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- September 13, 2021 at 8:09 pm EDT in reply to: Engage in discussions on the week 4 lesson and materials, receiving guidance from a Kabbalah instructor. #62942HingParticipant
Hello instructor,
In Video 4.2 – You Get Back What You Invest! [at time stamp 04:04] , Instructor Julian said:
“We’re tasting it with our senses and we’re enjoying that food which is pulling us into our centers, into our body, into ourselves, and at the same time we are trying to stay on that spiritual intention. We’re trying to think that we are receiving this pleasure, but we’re doing it for our friends, that we’re trying to externalize ourselves, and at the same time we’re feeling the pleasure. This inner dichotomy is not a battle. It’s not about suffering, but there is an inner play here.”
I believe this whole paragraph is about Malchut’s decision to not receiving any light for self pleasure except for bestowal. My question is about “to externalize ourselves” in “we’re doing it for our friends, that we’re trying to externalize ourselves”, what does “externalize ourselves” mean? What exactly was being externalized there?
[at time stamp 04:04] Video 4.2 – You Get Back What You Invest!
Thank you!
September 13, 2021 at 6:50 pm EDT in reply to: Preparation Prompt: In Kabbalah, our primary task is to draw the reforming light, which supplies all we require for spiritual progress. Moreover, it’s said that aiding others accelerates our own spiritual ascent. How does this dynamic operate? What does supporting fellow seekers with a spiritual inclination entail? #62939HingParticipantI imagine a Kabbalah Gathering with 1000’s of Points in the Heart feels like our One Heart is getting very big and the sensation of it pumping strongly is electrified.
September 11, 2021 at 11:49 am EDT in reply to: Get your questions answered by a KabU instructor. #62664HingParticipantHi Gianni,
Do we all have shame? People who have a big strong ego for themselves, to take from others, to build their personal success, do not seem to suffer from shame. (Maybe they are unconscious of the shame.) But people who are more inclined to seeking “spirituality” (even conventional spirituality not aligned with Kabbalists’ definition) seem to suffer from lots of shame and guilt in them.
Thank you, again!
September 11, 2021 at 11:11 am EDT in reply to: Get your questions answered by a KabU instructor. #62660HingParticipantHi Gianni,
Malchut’s decision to not receiving any light for self pleasure except for bestowal does not mean negation/renunciation of, for example, the physical body, right? (In my experience, negation/renunciation of the physical body is a form of shame.) The decision could express itself as change of value about material things as tools, e.g. A person is used to eat for tastes, comfort (the head serving the desire), but after his Malchut decides not to receive any light except for bestowal, s/he now eats to live, eat to live longer so s/he can bestow longer on Earth (head above desires). Another example, s/he used to use the internet for entertainment but now use the internet for connecting with the Ten, building one’s spiritual environment or dissemination. Am I understanding correctly?
Thank you!
September 11, 2021 at 8:45 am EDT in reply to: Ask anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor. #62655HingParticipantHi Gianni,
My apologies for a series of questions. Hope this is the last. Thank you for your patience.
In your reply: “And there are special parts in it – the group of people drawn like particles in a field to Kabbalah – through whom I must adapt my bestowal first. Through them I bestow to humanity and through that whole pipeline to the Creator.”
There are non-Kabbalah groups which work on group synthesis/soul synthesis. Through group synthesis/soul synthesis they serve humanity, and also connect with other world serving synthesized groups. (They are NOT activists.) Are they means to achieve the same goal the kabbalists are aiming at?
Thank you!
September 10, 2021 at 12:43 pm EDT in reply to: In your own words, what is the purpose of this course of study? What do you hope to attain? #62561HingParticipantIs it to draw in more upper light while we are studying?
I hope to attain the ability to bestow.
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