[Helen]

Hi Gianni

today’s class is about 4 Phases Before the Machsom. you talked about one phase, which is revelation of the will to receive gradually, maybe another phase which is after those needed revelation all done, I will truly feel the desire to bestow then I will ask for that.  what are the other phases that I am missing?

thanks

Helen

[Helen]

You said, “The root has to at least touch the branch, but it can be in a beautiful way if I’m already running far ahead of this blow.”

I’m trying to understand what is fixed and what is flexible.

Is the sequence of corporeal events essentially fixed, while what changes is my inner state and what I am able to correct through those events?

For example, on the path of suffering, event A might bring fear and confusion, and I could remain in that state for a long time and eventually I may have something correct there. On the path of Torah,  the same event A would still occur at its predetermined time, but I would relate to it very differently because some corrections had already been made. In that case, would the same event now serve to reveal and correct a different Reshimo, or another “rung,” because I’ve already advanced?

Or do you mean something different: that the corporeal/branch manifestations themselves are somewhat flexible, so that the actual events of my life can change depending on my spiritual advancement?

I tend to think you meant the first possibility, but I’d like to understand it correctly.

[Helen]

when you say blows, you don’t mean that we can change life events, you meant how it would hit us, how we relate to those events, either though longer pain and confusion or shorter pain and clarity. correct?

[Helen]

Hi Gianni, I may have asked this question before but I get confused again:

I learned that all of reality advances us toward correction, whether through the path of Torah or the path of suffering. At the same time, I also learned that our work is to consciously draw the Reforming Light. What actually awakens the Reforming Light? can experiences in ordinary corporeal life also can be used to awaken the Reforming Light? What is the essential condition for attracting the light?

thanks

Helen

 

[Helen]

Hi Gianni, thank you for this dialogue, it helps me greatly in sorting out the key elements of this method. I am somebody who always wants to understand the logic of what I am doing, why I am doing , where I am heading to and how to measure if I am on the right track. below is my attempt to summarize my thinking right now. I know this probably will evolve as I advance, but for who I am right now,  can you comment if I am on the right track? anything critical missing?

1. Direction
In every thought, action, and interaction, aim toward bestowal(as much as I understand what it is) as though the Creator were standing before me.

2. Aim
Do not expect my above thoughts/actions to change me directly,  to invite the Reforming Light to perform the correction simultaneously.

3. Fuel
Continually increase the greatness of the Creator through the society(classes, books, teachers), seeing the friends primarily through their yearning for the Creator rather than their personalities, and by supporting each friend’s unique Lo Lishma fuels.

4. Measure
Measure progress not by changes in my personality, but by whether the Creator and the goal become more important than self-concern, and whether I increasingly relate to friends through our connection with the Creator, rather than what I like or dislike.

thanks

Helen

[Helen]

it was copy and paste from the transcript on Kabbalahmedia.

I get the part about not changing our qualities but using it for bestowal. but in lo lishma, we do not even know what real bestow is, nor do I have clear view on my own qualities. for example, if I “think” I have a tendency of belittling myself, behind that it actually might be pride, but I do not know how to look at it correctly. How do I use that “quality”  in my relation to the Creator? and how do I use that correctly to benefit the society?

thanks

Helen

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