Preparation Prompt: What does transitioning from a self-centered perception of reality to one grounded in altruism entail?

[Julian Edwards- KabU Instructor]

Preparation Prompt: What does transitioning from a self-centered perception of reality to one grounded in altruism entail?

[Allen]

It would the mean living a more balanced life with a clearer perception of reality with the desire for the Creator and others growing toward a unified harmony.

[Gamelah]

I’m not sure, this is what I want to learn.

[maria santos]

To me it means, seeing beyond our current reality which is not real or only partially accurate and shifting our thoughts from how can I get something out of this or how do I minimize the pain in a situation, and feeling that everything we experience is from the Creator and can only be good because it only bestows good. Of course truly shifting requires the Creator, but we must change our intention.

[Sandor]

It means stopping processing reality with the egoistic self instead of using the intention to give friends what they need as they were me to perceive reality.

[Rosie]

In order to achieve the level of bestowal we cannot take the path of abstinence, or think that making our corporal bodies suffer is going to somehow benefit others, or the Creator. The Creator made us with the desire to receive and without fully understanding this nature, we would have a difficult time understanding how to reach the level of bestowal. From how I see it now, more correction would be needed to put that misunderstanding on the right path to real, reality. And when we can rise above the desire to receive we can begin to develop the level of bestowal. Part of this is realizing the only real rule in reality is the law of nature, that encompasses all creation, still, vegetative, inanimate and speaking.

[Sarah]

HI Gianni & friends,

In the RELATED video with Rav Leitman answering Questions about who am I & Does G_D exist, he says that the body is just meat and not worth bothering about.

I m wondering if this isnt worth questioning.  I agree that, once a person is dead, then the body behaves like meat, & rots (gross ).  But, while we are alive, I know from experience that it has its own subtle, non-verbal intelligence.

We pick up many messages with our 5 senses, some of which give us understandings way beyond the obvious.  Things like tuning in to what is going to happen, sensing in advance what someone else’s motives may be. I can allow my senses to behave as antennae which can pick up messages from outside of myself. Even my sense of the sacred seems to be held by physical sensitivity, in some way .

I m wondering what you can tell me about this, and if our senses can, then, inform us of the Spirit?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Sarah,

You’re right about everything – and… all of that is corporeal, phenomena of the corporeal world. Some of these we know, or think we know well, and some we are unsure whether we know them, and some are totally mysterious to us. And yet all of the above are related only to what Kabbalists call our world. And when I rise to the Upper World, I see this and understand all of these phenomena, too. One sees them all, as looking at the Earth from a plane, that they are down there on the level of this corporeal world beyond a shadow of a doubt. And from these phenomena I have no more hope of reaching the spiritual than one on the ground has hopes of reaching up to touch the plane in the sky.

Try to write any questions in the Q&A forum as I don’t usually look here.

[Sarah]

Thanks, Gianni,

Apologies , it was accidental that my Q got into the wrong box.  You found it anyway – which feels a nice confirmation , how come the connection WAS made?

So my question came from where I am now, entirely in this world. True, thanks!

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