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You need to simply be good to those around you – approximately according to what’s generally expected of generally “nice” people. Not exceedingly nice though.
On top of that, I need to study the Wisdom of Kabbalah in all of my truly free time (which everyone has plenty of, when we look honestly).
These measures ensure that one has a balanced approach to corporeality, first of all, because beginners often waste their energy and thus tire themselves trying to “do something” spiritual in relation to corporeality. Corporeal life is one surface, on which the most spiritual thing is to not do anything, by which I mean not to do anything “spiritual” because all you’ll think to do will be wrong, and about this it is written “sit and do nothing – that’s better.” But your barometer is what I said above, to be good, normal. A Kabbalist beginner usually has some problem or other with this advice, and doesn’t realize how much of a problem keeping it, is. In fact, just with this, one stumbles for many years usually.
The rest, the Light will take care of. It advances you, when you study. Additionally, the precise spiritual work will become clearer. No, it’s not normal for Kabbalists to be depressed. On the contrary, to be in great elation. But yes, it’s sometimes that way at the start.
My intention is all for self-love, so does everybody around me. correct? if no judging is required, shouldn’t that include not judging myself? accept that’s my essence and try to use it the right way?
Yes
I guess I am a bit lost here. we are all created as this desire to receive, me, you, him, her… how come they are found in perfection in the world of Eyn Sof? if they are, am I not?
You are, but that doesn’t matter. What you feel and have clearly in your senses is what matters.
Also not sure that I understand ” except for the projections from my inner qualities that stand between Eyn Sof and my degree.”
Between the perfection that is the perfect, connected Vessel, which includes all of humanity, and what you feel now, is a projection of all the possible intentions of yours that are something other than for the sake of the Creator. With them, you’re in a world. That’s why you can’t judge anyone and can’t correct anyone except yourself. All is futile except for this.
Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah by Baal HaSulam is a good starting point, and we have the Blueprint of Creation course here which is a short distillation of this text.
Yes, as it’s written here:
It is written, “There is none else besides Him.” This means that there is no other force in the world that has the ability to do anything against Him. And what one sees, that there are things in the world that deny the upper household, the reason is that this is His will.
This is deemed a correction called “the left rejects and the right pulls closer,” meaning that what the left rejects is considered a correction. This means that there are things in the world that, to begin with, aim to divert a person from the right way, and by which he is rejected from Kedusha [holiness].
The benefit from the rejections is that through them a person receives a complete need and desire for the Creator to help him since he sees that otherwise he is lost
When we correct our perception of reality, we see that all we’re seeing are our own intentions. Since my intentions are for self-love, all I have in my world are people who act out of self-love. Therefore, I don’t need to judge them, but judge myself. In truth, they’re found in perfection in the world of Eyn Sof, except for the projections from my inner qualities that stand between Eyn Sof and my degree.
But there is something to grasp onto. You just need to remember that what you are reading is only about the connection in the group, in which the Upper Light is revealed. If you keep this fixed in your mind, you’ll be near enough to the Light, for it to work on you. This will not allow you to be confused and to materialize things. By materializing I also mean thinking the text belongs to constructs you already have in mind and heart. It’s precisely the dissatisfaction and impatience with this limitation that causes the right requests inside a person, for the Light to bring them closer.
The Zohar is ok sometimes. Shamati is indispensable – there’s no other book like it in all the wisdom of Kabbalah.
