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How can I choose to raise in the middle line of tree of life? Through yesod, tiphareth, daath…?
How will I know that I have become a “kli “ and that I attract light in it?Hi Rula,
It’s not yet a question of how, with these or those Sefirot. It’s a question if I have Sefirot to begin with. Without several steps, effort, and time, specifically in a group of students trying to walk the same path, I don’t have sufficient integration with the other parts of my Kli (vessel). When these efforts and the operation of th Upper Light are sufficient, I will have Sefirot like one has their hands and legs. Then we learn how to use them. Until then: more studying with the intention of drawing the Reforming Light.
Now i am just a step to graduate. I am concerned to not having quality time to invest in my learning. Con i go to my one pace in continuing this journey?
If you want to continue, continue. At the end of the day, each has their own inner journey between them, where they are – and the Creator. That stretch of road exists, and one has to traverse it, over a series of inner spiritual efforts. If not in this lifetime, then we continue in our next lifetime.
In the past week I saw some things that made me question if I have the right attitude about the Left Line.
In one of Julian’s videos he described it as something that we should strive to avoid because we will always be given it by the Creator, as we are ready to deal with it. In last week’s “Kabbalah Explained Simply” on YouTube, they talked about the futility of self criticism. And in the final link to the Rav’s blog he talks about not losing your head in the left or the right.
Previously, my perception was that the Right is faith above reason, where no matter what happens we trust that it is exactly what is supposed to happen according to the Creator’s plan. And when we are in that we feel no need for anything. It’s easy to pay attention to the needs of others because that sensation of faith kind of nullifies any feeling of lack we would be feeling if we were not studying.
And my understanding was that the Left line is a relatively tiny portion of the time where we acknowledge our fears and feelings about the specter of the corporeal world, and that in doing this we acknowledge that these are our own qualities, our own coarseness, our own helplessness to keep these issues from spilling out onto the rest of the collective soul.
I thought the point of the Left line was this discernment… a criticism of the current state of the self in order to obtain the desire to rise, and that would then trigger the upper to give us faith, and the faith carries us back to the Right.
My objective was to spend only a tiny time in the Left, and most time in the Right, but to basically be content to dwell in either one while I am in it, because it’s doing its work.
That has been my experience of it. But between these three sources from this week… especially the Self Criticism episode of Kabbalah Explained Simply, I am not sure that I am approaching the Left with the correct attitude. If it really is ok to try to avoid and ignore self criticism and negative discernments about corporeal reality… I would love to give myself permission to do that. But it doesn’t seem right.
Can you explain what your intention is when you are in either state?
I am also wondering, in the Graduate environment, if I will have access to groups and events on weekdays. It’s rare for me to have an opportunity to be alone on the weekend. And will I be able to ask questions about The Zohar in there? Thanks!
Hi Logynn,
We don’t need any self-criticism because I didn’t do anything – the Creator did it. Anything deeper than that is already a Klipa (shell) in disguise. About the future though, I have to act as if there is no Creator. After I act, the Creator did it. However counterintuitive it seems, this is the only way to see the reality of There Is None Else Besides Him.
I think I didn’t catch what you mean.
Would you explain a little bit better or in clearer lines, in a way that I can understand?
Each person has their desire, a shattered part of the whole. Some things about it they can correct actively. Some aspects they simply have to live with for the time being. For example, if something is part of my hardware, like how my brain/body is structured. The reason I got what I got will be revealed in the End of Correction. All we can say is that these things are necessary for the correction of the whole.
Hi, nice to meet you.I know that egoism is our sickness. how does kabbalah express the meaning of mental diseases such as both obsessive-compulsive desorder and schizophrenia?
It’s a result of the collective Shattering that we’re all products of, but this aspect of the Shattering gets emphasized in this way in the person. He carries this burden for the rest of humanity. Each person has something of his own, which he carries as a result of the Shattering, until we reach the correction of our common soul.
Hi Julian/Gianni, I loved this last lesson and have only 2 very small questions:
1 What is the relevance of the title “Everyone has a Story” to module 5.3? It seems to me that the central idea here is how to build a second nature that I just don’t have. Am I missing something?
2 At the very end of the 5.4 module Julian said 2 things that I’m struggling to reconcile: “when you’re doing the spiritual work, don’t think of your friends, and definitely don’t pray for yourself, because the concern and the success of your friends, that will be your success.” How do I not think of my friends and yet be concerned for their success? Aren’t I constantly focused on them and praying for their spiritual success, lifting them up above myself?
“He carries this burden for the rest of humanity”.
would you explain a litlle bit better or get in more details?
Hi Paul,
I can’t answer because I don’t have Julian’s videos memorized. The video titles are more or less intended to be attractive, nothing more. The quote you have in the second question certainly is not correct unless there’s some unusual context. I always need to think of my friends – they’re my soul, the matter of my spiritual advancement, what it depends on.
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