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So how is empirical evidence categorized in Kabbalah, and is it considered as true reality?
We might all perceive reality in different ways as well as experiencing different levels of reality (for instance, one particular dish may taste delicious to one person and disgusting to another, or a dress may look white and gold to a set of eyes whereas different eyes may see the very same dress as blue and black). However, it is universally known that if one touches fire they will get burnt, if one looks at the sun directly they will get blinded, if one tastes a lemon it will leave a sour taste in their mouth. We may also argue that if one sees a car crossing with a red light they have just witnessed an infraction. Since we have experienced the above events from inside our own box, does that mean those events are not real?
When do we draw the line between what is real and what is not while experiencing reality with our own five limited senses?
Thank you very much!
Claudio,
We are creatures that live in this world.
This world has natural laws such as gravity and the laws of thermodynamics and electromagnetism.
And we also live in a human society that has traffic laws and laws against stealing.
There is some shared reality between the creatures.
The kabbalists come and begin to describe the reality to us, who we are, what forces are operating on us and where we have free will.
And each person whose heart awakens is brought to the books and to the group and he can try to implement what he is learning and then he will know for himself if this place is worthwhile for him.
Seth@KabU
Before the destruction of the 2nd temple was everyone able to perceive the true reality? Why did the Creator allow egotism to enter this world?
There are things that have been feed to us or the things that we have accumulated since childhood to present, how to alter this accumulated perception ? This can be hatred, jealousy, anger, fear of not good enough, rejection, etc. As this perception is holding us back each time when we try to “act like the creator”.
Jai Prakash,
Yes, we all have such complaints. What matters in our spiritual advancement is our effort towards the goal. We need always to discern whether we are in it or not; if not, we need to try to do it.
As they write, “Do what is in your hand and in your power to do.”
There is no natural inclination with which a person is born that can help him in advancing toward the Creator; in this everyone is equal. There are people who are more sensitive, with better upbringing, better qualities…it doesn’t help in spirituality.
We will help each other and advance together,
Seth@KabU
Excellent lesson. If our five senses and inherent egoism naturally block us from perceiving true reality, what are the first practical steps we can take in our daily routine to begin developing that ‘sixth sense’?”
Dave,
Baal HaSulam wrote it like this,“It is known that nothing is revealed in its true form, only through its opposite, “As the advantage of the light from within the darkness.” This means that each thing points to another, and precisely by the opposite of something, the true existence of its opposite can be perceived.
Hence, it is impossible to attain something in complete clarity if its parallel is absent. For example, it is impossible to evaluate and say that something is good, if its opposite, pointing to the bad, is absent. It is the same with bitterness and sweetness, love and hate, hunger and satiation, thirst and saturation, separation and adhesion. It turns out that it is impossible to come to love adhesion prior to acquiring the hate of separation.”
So what can we do?
We are a will to receive, that is what the Creator made and we don’t have a sense that can feel the eternal light of fulfillment that surrounds us right now.
First thing we can do is to identify what He made. To feel it, to look around and identify it everywhere, in every blade of grass that reaches for the sun, in every squirrel that runs to fill his belly, to all of the people around me who run to fill the desires that arise in them without even knowing where these desires come from.
And we are not judging them as good or bad, we are much more scientific and understanding. Just to recognize it, see it operating everywhere and be an undercover agent, don’t go ruining your relationships by telling everyone around you how smart you are that you see the system operating them. But start winking at the Creator as you see His handiwork. And then start to notice yourself, how everything you do is only to fill yourself and also, don’t judge it as good and bad, just see that that is what He made.And slowly, as we study more and draw more light that influences us, we will want to be more like Him, who is all love and bestowing and then we will come to see that the nature He gave us is keeping us separated from being like Him, adhered to Him, and then after we have gone through a recognition period and a stabilization period, we then want to escape from our will to receive (all while still remaining a normal person in this world, but inside we go through a transformation), this is called the Exodus from Egypt. We will learn about it in the future.
Seth@KabU
Hi
In the last video of the previous lesson, the instructor talks about the Light that reforms.
I was wonder how specifically can I use this Light that reforms, in my daily life? Can you give some more examples?
Thank you
Francesco,
By planting ourselves in the spiritual environment, just like planting a seed in fertile soil with sun and water, then the forces operate on it and it will grow to be a big, strong tree that bears fruit.
Be under the influence of the books of the kabbalists that we will study together to draw the reforming light. Create for yourself a framework inside the spiritual group, we will learn about this more in the next few weeks and you will feel how reality slowly, slowly opens up to you.
Seth@KabU
Also is the circle of those 5 worlds (we live in…?) shown in the video, what is referred to the DNA?
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