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In the video Tony drew a bridge from the box of our 5 senses box to the spiritual world. Going back to our first lesson, is the spiritual world referring to ( Assiya,Yetzirah,Berea,Atzimut,Adam) excluding complete light? How would we know if we have arose from the Machsom the disconnecting point?
How do i dilute the egoism in me? What is the egoism are we referring to?
Thank you in advance for answering my questions!
Karen,
If you lived in the desert and arrived at an oasis you would know.
You will know.
In the coming live courses we will learn about the practical work. Fundamentally, we don’t fight the ego or try to diminish it, we see that is what is going on in all of the religions, don’t eat this, don’t touch that, don’t do this don’t do that.
On the other hand, the wisdom of kabbalah is dealing with our desires. No one has to tell a teenager to stop playing with baby toys, as her desires grow her interests naturally change.
Seth@KabU
Hi
I have a few questions:
1- In terms of the fulfilment of the desires: I have enough money to live a happy materialistic life, yet not enough to buy a boat or private jet, or have multiple properties. I am a general practitioner, but could be a specialist or a neurosurgeon. I have never been a president or Julius Cesar. At which point am I satisfied? I definitely could have more without needing it. I definitely like to drive a fancier car, but it is not necessary. Do I prefer to have other things? Yes. Do I really need to have them? No. The question is whether I need to fulfil a desire to the fullest before I feel the desire for the next desire in line, until I get the urge for spirituality. I know people who turn to spirituality to feed their egos. I don’t have money or power, so I become spiritual to inflate my ego and look down on others.
2- Adding the software of intention to the hardware of “the will to receive”, I understood the given examples, such as eating my mum’s cooking to make her happy. Makes sense. But what about buying a car or a house? Do I have to let people live in my home, or give strangers a ride to incorporate the notion of “to give”? In my job, I see patients. I always have their best interests at heart, but I am doing my job to make a living. What is the intention here precisely? Caring for my patients while making money? Making money while caring for patients? It’s all confusing for me.
3- hunter-gatherers were at a level where their desires were food, sex, and shelter, and they never really reached later levels of desire, like power or knowledge. So, what does Kabbalah say about them? Were they essentially at a stage where they didn’t need Kabbalah because they were in touch with nature? And if that’s the case, since we’ve evolved this way and our desires have evolved, we have to use Kabbalah. But if Kabbalah is something that’s universal and unchanging, then why wasn’t it applied to them from the beginning? I mean, people throughout history for whom wealth, power, or knowledge had no meaning – how can we justify that Kabbalah wasn’t meant for them or that they didn’t have access to it? What’s their deal?
Farzin,
Look in the animal kingdom. One animal eats garbage or a fly lands on dung to eat and another builds himself a beautiful nest high in a tree above a waterfall and eats tropical fruits. These things are not praised or condemend. In this world, we act naturally. Some drive an old car and some the new fancy car. Leave this alone and act like a normal, healhty egoist in this world.
Now on the other hand, when your desire for spirituality grows, so naturally you shift some of those hours of looking at cars to reading kabbalah books, not because you are forced to but because your desires are developing.You are confused about a fundamental point that everyone gets confused about. This world is this world. Behave in this world like a creature of this world. No one needs to know you are a kabbalist. You are practitioner, be a good practitioner, run a successful business, charge a good price. What is going on in your heart is not of this world. You may turn one patient away but in your heart pray for them more intensely than another patient where you take his money but don’t have the same inner intention. It’s two separate things and learning to separate them is important in order to not get confused as we advance.
Let’s say you are having a love affair with the Creator of the Universe. But nobody knows. So you go to work, but in your heart, you are thinking about Him and praying all the time that His creation will be good and healthy and somehow come to discover Him.Regarding your last question, this has to do with the structure of our common soul. All of those people are part of your soul. For example if you have a headache, you may get a massage on your shoulders or your feet or you may swallow a pill…to fix your head! It’s one system, each part corrects in its time and as you correct those farther parts will rise and naturally correct as well.
We’ll talk about this more in the future.
Seth@KabU
To get this right, in order to become aware of the Upper world, the spiritual reality out there, I have to become equal to the will to bestow, I should follow its ratio and that is “unconditional altruism”, right? Does this mean that I have to become what is called in Hebrew a “tzadik”, a righteous, generous man who does only good to the world around him and gives to people in need? Thank you.
Tal,
Something like that. However we don’t know what that means.
Imagine the difference between picking up a book written by a brain surgeon and being a brain surgeon.
So you can read the words, but to know and feel and have experience with what that means and how to do it is not as simple.
It is not what we think about doing actions in this world with our hands and legs, the kabbalists are directing us towards a work in the heart.
We will spend many years working on this in future classes.
Seth@KabU
Estou tendo dificuldade para essa mudança de nossa realidade individual ( dos 5 sentidos), desligando-a para conectar-se aos outros e à natureza, vai exigir muitos estudos até a compreensão dessa mudança. Estou certo?
I am understanding in order to receive correctly, we need to receive from the perspective of the creator and not from the bias of our world. I’m excited to learn.
Debbie,
The Creator we are learning is a force that is 100% to bestow, to give, to love.
The thought of creation is to create a creature and fill it will all of that delight and pleasure.
Therefore, the creature needs to receive that is the law of nature and that won’t change.
However, our intention is currently in order to receive, meaning that we receive for ourselves, at the expense of others.
The correction of creation is that we receive but in order that that abundance passes through us and doesn’t stop there and we block it and keep everything for ourselves and don’t behave as parts of one, whole, integral system, instead we connect to the whole system where every part is receiving and bestowing upon each other.
Seth@KabU
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