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To be in harmony with the Creator, do we have to turn egoism into altruism and forgiveness, meaning that we have to give all we have of our wealth, lives and energy to others? What is the amount of forgiveness? In what areas is this forgiveness?
My English is not very good and I may not use the right words to convey the meaning, I apologize
Zohreh,
1. Live a normal life with family, work, house, food, comfortable, safe, healthy.
2. Slowly learn the wisdom of kabbalah.
3. When you learn, write down notes, important things, special things.
4. Let those special things work on your heart.
5. Later we will see how it relates to the physical world. Now we are discovering what is behind the curtains.
Seth@KabU
Hi Derek,
For sure we can see similarities. Anyone who studies our species well will see these patterns.
For example Darwin talks about a progression through time from a starting point towards the future.
The kabbalist starts with the final goal, details the cascading of the upper light through the sefirot, partzufim and worlds, until we reach our world at the bottom of the world of Assiyah. And then same steps back up (which Maslow observed some of this pattern from below to above).
Seth@KabUHi Derek,
For sure we can see similarities. Anyone who studies our species well will see these patterns.
For example Darwin talks about a progression through time from a starting point towards the future.
The kabbalist starts with the final goal, details the cascading of the upper light through the sefirot, partzufim and worlds, until we reach our world at the bottom of the world of Assiyah. And then same steps back up (which Maslow observed some of this pattern from below to above).
Seth@KabU
We have a limited processing capacity in our brains that cannot process all the information around us, we would become simply overloaded within seconds and would go mad. I thought that the job of our 5 senses was to throttle back all the potential data from this world to prevent us from becoming overwelmed by it rather than coming from our egos ?
Hi Philip,
We are going to learn about the structure of reality and then your question will become more clear.
The upper light is endless. But through the structure of reality, we have a way to make a spiritual vessel in which to perceive that upper light, because to perceive one tiny piece of the endless upper light, is actually perceiving the endless upper light.
It’s something very distant from us now, it is like a plant somehow becoming conscious of the animate degree that plants it, harvests it and eats it.
Each of our 5 senses is a branch from it’s spiritual root, for example, hochma = eyes, bina = ears, etc…
Seth@KabU
Will we learn more about the “Tree of Life.” I only know of it abstractly and I am not even sure if it related to Kabbalah, but since this is week 2 and I have heard no mention of it I thought i would ask. Is it related to the ladder and steps?
Claudia,
The whole of the wisdom of kabbalah is defined as a sequence of roots that hang down (from above) by way of cause and consequence, weaving into a single exalted goal…our discovery of the upper light, the Creator.The Tree of Life is that cause and effect chain. It emanates from the upper light and fills reality. Each of the spiritual worlds conceal the light until it is a tiny spark called our world.
We in our world go back up that same ladder, that same tree from below to above, we first maintain ourselves like the inanimate degree, then we grow like plants (vegetative degree), then we move like animals and finally connect socially as humans. Eventually we feel the upper light acting on us, we feel a certain emptiness, this marks the beginning of our ascent from this world up the Tree of Life to our source.
Seth@KabU
Hello,
I do not understand why the purpose of creation is to fill a creature with unbounded delight. Could you please explain this a little more.
Thankyou
Celeste
Celeste,
We discover that all of reality is a desire to recevie. This is a foundation of the wisdom of kabbalah, one of the first and most imporatnt discoveries that a student makes on the path. She studies herself and the natural world around her and sees that a creature does not move, a cell does not move unless it will receivce more pleasure or more benefit from the move. I don’t lift my finger to scratch my nose unless I will receive more pleasure than leaving my hand on the table. Observe this closely in yourself and in the world around you. It is a very big awakening to begin to see how the desire to receive is operating all of reality.And opposite that is a force, a bestowing force, the light of life that enlivens all of reality of which we perceive only a tiny thin light. Nevertheless we taste a spark of it in the pleasure of food in the pleasure of sex in the pleasure of all the things in this world that we taste for a moment and then it is gone.
Why? Because our desire to receive is built in a way that once the spark enters and fulfills the desire, the desire is satisfied and does not yearn to be fulfilled anymore. And then once again the desire grows, feels empty, which causes us to go searching for fulfillment, then we get a small spark and again the cycle repeats.Our study is fix our spiritual vessesls, not our stomach and our hands which can only hold so much money or so much cake, but in our spiritual vessels we can feel the endless light.
Seth@KabU
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