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There is none else besides him. What I don’t understand is who are we then? from this lesson, it states that our attitude towards the creator is the only thing that we can change. It sounds like that is something else besides the creator? When I look at the natural world, I realize that all the animals, trees, and inanimate objects fall into line with the thought of creation. It is only our ego that goes against the grain. I look at a lot of people who are not on this pathway and they will never enter this pathway. Do they have some quality that is besides him? My intuition says that your answer will say that it is only an illusion that we are separate from God, but if so, is that illusion in itself besides him? Your answer will be that God placed this illusion into us so that we can rest next to him as the ultimate perfected piece of his creation if we so choose. but it still seems paradoxical to me.
David,
Get comfortable with paradoxes in the wisdom of kabbalah. We are on a path towards a spiritual perception. In the simplest example, a child thinks you are a bad dad because you don’t let him have chocolate ice cream at 11pm and stay up until midnight on a school night. So from his perspective how can you both be a good dad and not give him what he wants? In his perspective you are so mean. But from your perspective, which is much higher than his, you seen another reality where the child will be exhausted at school the next day and will suffer because of it.
So we are approaching a spiritual reality where the laws are not the same as our corporeal reality and even though we don’t feel spirituality yet, we need to begin to follow them. Like the child who needs to agree that dad is loving and good even though it makes no sense to him and a child is incapable of this, but we are capable.
The Creator is controlling everything David. Every thought and action arises after many preceding events. Everything that we experience is an “effect” that follows many previous “causes”. All the people around us that you mentioned are running a program of how to get the most pleasure for the least effort. There is no reason to criticize them for this, this is how they are created, this is how all of reality is created. So where is our free will in all this? In the meantime we don’t have any, of course if feels that I chose which shirt to wear and what to eat for lunch, and it must be this way and will continue to be this way for now, and we shouldn’t fight against this, just to be a regular person, eat, work, rest, be healthy, family. And also while living this life, to start to feel the governing force behind everything. Live a normal life on the animate degree and also in your heart and mind begin to feel that there is an operating force, guiding and arranging everything. This is called that the Kabbalist lives in two worlds and later when you develop your spiritual perception you will feel the spiritual world and understand and feel where is the freedom, the freedom to be in love and bestowal like he is love and bestowal and the lower degrees, ….well, now for example you are breathing and your heart is pumping but that doesn’t get in the way or effect you having grapefruit or alternatively orange juice for breakfast. So later your entire animate existence will be and there are reasons why and from it, it will give us a launch pad to many feelings and discernments, but above it on another degree, higher than the corporeal world, you will also exist.
Seth@KabU
Can’t formulate my questions, it just works under_consciously in me. But can we say this?:
Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists
then there is no perfect love.
But:
Only perfect love exists.
when there is fear
it creates a state that does not exist.?
Todd,
Yes. Imagine if you are in -28 degrees and it is very cold and you had to walk for miles, how would you feel?
Now imagine that you trained to climb Everest and this is your life goal, and now it is -28 and you are walking for miles, it is a totally different experience.
It’s a small example, but when we understand and feel what is really happening to us, what process we are in, why and where it is guiding us, a new world opens.
Seth@KabU
I need to reiterate the knowledge gained with materials from this lesson in a way I can understand better.
I will try to use more technical language because I understand things most when they are well-defined.When I assume the Creator is doing everything, that means that my only point of freedom is if I perceive my separation from an action of the Creator.
To specify it further. I am an abstract observer observing a stream of data. This data gives me the illusion that I’m an independent entity with autonomy, but this is not the case. All that “I” perceive including my
thoughts and feelings are generated independently from what I consider myself.From this point, I can assume that I’m doing anything or everything is coming from the Creator.
In this context, adhesion with the Creator is a perception that I’m only an observer.Is this correct?
Łukasz,
The answer that you want is impossible for me to give you, or anyone. The answer you want will come to you when you have what the Kabbalists call a corrected vessel called NRNHY. Those are the 5 degrees of the vessel – that the now all of the light is outside of our vessel – and when it fills that vessel (called NRNHY) in your internality, then you will taste and know.
In the meantime you are asking about where is our point of freedom. Truly there is no point of freedom now. According to our perception we feel that we are free in this or that. But look at at the universe and realize how small we are against the infinite power that developed us from matter over billions of years and the even before that. So who are we at all except the result of many causes that preceded us.
Adhesion with the Creator means that we make our quality like His quality.
As he is merciful (Hasadim), so are we merciful. It means that although we are 100% a desire to receive and that will not change, that is all that He created, but through corrections in love of the other and we will learn what this means and how and why and where, then we can develop a quality of hesed (hasadim) above our quality of reception.
And even if we are 1% in hasadim, so we are 1% in adhesion with the infinite bestowing force we call the Creator.Seth@KabU
Hi, I have a question about a recurring condition of the nervous system that’s caused me tremendous pain and suffering in this life. It started after I had a spiritual awakening 16 years ago. The first time it lasted 3 years 6 years later it came back and lasted 2 and a half. Both times the fallout in my life was tremendous. Last time I lost my fiancé, home, pets, job. It’s left me with complex trauma but God always brings me off the mat. I’ve just been getting my life in a better place and now it’s happened again. At each point I had prior a big spiritual opening but when in terrible constant pain it’s like I devolve into this creature who feels God is a million miles a way and superstition, fear, despair and confusion set in. Sadly it seems it has started up again. I have no resentments towards anyone in this life and I have a lot of love for all beings I feel it’s God doing the loving I see all that as Grace but to go though this again and now at 51 and seeing opportunities in life pass me by I feel so much fear and anger for what feels like a cruel game. I’m just not sure how much more capacity for suffering I have left. I don’t know where or how to turn. Rely solely on God? Try as many healing modalities as I have resources for hoping they help and God is what brought me to them? It’s hard not to feel cursed. I feel like Job. The condition’s only supposed treatments are terrible medications with awful side effects other than that just time and now it seems it may be something chronic that will always be lurking in the background. The pain up and down my spine the indescribable burning sensations. The inability to sit still even though I’m exhausted. Is this the only way for me to be closer to God? I feel scared and forsaken. I’m sorry to write about such a dark topic, I just don’t know what to do. Thank You for any light you shed on this matter for me
John
John,
First we are hoping that you get healthy and soon.
Second, you have found a strong group of students studying with our teacher Rav Laitman an authentic kabbalist who received the method from his teacher the Rabash who received the method from his teacher Baal HaSulam the great kabbalist back in an unbroken chain for 1000s of years.Our goal is not to suffer.
But we do need to grow, to develop.
On the one hand you need to do what you must regarding normal health. For example if a car needs an oil change or a new transmission, praying doesn’t fix that, you need to do what you need to do.
And also there is spiritual work.
I recommend that you take out a piece of paper or a journal and write down what is your spiritual goal.
It can be one paragraph or one page, be clear and accurate. Open your heart to what you want from that point that is awakening from that place.
We always need to calibrate ourselves to the perfect, spiritual reality that exists outside of our perception.
You are not cursed, it’s not a cruel game. These are our perceptions of how far we feel from the perfect reality.
After you write your spiritual goal, start speaking to the Creator like He is your best friend.
Tell Him that you want to be healthy so that you can be a pipeline for His light in this world.
Keep speaking to Him.
I hope to hear good news from you,
Seth@KabU
I really feel that everyone is asking all of my questions and that Seth is answering them. Thank you to everyone who is contributing to my understanding. Wow.
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