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A person still needs maybe a year of independent study to absorb the main articles and he still typically has enough fuel on his own to draw the light he needs to advance.
No, gloom is not a part of the path. One simply won’t advance, except in joy. Always one can find an alternative text to justify some other view. That’s because there are always 3 lines which contradict each other. A person has to receive the resistance but always return to joy, right away. One extra second in suffering is already the Klipa (shell), and one enjoys that suffering – instead of spiritually advancing.
You’re right. It’s a manner of speaking. We don’t do any corrections. But we have the ability to turn to the Light for correction of the state we’re in. That’s called correcting myself, that I build a request, through the ten of course because I can’t build something not inside me from what’s already inside me.
The general Kli is the whole of humanity within which there is Israel – those with the Point in the Heart; and being an external representation of what’s inside the person, one also has these two parts. A part can’t be corrected now, and a part can aim in order to bestow.
I’ll see if I can get an update on Young Group but I don’t think everything rides on that.
We only advance in joy. In sorrow, we don’t move an inch spiritually. “Almost depressed” is no better. It’s zero or one, sorrow or joy. Either I feel I’m on the way to something good or not. If I feel I’m on the way to good, even a good meal, I’m already in joy for the time being. If I feel I’m on the way to a spiritual meal, I’m in joy all the time. How do I feel that? I need to study to draw the Surrounding Lights from those states that await me. If my Point in the Heart is awakened, that means that I have to feed it adequately – otherwise it simply darkens my life without providing spiritual livelihood. Every day and many times a day it needs this food from our sources, lessons, group meetings, and so on. Then the rest of life will balance in relation to this spiritual counterpoint.
What I “say” the Creator doesn’t hear, but it can clarify for me, my desire, polish it. It needs to be clear what I want in each moment, in my desire – and I need to want to want something closer to the friends, connection, Arvut, bestowal.
