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Why is it that Kabbalah is NOT a religion? Talking about the Creator, and that ‘there is none else besides him’, sound like a Monotheistic religion to me.
Anyway, I see that we will take care of this question in Week 3.
I was thinking about this question and it seems like the difference is that in a religion there’s a middle man telling you what’s what about reality and “(hearsay) about divinity.
Kabbalah is a system of protocols to discover for yourself and so far every protocol I’ve been able to implement had precisely the result they described.
Mark,
There was a time when we could call it a religion, but that is not what we are talking about in this context.
The kabbalists discovered the laws of nature behind the curtain, what force governs reality, us and everything, what forces are operating on us and what we can do about it.
Religions as we know them and there are thousands of religions and belief systems are not about attainment with Godliness.
We are focused on attainment, adhesion with the Creator.
Religions came after the nation fell from their degree and when not in attainment anymore, spirituality became materialized and that is what we have in the religions today, that each religion, through their ego materialize spirituality.
Seth@KabU
I struggle with the concept of sin. What is sin? Â How can man sin if all actions are from the creator?
I know of this new religion that contradict with your assessment of today’s religion, called Baha’i Faith. Their belief is so identical to Kabbalah’s wisdom !
Pablo,
You are correct, actually for us now there is no real sin, because if He is doing everything that what can I sin in.
In the wisdom of kabbalah we are not teaching morals and ethics we are teaching laws of nature.
To break a law of nature would be called a sin.
To follow the law of nature would be to bestow upon creation as He bestows upon creation. But we are still controlled by our desire to receive. Later, after the preparation phase when we have that new nature and stand evenly between the will to receive pleasure on the one hand and the desire to bestow upon the Creator on the other hand, then we can talk about freedom of will and also sin.
Seth@KabU
I’m struggling to find the delineation between “food” and the wallowing in filth metaphor.
I understand that what the Creator provides to fill our base needs and make it possible for us to study is food. But, for example, if I listen to Kabbalah videos for several hours and get to a point where I feel like my brain is tired and wants to turn off, and then I go listen to a sci-fi audio book that I’ve listened to 5 times before and I just enjoy it… or sit in front of the TV or something. Is that food or filth?
I understand it’s not saying the filth is particularly evil, just unproductive. Do we need to strive for everything that goes into your senses to be productive at all times? That is exhausting when I have little conception yet of what I’m striving for. I only get it on an abstract imaginary level with few details of personal attainment.
Am I working towards a constant desire to connect to others and the Creator, or is it something that I am supposed to be trying to force myself to do right now?
Logynn,
The ideal is to be a normal person who is deeply in love.
Normal, meaning you have a family, you have some work or what you do every day, you maintain a healthy life and also you are in love.
Regarding what we are talking about we are talking about a deep, eternal love although we don’t feel that yet.
Like a child who prefers to take care of a doll. If you ask her to take care of a real baby she has no desire for that, but a doll is suitable for her desire.
So as you live your normal life, we surround ourselves with sources, videos, songs, to grow our desire for spirituality. When the love fills your heart you will naturally change.
Seth@KabU
Is a part of this about letting go of control, so to speak. Trying to understand that everything in reality is God, even all of my own thoughts and actions. That the only ‘free will’ I have is to want my selfish nature of taking, to somehow flip polarity and become a nature of giving?
Chris,
You 100% got 50% of the message 🙂
You’re right about our nature, about free will and that we need to flip the polarity.
Regarding, ‘letting go of control’, it’s the right idea, but we can’t actually. What we can do is trade one reward for another reward.
And actually, that is a very good start.
It’s a paradox that as a kabbalah student we get used to, on the one hand He is doing everything, on the other hand in order for me to realize that and participate with Him, He requires me to make a lot of effort and in that effort I come to the realizations.
Seth@KabU
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