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When a person starts getting a sensation that he stands before only the Creator, in each situation: There is none else besides Him. There are a few more things, but this is already very advanced.
We have to learn in Baal HaSulam’s article The Freedom what is meant by free choice. We don’t have free choice because we always go with the reigns by which the Upper Force animates all our actions. And, as a double concealment, we also believe that we are the ones doing all those actions, by our volition – not realizing that all the decision will we ever make, after all our pained deliberations, could be shown to us in a book, already now. And, even worse, we would find that knowing all of them in advance, we would, in the moment, still be unable to resist doing everything written in that book. Therefore, we need the wisdom of Kabbalah, the method by which I can develop this Point in the Heart. It needs to be developed further, and then it will be a counterpoint to the mechanism by which all my decisions are usually made, being my desire to receive, against which stands nothing – it always determines everything I do because there’s nothing else in me. There’s a Point in the Heart but it’s still not strong enough to be a counterforce. It’s like I get in the car and if I don’t touch the wheel, the car goes automatically towards the left. I’m like that: nothing stands against my ego yet, to turn the wheel so I can drive straight. So I just drive in circles.
Who told you to help your neighbor fix his car? 🙂
You can only bestow by changing your intention. For now, even if you will help your neighbor fix his car, you will do it because of some calculation for self-benefit. Even if the only benefit will be that he will see you as a good neighbor, and then you’ll be living in a nicer neighborhood, with more good will among the neighbors. That’s actually considered bestowing in order to receive, using giving in order to get even more. And that’s how it is with all our calculations, whether we identify our egoistic intentions or not. If we identified them – well then we would not be able to live with ourselves, seeing that all we think about 24/7 is about how to exploit everyone and everything around us. Therefore, just do towards your neighbors what you would like to do, according to what calculations you would have made. But don’t do it because you think Kabbalah said to do it.
Kabbalah only tells us that we need to draw a force from the study of Kabbalah. It can change our intentions and with different intentions we will see a better world, a completely new world.
Hi Adelina,
The future actually determines the present. It seems to us that it is the opposite way around: the past led up to and determined the present state. In fact, because the final state is necessary, the state before it has to happen, and the state before that has to happen, and back and back until it gets to where we are today. My thoughts are those the Upper Force is giving me about how to realize His plan. To everyone He is doing this, and so all the thoughts of everyone are guiding us towards His aim. We think they are our thoughts but they’re implanted in us, and then we realize them.
