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The goal can be defined perfectly in more than one way. The way I mostly choose to define it is by something I have learned in this course: Attaining Equivalence of Form with the Creator.
I always wanted to help make the world a better world, but I also understood that in order to do so I would have to find a way to spiritually transcend the limitations of the corporeal world. It is only now, after finally having begun to study Kabbalah here with KabU, that I understand and know how to express it clearly in Kabbalistic terms.
We can only acquire freedom by following the “drive” that comes with an awakened Point in the Heart.
I can no more choose to follow the Point in my Heart than I can choose not to follow it, and I have tried to do both, many, many times over the decades since I found out that Kabbalah is the way the Creator has chosen for me.
So for the longest time I have been unable to understand what is meant by there being a small window of free choice which has to do with choosing the right books, friends and teachers.
I didn’t choose Rav Laitman as the main Kabbalah specialist I am to follow, the Creator did that, and I knew almost instantly, when I happened upon a documentary about Rav Laitman, that he was the Kabbalist I had to seek out. And I knew again, a few months later when I came across a video hosted by Tony Kosinec, where he introduces the viewer to the first basics of Kabbalah, and I suddenly heard him mention the name of Rav Michael Laitman, and he left a link to KabU’s website. Of course I had to click the link, and I know this is what I have to continue to do.
But again, I never felt I made a choice. I felt, and still feel, that this was always meant to be.
That is not to say that I don’t learn all the time how to handle things better, my understanding of why and how I can do things better is a continually growing process. But do I choose to do the right things? No, in many cases I just enjoy doing them, while in many cases I also struggle to do them. And all my failures were not conscious choices on my part. I may at times be aware that I am doing something that brings me failure, but it is not something I chose to do willingly.
I can understand the window of free will if it is something that becomes available after we take the first step up the ladder, or even while we take the first step. But before then? I can’t see how it is possible.
All this being said, I do think I may begin to close in on something that may open up and become a new understanding of how it is with this tiny window of free will. This is something I will continue to keep to work with until I achieve the necessary insight.
PS. My apologies for the belated post. I have been sick for days and struggle with severe pain that forces me to use very strong painkillers until I can get the situation fixed sometimes, hopefully, during this week. – In the meantime I will do my best to keep up…..Thank you in advance for understanding.
I have to add that the Spiritual Reality is where real freedom can be acquired whereas the corporeal reality is limiting in every way.
Freedom is to be able to follow your heart’s desire or directive. The greatest and truest form of freedom requires that we obtain Equivalence of Form because only when we are one with Him can we be our truest selves without restraint.
We could also start by working together and combining our efforts.
The one thing that made me change my perspective somewhat, and my approach, was learning about the true meaning of Sin, what Sin really is.
Of course I see that this is because of how unaware I have been about the completeness of the extend of There is None Else besides Him, but for some reason it was still more striking to learn about what Sin is. – I can see why the understanding of what true Sin is, ought to have been equally obvious and instant as the understand of There is None Else Besides Him, but for some reason it just wasn’t.
Another thing that strikes me is to Receive In Order to Give. I have for years been doing things a little differently: I’ve been giving, full well knowing that I was receiving when doing so. I did it anyway because I couldn’t see any way to give that doesn’t have an aspect of egoism. – So this is something I just happened to find out about early in life and long before I learned anything about Kabbalah … I’m sure we all have little things like this in our lives’ experiences.
I continued to give because I thought that gaining some egoistic satisfaction from it was worth it because I was giving in the process. And now, after reading about receiving in order to give, I’m thinking that the two ways are basically the same thing, just viewed from different angles because in a sense I Was receiving in order to give by giving and receiving in the process, and because I did get satisfaction from the very action of giving.
I hope this all makes sense…..Thank you for taking the time to read, or skim through, this.
I just watched the first video under Related where Rav Laitman describes the need for humanity to realize that we must work together, that we have to stop allowing our egos to run the show, if we want mankind and the world to survive. He mentioned that science has begun to realize this, and that surprised me because how can science not be aware of this very thing? Anyway, what I wanted to bring up is this…
I think – that is, I am quite certain – that a lot of the world’s leaders, and people in positions where they can influence the leaders, are completely aware that we, and they, are destroying the world, and that it is getting close to a point of no return. But….they. do. not. care!
Again, these people, who more than anybody could do something about the situation, know how it is, but they don’t care!!…
What would my fellow students’ and our instructor’s (Seth’s) thoughts be about this?
