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The perspective on prayer was eye opening. I realized many of my prayers were pleas for the Creator to provide me with something or to change someone in my life. The course emphasized the following:
1. True prayer should be self-judgment or self analysis. The person judges and analyzes himself with regards to the upper force.
2. We ask the Creator to change us, to change our perception so that we can understand Him. We should not ask the Creator to change His attitude towards us.
3. God the Creator does not pay attention to the Words but to the intent and sincerity in our hearts.
The difference between Kabbalah and religion was very revealing:
Kabbalah is a scientific method of establishing DIRECT relationship with the Creator. Kabbalah teaches that the Creator does not change His attitude towards us. Religion teaches an angry God who changes His mind about us based on our actions.
I say my prayers in the morning and at night as per my religion. However, after I say my prayers, I talk to G-d and ask Him to bless the State of Israel, its inhabitants. I ask that He protect all Jews around the world. I ask that he bless all the loving fathers and mothers who work very hard to put food on their children’s table. I ask Him to protect all souls who should need Him. I ask for healing blessings for family members who are ill and for my children. My last words are to thank Him for my life. I thank Him because I came to believe that the tragic events and the blessed events in my life, all had a reason for happening. However, I took this in faith. Now I know that this “faith” of mine has led me to be interested in learning Kabbalah. I can continue to pray and talk to G-d. And I discovering the study of Kabbalah, my intention is definitely to learn the path towards the Creator. Hence, prayer and Kabbalah can still co-exist because they are two different concepts; one does not offend the other. The study and my great intention to acquire the Point in my Heart has now been offered to me and I am most grateful.
The thought that I am actually praying all the time. That prayer is not the words in my thoughts but rather the feeling in my heart.
That feeling in the heart is responding to the external all the time. If I respond out of bitterness for what happens in the external, then this constitutes sin.
But if I can develop the sense to be mindful of how that might be, in any situation, then I might turn the feeling towards that of bestowal. To seek the way of the creator through equivalence of form, with faith above reason.
Simply, beautiful.
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