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SHAMATI n. 1
There’s a bookmark on the page of my copy of Shamati, with the excerpt that I love the most:
“But he is not always able to overcome. And what shall be the end? Then he comes to the decision that no one can help him but the Creator Himself. This causes him to make a heartfelt demand that the Creator will open his eyes and heart, and truly bring him nearer to eternal adhesion with God. It thus follows, that all the rejections he had experienced had come from the Creator.”
It makes me feel that sweet desperation of wanting to get closer to the Creator each time I read it. It reminds me of the only Force existing in reality that operates for the good of the Creatures. The demand, the desire, the prayer, reminds me of the importance of the Friends in this vital work towards the Goal.
Then…there is this “mystery” for the fact that Baal HaSulam refers to the Creator and to God as two different entities…
What blew my mind are actually two things:
1) that we are part of an “experiment” 🙂 and that the group is the LAB
2) the concept of Super-Desire: I bestow the upper partzuf because I’m servicing it, and I bestow the lower partzuf because I care also for the lower degree. This is the way IÂ elevate the importance of the spiritual goal.
What most inspired me is knowing that there’s a space in spirituality where a can express my own choice: choosing to lean towards the right line. The Creator put us on two legs and it’s up to us to constantly walk in the the Middle line.
In this process I learned that I have everything that I need to change my nature. The science of Kabbalah will provide the 2nd environment, necessary to enable me and the Friends to be consistent in our spiritual work in order to reach the ultimate goal.
My wish for my fellow students is to not give up when things gets difficult, it is still our limited perception that creates that appearance: there’s a bigger picture that we don’t know yet and that will be revealed through the spiritual work. There will always be the prayer from the Friends that will lift us up in every circumstance. Keep going!
The verb “to reform” already contains a kind of judgement that something is bad, so a change is needed. Does this mean that we are correct in perceiving something as bad, but that the only thing that we need to focus on is how to transform that bad in good and useful.
Is there any good quality that might need to be reformed, if it creates unbalance in the system, for example?!
HOW can we avoid to reject the bad instead of embracing it, since there’s a bigger picture still concealed in it? How do we know that there is a major contribution to our development?
