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Let’s say I feel anxious about something specific like the net profit of my business keeping up with the increasing costs of business and living. I might summarize this as a feeling financial anxiety. Would this anxiety be the same as saying I am experiencing a lack?
If I am experiencing a lack, then might that mean my Kli is prepared to feel the sensation of the light that satisfies this lack?
Further, if I generalize the financial anxiety to a feeling of “not being OK”, would it be correct to say that I feel a “lack of being OK” for which my Kli is now ready to receive the sensation of “being OK”?
Also, might it be that the reason I lack the feeling of “being OK”, is due to having refused the Creator’s bestowal of “being OK” due to my egoistic sense of shame for not having done anything of merit to receive it?
If this is a correct way of thinking, then would it mean that if I change my intention to receive for the sake of the Creator, I would affect two things? First, I would receive the pleasure of feeling “OK”, and second, I would give the Creator the pleasure of giving me pleasure.
That is, if I change my intention for why I receive pleasure, from “for myself” to “for the sake of the Creator”, then that brings me closer to the quality of the Creator. By doing this, both the Creator, my soul, and all of Creation benefit?
If that is the case, then I certainly want to pursue this. The issue that arises is that I still feel like I am motivated to do this for my sake. I wish that weren’t the case, but I’m still wanting to be altruistic for the sake of myself.
So, on the right hand I feel satisfied and fulfilled, and on the left hand I feel the distance between my quality of altruism and that of the Creator. The middle way is to experience both simultaneously and allow both to inform me as I go.
I am just wanting to know if this is what I am supposed to be understanding up to this point in our study?
Scott,
These are all good discernments.
The most important is your realization that we are a will to receive.
After all that is what the Creator created and there’s nothing to do about it.
In order to fulfill the purpose of Creation, we will have to receive more and more. The Creator wants to create a created being and fill it with delight.
However receiving makes us 100% receivers and the Creator 100% bestowing and we are as far from Him as east is to west, there is no greater gap.
So we go through many processes and operations until the vessel is corrected to receive but in order to bestow contentment to the Creator.
We will study all of this in much more depth in further courses.
But you are on the right path. We walk on two legs, left right, left right and our inner discernments work the same way and I see that you are starting to progress in this way. This is good.
Seth@KabU
In the “Related” video classes it’s said that whatever actions we done in this world of Machult, are not going to affect our relationship with the Creator, e.g. red string ,holy water etc.
May I ask how about mizvots, or other holiday connections such as Chanukah candle lighting?
Many thanks!
Hi Sarah,
You can put it the other way also, with the corrected intention, every act you do in this world will be spiritual.
The point is that moving molecules around in and of itself does not affect spirituality.
Our world is like an imprint, the kabbalists call it a seal, like a king would press his ring into a wax seal.
But moving the wax does not change the ring.
We don’t effect spirituality by pushing and pulling things around with our hands and feet.
We effect spirituality by a development in our heart.
Nevertheless there are customs and things that we do in this world and these can be done with no problem.
In the books of the sages, mitzvot are corrections performed on the 613 desires and the upper light (Torah) inverts the desire to be for the sake of the Creator.
Seth@KabU
Every day for weeks now i spend couple hours to read books and listen your videos. I gained some understanding about my life on the one hand. On the other hand i became extremely confused. The last days i experience a strong pressure in my heart, which is not a pleasant feeling. The last weeks i also faced difficulties in my life that are very challanging physically and mentally. I dont know yet how i will come out of this.
Right now based on what i learned; the good approach seems to me that i have to do my best, face these challanges mentally and be filled with the trust that the creator is leading me towards a new unknown reality which will be the corrected path. In trust under i mean to give the ‘control’ to these new events that occured and follow the pattern somehow consciously in order to arrive to the corrected version. Is that a right approach? from the kabbalistic perspective what can be the pressure in the heart?
Sarah,
If it is your custom, so do it.
We have students from every continent…not Antarctica yet but the other 6.Dozens of languages, religions and cultures. Each one can follow their culture. Together we are studying the inner meaning of the Torah which speaks about the spiritual reality and this includes all people from every culture.
Seth@KabU
Tamas,
First we are hoping that everything will work out for you in the best way and you will be healthy and everything will be good.
What we are discovering is that the system of nature, we call the force of the Creator is developing us towards the good.
All of the harsh separation and suffering we feel is not the the Good of the Creator, but is a measure of our separation from it.
When you are on the other side of this, you will be able to look back and understand why it all happened exactly the way it is happening.
Now, in your current state, you are receiving all kinds of new emotional impressions.
As much as you can stay connected to the sources and also manage your normal life with food, exercise, family, work. Arrange your regular life in a normal, comfortable way and pass through these changes in your inner life, speak to the Creator all the time, when you are getting food, when you have time during the day. Ask about whatever you want, most important is not to lose the connection.
We are going through a historic shift in our generation and we are casting aside many useless ideas and habits that tie us to corporeal suffering. Any time that we want to build a desire for bestowal, what happens?
Our bodies that take nourishment from egoistic reception resist, fight against it.
These are normal processes and they build our inner world, our new sensory organs that will later perceive things above the body.
Have patience and good luck with everything,
Seth@KabU
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Just so grateful this content found me in my darkest times in answer to a prayer to Creator to give freedom of consciousness to the human collective and that through grace,mercy and compassion. ❤️ Thank you for all your questions and thank you Seth for answering them.</p>
Mitakuye Oyasin
So the Creator created a creature to bring it to perfection. (Root phase) Does that mean the creature wasn’t perfect to start with? This sounds like a paradox. If the Creator is perfect how can it create something imperfect?
Ptr,
The kabbalists ask this question and we will study it together later.
Of course it is impossible that something imperfect can extend out of the perfect Creator. So that imperfection is the measure of our distance from the perfect Creator. And by this distance, there is space for our existence, otherwise we are as a spark inside the sun, without any existence of our own. And from our efforts, we can cross this distance and build our inner sensations to come to consciously feel the Creator, to equalize ourselves with Him.
Seth@KabU
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