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To make sure what I understood is right, we are not getting connected with upper reality unless we start shedding the old peel and turning into the new one. In another word, due to receiving the upper reality, we need to converg with the creator by applying the 6th sense which is beyond our five senses, and it is an alturism.
Please, feel free to make me correct.
Sara,
First of all the Creator wants to fill us with pleasure.
Because of that He needed to create a creature who wants to receive pleasure.
That is us. We and all of creation are a desire to receive pleasure, all of us desiring on different degrees. Some desire rest, some desire power, some desire shelter, some desire riches.But there is a problem.
When we receive, we are receivers and the Creator, who is giving, is a giver.
We don’t have any experience knowing who He is, how He is, what are His qualities of a giver, what it means to give, to love, what does it mean to love eternally. We don’t know.
Every time we receive, we are opposite from Him.So next comes the correction of creation.
We learn to love.
BUT, we have to receive, because He made us to receive.
So we agree that we will only receive because we love Him and we want Him to be happy.
And that’s it.And what can we do to make Him happy?
Only to love one another.
Seth@KabU
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
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@KabUThank 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. 🌀
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
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 ?
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.
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
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?
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
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