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I’d like to ask for your help with this question:
If there is none besides Him, how is it possible for us to either be aware of Him or unaware of Him? In other words, since He is the source and director of all things, it seems impossible for a person to independently choose to be unaware of Him. Wouldn’t that, too, be entirely in God’s hands? I understand the desire to consciously draw closer to the Creator, but even that longing must ultimately come from Him. Or am I overlooking something?
Leila,
All of your questions are correct and just like exerciseing or any artistry or something that one excells in, it takes time and many discernments to undersatnd it and excel at it.
So you are doing all the correct exercises with these questions, expanding your mind and your feeling to hold all of these new thoughts and feelings.
In short, think of a baby that is born into this world, and you can know that this process is a branch of the spiritual process of birth.
A baby is born completely unaware of herself. She even has arms and legs but cannot use them. She has eyes, but she doesn’t know what she is seeing. Even when her mother holds her and nurses her, the baby calms down and suckles, but she has no awareness that I am the baby and there is mother who is tending to all of my needs.
But soon the baby grows and recognizes mom and even cries that Mom will come feed her.
Think about this process and replace the baby and the mom with you and the Creator and I even recommend writing your thoughts in your notebook, you will see that when you write you are forced to organize the thoughts and that helps a lot. After you have done this exercise, the questions may resolve or you may have new questions. If you do, ask again.
Seth@KabU
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? 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
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