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Hi Seth, I find that there are times when I am willing and able to give. I am willing and desire to give but my resources are minimal and then I feel a sense of limitation and wonder what to do. Is it that my situation prevents me from attaining that which will allow me to be more like my creator or is it the same egoism that creates my limitations?
Denise,
This is correct.
You named several different states.
We call these discernments. Later when we start reading the Rabash articles together you will recognize all of these states as he writes about them, they are common to everyone who comes to the path and starts working on the path.
Keep a notebook, write them, but write them without your commentary which comes from your current perception.
Read the sources, the course material and write down what you understand and what changes you are feeling in yourself.
You’ll see from day to day, maybe hour to hour, certainly week to week and over the course of months how many different states and changes you are going through.
All of them are coming from the Creator. We don’t need to make commentary on them, we need to feel them and connect with the sources.
The sources will give form to the those feelings.
For example. Suppose I have a feeling of hunger. If I live in the arctic, my thoughts and environment will clothe some kind of whale meat or seal meat onto my desire.
If I live in New York my thoughts and environment will clothe a hamburger or some other form.
Similarly, the hunger, the spiritual desire awakens in us and we want our form to be a spiritual form on it. So we immerse ourselves in the books of the kabbalists so that the desire can take the correct form to perceive the spiritual reality.
Seth@KabU
What am I?
Am I the programm inside the box? Am I the box with the programm inside? Or maybe I am something another but I am limited to the box like reality in order to fulfill the upper plan?
Marcin,
The reality according to the kabbalists who attained the end of correction tell us that we are all 100% in the perfect reality with all of creation, together with the Creator.
All that we feel is according to our senses. The benefit of our feeling of separation is that by this we acquire a feeling of self. As we rise in degrees, our attainment is in our hands.
If we were a spark in the sun, we would be one with the sun, but with no feeling of the sun or of ourselves. So our separation is precisely how we can now come to connection through our efforts and acquire it in actuality.
We need to feel our lives and measure from it. I need to hold two things. On the one hand I need to learn about the greatness of the Creator, meaning the integral force of love that permeates all of reality and on the other hand I need to feel this world which seems opposite and in that gap is where we work.
The Creator is the program (in your words), we are pioneers embarking on the greatest adventure ever who are discovering the program and rising to the greatest goal.
Seth@KabU
However Seth, in your response “ All of our suffering is a measure of our separation from the Creator.”
I do not recall, asking to be separated from God
Maria,
You are right.We didn’t ask to be born. Baal HaSulam goes as far to say, if we were to weigh all the good in our life on one side of the scale and all of the bad on the other side of the scale, it would certainly be better to not be born at all.
We have to begin to feel that we are standing before a system and all of our feelings are based soley on our perception which in the meantime is barely more than the level of animate. Let’s go back to our example of the mother and the daughter. Imagine if the daughter could speak when she was learning to walk. When we teach our children to walk, we move farther away.
She’d cry and say, why are you moving away from me! Come back!! Don’t you love me, don’t leave.
But we understand that she will be fine, in fact, by this she is learning to walk and then after a few more degrees you will be able to give her everything.
Seth@KabU
Did I ask for all my sufferings?
and in order to attain superior wisdom and achieve spiritual elevation I have to endure them?
Maria,
Imagine that there is a mommy and she has a new daughter. She want to give her daughter all of the world, but all the mother can give her is milk and after a few months the baby can start to eat food. It takes a long time until the little girl grows and then she can receive all the treasure that her mother wants to give her.
So in spirituality, there is only light that wants to bestow to us. But for us, all of our reality is far from that light behind many concealments.
All of our suffering is a measure of our separation from the Creator.
As you study the books and learn in the lessons with the other students, the light works on you and you will start to feel how in the places where there is darkness, there the light shines. And then again you will reveal another darkness and again a light will shine there and by this we rise in degrees.
Seth@KabU
hi, can you help me with this? for example something occured between a friend and I and disconnection occured. I know that beneath this seemingly “bad” thing it is actually leading me to evolve. i changed my perspectve on this but what about if my friend keeps on attacking me? can I take her out of my perspective ?
Hi Elizabeth,
Is this happening between a person in the group here or with someone else?
Our group here together is our laboratory where all of us are learning from the same sources, the method of the kabbalists that we received from them and we are working on it together.
In the meantime, we are not “applying” this method outside of this laboratory. That would be like taking a very precise and delicate experiment out of the laboratory and onto a snowy mountaintop or in the middle of the city streets. There are many more variables on the snowy mountaintop and city streets. Later we will bring our work out there, in the meantime, take what you are learning and integrate in your life the best you can.
Seth@KabU
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