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- April 21, 2020 at 6:38 pm EDT #28793
Tony Kosinec- KabU InstructorModeratorAsk anything about week 2 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.
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- June 27, 2023 at 7:57 pm EDT #324717MollyParticipant
Hallo Kabu Instructors,
How did the original Kabbalist sages gain this understanding of the Spiritual world and the Creator?
It seems (yes its my faith beneath reason! ) that any creature, no matter how wise, motivated, focused, would find it impossible to collect the information that makes up this system ?
How do we know it is the path to “enlightenment”, equivalence of form, connection to the creator and elevation to spiritual perception and understanding?
Have previous creatures reached that place/essence ?
Is this what the Rabbi Ashlag achieved?
How do we know this to be true?Thank you
- June 28, 2023 at 9:16 pm EDT #324794Seth – KabU InstructorModerator
Molly,
You have a good attitude. A kabbalist does not just blindly believe.
So it is good to have these questions and doubts, but as you resolve the doubts, you need to accept your new reality even though the people around you in your neighborhood and workplaced didn’t reach this same realization and attainment.We don’t understand why the Creator chose you and me and not two others. This is something we don’t know.
However with the heart and mind that He did give us we can start to see what system we are in, what are the forces operating in this system and what can we do?
You are also correct that the spiritual attainment is not something that a person can do on his own, this is something that comes directly from the Creator.
We receive the method from our teacher who reached what we want to reach and he received it from his teacher in an unbroken chain for thousands of years.
Go slowly. Take good notes in your notebook with pens and paper start to see what you are learning.
Your soul will teach you.
Seth@KabU- June 29, 2023 at 6:31 pm EDT #324840MollyParticipant
Thank you ….
I think you are saying ,in an encouraging way , that some things cannot be pursued or explained by the rational mind and we must put ” faith above reason “.
Faith is difficult for those of us educated in the logic centered, evidence based world of the west, where science is the ultimate reflection of reality.( Thou I think Quantum Physics may have completely changed that.)
At some point ( the point in the heart? ) one just has to make that leap and hope for the disclosure of the spiritual world. 🌀
- June 30, 2023 at 10:22 am EDT #324865Seth – KabU InstructorModerator
Molly,
There are three discernments here.
1. Below reason
this is blind faith. We do not engage in this. Religions or fanatics rely on blind faith.
2. Within reason
we know what reason is. We see with our eyes, we measure with our instruments and we judge based on that.
3. Above reason
this means that I use my reason, accurately. And above reason we develop another sense that Kabbalists call faith. But this is not blind faith, it is attainment of a degree above our mind.
Seth@KabU
- July 2, 2023 at 2:16 am EDT #325030MollyParticipant
Thank you
- June 27, 2023 at 3:00 pm EDT #324695MihoParticipant
I kind of realized that The creator is like our mother . What happen is here (reality ) is just make us grow our spirit with this body .right ?
- June 28, 2023 at 9:11 pm EDT #324793Seth – KabU InstructorModerator
Miho,
Yes.
Seth@KabU
- June 25, 2023 at 8:46 am EDT #324405ThomasParticipant
Not so much of a question, rather a statement: These catagories of pleasure or desire seem to parallel Maslow’s Hierarchy. I didn’t even make it to No. 2 and at times haven’t even fulfilled No. 1, yet my desire for knowledge preceeds them all; my search for answers began at a formative age.
- June 28, 2023 at 9:10 pm EDT #324792Seth – KabU InstructorModerator
Thomas,
If one studies nature accurately he will see such gradations.
You are speaking like a kabbalist.
You say, I have this I don’t have that but still I made it here.
So then you need to begin to understand who you are and where you are.
You as a small link in a long chain stretching back thousands of generations and in our own generation, we are tied to all of the others, our clothes from Asia, our produce from California, our car assembled in Mexico, our entire life, everything we do even in our thoughts and emotions is tied to all of the others.
Seth@KabU
- June 24, 2023 at 5:24 pm EDT #324139juliaParticipant
If the creature is the will to receive, isn’t that also because it always experiences lack? If the Creator is the pure will to give, isn’t that only because he never experiences lack? To be altruistic, that is, similar to the Creator, does not that also mean to have everything in abundance itself?
- June 28, 2023 at 9:04 am EDT #324754Seth – KabU InstructorModerator
Julia,
Great question.
You are correct. The creature will always be a will to receive.
However through planting himself in an environment that values bestowal, he can correct himself so that he receives (because he must), but instead of receiving for the sake of his ego, he receives because he wants to give pleasure to Creator who only wants to give.Seth@KabU
- May 31, 2023 at 8:48 pm EDT #321206愛Participant
創造主は苦しみによって自らを認識させるのでしょうか?お願い致します。
- June 3, 2023 at 8:13 pm EDT #321382Seth – KabU InstructorModerator
Student,
Suffering only helps to direct us.
There is no commandment that we need to suffer.
We should quickly learn the laws of nature and the understand the forces that are working on us and how to live in harmony together.
Seth@KabU
- May 27, 2023 at 1:47 pm EDT #320847JuliaParticipant
If the soul of Adam Harishon broke into 600 000 pieces, how come we have 8 billion of people living in the world today? Are new people/souls being added to the original ones? Or maybe animals’ souls incarnate as people and add to the total souls number?
- June 2, 2023 at 8:00 pm EDT #321316Seth – KabU InstructorModerator
Julia,
600,000 is a quality.
In spirituality a number is a qualitative measurement, not a quantitative measurement.
Animals are animals.
The soul that we are talking about is a vessel where a certain light dwells within, that vessel is called the soul of man.
It is a degree above the degree of animal.
Seth@KabU
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