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In the intro video it says that in the outside reality there are forces of bestowal but in the quiz it says there is no reality outside us. Is there something I am missing or overlooked?
Just to add: I feel very lucky to be roaming through this course. Watching one of the additional older videos where – with Marcos and Chris explain the evolution of desire helped clarify the overall direction. If a person feels in the bones that Creator guides development with ultimate care and perfection every tiny moment of contributing to the development consciously must be precious.
Robert,
In the wisdom of kabbalah we get used to these seeming paradoxes.
It depends on what you are talking about.
Spiritual phenomenon exist all at once.
When we are discussing things from our perspective, they happen one at a time. Through the wisdom of kabbalah you begin to expand your perception and sense the world in connected, integral way.
When we learn that there is no reality outside of us, it means that all of reality is only light, it is felt to me according to my inner qualities.
Seth@KabU
The video says the spiritual, outside reality impacts the 5 corporeal senses and they perceive and interpret the spiritual reality according to an egoistic program. How can corporeal senses, for example an corporeal eyeball sense something spiritual? Don’t corporeal senses perceive corporeal stimulus like light waves, audio waves, food? The corporeal senses are made up of corporeal matter or cells? The spiritual is opposite, different form than corporeal? Are the corporeal senses really spiritual senses or connected in some way to spiritual eyes, ears etc?
Thanks
Robert,
The physical senses do not perceive spirituality.
Imagine that you have an old balance scale where you put the object you want to weigh on one side and lead weights on one side until the scale balances. So you are not actually perceiving the object, but from doing something on the opposite side, you can begin to discern qualities of the object.
Seth@KabU
I am watching this week’s lesson again to get a better understanding. I did not do well on the test. I want to feel the lesson in myself and not just think of the answers in my thoughts. I’ve also tried to understand truth and reality through Vipassana Meditation. When I feel I can be giving and be free to give 100% without expectation of reward or receiving back then that is reality or one great part of reality. I will continue to listen to this lesson though and try to fill in the missing pieces in my lack of understanding this lesson.
To add to my statement above when I went to the Vipassana 10 day silent retreat their teach was that the goal was to become equanimous and not react to both craving the feeling of pleasure when sitting in meditation and also not to react to the feeling of aversion to any discomfort but to just observe what was going on in body and mind. I relate this to the part of the lesson about sitting and moving to find comfort.
We have no desire for it. We cannot give be
cause
we are made of a will to receive; recep
tion
is our substance, our Matter.
Now, this latter reason is more complex than it may
seem at first. When Kabbalists write that all we want is
to receive, they don’t mean that all we do is receive, but
that this is the underlying motivation behind everything
we do. They phrase it very plainly: If it doesn’t give us
pleasure, we can’t do it. It’s not only that we don’t want
to; we literally can’t. This is because the Creator (Nature)
created us with only a will to receive, because all He wants
is to give. Therefore, we need not change our actions, but
only the underlying motivation behind them.So what is the correct motivation to have in order to correctly ‘receive’ bestowel from the creator. If our matter, our substance, our will to receive is set as is the creators matter, the will to bestow, why would we need to change our underlying motivation? Is there some unique quality in the change of our motivation to receive bestowel?
Maybe when we make some effort and get some small amount of revelation of the Creator we will fall so much in love with Him that it begins to solve our motivation problem. Because it seems like true Love is a form of egoism where the desire gets so extreme it kind of goes haywire and turns altruistic.
Seth, Thank you for your explanation. What comes to mind though is when I feel intense love for my partner and I feel with all my heart I only want to give I feel this is a spiritual experience. Am I not understanding something here? I understand though that it’s a long study process to understand Kabbalah.
Joel
Joel,
There is no reason to say that it is not what you say it is.
In that relationship between you two, you will be able to presence of the Creator between you.
As you study, you will see how even what you feel now opens up more and more and you understand and feel what you are coming into contact more and more.
Seth@KabU
Thank you for your explanation. What comes to mind though is when I feel intense love for my partner and I feel with all my heart I only want to give I feel this is a spiritual experience. Am I not understanding something here? I understand though that it’s a long study process to understand Kabbalah.
Phillip,
We study this in the article the Preface and in others. Â This purpose of creation is for the creation to receive all of the abundance. Â The correction of creation is the process whereby the creation corrects itself so that it can receive all of that abundance.
Prior to the correction, the creation is 100% opposite in qualities from the Creator which means spiritually they are as far apart as east is from west.
After the correction the creation which is the matter called will to receive has changed its form to receive in order to bestow and then its quality, bestowal, is the same quality of the Creator, and they become as one.
Seth@KabU
Thank you, Seth, This is EXACTLY what I am seeking!
“After the correction the creation which is the matter called will to receive has changed its form to receive in order to bestow and then its quality, bestowal, is the same quality of the Creator, and they become as one.”
Sincerely from the Point in My Heart,
Deborah
Hello, my name is Dhara (using my partner Yaniv’s account).
I have a question about the concept of developing a hatred toward egoism, so that it can lead to our liberation from it. Personally, I have some difficulty with the use of the word hatred. Why is it framed like that?
For me, having an ego, and with it, the Inner Critic (technically, the Super Ego, that judges and evaluates my actions and thoughts), is a fact that I wish to feel compassion towards. It exists in me, in everyone, and it has it’s purpose. Hating it will only cause more hate. So, instead I strive for understanding it, hearing it out (so to say) and then choose my actions, instead of reacting to it. Off course this is very hard! I have been working on this for 20 years, with various paths that have now lead me to Kabbalah.
The concept of Reshimot reminds me of the Buddhist concept of Sankara’s, which are bodily sensations that rise up, mostly beyond our awareness. They are like the manifestations of desires that can be observed in the body through Vipassana mediation. Are they the same thing? From what I read in Kabbalah Revealed at page 113-114, I would think they are. The Vipassana approach howerver, is observing, where the Kabbalah approach seems to be hatred (page 115), which I find a doubtfull approach.
I would appreciate your thoughts on this!Dhara,I just saw your question today. I also had some questions and related something to my Vipassana experience. I am glad I am not the only one that has a Vipassana experience and trying to understand this teaching. I have attended 3 Vipassana 10 day retreats in Massachusetts at different times a number of years ago. To this day I meditate every morning. Most mornings I try to do the hour that was recommended when leaving the retreat. I would like to learn about Kabbalah meditations.
Dhara,
There are several things here that need to happen before we can even begin to approach your main question.
The first one is definitions. You don’t like the word hate, the kabbalists use the word hate, what do they mean, what do you mean.
All of the definitions you encounter in the wisdom of kabbalah you will need to learn anew.Second, each person needs to find a path that works for them, there are many paths to the place.
While many similarities can be drawn between all kinds of methods, we do no comparative study.
And in order to benefit from what is going on here, it will be helpful to come as a child, of course you use your mind, but you come as if you are before a master painter for example and you just soak in how she moves, how she mixes the paints, you are not comparing everything she is doing to how you do it or how someone else did it, try to absorb what you are learning here. Later you can organize it all in your mind and feeligs and compare it with whatever you choose, but you won’t be able to absorb what is going on if you don’t have the right definitions and you are relating it to some other foreign method here and there.Now with all of that said, let’s return to the ARI’s Tree of Life where he begins before time and before space, before the emanated beings were emanated and the created beings created, an upper, simple light filled the entire reality. When it rose upon His simple desire to create the worlds and emanate the emanated beings to bring the perfection of His deeds, His names and appellations to light, the Light of Ein Sof (without end) removed Himself, restricted Himself from the middle point of the eternity (you can ask yourself, how can there be a middle point of eternity, where can it be if there is not yet any space, etc.. these are some of the questions that arise) and in that tiny black point where He removed Himself, that became a desire to want to receive the Light in its full bounty.
That point developed until we reached our life and our universe which is governed by the two same two forces, the unbounded bestowal of the light and the endless receiving of the vessel.If we love someone, we hate to lose them, we don’t like it.
That is natural.
We may be wise and understand why things happen. But if we have feelings, and we are honest, we hate to lose what we love.
Seth@KabU
This was an amazing lesson. After reading the recommended texts I view my struggles very differently than I have before. Since I was a kid I have felt empty and sought for meaning, this led me to years and years of addiction. I’ve always looked at the addiction and the “hole in my heart”, as something wrong, but it was in fact, a reshimo, right? After now being sober for three years, a new kind of emptiness has occurred, and I have been trying to fill it by seeking knowledge about the abstract, using my reasoning mind. This ultimately led me to anxiety and panic attacks, which I interpreted as failure, but I guess this is yet another reshimo?
This is all so exciting! I am very grateful to be here, thank you for your service.Johanna,
We are made of a material body which is a desire to receive.
This is not praised or condemned. It is a part of nature, like all of the rest of nature that seeks food, rest, pleasure, etc.
We have to eat and sleep and be normal healthy material creatures or we will feel bad.
In addition to that a new desire is developing in us for something that cannot be filled by more rest or more food or sex or money. This is the point in our heart which draws us towards something eternal, something spiritual.Learn how to distinguish when your blood sugar is unbalanced and when you are feeling some deeper yearning.
Sometimes when we feel bad, it’s because we need to exert our body or eat something. But there are other times when we need to delve into the texts (videos, our learning materials) to satisfy that endless yearning in our heart.If you can learn where this boundary is in yourself between what is called your material needs and where your spiritual desire begins, you’ll will be able to orient yourself more and more accurately and develop your spiritual desire more correctly and calibrate it to the light that is pressing on it, developing it and eventually filling it.
Happy to have you here,
Seth@KabU
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