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In Kabbalah, there is a lot of focus on the contrast between the Creator and the Creature. Our nature is the opposite of that of the Creator. But isnn’t that an illusion? Because when we transcend this contrast, there is only the Creator. Why so much focus on this split between Creator and Creature ? I think that everything what we experience as opposite, is in Reality One and the same. The Creature is the Creator who took the role of receiver.
…i still want to add something: i think in essence there is no difference between our consciousness and that of the Creator, there is no contrast. What makes us “different” (or what makes us “feel/perceive” that we are different) is the fact that we are identifying ourself with a limited form (the body and its 5 senses). When we realise that we are not the body, when we stop identifying ourself with that form, we become aware of what we really are: the Light itself.
Hello, i’m Ilse, i just subscribed two weeks ago to kabbalah revealed, and i am completely blown away. I want to know everything about Kabbalah as quickly as possible. So the blueprint of creation seems to me the course that goes immediately to the essence, with depth and details.
Is this the right way to “correct” my egoistic nature: i observe that i am not at all altruistic (for example i give something and i think it is pure giving, but i become conscious of the fact that i want to receive something in return, maybe love or appreciation). This is becoming aware of the impossibilty to be pure altruistic. Then, step 2, i offer this awareness of my egoistic wish (to receive something in return) to the Creator and say: I give you my awareness of my egoism, i offer it to you. This is also an act of giving. Then there is nothing left of my egoism, i offered it all to Him. I don’t know if this is the right way to work with my egoistic desires?
Well, what amazes me the most, are the points of connection that this path has with the path of Self Realisation. In Self Realisation we learn that how we perceive reality, is depending on our reactif proces, on our likes and dislikes, which are coming from the ego. It perceives everything in relation to itself, which is a “false” identity (we think we have a separate identity but that’s an illusion), the ego is the result of the Jiva (soul) who is identifying itself with a limited form, the body and its 5 senses.
This is also what Kabbalah teaches: the ego is the limited closed box, with the 5 senses who are “deforming” reality. So for me both teachings are telling exactly the same, but they are using different words and images.
The challenge is to transform our litte i, the “false” identity, into the Self (“Self” Realisation). (In Kabbalah the Self is named “the Creator”). The way that we do that in Self Realisation, is by “neutralizing” our selfish desires. Kabbalah speaks about “correcting” our desires.
The fact that the eastern teaching of Self Realisation is telling the same as Kabbalah, is just so fantastic to discover. Truth is the Same everywhere!
