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If there is no such thing as good or bad, what is the correction? Why does it need to be corrected? Why would intentions matter?
Hi Calvin, great questions!
Good and bad disappear on very high spiritual degrees. If we have not yet attained those spiritual degrees, we cannot just take it as a fact and start building our reality around that. Until then, good and bad do exist.
Good means becoming similar to the Creator, adhering to Him, to His qualities of love and bestowal. Bad means falling back into our egoistic nature which disconnects us from the Creator.
The correction is to correct our egoistic nature.
Why do we need to correct our egoistic nature? Because it makes us opposite from the Creator. As a result of becoming opposite to Him, we become separated from Him. This follows the law of equivalence of form.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
Why does the intention matter? Since our very nature is the desire to receive, we cannot truly bestow like the Creator. The best that we can do is to receive with the intention to bestow. Even though the action is still one of reception, the intention to bestow converts that action so that it would actually be considered bestowal.
Check out the Guest & Host Analogy from Chapter 3 of Attaining the Worlds Beyond for more details.
Albert @ KabU
I learnt That we are correcorrecting by the path of light or by the path of the pain. My question is, what is the difference betwen this paths, If both of The paths leads-us from tthe correction?
Hi João Chico,
The path of light means that we develop consciously under the influence of the light.
Whereas the path of suffering is an inactive form of development, where we wait for sufferings to accumulate until we start to move. It’s like a child that refuses to go to school, so the parents put more and more pressures on him until he agrees to go.
Keep in mind that we don’t really advance on the path of suffering. Since pressuring and punishing a child is not the same as educating him. So after all of the pressures and punishments they put on him, he will still have to go to school and get his education.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2011/01/lets-go-with-the-light/
https://laitman.com/2015/05/we-wont-follow-the-path-of-suffering-forever/
Albert @ KabU
Video: Force of Development
What is in this lesson?
“……. completing many lifetimes of progress in a single day, while at the same time freeing ourselves from our egoistic inborn nature.”
We cannot do that ourself.
Yehuda Ashlag:
“Yehuda Ashlag There is none else besides Him:
“Then he comes to the decision that no one can help him but the Creator Himself. This causes him to make a heartfelt demand that the Creator will open his eyes and heart, and truly bring him nearer to eternal adhesion with God. It thus follows, that all the rejections he had experienced had come from the Creator.”Why stating that: “freeing ourselves from our egoistic inborn nature???.” I will always be The Creature and only The Creator can cure me from my evil inclination.
Hi Ron,
You’re right, we will always be the creature. But through the process of correcting our egoistic nature, we will reach adhesion with the Creator. Meaning that we wont become Him, we will be separate from Him, and yet connected with Him on a very deep level.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2019/04/the-purpose-of-creation/
As for freedom, we’re currently enslaved to our egoistic nature. Everything we choose, consciously or unconsciously stems from this nature. If we want to reach freedom, we need to come out of this nature. We’ll learn how to do that in semester 2, lesson 2.
Albert @ KabU
Video: The Path of Light
“And this screen or Masach, this is the tool. This is the way in wich
we can turn the will to receive,wich is our matter and the
only tool that we have to work with, into something very different”Yehuda Ashlag There is none else besides Him:
“Then he comes to the decision that no one can help him but the Creator Himself. This causes him to make a heartfelt demand that the Creator will open his eyes and heart, and truly bring him nearer to eternal adhesion with God. It thus follows, that all the rejections he had experienced had come from the Creator.”I can place this intention,bestowal over my desires but it
will not help me. It only makes me, the ego realise that
I cannot receive to bestow,my nature is receiving.The Masach will give me the realisation of blow after blow till the ego
is knocked down.“This causes him to make a heartfelt demand (at that knock-out point) that the Creator will open his eyes and heart, and truly bring him nearer to eternal adhesion with God. It thus follows, that all the rejections he had experienced had come from the Creator.”
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