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Maybe you want to jump the gun a bit, so it seems as though you’re lacking what to do to advance. I think soon you’ll have more than enough. I don’t think various artistic expressions are going to help. You’re right that there could be a game that is more oriented toward the goal of life. However, it’s not that it would work as swimmingly as you imagine. First, I’d need to know how to build it – not technically but internally. Then, though, the user ultimately would, after some superficial external play, need to learn the wisdom of Kabbalah and discover an inner game. There is the real game, and it can’t be externalized. We don’t have any kind of technology like it.
You can’t. It’s already reached the level of this world. You have to deal with it on the level of this world.
I’m assuming that what’s happening is for something I did. I’m assuming what I did was bad. I’m taking credit for something the Creator did with me. And I’m tying these false assumptions together into a model of how the world is governed. It’s exactly like I need to please Hapi or the Nile won’t flood or avoid black cats. It’s a kind of religion, but reality doesn’t work that way.
All the bad we feel is that we’re behind in our correction, so what could have been dealt with at a higher level, now I have to deal with according to the laws of this world, which are also the Creator’s laws, at the level of this world. Here, He has police, courts, world leaders, terrorists. I have to deal with them as they are, according to normal logic, without any imaginations about invisible forces.
Yes, but the only evil in the world is actions done without a spiritual intention. To ensure my actions don’t fall into that category, I need to develop spiritual intentions. Of course, in the meantime, as there is no usual definition here of evil, and I must co-exist with all the evil in the world, I don’t ‘turn the other cheek’ when someone hits me, but hit them back, and even hit them first if I see the punch coming. Since I’m behind on my inner correction, I have to deal with what could have been inner spiritual corrections – in the material of this world. About this, there’s already nothing to do but deal with it in the ways accepted generally by society. Going forward I will try to make more corrections internally, before those corrections come as corporeal matter.
Hi Ben,
If you watch Yo-Yo Ma play or take a few lines from Hemingway or a sketch by Picasso, it appears as something I could almost do myself. The greater the expertise of the performer, the more the performance seems as easy and natural as grass growing. Now, hand me the cello, pencil or paintbrush to try. When my senses, instincts, and understanding enter, the problems begin. Until now, we’ve spoken of the actions of the Creator, from Above. We can imagine them, imagine ourselves in these stages. They’re even beautiful to go into as into a movie or musical performance that whisks us far away from our ordinary life, and we live vicariously through this drama. But in reality, it’s very far from our a state. And what we’re entering now, is much closer, but in being closer evokes the messiness and shattering of our state. In short, since it’s closer to realization by me, rather than actions the Creator does in some world of Eyn Sof, for some, it’s too close to actual correction and realization of the purpose of Creation. After all, the ego doesn’t want that.
Hi Peter,
It’s very logical and in the right direction. Is it exactly correct? Exactly correct is what’s written in Rabash and Baal HaSulam. It’s a good exercise to take their articles and rewrite them for oneself, to make them clearer, more understood. Later, we’ll see that we need to gradually change back everything we changed, to how they had it. They wrote the manual for our soul. As we ascend the degrees, which are vastly different, these writings turn out to be universally applicable, true each time in a new way.
But it’s good to think for oneself too, and however you think about it is good if it leads to actions of connection.
