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If one offers the awakening from below (prayer), acts, and remedies in order to obtain Lishma, then receives Lishma, is that called receiving “the burden(?) of (the Kingdom of) Heaven?” Why is it considered a burden? Why isn’t it considered good; it comes from the Creator.
Matanah,
Of course it is good.
The ego isn’t so thrilled about the situation. He doesn’t know how he’s going to get paid if everything is for the sake of the Creator and not for him.
Seth@KabU
Can I please have more explanation about the practical tip “try and let the environment influence you”? I thought we are influenced by it from default, what else can I try and let?
Eva,
If I go to see a concert, I can be impressed by the band. But if I’m a business man, maybe I’m counting seats multiplied by the number of dollars per ticket multiplied by the cost of t-shirts and thinking of if this is a good business to go into.
If I’m the guy selling hot dogs I’m thinking how many hot dogs can I sell.
So we are “in” the environment, but in what way am I influenced. And to what degree have I placed myself in the environment.
I can be the usher showing people to their seats and I’m in the concert hall every night but I don’t have an emotional experience.
Where are you? How are have you planted yourself in the spiritual environment? What is the goal you hope to achieve by being in this environment?
These questions are for you to ask yourself. You are an artist in the spiritual realm. A slogan such as “let the environment influence you” is a slogan, but what does it mean, what are the nuances, where is the investment of inner power? Think about it. Work on it.
You’ll see how it works from your own experience.
Seth@KabUThank you, analogies help me understand things better. I just see myself both in the spiritual environment and everyday life, and the lines are blurry, I am still mixing up these environments. I am working on this to the best of my abilities, mostly just watching my feelings and where are they leading me.
I have an unrelated question:
Why is the Creator always referred to as He/Him/His?
Why not It/Its?
Or She/Her?Please note that my question has nothing to do with the current gender orthodoxy or woke gender ideology.
Thank you Seth, my logical mind trying to understand it, or even accepting it is dying … it is so mind blowing in the true sense of the word (yeah, mind blew the fuse) that all I have left is just sit, feel that I have some support under my bum, I have my hands and feet to look at, I’m beathing (or maybe just the breath is going through me), I see the room around me and feel the hunger, the emptyness for something out of this world; kind of not a comfort zone for sure, I truly feel fearful that if I go “any further” I will loose the contact with the material world – work, my family, the ins and outs of everyday life – and the ablility to function to it’s laws. So I realised me “seeing myself in both the material and spiritual worlds” is just a product of my mind, kind of a wishful thinking, in fact I am terrified of it. Is this normal or I’m doing something wrong? I’m even surprised I can write … sorry if I don’t make any sense …
Eva,
We all go through many confusions along the way.
Spirituality is attainment, not confusion or imagination.
Of course as you start to feel that there is another reality, you feel like you are losing grip of this world.
But this doesn’t happen at all.
Don’t worry, your bills will still come in the mail and need to be paid.
The advice is to stabilize yourself in this world with your family and your health, recreation, etc. And also to engage in your set times in the study and if you have some free time you can also engage in the study.
If you do this, you will develop smoothly and much more comfortably.
Yes you go through ups and downs, ins and outs, confusion and clarity, but faster, and with more understanding of what is happening, how we are advancing through all of these states, tying everything into one.
Seth@KabU
PVJ,
The books of kabbalah speak to us about laws of nature from the root level. The Creator is one force that operates using two reins, right & left, or + & -, or male & female, or most common and most clearly the Giver/fulfillment & the desire/deficiency.
All of creation, all the universe, everything is considered female in relation to the light of the Creator that fills all of reality with life.
Seth@KabU
Maybe this will be evident later on or have I missed something, but I am curious why is Lishma ( for her name)?
Toni,
Learning the wisdom of kabbalah from a kabbalist, like we are doing…all of your instructors here are long time students of the kabbalist Rav Michael Laitman, the successor of the great kabbalist the Rabash who was the son and successor of Baal HaSulam the commentator on the book of Zohar and the one who brought the wisdom of the hidden into the masses.
So, when we learn the wisdom of kabbalah like this, it is like a child in kindergarten. At first, they show us something. “This is a sailboat”. We don’t understand yet how the sail works, how exactly the rudder steers the boat or how the keel keep the boat upright. We look at it, take it in our hand, hold it, turn it over and as we grow we can start to learn about the wind and the currents, etc.
Or the teacher gives you a ball of clay, now we make a bowl. We were little kids playing with dirt, we don’t understand how to make it the right shape, the right proportions, etc, but we start to work with it.
Now we heard about Lishma, we will hear about many things too. Lishma means for the sake of the Creator, we can say that. Later it will open up more, but let’s say it means for the sake of the Creator. Why is it called Her name, etc. there are many questions. But in short this is the intention behind our actions. We are a desire to receive and we receive everything for our own benefit. Through the influence of the upper light and many actions and discernments on our part we want that Light to influence us and change our intention that we will receive but not egoistically, but receive all of the abundance for the sake of the Creator.
Seth@KabU
What about some kind of prayer made by christian kabbalah learners who replace the name of the creator by those of the sefirot ?
Amani,
If you are a friend you are called friend. If you are a child, you are a child, if you are a parent you are a parent. You can be all of those at once. You can have three names at once depending on the attitude of the creature towards you.
The Light is always called according to the vessel, the light itself is only named according to how it is attained.
We received our method of attaining the Creator from our teachers in an unbroken chain. We are not learning anything of so called Christian kabbalists.
Seth@KabU
There are people who have not met most of their basic natural needs such as having enough food to eat or even having a home to live in yet they have “a point in the heart”. Could their lack of these basic natural needs tamper with their spirituality?
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