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Hi Albert
My question is coming from Week 3 recommended reading from the book “Attaining the Worlds Beyond” page 110 from the second paragraph to the end of that page. Please explain it more easy to understand. Thank you
Hi Erick,
Our nature, our inner programming is the desire to receive pleasure. This means that every single action that we take, either consciously or subconsciously, we’re aspiring towards receiving greater pleasure, or at least not to feel pain. If we don’t feel that an action will bring us greater pleasure or less pain, then we naturally don’t have the strength to perform that action.
When we start aspiring towards spirituality, we learn that spirituality means acquiring the Creator’s qualities of love and bestowal. At a certain point of our spiritual development, we begin to question whether there is any pleasure in bestowing like the Creator. Since spiritual pleasure is concealed from us, we don’t see or feel that there is pleasure in it, and we lose the strength to do anything to reach the spiritual goal.
It’s at that point that we have a genuine prayer for the Creator to help us, because otherwise we see that we are powerless to withstand our own egoistic nature.
Albert @ KabU
Peace and blessings.
From this lesson, I’m beginning to feel that my desires for this world are still real and important, but they no longer feel like the final destination.
At the same time, I don’t feel a need to reject them. Rather, I’m starting to relate to them with more awareness and intention. I may not yet fully experience what is beyond the corporeal, but I can sense that there is something more, and that this life is where that deeper perception is developed.
So for me, the path is not about leaving the world, but about transforming how I relate to it.
I’d like to clarify something further, if a person’s desires have already evolved to seek the source behind fulfillment, but the corporeal desires remain, how does one correctly work with those same desires? Do they become integrated with a new intention, or is there a stage where their importance naturally diminishes as spiritual perception grows? I can imagine that this refinement of desire should also be sincere and not forced due to a perceived superiority?
Hi Ricardo,
When the point in the heart awakens, we naturally lose flavor in the rest of our desires and feel that our desire for spirituality is the most important part of life. But as we progress on the spiritual path, the rest of our desires begin to grow more and more in order to give us room for spiritual work.
Our desires turn into a type of mountain that we climb over. The bigger the desires, the higher we can climb, and the higher the spiritual degree that we can attain. On the other hand, if we were to eliminate our desires, then accordingly, we would only be able to attain a tiny degree of spiritual attainment.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/02/the-worse-the-better/
Albert @ KabU
If I do something kind for someone even when it conflicts with how I genuinely feel, like if I notice I’m feeling jealous or judgmental. Does that kindness still have real value? On one hand, I’ve recognised a negative trait in myself through self-reflection. On the other, I’m choosing to act kindly anyway because I believe this is what the creator would want me to do.
So does that choice reflect a genuine attempt at equivalence of form or is it just pretending i.e. acting in a way that doesn’t match who I truly am?
Hi Brenda,
If we revealed our true nature and acted genuinely, then we would all see that we’re 100% egoists thinking only about our own benefit. Even if we try to do something nice for others, that too stems from our egoistic nature.
But that’s okay. No one is demanding of us to be saints. No one is demanding of us to have superhuman strength and to conquer our ego. All that we need to do, and all that we’re capable of doing actually, is just to try. That’s it. We just need to try to be above the ego. We don’t need to succeed, we just need to try. When we make such efforts in the Kabbalistic group and while studying the Kabbalistic sources, that’s enough to extract the reforming light which works on us and turns this aspiration into something real.
See my reply 491790 below to Steven and check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/03/building-blocks-of-the-first-spiritual-degree/
Albert @ KabU
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