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Homework Assignment #5
We can attract the reforming light by taking the attitude and intention of being there for our friends, loving them as we love ourselves, praying for their continuous spiritual progress and attainment, forgetting about ourselves. Doing everything we can to connect and to them, become one, so we can join the points of our heart to bring joy to the creator.
The above is easier said than done. I pray for my friends and remember them fondly whenever I think of the friends during the week. Regardless of whether we are together in an event or lesson or apart we are still connected.
Not too sure I will get the recordings in before this week’s lesson…
The last lines were particularly meaningful to me this week… it was a little rough personally, but I take comfort that it is all about the good that does good. Weird how a song I haven’t heard since the ’70s comes back with a message when you need it most.
For this I bless you as the ruin falls. The pains
You give me are more precious than all other gains.Not related to this week’s homework; but a poem by CS Lewis that had been put to music keeps running through my head and I thought I would share it.
As the Ruin Falls – CS Lewis
All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you.
I never had a selfless thought since I was born.
I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through:
I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn.Peace, re-assurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek,
I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin:
I talk of love —a scholar’s parrot may talk Greek—
But, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.Only that now you have taught me (but how late) my lack.
I see the chasm. And everything you are was making
My heart into a bridge by which I might get back
From exile, and grow man. And now the bridge is breaking.For this I bless you as the ruin falls. The pains
You give me are more precious than all other gains.Hi, I’m a little conflicted. I think I heard the Rav say that we should just live our Corporeal life as normal, and not worry about changing anything. Maybe I am misunderstanding what the Rav was saying…
1) If what I am learning on the path of Kaballah and truly want to work toward spiritual altruism; but my daily life to survive in this world requires reception (because my business needs to turn a profit), I feel very incongruent. How do you separate the two, if that is what we are supposed to do?
2) If I do the work with the help of the Rav, authentic sources and the friends and are working in the spiritual world, because our world as Tony would put it is the world of results, how does that affect our day to day life if at all?
I have to find out everything I can about what is concealed once I know something is concealed. The desire is intensified by my natural curiosity. My ego wants to receive the “secrets” which is probably going to be a challenge.
