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Shalom Instructor
Would you agree that Kabbalah can be practiced in any religion and that it in fact enhances your religious experience as you’re then able to see perceive on deeper and more meaningful levels of understanding?
Leyah,
There is no contradiction if someone wants to practice their customs and religion.
In the same way that gravity works regardless of one’s religion, in the same way, here in the wisdom of kabbalah we are learning about the laws of nature, how everything in the universe and beyond is constructed and operates.
Seth@KabU
While reading some of the recommended reading a question popped into my head.
Our “free will” is limited to our choice of the environment and I fully get that now. What came into my thoughts was do we have free will to choose our intention or is this also something we have to receive from the Creator? The ability to modify my intention seems at this time some way off.
Thanks
I have heard in your guys’ videos several times that Kabbalah does not involve meditation. But how else am I going to hear from the Light if not in silence? When I sit in silence to listen, I get all kinds of insight about answers that I need and behaviours I need to correct. If not via silent reflection, how do Kabbalah students communicate with the Creator?
Loyda,
The Creator is dressed in all of reality and if it is helpful for you to sit in silence, so you should do it.
If you are learning the materials here from lesson to lesson and investing effort into them, then you’ll already start to calibrate your inner life to the reality that the Kabbalists describe.
We don’t have any vessels to feel the Creator Himself, we currently have the body’s vessels of perception. But through learning and feeling the nature of the matter that the Creator created and seeing and feeling how reality is operating according to the structures that the Kabbalists depict, we begin to come closer to those qualities of the Creator.
Seth@KabUIs anybody going to answer my question ever? Are you guys not responding because I was offensive or inappropriate? This is the second time a question of mine has not been answering, so I have to wonder what the problem is.
In religion (Judaism), they explain that there are decrees that we cannot change, but others can through actions and prayers. Kabbalah’s view is that we cannot change anything. Can that lead to apathy?
Hey Esther, I think Kabbalah teaches we can Change ourselves (that’s the inner work) because we live in a world of cause and effect … Outcomes. What is out of our control we can make Peace with, perhaps learn to be compassionate towards ourselves for those things we can’t control. I came up with mantra which I repeat to myself whenever I need it:
“I have no control over another’s words, choices, or actions, only my own”.
Every experience comes to teach.
Esther,
You are twisting around concepts and not really understanding what the texts are referring to.
You are currently in an endless field of light and fulfillment.
You don’t feel it at all. So you will not change that the you are in an endless field of light and fulfillment. That is what the Creator created. All of our work, and first of all we need to stabilize ourselves in reality and understand where we actually are, what senses we currently have, how they operate, what our goal is, what is the delta between where we are today and where we want to be and by what natural laws, etc can this giant sea be crossed.
That is our study. The friends that I know on the path for years and decades are anything but apathetic.
Maybe you can reword your question so I can understand what you are asking.
Seth@KabU
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