Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective.

[Tony Kosinec- KabU Instructor]

Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective.

[Alex]

The fact that all our 5 senses have a self-serving filter/barrier seems obvious and feels true once you know it, but I hadn’t thought about it this way before.

[Carina]

In Kabbalah, aligning oneself with the Creator through “equivalence of form” (hishtavut ha-tzurah) signifies a profound inner transformation. This process involves reshaping one’s inherent desire to receive into a desire to bestow, thereby mirroring the Creator’s fundamental attribute of selfless giving.

🌟 Understanding Equivalence of Form
The Creator, or Ein Sof (the Infinite), is characterized by pure bestowal—giving without any expectation of return. In contrast, humans are naturally inclined toward receiving for personal gratification. This disparity creates a spiritual distance between humanity and the Creator. Achieving equivalence of form entails transforming our intentions and actions to align with the Creator’s attribute of bestowal, thereby bridging this gap.

As Rav Ashlag elucidates, spiritual proximity is determined not by physical location but by similarity in attributes. When two entities share the same form or qualities, they are spiritually united; when their forms differ, they are spiritually distant.

[ilse]

Well, what amazes me the most, are the points of connection that this path has with the path of Self Realisation. In Self Realisation we learn that how we perceive reality, is depending on our reactif proces, on our likes and dislikes, which are coming from the ego. It perceives everything in relation to itself, which is a “false” identity (we think we have a separate identity but that’s an illusion), the ego is the result of the Jiva (soul) who is identifying itself with a limited form, the body and its 5 senses.

This is also what Kabbalah teaches: the ego is the limited closed box, with the 5 senses who are “deforming” reality. So for me both teachings are telling exactly the same, but they are using different words and images.

The challenge is to transform our litte i, the “false” identity, into the Self (“Self” Realisation). (In Kabbalah the Self is named “the Creator”).  The way that we do that in Self Realisation, is by “neutralizing” our selfish desires. Kabbalah speaks about “correcting” our desires.

The fact that the eastern teaching of Self Realisation is telling the same as Kabbalah, is just so fantastic to discover. Truth is the Same everywhere!

• This reply was modified 9 months ago by ilse.

[Curtis AO]

Sometimes I get the answer to my unknowing by forming the question to resolve it

[Niina Korpela]

How is that? Im glad, saw through visions, its my gift had through my life. Closer I get to this I want to give myself to be part of bigger picture in heavens. Might cry and pray in 5 year old. Might made promise in 13-15 year old, its was need of deep connection and then started to see visions. Let this be my testimony, there is more than what we can sense by physical senses. It started by sensing beyond time and space, energy in buildings. Energy in person´s own field. I was teenager and Uriel been shown in vision and told something weird what made me feel am I worthy to this or whats happening. You are about to journey through desert, leave your house as its been common to those over 10 year old and you will seek master from desert 10 years and then you can return with your family. My life was hard, visions made it easier. I was able to communicate through visions, crying, believing there must be more than this. If not I refuse to be what is now, dont want to. And these moment in deep despair was needed while seeking my journey out from dark to light. I dare even say now days that there is like inner circles truth. Message from spirit/heavens gets corrupted in minute it steps in lower reality and thats real challenge what was told me heart is only what has ears to listen anymore. So I figured out from book named The Kybalion about “Lips of wisdom is closed except ears of understanding, point is earths heart what will listen is somewhere hidden through our own hearts like portals to connect all with together and tune to listen. Its not for me easy always to find right frequency to communicate, thats why I say what I dont mean or in ways what I dont mean from my heart and thats maybe common to everyone of us. I hope I find peace, happiness and love through Kabbalah. Im so tired of even dating and hearing you are too spiritual to me, its enough to me now. I dont need to try fit in that box anymore to hide my spirituality. And who knows maybe I find my happiness from unity and feeling more connected to that we all are as one.

[Anita Kinoshita]

What I did not expect to learn is that in Kabbalah reality doesn’t exist outside of us.

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