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Sometimes I imagine what would be a right decision, but not to hurt or to dominate I don’t take action. I think it has to do with the left and the right vessel. It is like I don’t want to listen to the inner voice and let the decision do by others. I confuse myself if this would be egoism. To be convenient and to please the other is not really altruism is it? How you think, would be a right way? Or does it depend? Is this Will to bestow
Bonnie,
This is a common question for people who begin to open the books of kabbalah.
This is a common confusion that many students have.
On the one hand you live in this world, with police and laws and money and rain and sun and food and work and you must live in this world like a regular creature. You need to be kind sometimes you need to be assertive sometimes and that is how it is in this physical world. You cannot try to behave in a loving way to a person who is trying to steal from you or hurt you, you must get away and call the police. You cannot tell your landlord that you love him and you don’t have money to pay rent.
Maybe you love him, but you have to pay your rent every month.And on the other hand we start to open up the spiritual world, our inner emotional world, we start to feel that there is a guiding force, a governing force that controls all of reality. This force guides me and you and the police and the moon and everything. And we start to study the single, guiding force called the Creator. And slowly we learn how to make spiritual contact.
And then later we will see how everything even the police and the landlord all come into focus in the spiritual system.
Seth@KabU
Williams,
Take small bites.
Why does it say “wise heart”?
Because in the wisdom of kabbalah we attain in our sensations, not in our mind.
Like we see the way that a baby learns, by sitting on the floor and being with the upper ones, soon the baby can communicate with them.
That is how we will advance.
Seth@KabU
I have connected to the upper force and the last 2 days went into the abyss. The separation is terrible. I want attainment, but I believe desiring this for myself is keeping me from progressing. I want to connect with others but find it impossible to do. But I understand this is all the creator guiding me along spiritual development. I think I’ve come to a point where I need to achieve faith above reason
Ty,
It sounds like you are going through many states very quickly.
Each one on the path goes through each of the states you described.
1. Felt connection, called ascent
2. Felt disconnection, called descent
3. Feel helpless to escape from rulership of the will to receive called Pharoah. This is called, and the people sighed from the work and their cry went up to God.
4. The Creator answers the prayer. When all the gates were locked the gate of tears opened.Leave faith above reason alone. It is a result of your work. We don’t have some hand to grip it our some mouth to bite it, it is spiritual and comes from the Creator as a result of an awakening from below.
a good next step in that list5. The Creator answers according to what He feels is good according to His mind. We should believe that our prayer is answered in the way that He thinks is best and what I still see with my egoistic eyes, I can’t judge what is best for me.
Seth@KabU
I have had several questions and the answers came gradually after each class and also after reading The Zohar every night. But there is a question that does not leave my mind: Is it possible to somehow feel the influence of the Reforming Light upon us through our 5 senses?
Camila,
Spirituality is specifically felt in spiritual senses.
Our 5 senses are corporeal senses.
We’ll see how all of reality, even our corporeal reality rises to spirituality, but for example music is heard in the ear and food is tasted in the mouth. Â Spiritual light is felt in spiritual vessels.
Seth@KabU
If there is nothing but the Creator, then who or what is responsible for the bad things in the world? My own thoughts? (I have understood that the bad things in my life are happening to guide me toward the right path.)
I didn’t believe God until I was 30, in fact, I laughed at believers. But secretly prayed to pass an important exam. One night I had a very interesting dream: since then, I don’t believe God, but I know the Creator exists, and I often feel that He helps me – maybe also in leading me to this course to understand better the spiritual world.
Judit,
Baal HaSulam, the great kabbalist whom we received this method from is very clear that Elokim (God) and HaTeva (Nature) are one and the same and he even uses the words interchangeably in places.  There was never a kabbalist who brought the wisdom so close to the people as Baal HaSulam. So probably for good reason you didn’t believe in some fairy tale but felt that there is some governing force or something.
First of all, we can agree that we don’t feel what is happening in our neighbor’s house, we don’t see it or hear it. For sure we don’t know what is going on in another town or country or in the ocean with all the fish and turtles or in the trees with all the birds. Certainly not on Mars or on any of the billions of billions of stars. We perceive a little sliver of reality, whatever passes in front of our eyes or our nose, so we take in reality and really most of reality exists outside of me, past my skin.
Now that we got that under control, by what am I judging something as good or bad?
By how it makes me feel, of course.
Who am I?
I contain all of reality, of course, but I don’t feel that yet. In the meantime I feel only what my will to receive feels.
So we are learning the wisdom of kabbalah (reception), how to receive in vessels of bestowal and then we will feel all of reality more and more and feel how all the pluses and all of the minuses together, above them in that state of unity, all is one all is good, all is pleasant, all is eternal.
Seth@KabU
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