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Can I say if my partner raises concern about the amount of time I spend studying Kabbalah , I am not in the right environment?
Hi Mo,
Not necessarily. It could be that you are indeed spending too much time studying Kabbalah.
We need to find a good balance between our corporeal lives and our spiritual aspirations. Without a good balance in our corporeal lives, we won’t be able to advance in spirituality either. This is called “no flour, no Torah – no Torah, no flour”.
Meaning a Kabbalist continues to exist on the level of this world throughout the entire spiritual ladder. So I cannot just turn into a monk and disconnect from this life and only focus on spirituality. On the other hand, if I only focus on corporeality, then I’m no different than an animal.
So the important thing is to find the right balance between the two: to take care of all of one’s normal necessities: to work, take care of the family, health, etc (this is called flour) and to set aside some time on a regular basis to focus on spirituality (this is called Torah).
And in the more advanced stages of our development, we will see how our day to day life helps us with our spiritual development.
Albert @ KabU
I am very happy and grateful for the teachings of the course, but I have some questions:
1) When will we have the group of 10?
2) With how much time of study and participation in the group of 10 will I be able to gain some drop of perception of the higher reality?
Hi Renata,
1. In the advanced semester we will go in depth about the spiritual work in the ten. It is at that point that everyone will receive their own group of ten with whom they can put those things into practice.
2. We learn that “there is no time in spirituality”. Reaching it does not depend on time, but only on the right desire. If we build the right desire, within it, we will right away reveal spirituality. If not, then even if a few thousand more years were to pass by, we would still not reveal anything. It all depends on us, on our efforts to build that desire.
Albert @ KabU
I have been waiting for this learning environment and opportunity all of my life. I am moved to tears by this message. I have always felt that I was present somehow in previous generations. Grasping that this fragment of the soul has a lifetime of thousands of years. When I have visited Europe and Great Britain–I felt so connected to the places that I cried upon return to the U.S. I couldn’t understand why, now I know. I have had a huge response to the injustices of the past, now I know why. I am grateful that the Creator has placed me in this learning environment at the appearance of my Point in the Heart. I am ready–studying and pleading with Ein Sof to continue with my spiritual development and soul transformation. Thank you Tony, for being our guide. The Creator placed me in the Seventh-day Adventist Church when I was 20, made me a teacher in its schools where I still work. I’ve been searching for the next step for a long time; but I know G-d has a reason for taking me where I’ve been and where I am going. His will is perfect–enhancing the soul.
is it fair to say that since we are locked within this calculation of pleasure and pain, our only free will lies in choosing what triggers our pleasures? turn “will to receive” to “will to bestow” . At first we may not find pleasure in bestowing because we are wired to pursue receiving but we can “fake it until make it”?
Hi Helen,
As we learn in this week’s lesson, our freedom is in choosing to be influenced by the spiritual environment (meaning the Kabbalistic books, group, and teacher). Everything else is a result of that choice.
Baal HaSulam writes about it in the article “The Freedom”. Here’s an excerpt:
“However, there is freedom for the will to initially choose such an environment, such books, and such guides that impart to him good concepts. If one does not do that, but is willing to enter any environment that appears to him and read any book that falls into his hands, he is bound to fall into a bad environment or waste his time on worthless books, which are abundant and easier to come by. In consequence, he will be forced into foul concepts that make him sin and condemn. He will certainly be punished, not because of his evil thoughts or deeds, in which he has no choice, but because he did not choose to be in a good environment, for in that there is definitely a choice.
Therefore, he who strives to continually choose a better environment is worthy of praise and reward. But here, too, it is not because of his good thoughts and deeds, which come to him without his choice, but because of his effort to acquire a good environment, which brings him these good thoughts and deeds.”
Albert @ KabU
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