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Is the desire to excel in business / profession Ego ? If so, how does one survive then in the material plane where we struggle for the basics everyday across the world ? I have a desire to grow, support family, people around me ……… to the point its painful. Advise please. Thank you
Anupam,
Succeed in everything, this is very natural and healthy. I wish you good luck in all of your endeavors.
At the beginning of the day [each spiritual state] say, “if I do not take care of everything it will not get done”.
At the end of the day [each spiritual state] say, “everything was done by the hand of the Creator”.
You’ll see later how these two realities merge into one.
In short, you want to sanctify everything you are doing in your heart, to love and unity.
It matters not if you are building a business or feeding your children, in everything we do, we connect it to Him.
Seth@KabUHow do you connect it to Him? more specifically. It sounds like you have a mental process for working on yourself and I would very much like to hear about that.
For some context: Anupam’s questions really speaks to me, because I used to feel like I connected everything I do to God through rituals like in Vastu and bakhti yoga, where every household chore, every food, every mantra, every action can be a remedial measure for a specific deity. That has been very fulfilling in my life. But when I study Kabbalah I feel emotional distance from the same rituals, intentions and prayers that used to make me feel close to God before.
It is almost like my compass got broken a little bit and I can tell that I am pointing generally North, but just a bit off, and it is more and more clear that “just a bit off” is never going to get me there. The only time now that I feel like I’m pointing North and can formulate a genuine prayer is when something highly emotional happens. Like when I see something horrible in the news or on social media. Or when I see something extremely touching that gives me a momentary longing for the world to be more like that specific thing.
This isn’t a feeling I can generate in a formulaic way, like I used to do with my remedial measures.
How do you do it?
Cómo puedo salir de la percepción limitada que mi egoÃsmo me impone, y empezar a percibir la totalidad de la realidad? Qué puedo hacer al respecto?
Similarity of form is a law of the spiritual world. I would like to know if this law also operates in the physical world. If so, I would like to know if it is the same as the law of attraction that mystics talk about.
Among other things this lesson teaches about closeness/remoteness in spirituality. It seems to indicate that being in a same states and thoughts is closeness. When I read a text written by a kabbalist and understand in my mind what it says, can I say to myself that it is a state of spiritual closeness?
When studying music or any other craft: as a novice piano player I may fall in love with a melody but it would take many practice sessions to develop the muscle memory in my wrists/fingers to play the same melody flawlessly. Yet, my heart swells with joy from the melody, even if i can’t play it completely error-free. I imagine that it is the same type of joy experienced by a composer and thousands of other piano players who played that piece before and after me – i.e. I am in unity with them, even though I am still a clumsy performer and nobody would enjoy listening to my performance.
Is the study a gradual progression to a complete unity with the state of being that these kabbalists wrote about? or would be it be more accurate to say that “falling in love” (be it music or kabbalah)  is already a complete unity, and the rest of the study requires patience, perseverance to uncover the intricacies and minute details of the state of unity?
Like some other students I have difficulties embracing the word ‘hate’ (i.e. my own current identity does not fit my own definition of being hateful).
How to apply all these words – hate, love – correctly in relation to the study here, in Kabu?
Example: i am learning to recognize in my own feelings one current of desire that wants to be immersed in the lectures, videos, reading of the kabbalistic texts and also, another one surfacing regularly that shuts down my faculties of perception (my eyes get heavy and I can only fall asleep) or yet another one, whereas i notice annoying defects in the words of teachers or whatever the organization sends my way.
Since nothing is redundant in the world, should I pay equal attention to whatever comes up and examine every single thing? Do we need to pick a position and stick with it? Or do we jump from one point of view to another, while studying kabbalah?
Nika,
I’m very happy to read your email.  You should keep it and pull it out in a few years and study it.
You will see how clearly your are developing.
I recommend that you write out your questions, not in this narrative way, but number them and write each one as a clear question followed by a question mark.
Each time you come to one of these crossroads, and yes, that is what is happening, you are progressing on a new path and you come to a crossroad, for example you don’t embrace the word hate in how you envision yourself.
So mark this down. Â This is a place where you are learning to hold two opposites at the same time.
Good luck, I’m wish you success in your studies,
Seth@KabU
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
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