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As far as i understand prayer is our intention; receiving in order to bestow. Is having a heart felt intention to achieve equivalence of form a prayer? When I feel good/blissful do I pass this to everyone or pass it up to the Creator? How would i navigate these situations? Thanks
Hi Roger,
There are several things we need to sort out here. Is the prayer the same as the intention? When I feel good, why do I feel good? Is it because I’ve done an act of connection? My child feels good when he’s watching YouTube? Am I happy because he’s happy? I don’t want him to be happy from that. He can’t bring me contentment from that.
In this weeks related material, there was a blog post. In this post Rav Laitman said the government we have know is linear and we need it to be circular. What does this mean?
Hi Leah,
If we could see how we’re governing things, from a higher level, we’d see ourselves as parochial and foolish. Like small children who only know about today. You can tell him that if he eats the marshmallow now, he won’t get marshmallows for the rest of his life. He can’t stop himself because he has a chance to have a marshmallow now. If some version of me won’t have marshmallows tomorrow, let that guy deal with that. Let’s say this is linear thinking. The decision you made was horrible, yet you fatuously think it was brilliant. This is how every government is behaving. So the future will be horrible, and theirs too. I don’t care if forests burn down and even if a million people die because I’m playing a sort of Candy Crush with people’s lives, in which I can now see another zero change digits in my bank account. Circular, or integral thinking, I have to be in the quality of the Creator for, or I have to listen to one who is in contact with the Creator. Otherwise, behind any good I try to do, I’ll discover a deeper layer of egoism. The Creator on the other hand is integral, can think in all directions at once, knows that any action affects everything and everyone, and can take everyone into account. Such actions are the only ones that can bring outcomes that won’t certainly bring more suffering to the world.
I’m confused about the concept of the soul. We learn that one does not have a soul until one grows it from the point in the heart, which is the ‘seed of the soul’.
In the passage below it speaks about souls that desire spiritual elevation.
But the meaning of the point in the heart is a desire for spirituality. So isn’t a soul necessarily ‘desiring’ spiritual elevation?
”We have already stated that in every generation the same souls return, clothed in new bodies and retaining their previous experiences. Therefore, each generation is wiser than the last and aspires for something higher.
During the time of the Ari, the general evolution of the
souls was such that souls desired spiritual elevation and were not satisfied with a mere ordinary life on the level of this world.”Hi Gianni, why do I see only or mostly men in the videos with Michael Laitman about the lesson preparation for each course?
So bad karma affects and follows you in your next life only until you awaken to your spiritual calling? If you do then “all is forgiven “ did I get that right?
We’re facing a single interconnected system in which everything is recorded. Punishment is felt when I’m not adapted to that system, which is all bestowal – I’m still operating according to what my ego dictates. By doing so I am lining up all kinds of boots in the air that will kick me. But if I start going according to Kabbalists advice then I’m running ahead of those boots. Because they are coming to correct me. If I’m already running towards correction, I don’t need to be kicked. This system is demanding correction from each person, to the extent of their development.
Hi Gianni,
I have a question concerning karma which is mentioned in this week’s last video. Perhaps this is not related to Kabbalah, but I will ask it anyway, please do point out if I should not have!
It is evident indeed that ‘Personal Karma’ is not executed in this world (at least from the ‘egoistic’ point of view). It seems (from this POV) that powerful, reckless and ruthless people rarely get ‘punished’ for their misdeeds. On the contrary, they get rewarded by them (again on the egoistic POV).
Considering how some people succumb to misfortune events completely unrelated to their deeds, which seem to depend on the geographic place they are in or other ‘coincidences’, Julian mentioned the term ‘Collective Providence’. However and considering the paragraph above, does it make sense that an ‘evil’ person gets clothed by a ‘punished’ future life for his deeds? Or is all of this completely unrelated? Or even still, can such an ‘evil’ one repent within his lifetime and still achieve the Creator?
Thank you in advance.
Hi Francisco,
Sorry I missed this. This concept is so wrong that it is worthwhile to throw it away and start over. No calculation about how it works will be correct. We’re in a big, interconnected system, the interactions and ricochets in which expand across lifetimes and above time-states. But more than that, the reasoning for what happens in this system is above any reasoning we have.
If a person is trying with all his might to correct himself, no matter what he did, even if he did atrocities, if now he’s trying with all his might to reach spiritual correction, and he does so in a direction that is correct, meaning according to Kabbalists, then, since he is now heading towards the true purpose of his life, and his correction, he can become completely purified and beloved by the Upper Force. Everyone has this destiny before them. Meaning what he did before he knew about the true purpose of life was all in the hands of the Creator, even if one was the most evil in history; while what one does after he discovers the goal of life, he’s accountable for; and then he can start distancing or coming closer to the Creator. And then there is a very different calculation with him from Above.
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