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Then what’s the point of the Masach and inverting our intention? I understand that correction comes from the Creator alone, but you’re saying the only thing we can do is practice in a group and allow the Light to do the work?
OK this is where the language starts getting tricky: “aim toward bestowal to others without any reception to self” sounds like a total nullification of receiving at all and only bestowing to others. But since our very nature is the will to receive, we have to use that quality with the corrected intention of bestowal so that it becomes receiving in order to bestow.
This is why I asked whether, at least in the first stages, “receiving not only for myself” is already counted as bestowal – where the correct form of receiving is not nullification of reception, but rather the Creator being included in the reception, so that it is no longer for my sake alone.
Beautiful, thank you for that explanation.
My last lingering question is how exactly the core free intention looks like: are we receiving to bestow to others INSTEAD of ourselves, or are we INCLUDING others in our will to receive, thereby transforming it to bestowal?
The former just sounds like egoic altruism to me and is basically impossible (“I receive not for me, but for you.”), where as the latter sounds much more realistic and honest (“I am receiving not ONLY for my own sake, but for yours as well”).
The first sounds like a nullification of desire, the second sounds like it leverages it.
Yes, this is great. Now since there really is none else besides Him, and we are one collective soul/creation, isn’t our relationship with the group essentially another form of receiving for “self”, but at a higher level than simply our own individual ego desires? I know that practically we experience each other as separate and that’s where our work is, but I like seeing where all this leads.
So ultimately, is the relationship with the group just practice and training for our relationship with the Creator? That even if some one found themselves in a situation without a ten/group, they can still focus on the real end goal?
So to translate it to how it would look in our lives, this process would look like some one who, no matter what they did, simply could not find fulfillment in anything they do, and cries out to the Creator for help, realizing they are powerless to find wholeness on their own?
When you say “over many, many states that would be thrown at the person”, that means this person would be constantly tossed by the waves sent by the Creator, and that entire process is for the person to realize it is not up them whether they sink or swim, that everything is up to the Creator?
So in the case of some one that has already been beaten down, the beginning of the work is the realization that their suffering isn’t even about them, its about the “exile” and detachment from the Creator, and rectifying it for His sake instead of our own?
Yes, of course simply learning or knowing about these concepts isn’t enough. But surely some people can reach that point before ever coming across Kabbalah – they simply feel a deep existential Shame regarding receiving for themselves, or engaging with any of their desires.
That’s why I asked if the 4 Phases also map out to our experience of relating to Desire, because it seems like that person can end up in a state similar to Behina Bet where they close themselves off as much as possible from desire to simply stop feeling that shame.
I’m asking this because all these concepts seem to be happening in the Upper Worlds, and I’m not sure exactly how it relates work “down here”. Say you’ve already begun to feel that Shame, is the work now to begin engaging with those desires with a corrected intention?
