[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Certainty is attainment. We don’t have that yet.

Faith, if you mean belief, is not required. Diligence in engaging in the path all the time, is required.

Generally, to do it though, you do need to be connected to a ten. Otherwise, you just aren’t connected to the vessels in you by which you would be able to remain in these thoughts and actions.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

A person has a stage during which he only studies, and tries to grasp as much as he can, to fit the concepts into his corporeal brain; however, it doesn’t work out because these concepts don’t fit into our angular brains because they are integral. It’s like a snake trying to make sense of a beautiful symphony. Not only is he missing sensory receptors to make sense of it, the senses he has are suitable for perceiving the erratic and artificial temperatures in Carnegie Hall and the various vibrations not as harmonious but as a hellish cacophony, like being thrust into the eye of some dark, alien gas planet. That’s how we’re perceiving our world, which is actually the Upper World, already in the end of correction, organized, harmonious, lawful, and beautiful. The advice is to start doing what the kabbalists advise. From doing, we will understand more and more because the feel of the true reality will start to reveal as the senses to feel it start developing. If I’m too, too confused it means I haven’t started. I’m rather circling the wisdom like a cat investigating a potential meal.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

It’s in the article by Baal HaSulam, The Freedom. Yosi Ben Kisma.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Paul,

No, we get naturally the “screen” in our regular 5 senses. The retina in the eye, and so on. Those senses are also desires, even though we take them as “real” whereas we think desires are fluff, airy, and psychological. I have another desire that doesn’t have a screen over it naturally, and that’s why it seems airy and unimportant. If I had a screen on it, I’d perceive in that desire a spiritual world. I don’t get that from nature. I get that from serious efforts in the method of Kabbalah.

But our actions aren’t in vain, because of the fact that all my actions – which are supposed to yield pleasure – leave me with a great deficit on the scale, where on one side I have pain and on the other side pleasure: eventually I do the correct accounting and see that I pay an extraordinarily “unfair” price for the acquisition of these pleasures. With this deficiency, I go towards spirituality, whereas before, I did not have a deficiency for that. Until once is convinced that he must reach it, he doesn’t take it seriously.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Tracey,

No efforts are a problem. If previously I thought I could eliminate my ego – and I investigated the possibility to an extent – now I know from experience that I can’t eliminate the ego. Then I have no desire. The desire is all that was created. I need to take my ego through a process of correction so that it will be used in order to bestow.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

That’s the main thing we’re always working on. The purpose of Kabbalah is to build the sense with which we feel the Upper World as it does not come naturally as do the senses we’re born with. It happens through the Reforming Light that we draw during the study.

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