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I am curious about the four worlds, what are they besides ratios between a will to receive and a will to bestow? Also the 125 steps we descended seems like such an exact number of steps… to derive from a spiritual world where how close or how far is only measured by equivalence of form vs its disparity. Why not just say that we through shattering we have lost equivalence of form with our creator? Why the 4 worlds and 125 steps, such exact math, which seems only relevant in our corporal world?
Alexia,
From the side of the Creator, everything is one simple unity.
We are opposite from that, everything is measure..yesterday, tomorrow, up and down, in and out, right and left, hot and cold.
All of this is for us to measure where we are and from that deduce where He is.
All of the numbers in the wisdom of kabbalah are qualitative discernments, not quantities as in some number of things that we can count.
125 steps refers to 5 partzufim in 5 sefirot in 5 worlds. 5x5x5=125 but what does all of this mean, it is a full structure in a full degree of completeness.
Seth@KabU
One of the things that often keeps me from total bestowal is a need to protect myself when under attack, either physically or psychologically? This question is both, on a personal level and on a bigger scale between nations?
Alexia,
This is a confusion.
You can breathe and also juggle or write a book, it’s on two different levels.
On the level of the body you do what you need to do to keep the body healthy and also you develop life on a spiritual degree where you make spiritual actions above the body called bestowal.
Seth@KabU
In Buddism the bais is , Life is Suffering, you suffer cus you have desire, you are born again and again cus you have desire. you get rid of desire and u attain nirvana, your not born again so you dont suffer.
why he said life is suffering has alot of points to it , the main ones are, you are born you suffer as a child after your born till you grow up a bit, you get sick , everyone will gets sick cant avoid that so you suffer, then you will get old so you suffer old age and then death the manner of death and the death of those around you. these are the main ones then there is the general suffering that comes from just living, environment hazards and suffering caused by other humans.My dog got a nasty fit 4 days ago, and its bad she is a shell of what she use to be and watching her makes me feels really sad, I had this thought, if the creator didn’t have Desire to give, then non of this will happen there wont be an existence where souls have to go though suffering learn the truth and go back to creator.
So in away, suffering is caused by Desire according to Buddha, so if the creator didn’t have the desire to give, then we wont be here suffering.
what do you think about this ?ps – If I was asked by the creator , hey you wanna go all the way down and come back to me? its gonna be a tough ride back thou. I will say……nope, I’m good. thank you, Il chill here with you. 😀
Migara,
Against our will we were born and against our will we will die. You’re right, if we added all the good in our life on one side of the scale and all the bad on the other side of the scale, we would admit, it’s probably better not being born at all.
The wisdom of kabbalah is a much different method than the methods of the East (and the West for that matter). As you mentioned, in Buddhism desire is the source of suffering, so the solution is to limit desire.
In the wisdom of kabbalah, we learn that the only thing that the Creator created is the desire and our work is to increase this desire to be endless so that in it we can receive His endless light.
It’s impossible to say that any negative thing comes from a perfect Operator, so we are left to understand that any suffering is due to our appositeness from Him.
So let’s get to work and cross that chasm and reunite and we will see a reality filled with love and all good.
Seth@KabU
Is reincarnation a part of this system? Do Kabbalists believe the soul develops over lifetimes? . And if not what about children that pass at a young age. I’m finding it very difficult in the world today with wars etc and so many dying. Is there the belief that a soul re-enters the world with more opportunity to reach this point? I’m not sure if I missed this part at any point.
Rita,
Yes it is emotionally difficult to reconcile what we see and feel with a Creator whose name is the Good who Does Good.
That is correct. And we need to face this as honest people. Specifically from these two opposites we will build a correct perception of the world.
The Kabbalists spend a lot of time dealing with the one soul of Adam HaRishon that is shattered and its incarnations and corrections through the generations.
In the upcoming curriculum we will study the article “The Peace” by the huge Kabbalist Baal HaSulam where he writes that: The same souls that existed in the generation of the Flood later appeared in the generation of the Tower of Babylon….and it is the very same soul that exists in us
It’s a hint but we can start to feel what kind of development process we are in.
Seth@KabU
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