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In christianity, especially in the evangelical church, they teach about always doing anything within the will of God, everybody’s goal should be to live by the will of God at all times. Is this what Lishma means? How does that compare?
Akosua,
Lishma is something above us. Above our head.
For example imagine the difference between a rock and flower.
Now think of the difference between a flower and a zebra.
Now think of the difference between a zebra and the Queen of England.
Now imagine that above the human level is the next degree of our evolution.
That is where Lishma is, it is a spiritual degree above our biological human degree.
Seth@KabUIt sounds like coming from that belief system that instills a habit of intention to agree with the Creator might be a big help in advancing in Kabbalah. In my experience the difference we have to bridge, coming from Christianity, is to understand that there are no exceptions in the Creator’s will to bestow on us. His will is all love and good to all of us all the time. . . none of the judgements or exclusions we’ve learned in church apply.
Logynn,
There is this and there is that.
In the wisdom of kabbalah we are talking about natural laws, forces.
We will spend a lot of time studying these laws, how they operate and who we are, how we operate and how these two systems, bestowal and reception work together in the plan of creation.
Also there is your family and your culture. You don’t want to disregard and throw them out.
Seth@KabU
Kabbalah teaches that a person’s actions change the person himself. Are those actions considered Free Will?
True prayer is called self-judgment or self-analysis–when a person judges and analyzes himself with regard to the upper invariable force, rather than appealing to the Creator to change something. Is true prayer an act of Free Will?
We ask the Creator to change us, to change our perception so that we can understand Him, instead of asking the Creator to change His attitude towards us.
The Creator doesn’t listen to the words that we utter, but reads the feelings in our hearts. We must strive to understand the essence of our desires and to ask the Creator to correct them. Do those questions come out of our Free Will?Mark,
It seems you are interested in Free Will.
For the time being we operate like children who feel free, meanwhile their parents are watching over everything.
We didn’t choose our parents, not our school or the food we were fed, we didn’t choose what movies would come out during our childhood and what wars would be fought and how the weather would blow. So all of the things that formed us are beyond our control and all these traits that we inherited from 1000s of generations we didn’t choose those either, so it should be clear that there is no freedom here.
What we can do is plant ourselves in an environment that is connected to the sources and be influenced by that environment to value spirituality, to grow one’s desire for spirituality. When that desire grows so strong, then a light comes from above to fill it, there are many operations here, in short a person then stands half way between his will to receive which is his matter and the influence of the Light and there in the middle between both of the those influences a person can say he is free.
Seth@KabU
As I understand it ; in religion we ask our creator to give us things do things for us or make things better, although in our imagination those kinds of prayers do work sometimes as bandages for a short while but it doesn’t really make things better in the long run. Whereas the kabalistic approach of prayer is to ask your creator to change you to see the truth and make corrections which is more of a permanent fix that will lead to the stairway to heaven. Am I understanding this correctly?
I know the Creator is the source of everything in this world, yet I have a friend that was severely abused and almost murdered by her husband. While I reconcile my own life experience with the Creator, I also think about her experience. He harmed many people and took personal satisfaction in it, but now he is in prison. I know that it wasn’t my personal experience, but where are people like her ex husband in spirituality?
Katrina,
We cannot simply justify this behavior, but we need to understand what is happening.
We saw that even Nazism was not a German phenomenon. The German people are very wise people and have a distinguished culture, however the human is a malleable creature and even people with good tendencies can be brain washed to do bad through daily sermons and education.
That is with civilized, good people.
We also have depraved people like the one you are describing who certainly was neglected as a child, didn’t have a good upbringing or education or he has serious psychological problems.
This same person raised by loving parents in an environment that teaches a person who he is, what forces work in him and how to work with what awakens in him, this same person could use all his qualities for the good.
In the future we will understand why everything happened the way it did, until then we try to calibrate ourselves more and more towards the force of Love.
Seth@KabU
What do you tell your parents who are in their mid-80’s and going through some health issues, who have no religious background and knows very little about “God”, the meaning of their life at this stage? since in their eyes (and in most people’s eyes), what’s left are mostly sufferings and little hope?
Helen,
In general we don’t give “personal advice” for family situations.
What I can recommend is that they feel from you love, devotion, care and patience.
Sit and talk with them. Ask them about their life, their childhood, your childhood. Talk about your children, show them photos.
Bring them something they like to drink or eat or listen to a song from when they met that brings them good memories.
In the course of your conversations if you feel that they are open you can add little drops of higher wisdom, but only if they are open to hearing. Mostly comfort them and make them feel loved and cherished.
Wishing you good luck,
Seth@KabU
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