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Reading the Freedom Article created new difficulties for my emotions.. Threw me off the radar for some days and I felt like we are in Prison of existence which seems unnecessary at First.. But I grasp the only light of escape or freedom is intention only.nothing can change. My character is unchanged. I didn’t choose anything. I can only choose books,teacher and the group…
The goal is Faith above reason and we are told god made us to enjoy. The construction of the kli is an enormous task..how do I receive for God really (this is a difficult mountain to climb) To decide NY yourself or to feel it..when to say it is just to work.when does it fall off the path? How to resolve suffering that endlessly torture me? My family pains? How do one come home? Shamati is a great key but the hierarchy of forces are relentlessly painful.. I determine to walk along but I fall on my face again. Shame of suffering and facing responsibilities in life.. May god give me mercy to overcome my state..all I can do is pray..learning is easy but attaining is difficult.. May all find that one rope to loft you out of yourself and pray we also reach that door together..Figo,
The Creator has a difficult job here. For Him it is no problem to give us endless pleasure. He has no limitation, just an endless field of love, bestowal, beyond space and time. All of the problem lies in us. We don’t want it. I mean we would want it, but we don’t even know what it is. It’s like a person who lived in the jungle their entire life cannot desire an ice cream sundae because they never saw one, never heard of one, they don’t even know what is refrigeration, so there is no vessel even in the imagination for such a thing.
Well bestowal is the same thing for us, its from outer space, its not an earthly desire. And that’s the problem.
Because there is a law in nature that the more we crave something the more we enjoy it and so how can we come to crave the light? And for this there is a mechanism. It is called that the light enters the kli and gives it a “taste” and then the light departs from the kli. And this departure now leaves in the kli a yearning to be filled again.So, first of all now you know a little of the spiritual physics and can begin to look at things through this lens.
That we get scared, and that we fall, and that we are afraid of such states, feel ourselves really worse than death sometimes, this is a feeling within our bodies and we should manage our life in this world according to how it is customary and separate this world from the spiritual world and in the spiritual vessel this state must bring an opportunity for elevation. That is, discern within yourself two parts, your beast (as its called) doesn’t feel so great, but the soul must specifically elevate now, it receives an opportunity to awaken in faith and to receive the light of faith.
The first years, after about half a year, these are very very confused years, a person is very confused. Until discernments are created in him with which he somehow can cope, to arrange in some drawers, shelves this to here and this to here, it takes time. It takes years, three, four, five first years, this cannot be passed.
To acquire a spiritual vessel this is a different nature, what does it mean. Look how many people suffer and give exertion in order to acquire something from this world, in straight vessels of will to receive, what development of all the sensations and qualities and desires is needed, what needs to be invested, and you want to receive a vessel that is not from this world?
Be patient and work on gratitude that you found a true method. Arrange your corporeal life the best you can and let’s rise spiritually,
Seth@KabUIf I am found in this nature then everything is fine, yes. From the four phases of direct light that I study, phase of root, Aleph, Bet, Gimel, everything is arranged nicely. From the point of view of phase Dalet that begins, beauty. Immediately she has troubles, reaches the Tzimtzum. Before phase Dalet there is no Tzimtzum. There is no will of mine, nothing, I am activated from above, the Creator gives me thoughts, gives me impulses, desires, yes? Fears, anxieties, hormones, all kinds of impulses, I go and perform it like a puppet, like a real puppet, yes? Like a yo-yo. That’s it. And I have no problem, no contradiction. I am in will to receive, He activates me like this from above and everything works nicely.
When there begins to be within this will to receive a point in the heart, this is already a messenger from that world, from beyond the barrier, from will to bestow. Then a person becomes split and then there begins to be in him a problem. Two things contradictory to each other, spiritual nature and material nature. In the same subject, in the person. This is really going to explode, to go crazy. Of course this, this cannot be together. Therefore we are such miserable ones.
And we need to understand that we have no choice, the Creator will insert in us, against our will, in everyone, in all humanity, the will to receive and will to bestow together, and we and it won’t help us, we will need to be in this split until we do not cover this split, that the will to receive will also be in order to bestow like the second nature, like the spiritual nature. That is only to spirituality you must arrive, about this they don’t ask you at all. So you will remain in the split until you turn your will to receive into will to bestow. Then everything will be the two types of nature these, nature of this world, nature of the spiritual world, they will again be as one.
And then you will have tranquility, quiet, peace and that’s it. Only to this extent. That’s it. So you say there is some contradiction, what is contradiction, this is the greatest contradiction. And until the end of correction this contradiction is actually found in us. This is how it is.
Peace and blessings.
I understand the principle that “there is none else besides Him,” and that all thoughts, desires, and circumstances ultimately come through the Creator. Conceptually, I can appreciate that this teaching is meant to help us attribute every state to a single source rather than to multiple competing forces.
My question is about responsibility and free will.
If even our destructive impulses and actions are said to come from the Creator, how do we clearly preserve personal accountability? It seems possible to misunderstand this teaching as if harmful behavior could be justified by saying, “This is what the Creator wanted.”
I understand that the real work lies in our intention and in how we relate to what arises, but I would appreciate a clearer explanation of where conscious choice and responsibility actually exist within this framework.
In other words, how do we reconcile the statement that everything comes from the Creator with the lived experience that we are responsible for our decisions and for learning from our mistakes in order to move toward equivalence of form?
Ricardo,
This is one of the most important questions.
In spirituality everything happens at once, but in our world everything happens at different times.
And so we learn it like this, at the beginning of each state we say, if I don’t do it then it won’t get done. And then at the end of each state only then we can say, even if I stayed home and sat on the couch and did nothing, everything would have turned out exactly the same since it is all in His hands and He does everything.
You only mentioned the second part. The first part is called that “everything that is in your hand to do, do”.
They will resolve later as we attain the unity of spirituality.
Seth@KabU
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
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