[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Paul,

Those Still, Vegetative, Animate and Speaking are truly the ones we are familiar with in our world. Except that to Kabbalists, we are not yet on the speaking degree and have nothing from it in us. Our thoughts and desires and dreams – all that we have belongs to the animal degree. Dolphins also talk, and so do trees and other species. Emanating some communicative substance or sound is not called speaking in the language of Kabbalah. That refers to a spiritual state already. And once I reach the first degree of spirituality I start-over this development of 4 Phases, but on the spiritual degrees, and yes they correspond to the 4 worlds Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut. What I do have from the Upper World, which animals do not, is a single black Point called the Point in the Heart. First it is buried beneath the animal desires for many incarnations, and then it surfaces, demanding realization.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Marla,

I think you answered your own question. Study wherever you want, it is written, “one studies where the heart desires.” So, you have to check, not every place, but where your heart desires, and once you’ve done your check, that you felt it is the right place, the closest to the truth, you glue yourself to that place and only that place. If you have a Point in the Heart that is strong, then since that Point actually fell down from the Upper World that the Kabbalists are writing about, and because there, in truth, is not more than one method, rather Kabbalists write the opposite, that the way is along a “very narrow bridge”, it’s an invisible bridge one has to walk according to careful following of a specific method with a specific guide…so if your Point in the Heart is pronounced, it has a sense of where the truth is, the truth being that method it senses can lead it back to the root it belongs to in the Upper World. If that Point is not really ripe, then, in any case, it is not seeking such a direct method, which leaves no icons, jewelry, rituals to hold onto in this world and let the person feel that he is succeeding by them. And they too should study where their heart desires.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

People who come to the wisdom of Kabbalah typically are not drawn to being social, even if for one reason or another they may act that way in some situations. Because a strong Point in the Heart specifically resists connection with others. It’s the point of singularity that is sui generis, has nothing in common with any other. But in the Kabbalistic group it can because there it has the goal of Creation to realize. It can tolerate this connection because this Point is actually an incomparably greater egoistic point which can only connect when the purpose of connection is nothing less than revelation of the Creator. It’s not that it can’t connect, but that it doesn’t have fuel, motivation, interest to do so until it finds this perfect context in which to do so purposefully. Other people also are egoists, and only connect with others for egoistic reasons without a shred of the will to bestow being involved in this inclination – only one without a revealed strong Point in the Heart can be motivated by reasons apparent in our world, while the Point in the Heart in this respect works against the person in this world since this Point is only willing to work for the spiritual reward, which it is drawn to because the spiritual world is a billion times greater than all the pleasures of this world combined. Of course it still resists connection, but that is because the revelation of the Creator has to be with two forces: the resisting force, the force of the ego that doesn’t want to connect, and the Point in the Heart that longs to return to its root.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

The quality of Bina is a spiritual quality, the quality of bestowal without reception. It is a stop along the way to Receiving in Order to Bestow, which is not possible to reach directly. In fact, ones whole work needs to be to reach Bestowing in Order to Bestow, without reception, like Bina. Of course this doesn’t pertain to one’s corporeal life, to what one already is receiving. It pertains to an additional plane to the one we live on. What we receive there is something we’re not receiving already. We can’t receive it until we develop first this quality of Bina in relation to those pleasures. Does one feel void? Well, we feel void as it is, in our lives. We feel darkness, even in the best case scenario. Even what we call pleasure is really darkness because the contact with the pleasure directly, leaves us empty and bitter. And the bitterness from the accumulated experience and understanding that this is how it works, only increases. That’s why spirituality is a great addition to what we have, and in no way compromises it. Because we develop the property of bestowal, we are able, eventually, to receive in order to bestow. And, like I said, we have never actually received before, because the moment we come into contact with the pleasure, it evaporates, because we are missing the Screen required to receive.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Mira,

How can you generate connection with those whose views are very dissimilar? You need to find a common point on which to build the connection. That works in all cases, but the true connection is built on the common point, which exists in every person but is not revealed in every person yet. This point longs for its root in the Upper World. This point is eternal. So, while I have some passing common interests around which to form some corporeal connection with those around me, the true connection and one that is eternal and through which it is possible to reveal the Creator is through the connection with others who have this revealed Point in the Heart.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

I don’t see where you found that quote, but it’s ok. I don’t know what an action of conscience is, this isn’t typical language in the wisdom of Kabbalah. I know that no inclination that comes from within me can be in the direction of bestowal, since bestowal is the Creator’s quality, and He imprinted me with the opposite quality: receiving. So, it’s certain that anything found in the ocean of my nature is wet, i.e. no matter what is found in me is reception. But I can take the advice of Kabbalists, and just my involvement already makes it “wet” too. However, there is a force in nature that, when I try to go in the direction Kabbalists advise, which is towards connection with others who are making similar attempts (studying Kabbalah also), this force, called Reforming Light, corrects me. And by correcting me towards them, I am also corrected towards the Creator, and then He is revealed.

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