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I know we shouldn’t be mixing other spiritual paths with Kabbalah, but I often think of our Will to Receive as our fundamental awareness, and this awareness receives the experience of reality, which is projected by the Will to Bestow. Similar to the philosophy of the Indian, Advaita Vedanta.
Advaita Vedanta suggests that each individuals awareness is kind of like a reflection of the one great awareness, which is all that exists. The analogy is that humanity is like a massive collection of pots filled with water, each pot has it’s own individual shape, but within each water filled pot is a reflection of the sun. The sun representing the One Awareness (consciousness) which is the only awareness that exists.
Could the collective soul of Adam HaRishon be described like this?
The Will to Receive is the sun (Adam HaRishon), and our individual ‘souls’ are the water filled pots.
Ps I really enjoy watching The Great Transition, always interesting and fun.
Chris,
Happy to hear you enjoy the show on Thursday, say hi in the chat!You are coming with a deep and emotional impression from the Indian sources.
Antother student is coming from his Peyote experience and a third student sees things through his previous lens of Jesus.
Each one is unique and sees various connections and similarities.Good. Creation is much bigger than we can comprehend.
a quote from our teacher, Rav Laitman, “There are many beautiful methods in the [East] that originated from Abraham’s method and that speak about love and bestowal. But it is impossible to develop the quality of bestowal within you using them. To do this, one has to work in three lines: one has to work with the left line (one’s egoism), and correctly combine the quality of reception with the quality of bestowal. This produces a third line called Isra-El (straight to the Creator). This approach does not exist anywhere besides Kabbalah.
However, all the Eastern methods came from the “raw” form of Abraham’s method and they all use just the right line, the quality of mercy. Despite all their beautiful words about love, we cannot implement them today, since we now have enormous egoism.”
What I recommend is to write down your thoughts for yourself, write the similarities, but do it as an exercise, you’re not trying to prove anything write or wrong, you’re not trying to prove a thesis, just to take your thoughts and organize them before you.
After that delve back in your kabbalah studies.
I promise you that if you study diligently for several years, you will answer all of these questions for yourself and many, many more and in a much more insightful and meaningful way than I can answer to you.
Seth@KabU
I’m in a bad way right now and it’s not improving. How do I see there is none else besides him when I see no solutions to my problems?
John,
If you’re cold and wet, then go inside and stand by the fire.
If you’re overweight and sick, then watch some videos of people who were in your state and got healthy.
That’s the first thing. You can read the Zohar, but if you stick your hand in a fire, it will burn, so understand the reality that we are living in
Now in addition to all of that understand why it is all happening. These feelings of emptiness propel us to the next degree and for that, you can even say Thank You to the Creator for waking you up to that.
An animal does not evolve from lifetime to lifetime.
You however have desires in you that don’t let you calm down and rest, you feel empty and need additional fulfillment this is a good sign of development.
Now there is no mitzvah that a person has to suffer.
I recommend opening up a notebook, take some pens and write down everything that is bothering you now. And then after you write it all down, go to the next page and pour your heart out to the Creator. He won’t change, He is everything all the time, always bestowing, but this prayer calibrates us to Him instead of being calibrated towards the back side of the problem.
Pour your heart out.
After that read whatever kabbalistic source materials that you have from our site, read it as if it is a prayer.
We are wishing the best for you and look forward to you passing these stages in the most comfortable way and advancing to your next degrees.
Seth@KabU
I’m having trouble understanding the receive in order to bestow concept. To me that sounds like two opposing terms. Can you clarify for me; I know how important it is to understand this!
Grady,
The purpose of creation is for the creation to receive abundance from the Creator, so the creation must receive.
However by receiving the creation becomes 100% opposite from the Creator who is 100% to bestow.
So what is done?
The correction of creation called receive in order to bestow.
For example your small child gives you a gift. Actually, it’s worth nothing, it is a small rock and it will just take up space on your desk, but of course you won’t reject the small gift from the child, so in this case, receiving from the child is actually giving to the child, you allow the child to be the giver and you the appreciative receiver, so your hands are receiving but your intention is to bring delight to the child.
Seth@KabU
Mitch,
Actually, there is nothing outside of the Creator, He is everything, but from our perception, we say that creation, the will to receive is outside of Him, meaning He is 100% to bestow and all of creation, everything you can imagine and think of is creation and it is all 100% outside of Him…100% will to receive, which is opposite from Him.
We will learn what are the 613 Mitzvot and how to use them, they are not simply what is thought of as acts with our hands and feet, but the kabbalists are referring to corrections of the soul to bring that 100% will to receive slowly slowly, 1% , then 2% , etc many corrections until it is 100% to bestow like the Creator.
Seth@KabU
Gates,
Inside of us we have host various positive and negative forces that have different names.
A demon is the inner forces of a person that act to our detriment.Our work is to hold ourselves in balance: to direct ourselves toward the meaning of life by developing relations of love among each other in order to match the absolute love that exists in nature. If we place ourselves in environments that support our calibration to achieve such balance, then we will avoid being thrown from side to side. Instead, we will become stronger in our ability to rise above their influence.
Seth@KabU
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