- This topic has 600 replies, 231 voices, and was last updated 3 days, 14 hours ago by
.
- Replies
Are the acts of evil determined by the human mind, or is it the creator? When the creator is all good, there should be something opposite, no? What is evil, then?
does Correction/correcting the desire in any given momemnt basically mean ” I want to do x…but can i do it for the sake of the creator?” i.e i will help my neighbor for the sake of the creator, i will forgive them for the sake of the creator, i will accept this gift and share it for the sake of the creator”
“Hence, one’s primary exertion should be to acquire a force that feels taste in bestowing, which is through lessening the force that feels taste in self-reception. In that state one slowly acquires the taste in bestowing”
is the way to lessen the taste/desire of self recption by thinking in the manner mentioned above(for the sake of the creaor) or is there a specfic way we do this wich then leads to increased space for the taste/desire of bestowal?
Yeabsera,
At every degree the Creator will increase our vessel which means will increase the taste in self-reception.
Our work is to every time add on the side of importance of the spiritual goal.Do not think that we can manage our thoughts by force, it’s impossible.
Thoughts follow our desire.
Our main goal is to make our desire for spirituality more important.
No one has to tell you to stop playing with children’s toys and you don’t have to struggle in your thoughts about it. Why? Because as an adult your desire developed and now you want new things and your mind thinks about how to acquire those new things.So now we invest in the spiritual environment so that it becomes valuable to us and our thoughts start thinking how will we acquire it and these actions draw the upper light upon us and this will transform us.
Seth@KabU
In the related videos Rav Laitman tells us that all of our thoughts and actions are sent to us from the Creator. I have had the impression that our destructive, evil and selfish thoughts and actions were produced by our EGO, our free will to choose the path of light or suffering. Are we only like puppets on a string?
Olav,
1. All of our thoughts and actions are sent to us by the Creator2. Our destructive and selfish thoughts are a result of our geo
3. Our free will is to choose.
All of these are true.
Imagine that we are perfectly in the middle between bestowal and reception. There in the middle we have free choice. However, if the will to receive is 1% more powerful, then we are pulled to follow the will to receive and there is no free choice. If the force of bestowal is more powerful 1% then we have no free choice, we will be pulled by the pleasure of the light. So we have to be exactly in the middle.There is nothing that comes from any source besides the Creator, anything that feels not good is due to how we are perceiving it and this is very complicated and we cannot fathom it from our current degree…how can we explain to a 6 year old child when he is crying about going to school that he will have to go to school 5 days a week for the next 12 years. Of course we can’t say that to him, he doesn’t have any vessels to comprehend even what we are talking about and what life is and why his loving parents would send him away 5 days a week for what feels like the rest of his life. But the parents understand that in a few days he will meet friends and he will learn how to grow up (if it’s a good school;)
Ask further, dig deeper, let’s explore this together.
Seth@KabU
What does the following mean:
When we use our will to receive in order to give joy to the Creator, we have attained the quality of bestowal.
Isn’t the will to receive all there is essential to the creature? If so, how can one even perceive the quality of bestowal if not through ego? But isn’t it that egoistic desires never lead to the will to bestow, namely to give joy to the Creator? So, how do we get to the point to perceive the desire to give as a quality to please the Creator if not through ego? And if it is through ego, how do we ever go beyond it in order to become as the Creator?
Daniela,
You are asking all of the correct questions. The questions are more important than the answers because your questions mean that inside you are feeling where the next move needs to be, that means you have correct inner preparation.
You’re right, we are essentially the will to receive so we have to go through many degrees to be able to bestow.
We are in the preparation to a state called Lo Lishma. In Lo Lishma one does everything as if he is bestowing even though he has not been given from above the true power to bestow.
And then from Lo Lishma when a certain measure of effort has been made, a light is drawn down upon a person that raises him above the barrier (inner barrier) of his ego and he acquires a second nature, this is called the Exodus from Egypt in our inner work.
We go in depth into all of these states.
I recommend that you write your questions down and return to them in 1 year and in 2 years and see how the questions have developed and how you have new insights and advancement.
Seth@KabU
No questions. I highly encourage others to purchase the books in their hardcopy formats because electricity isn’t guaranteed. The book, Kabbalah for the Student, is a must have. 860 pages of well written material with several diagrams at the end of it.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.