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In mainstream advice we are constantly warned against giving from an empty well. I see now how, because we are aligned with the creator that our well is never empty.
As a parent who is now seeing the effects of years of being out of contact with the creator, I am finding parenting both more joyful but also challenging. My learning here has thrown into light how I need to become a better guide for my children, and how that will be against mainstream ways. I am confident in my ability to navigate this thanks to this course.
My question is: When children are learning but are still acting from the will to receive, how do we ensure that our will to bestow and love our neighbour isn’t fuelling their ego? Is it that if we see a genuine need then we should aim to fulfil that need but if the need is actually a ‘want’ driven by ego then we should then shift to counsel?
Victoria,
We should be very happy if our children are growing up as little egoists, hiding and seeking and peek a booing and learning how to manage their chores and get you approval or an allowance, etc. If they stayed small and didn’t develop, we would be worried!
The best thing to do is to lead by example. You can…if there is an opportunity to discuss something simple, in their language, but the best is to be a living example of the balance between a healthy egoist who works, takes care of the home, is a proud parent, is healthy, keeps them accountable and also who shows them unconditional love.
Seth@KabU
Hello. I am catching up on my studies, and I still am curious to know in which ways I may practice the Will to Bestow, in so I may grow towards the Creator, and away from my own worldly thoughts of “love thy neighbor”, for instance, attempting to be a “good” person, or practicing “good” acts?
Dina,
First things first discover how the will to receive that the Creator created is operating you and everyone and everything around you.
See it, feel it and speak to the Creator like your best friend, tell Him you see what He made and tell Him that you want to be able to work only out of love and not to receive reward for yourself.
Return to this again and again.
I look forward to hearing about your success!
Seth@KabU
Bonnie,
The Creator is all light in all directions eternally and equally.
He desired to create a creature and fill it with all of that abundance. This is called the purpose of creation.
So, He created the will to receive, a desire to receive all of that abundance.
We are the pinnacle of that desire, completely opposite from the Creator but capable of receiving His abundance.
Everything was done by Him, there is no one who can do anything against Him.
Now we are learning to correct our first nature. That is called the correction of creation.
Then we will be able to receive all of His abundance without being separated from Him.
We will learn the details of this together in the future.
Seth@KabU
If everyone must reach the ultimate goal – of loving your friend as yourself, and being in equivalence of form with the creator – how about people that cannot mentally do this? People with mental disabilities or serious personality disorders or brain damage for instance. I understand that I must only focus on myself and my journey (for now) – but just wondering about Kabbalah’s view on this issue.
Avi,
Sure, you are right. And there are billions who barely have food.
So it is clear there is a big problem before us.
Many people it seems have no chance.
And all of this needs to come to focus us, that if somehow, over all of these thousands of generations a few people slowly awakened and look up and ask, “who am I?” “For what do I live?” Then we should feel how unique this is and engage in it with all of our powers. Then we will see why everything was arranged just for this and everything will come into harmony and there is no redundant part.
It’s like a village of children who need food. But first you must feed your children and then after they are fed you can move to nourish the world.
So let’s focus on what is in our hands now and see how as we change, our perception of the reality that we are in also changes and everything will come into correct focus.
Seth@KabU
It is a lot of material to cover. I wonder if it will be possible to go back absorption and understanding once the course is completed. I am trusting the process of concealment and revelaion to reach the level of what is mine is yours.
How do you practice bestowal or “love your neighbour as yourself”
When you see your friend or spouse in need and you try helping him/her, and it turns out that they are only taking advantage of you, how do I deal with that? Does mean that IÂ was not having the right intentions?
Lucy,
The kabbalists are very meticulous with this.
There is no such thing that kabbalist goes out and tries to love every person just like that.
A kabbalist starts with lighter corrections and moves to heavier correcitons.
And certainly a kabbalist implements love the other as yourself, inside the group of kabbalists who are studying the same sources together, drawing the light together and sharing the same goal.
To try to love someone in this way who is not in this flow with you, you will be taken advantage of.
First study and let the material enter you and work on you.
Later you will begin to experiment with this kind of love that we are learning about.
Seth@KabU
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