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In the lesson Juilan said that at some point a person starts feeling darkness in the ego and most people give up. Can the darkness be filled with temporary egoistic pleasures (like playing videogames for example) and at the same time you continue studying kabbalah (even if you don’t feel pleasure from it) . That’s how I understood it: when ego doesn’t receive it feels darkness, it hurts. You start asking questions: “why am I doing it, what’s in it for me” etc.
Can you balance the darkness by filling the egoistic vessel with temporary pleasures and continue study kabbalah at the same time? (like when you take medicine that heals you but the body hurts and you take pain meds to ease the pain).
It this allowed in kabbalah, or is it something that’s wrong and one shouldn’t be doing.
Thank you!
Hi Aaron,
We don’t need to worry much about what actions we are doing. We just need to continue towards the spiritual goal. If we’re persisting in the study, then the Light works. If I can feel myself in front of the Creator that stands behind everything, during everything I’m doing, then I’m really moving towards the goal of life.
If we are trying to remember we are already in a perfect state, all together in a collective soul … should we do what we can to invite others to learn about it? About Kabbalah? Or should we only focus on ourselves? Cause around me, colleagues and family are going through depression, confusion, sadness… in one hand I am starting to understand this is a reflection of my own feelings, but then again I can’t ignore seeing them and hearing them feeling empty. A part of me wants to send them links or anything that redirects them to Kabbalah. Should I?
Thank you
Imagine there are no humans on Earth yet, but there are monkeys, and they only think about swinging from the trees and so on. And now there needs to be a new monkey that will plant crops, read and write, go to symphonies. But you have no such desire to do those things. So, you need there to be someone who can tell you about the world of humans and fan your desire for it. So, in our current situations we have Kabbalists. They tell us that we are like those monkeys, except instead of thinking about swinging from the trees, we think from morning until night about ourselves – all sorts of various things that concern me, my body, and those important to me. And I need to become something opposite, who thinks from morning until night about others and the Creator. You’ll depict what it is that we become when you start seeing how from every thought you need to move to an opposite thought – from yourself to others, from reception to bestowal. This way you start depicting what it is that we become.
Someone asked me:Â Â “How can the Creator make, create humanity so egoistic if he himself is only love and he himself do not have egoism”.
Hi Tove,
We have not yet revealed the extent of human egoism. It includes more than we can even imagine would be possible because it is a desire to receive, without a shred of bestowal. And the Creator is the quality of bestowal without a shred of reception. So, He made us the exact opposite form to His. That’s why precisely from it, though He is concealed, we can invert our qualities to Bestowal and become like Him.
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