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Gratitude for for the past, present, and future state – is one mode. The other is a request. I should have practically no other modes. I am doing, doing, doing all the time, but with the knowledge that by doing I’m only inviting the Light, and not that I can really do something.
Hi Verena, we always have the ability to overcome any state, but the ability is planted outside us, in the environment. It’s a formula by which there is always sufficient force in the connection between you, and it’s pre-calculated that one can’t overcome all the states on their own. Like a scientific or political hero leaves a legacy behind in this world that can be enjoyed in later generations, I need to be a hero of bestowal, uplift the society, pouring all my forces into it, into the connection, so the friends will connect to each other. Then, when the tables inevitably turn, I’ll be dead, and they’ll revive me. Both physically, but also by dint of the system of forces that’s built this way, the forces I pour out are just what’s needed to revive me in other states I’ll be in. They’re also just what my friends need now in the states they’re in – as we’re in a perfect, complimentary system of Arvut.
Hi Adelina,
It’s not yet the Light of Nefesh. We call it the Ohr Makif in general because we don’t attain it. We can get smart and say it’s Ner Dakik, or the Light of AB-SAG, but what matters is that there’s a force outside of us that responds to our every inner request. If that request is what the Light wants to give, our correction goes faster because both we and the Light want the same to happen.
Human giving is a form of reception for oneself, disguised as giving.
The Creator’s giving is actual bestowal, which we call Light.
Hi Emily,
We are built like Pavlov’s Dogs, where every time we get pleasure from some source it reinforces our propensity to return to that source. Each time the pleasure enters us and departs, our desire for it increases with the feeling of missing it. But this is only up until a certain threshold beyond which the returns start diminishing, our pleasure decreases, and does so all the way down to zero pleasure, and even negative pleasure, until our life is wrapped in a veil of darkness, and the source of pleasure is no more, but I need that source now just to alleviate the darkness. Now begins a process whereby the darkness reduction starts diminishing. Say the pleasure has all but disappeared and in place of pleasure I have 100 grams of darkness. Now, instead of getting pleasure from the drug (or whatever) each time, I get only a reduction of this darkness. At first, it’s reduced 100%, then 90%, 80%, and so on until it can no longer affect the darkness – let alone provide any pleasure. All this is not even considering the effects on my body. This is how it is with every pleasure.
There is no solution in this world because that’s how we are built: we are meant to reach despair from reception in the above form, to see that it’s not just this way with this particular pleasure, but with all pleasures, and that the true pleasure is in another direction: bestowal outside myself, toward the Creator.
But on a simpler level, using the same principle, one needs to exchange the pleasure that controls him for another. For example, to engage in sport, exercise. This contradicts and cancels, to some extent, desires in the opposite direction. One has to fill one’s time, and the airways of one’s thought, with something else. There’s no other way. Unfortunately, we are built in an all-or-nothing kind of way. We either receive or bestow, are healthy or sick. It’s only possible to be in the middle after establishing a strong this-is-forever-and-all-there-is singularity on on the positive side.
Hi Hope,
It is written, holy are the words that lead to action. For the words to lead to action, I need to know that they refer to me – and to understand their instructions. It’s true that the Torah is the highest book. That’s referring to its quality in isolation. What about when I enter the picture? When I read it, do I know that it is all about me and contains nothing but direct instructions? Or do I feel like I’m reading a history, a story, etc. If so, it doesn’t lead to a holy action, that is, a spiritual correction. It’s like a physics book is far more important than some kindergarten science book but for he kindergartener, it’s of no use – and one who wants not just to be religious but correct their soul needs something for someone who is in kindergarten relative to the spiritual world so that he will be able to make a move, based on the instructions he’s given. And not be given instructions that he does not even recognize as instructions.
