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Hey David,
I’m not an instructor — in fact I’m very new here — but I was just reading an article ( http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/42596?/eng/content/view/full/42596&main ) that you might find helpful and I hope open discussion here is okay.
I like the Baal HaSulam quote in particular:
From all of Nature’s systems, presented before us, we understand that in any being of the four types—still, vegetative, animate, and speaking, both as a whole and in particular, we find a purposeful guidance, meaning a slow and gradual growth by way of cause and effect. This is similar to a fruit on a tree, guided to a favorable purpose of finally becoming a sweet and fine-looking fruit.And go and ask a botanist, how many phases the fruit undergoes from the time it becomes visible until it is completely ripe. Not only do its preceding phases show no evidence of its sweet and fine-looking end, but as if to vex, they show the opposite of the final shape: the sweeter the fruit is at its end, the more bitter it is in the earlier phases of its development.
Hang in there man, and don’t take the journey for granted.
The will to receive <—-> will to bestow duality has really got me thinking a lot. This is definitely a concept that is new to me. I’ve been thinking about how selfish I have been and that I want to find ways to bestow… to give. I’ve always had an issue with people who seemed to give/bestow as a way to show the rest of the world that they are generous. This usually means that they are bestowing in order to receive a reward, but perhaps I shouldn’t be so judgmental, because it really takes a lot to “bestow in order to bestow” without any egotistical desire. If this topic intrigues anyone, check out Rav Laitman’s summary of Rabash’s article “The Matter of Bestowal” which I am linking here:
http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/daily-kabbalah-lesson/matterofbestowal
I also like the description of reality processing. 5 senses bring the data in, we process it in our machine, and there you go, our perception of reality. Like the snake Oroborous cycling over the same process for eternity… Until we need to develop a 6th sense.
Adam Kadmon and the shattering is also fascinating. I have known of the concept but it is refreshing to see it in context of The Law of Equivalence Form.
I want Kabbalah to lead me to perceive reality as it is — to know how the larger program operates — not just from my own limited and programmed point of view. I liked the line in the intro video for this week that went something like (paraphrase) “The more you desire your inner program to be like the larger outer one, the closer it brings you to know it and enter it.”
I expect to begin how to learn how I can change my perspective and therefore my life, rather than “being in the hands of blind faith.” This is also my desire.
Hello,
My name is Ben and I’m glad to be here. To to answer the question of what I expect from the course: I expect to be introduced to Kabbalah and to feel inspiration to learn more. I think it is true that we often get what we give, so I am ready to give this a lot of attention.
Reading the line “There is nothing else in reality other than two forces–reception and bestowal” caught my attention and made me think of binary reality where opposites are complimentary.
Thank you
