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Freedom is the release from captivity to one’s ego. It comes from realizing that God is the only truth in the universe and that we are a part of God, held as one with our Creator through love. Our ego has been given to us to help us come to this realization. We are free when we have fully accepted the truth about ourselves and stop making gifts to ourselves knowing we are whole and complete and in need of nothing. Freedom is when we reach a point in our lives where we are unable to accept anything for ourselves, and so we gladly receive in order to give. Freedom is to know we do not need to seek to find anything; that we no longer hold ourselves captive to our ego. All that is needed to attain freedom is to change our environment like the decision we all made to study Kabbalah.
My best experience from the previous course was in understanding my reality and how I am responsible for my perception and experience of life. I hope the next course will teach me how I can apply this knowledge in life.
The course has taught me that the world I see outside of me bears witness to an inner condition. That is, my perception and experience of life is based entirely on the way I see myself. The world outside of us is abstract reality, or abstract light, and all objects and events presented to me in the external world have no meaning and no value in themselves. I am the one who gives everything I see its meaning and value based on the way in which I would use them to serve my needs.
If I have a defensive mindset (i.e., if I operate out of my ego) it is only because I do not know my reality; I do not know myself. And so, I mistakenly see myself as an individual who is isolated from everyone and everything and needs to fend for himself. I develop a very strong defensive mindset based on the false belief that I have a number of serious deficiencies within me, and that I need to compete with others to cater for my needs. Operating out of this center of gravity (i.e., seeing the world through the filter of one’s guilt) produces pain and causes me to act out of fear, putting myself at enmity with life and causing me and all life forms around me to suffer. In this condition, I have so little faith in myself that it is as if I am asking for the experience of spiritual death, which is the intention or prayer, and so the universe always grants me what I ask for myself.
On the other hand, the wisdom of Kabbalah aims to correct this mistake by revealing the truth about me. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches me that I need not change the world outside of me; I only need to change the way I choose to see it. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches me that I am one with God (i.e., the Creator and Creation) and that my oneness with God is the only reality in truth. God is love and I am the love of God. I am the presence of light on earth. I am loved by my Creator, and I am love. This awareness is the source of my abundance, joy and fulfillment, and it is the love of God that renders me whole and complete. There is nothing the external world can provide me that has any meaning and value whatsoever, except in providing me with opportunities to act according to my true nature in God by extending my peace onto the world through my relationships. My peace and abundance come from knowing that I am the light of the world and the only thing I see from the world in truth is a reflection of my own light.
By understanding the intention behind every action presented before us so that we can achieve equivalence of form (be at peace with it) by using our vessel of reception to bestow. Our aim is to arrive at a balanced state with nature for the benefit of mankind and all forms of life.
We get in touch with the Upper Force and act with it mutually through the attainment of equivalence of form through the wisdom of Kabbalah.
