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Kabbalah agrees that we have nothing to be ashamed of. We are under a law that was arranged before our universe, that says that we shall never again feel shame. That’s why a person lives their whole life never allowing himself to get into a shameful situation. By the same token, people would like to cause others to feel shame, especially when they do things we disapprove of. But spiritually speaking, the Shame that was felt in the Upper Worlds, will never be again because we will correct our desire to receive that lacks an intention to bestow, and then we will be able to receive the true pleasures without shame. Until then, what we experience in our world is called “thin candle” and not the true fulfilment that awaits us.
No, I don’t need to be ashamed if I’m Jeff Bezos. I earned all this because I’m diligent and smart. I deserve it. But not only that. Humanity is indebted to me. Look what wonderful convenience I’ve created for billions of people. Look what wealth my company has given its shareholders. If anything I deserve a Nobel prize. And no matter who you give as an example, they will have justified themselves similarly. Even a thief has his self-justification. Man lives his whole life as he does only to avoid ever feeling shame, and he never does. He would first die than truly feel shame. Every decision he makes is a calculation to avoid shame.
That’s right, Hing. We don’t need, don’t benefit from and even detract from spiritual advancement by breaking our corporeal desires, since those are considered above reproach. They are what you have to give this donkey you live with, for it to exist. The test is if I would prefer not to use it but I need it to live in this world: a normal apartment, car, career, family, etc. As long as it doesn’t get in the way of my spirituality. And if I live this way it becomes clear that I can use it all for the sake of the spiritual goal.
I understand only that the path to the Creator is a very narrow bridge. And ours is the perfect, ideal reality from which to reach it. It is utterly managed by iron laws of nature. We think we’re free and feel that we’re free, but we’re as managed as we understand the inanimate level of nature to be. A bit less we imagine the vegetative level to be under utter laws and government. A bit less we understand the sheer lack of free choice of the animate. And by the time we talk about ourselves, because we’re not above the degree but it’s subject, we’re already utterly convinced that we have free choice and you can’t tell us otherwise. But if we’d be on a higher degree (which we also can’t imagine exists) we’d see that we’re moving around like atoms according to their nature – not living real lives. And to rise to the Upper World, to that higher degree, is also by iron laws. One who reaches that level, and only he, can tell someone else how to reach it (it will never simply occur to the person how to do it, and he also can’t reach it with an a la carte method that seems right to his ego). Therefore he has to find a teacher that he thinks is authentic and follow his every advice. He has to trust his instinct, and choose once, and then stick with the path his chose, and correct himself there, and not be confused by each person or group that claims such and such. This is called “one studies where the heart desires.”
The Upper Force has no problem of time and space. So, another few billion years, no problem. But that same humanity – not the bodies but the desire that is their essence – will be the one to go through the corrections, and every moment longer it waits to undergo these corrections, they become harsher. Like a child who fails the 3rd grade 3 times, 4 times, each time he sees it’s a worse treatment he receives there – and yet the very same tests await him.
There’s truly no worse state possible than the reality we’re in. And in its future is only decline from now on. Development on this level is done. People want things to return to how they were, but those conditions were only to develop us. So it won’t go back to how it was. Never. The Creator has prepared a beautiful adventure for us that lies beyond the barrier to the Upper World. That’s the only reason we’re in this world, and not to do anything else but use it as a launchpad. We still live in this world until the 125th degree. That’s only the correction process. Then there’s more. But we don’t discuss that. We need to correct all our desires one by one. And we never descend. We go from strength to strength. If we go faster, it’s incomparably more pleasant. Not only do we long with love and passion towards the Upper exalted goal but this world we’re in really feels like a launchpad. No unpleasantness needs to come as long as we’re running towards the goal of life. The descent that I feel along the way is only because each moment new desires emerge in me, broken ones, which cause me to look down at my feed bag again, like a donkey, and not at my master (the Upper Force) so then I receive a tiny blow, and hopefully I get in line. If not, a big blow, the world turns black again. Till I remember and start again anew towards the spiritual goal. That’s why one needs a group so that one won’t allow himself to stray and go unconscious towards the goal of life.
