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Homework #4
I am choosing this text from the source: Attaining the Worlds Beyond pp 144:
It Reads:
“We need not worry about receiving pleasure, since as soon as this correction is made, we will immediately feel the pleasure. Thus, we should concentrate on the task of correcting our desire to receive pleasure—our vessel.
This can be likened to the process of acquiring an apartment. We should not worry about how to get it. The concern should be how to pay for it, and how to earn the money needed for it. As soon as the financial aspect is arranged, we will own the apartment.
Therefore, all the efforts should be concentrated on the money, not on the apartment. The same can be applied to perceiving the spiritual. All efforts should be directed towards creating the conditions necessary to receive the Light, not on the Light itself. When we focus on cultivating altruistic thoughts and desires in ourselves; then we will feel the spiritual pleasure immediately.
I’m choosing this passage because it is timely. We’re learning about the big 3 things we need to attain any kind of spirituality — the topic of the last couple of lessons. Our adherence to the teaching of the Rav, and the feelings we get from the books combined with the desires and efforts of the group over time will create the conditions we need to create the vessel needed to receive the light and that the light will come naturally. We need not chase after the light itself, but focus in equal measure on the 3 great sources of light.”
If I feel this correctly, it gives me great hope and joy because I am in the best place for me to be to develop spiritually. The creator, by no accident, brought me here to these specific friends that I cannot help but Love as his creatures. To Love the creator I love them because he is behind them.
P.S. I am just a child in this work but like any child I know who cares for me. It has been said that words of wisdom can come from the mouth of children, I pray that the creator will bring this child of his wisdom to share that will elevate the group.
Building a desire to bestow even though it is opposite to our nature and we don’t know what it really is.
I feel my desire for spiritual things grow. I expect this course to help me prepare to work with friends. I have had a small taste of it with the weekly Q&A sessions and time in the retreat; just enough to make me feel very “hungry” for connection, and to take what we learned and put it into practice in my daily life.
The more I study, the more opposite I feel I am in my nature to what the Creator wants me to be. I need the help of friends, to read kabbalistic books and learn from a teacher, and to have a true desire for spirituality so that I can give a true prayer to the creator to transform me to be like him, otherwise, there is no hope for spiritual progress without suffering. I hope for my fellow students to find the will of the Creator along the shortest path possible.
Thought-provoking question! What would our world look like if people were to be connected? If our world is the world of results of the spiritual world, our approach to everything would be for the good of others. Our approach to everything would be for the good of others and to bring joy to the Creator. It’s so opposite to what we are now, that I cannot envision it, I think we can imagine it, but we’ll only know it if the Creator reveals his will to us because we would be living according to his will and his plan, not our own.
By myself, I am nothing but a shattered piece with a point in the heart. My desire alone is not enough. I need other people because we need to put ourselves back together to rebuild what was created before we descended. If I help others, that point becomes larger, the desire is enhanced, the stronger the reflected light will be, the more joy we can give our creator. Like it says in Nehamiah 8:10 …The joy of the Lord is my strength. It is his joy, not mine that is the most important, and it can only be given with the intention of the group.
