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that clarifies the role of corporeal pain. My followup question is: when specific egoistic qualities are revealed through pain: for example insecurity, comparison, competitiveness ,etc. How should I correctly relate to these revelations in the work? not to aim to improve a corporeal problem but to transform those deficiencies to spiritual deficiencies that I can pray for correction?
Hi Gianni
Regarding prayer: I realize that almost all the prayers I can form come from knowledge, from what we read and what we are taught , rather than from an actual inner desire. In moments of suffering, whether in corporeal life or in the work in the Ten, my spontaneous prayer is always “why does it have to be this way?” or “please fix or change this.” Even when I pray for faith, for example, “give me the strength to believe that He is good who does good” , the inner intention is still to remove the pain caused by the lack of faith, not to bestow.
I see that I do not truly have a heartfelt prayer for bestowal itself. I recognize that I lack both the will and the power to bestow; I only have the knowledge that I should want it. Painful situations reveal this very clearly, and it is a difficult realization.
How should I correctly relate to this state? How does one move from prayers based on knowledge and suffering, toward a true prayer, if the desire itself is missing?
thanks
Helen
Hi Gianni
What is the correct use of corporeal pain in the work? I understand that corporeal situations are not the workplace of correction, but only raw material. How should I correctly bring this raw material into inner work? Is it correct to envision a more corrected inner state(only focus on intention?) , and from the gap between my current state and that inability to reach that new intention, form a true deficiency and prayer? How can corporeal pain be transformed into material for internal correction without turning it into psychological work or an attempt to fix corporeal life?
thanks
Helen
Hi Gianni
even after the correction, each soul is still unique and different. how to understand this? we receive & bestow in different forms based on our tendencies? I can understand the concept of receive in order to bestow with the Creator, what about between souls? our tendencies will all be corrected with the right intention but those tendencies remain as unique to each? how does those difference manifest? it’s hard to imagine that type of uniqueness yet with equivalence of form. I know this question has many layers of questions in it but maybe you have a simple way to explain.
thank
Helen
