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From my understanding, this sounds a little like karma yoga. Can you give some practical hints or examples on how to transform a desire to its altruistic state?
Hi Micha, good question!
Our nature is the desire to receive. This is our operating system. Just like a PC cannot just change it’s own operating system to run as a Mac, we too cannot just change our own nature. We need outside help to make this change. This help comes to us from the force of the light. Our work essentially boils down to extracting more and more of this light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it makes all of the changes and corrections on us.
So the most practical action that you can do towards performing this “transformation” is to set aside some time to regularly return to the source of the light, meaning to the Kabbalistic sources, videos, lessons, etc. This will help you throughout your entire spiritual development.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Joel,
1. I was not referring to disconnecting from the world. I was referring to a state where a person discovers that there is such a thing as spirituality and that he lacks it.
2. The dream of this world means that my picture of reality is not fixed, but rather it depends on the lens through which I look at it. If I’m not corrected, I look at it through the lens of my uncorrected egoistic state, and thereby I see a terrible world in front of me.
If I correct my ego, then I’ll start to see the world through that corrected lens and see that I’m actually in the Garden of Eden.
It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as dirty. But the moment I clean my own glasses, I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
Albert @ KabU
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