gianni? Just a thought I would like to add for Kai Andre Saue Skjelbred for reading. There’s a little book, physically small, called Gems of Wisdom. I keep this with me when I am out and about. Just having it helps to keep my focus, and that is doing something spiritually. I always know it’s there. When I am waiting for something I open it to anywhere and read a little. Short pieces, easy to read. Gems of Wisdom.
Dear Gianni,
In the world of AK, the soul is not yet created. So can the soul reach these levels of correction that existed before it’s creation? Is it the soul that reaches them or is there something else beyond a soul to experience these corrections?
(By soul I mean the soul, not the individual human shattered piece)
Thanks!
It’s a good question. We say that the end of correction is when all the shattered pieces of the soul reach their filling with the Light in Atzilut. But we see in the book HaIlan that Baal HaSulam draws degrees in which the worlds roll up like a carpet. And there are other suggestions in the Zohar that there’s something beyond. The whole process is the putting together of the car, and afterward we can drive, is how I heard it from my teacher. In the end, we’re talking about one Vessel that reaches perfection and Equivalence with the Creator, and there’s still something to do once we reach that.
What does it mean if talking to your ten feels like an exercise in futility. At best they will just ignore what i say and at worst will give me push back. Then I have to wait weeks or months for them to understand some things I was trying to tell them all along. Aren’t we here to hasten time. What is the point of me even speaking when i have to wait for them to get things in their own time anyhow.  I have asked the creator for help yet he seems to be on his union break.
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