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First I’d like to thank you, Seth, for your comprehensive answers to everyone’s questions. I had no idea that this course would have this kind of benefit. I learn so much from other’s questions and how they are answered.
My question is: I’ve heard the term “bread of shame,” where the creature cannot bear how different it is from the creator. I believe it precedes the shattering of the original soul. Would this be found in the Malchut?
So we relate to other humans because they have more desire than the animate, vegetative, and inanimate together in one person. So there is more of the creator in humans than anywhere else?
Todd,
Not exactly as you said.
But the key to the our opportunity for developing our soul is in the relations between other humans. At first the ones who are with us on the path, due to several factors, the first being that they are playing by the same rules as us, reading the same books as us. So we can work together and many sparks join to be a big flame. Later we will understand how everything we perceive is clothing of the Creator and how to relate to it all.
Seth@KabU
Lora,
We aren’t upset when a little baby expresses its desire, in fact we enjoy it. When a baby is hungry and demands to be fed, we are happy that he is healthy, in fact we would get nervous if the baby did not express hunger and the desire to grow.
When do we get annoyed? When the baby grows and then not just that he wants, but he wants in some conniving way. That is what bothers us, when a person wants at the expense of others. So it is not the desire itself, but when the person desires for the sake of himself only.
In both of these degrees, there is no awareness of the Creator.
The baby doesn’t recognize the existence of the Creator.
And a person from the general public also does not relate to the Creator, this person desires something and tries to acquire it.
But when a person develops beyond the general public and this person starts to feel that there is a Creator and that I am opposite from the Creator and I feel such shame that I live only for myself and the Creator is bestowing upon all of creation and I can’t stand to receive like this, then my desire changes, I must escape from this shame and this draws upon us a new light that reformats our vessel.
All of the desire is called Malchut.
Seth@KabU
I believe I understand this portion of the lesson I believe that if I keep going forward in this lesson and reading and responses from my classmates I will gain a clear understanding. my question is to myself have I reached this point of attainment? And how will I know.
William,
There are many awakenings that we receive along the way.
The spiritual attainment that we are learning about, that the books of kabbalah write to us about means that the light of creation, called the Light of Hochma, dresses in the Light of Hassadim. This means that through many efforts on our part, we have built between us a vessel for the endless light to dwell in our midst. This is called the construction of the degrees of the soul, Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida.
It is not something that happens by surprise or by mistake or from a sequence of coincidences.
Attainment is called that one attains it in his hand, meaning that the same way you hold something in your hand, the attainment will be even closer than that, it will be unmistakable, as if you went to work everyday for a paycheck and then went to buy a car and then you sit in that car and you feel the work of your hands.
Seth@KabU
The Creator has shown me He is there in my most heart broken and painful phases of life. I get emotional thinking of Him and His Holy Presence. When I’ve had a ‘dark night’ He is there, when I felt abandoned and alone He is there. My wish is for all of us to draw closer to Him. Thank You for the great questions and answers, they are a tremendous bonus to this course. Peace/Love/Compassion.
I don’t entirely understand the concept of the screen.
I don’t really understand why the screen is necessary for the process to happen, or why the process can’t happen by simply understanding the truth. (Like in the example of the man preparing dinner for his friend. His friend felt guilt at first, but then once he understood, he was able to enjoy the feast. He did not have to create a screen to do this, he just received the knowledge that his friend wanted him to enjoy the feast, and then he was able to enjoy it guilt-free. Once he knew that was actually a gift to his friend, he was good to go.)
What would the screen be in the dinner metaphor?
Thank you for your time! 💜
Shel,
The screen is his attitude to the host.
The guest has a stomach and he is hungry, but the pleasure that new vessels that he makes by his attitude is that he can bestow pleasure upon the host by receiving.
So at first it’s just I’m hungry and I eat.
Now, after the rejection and my newly developed attitude to the host (this is as a result of the screen), he now receives but now not to fill his belly (which he must necessarily do anyway), but in order to give contentment to the host.
Seth@KabU
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
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