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Hey Brad,
I can find the quote, but I’ll tell you the interpretation of this requires redefining the world “secular” and “religious”. In this case, he’s referring how a person uses their will to receive. One first must be disconnected from the Giver, and this disconnection BHS refers to, often, as “secular” in one way or another. Meaning, before one can start the work in correction, the recognition of evil, of disconnection from the Source must be apparent and felt. If one is “religious”–also in the meaning you’re familiar with–this person would not feel they are lacking connection with the Source and would have no reason to engage in corrections.
Hope that’s clear, thanks!
Hi Michael,
Realizing it’s the cause, meaning feeling it in the deepest part of you where you actually begin to hate it is a very advanced state. We have to undergo many stages, many different sensations and discernments for the accumulation to build in us in a sufficient manner which is called “recognition of evil”. There are a few layers to that, but the true form actually becomes a prayer for change. The only way to really identify it is the inner work a person does towards others that are with them on the path. When you want to try and be opposite of the ego, when you want to try and do something for the sake of others truly, this is the only way you’ll be faced with the rejecting force. The more you work in that way the more “colors” and gradients you can perceive about what it is, this thing called “ego”.
Thanks,
Chris
Hey Michael,
True egoism is something spiritual already. It’s the quality opposite the quality of bestowal. Without the revelation of this force, we can’t truly feel or understand egoism. What we sense in the meantime is just the confirmation that we in fact do think only about ourselves, but this isn’t an illumination of essence of the quality itself since there’s no contrast to bestowal.
We suffer like animals suffer, just more since we have more refined and broad desires which just means we have more ways to suffer–like you mentioned–but before the point in the heart awakens, it’s just this “program” that runs on us that brings us from state to state: carrot>stick>carrot>stick and this is our development. This is how the Creator created the system that gradually raises us to feel a need in something more. We don’t know how many times we have to take a stick before the point in the heart awakens–this has to do with the root of the soul.
Thanks,
Chris
It means knowing you are a will to receive and the Creator is the quality of bestowal. This quality is His quality which is of course Good that Does Good–and you want to be like Him.
Words are just how you interpret what you feel in your heart. What you have in your heart is the prayer, not the words.
Hi mrc,
Gratitude is more of a reaction and less of something you force. That’s not to say aiming to want to be grateful for each moment even though you’re just hearing the Kabbalists tell you that each second is tailor-made for your path of correction, yet we don’t feel this but we can certainly wish we would. That’s a prayer. However, the aim should be less about the pleasure and more about the Giver of the pleasure.
Chris
