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- June 19, 2023 at 1:21 pm EDT in reply to: Ask anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor. #323102MARTA PAGES ALARCONParticipant
Thank you for this suitable reply!
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This was the reply I needed to return to peace.
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June 19, 2023 at 1:14 pm EDT in reply to: Ask anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor. #323101MARTA PAGES ALARCONParticipantThank you thank you thank you!
The article is just fantastic, I can see what you have kindly explained to me.
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June 19, 2023 at 3:25 am EDT in reply to: Ask anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor. #323065MARTA PAGES ALARCONParticipantDear KabU senior instructor,
I have a question about the desire as an ascent catalyst.
I am a bit confused, so I don’t know if I’m taking it in the right direction.
Is it that, when the desire is born in the lower level of consciousness, it reveals itself to us as physical needs. And then, if we go on “killing” the desire in the pursuit of the satisfaction of every corporal and social wantings and cravings we feel, we are not able to use it in the right way that would compel us to look for upper fulfillment.
It’s like an art of cultivating the desire as an ascent force by not suffocating it through the satisfaction of all the possible individual worldly needs, just taking what is necessary for preserving the existence, but letting the desire lead us on the way up. Until it can show us eventually what the ultimate fulfillment means.
Is this approach close to the idea, or have I lost track of the arguments?
Thank you very much for your kind patience!
Best Regards
June 19, 2023 at 1:02 am EDT in reply to: Ask anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor. #323059MARTA PAGES ALARCONParticipantDear KabU senior instructor team,
All along the previous week, watching the videos and reading the articles of the preparation material, and also yesterday and today, as I began approaching the 1st week material, I realized that I’m (we are) not able to know the Divine Himself, only my/our experience of the interaction with Him. What this interaction causes in me, in my human and shattered psycology as an individual, different in each moment of my/our spiritual unfolding.
So before, I used to direct myself to Him as my best Friend, Loving Father, Caring Master, a force of correction for my mistakes or a force of conversion… but now I’m not sure about how to direct myself to Him properly, so last week instead of sharing with Him the things that were inside of me as life goes on, I tried to be silent in my mind and focused on the wellness and joy that reading these materials and learning from what the instructors explain in the videos, just trying that all this happiness and gratitude somehow reaches Him.
Because in summary, the only important thing that I wish to communicate Him is that I enjoy what I’m receiving from Him, by means of this Kabbaláh wisdom, and all the lovely, kind and seriously engaged people that I’m finding in the KabU teaching and learning team and the materials that KabU provides, to tell Him how happy and grateful I am, and my own response in taking profit of it and appreciating and enjoying it.
So before I would talk to Him in the way one talks with his/her friend, but now I shut up this intern “dialogue” or monologue directed to the Divinity, and I simply repeat: “Thank You, thank You, thank You, thank You”, as I try that my joy flows and speaks in my heart in a more authentic way than my words could ever achieve. Also my longing to spend time in the course and watching the related videos in the KabU YouTube channel.
I don’t want to show disrespect and I don’t want to anthropomorphize my relationship with the Divine more than necessary. So instead of “talking to Him” by means of telling myself all the things that I think, I simply repeat in myself my gratitude for this new occasion of growing and learning, and at the same time I can feel this desire in me of being involved in this course, the group of study, and to assimilate the contents of the materials.
Thank you very much for all the good and profound insights that you so kindly are spreading as a blessing on a worldwide basis! It is my pleasure to know KabU and to be nurtured by all these precious and mighty lessons.
Thank you very much.
I want to refine and precise my everyday communication with the Benevolent and Provident Upper Force, as I want to proceed righteously, willingly, with the respect and the humility that doesn’t cause the negative sensations of distance, separation and guilt that pride and arrogance do in our relationship with the Trascendent Divine.
I’m interested in being alert and aware of the way that enables us to express love and at the same time remaining respectful by the difference of magnitude and Majesty between the Upper Force and His creations.
I know that my attitude towards the Divine relative to the communication with Him minute by minute will change every step of the way, in order to be more adequate and according to the truth. I want to have my mind set on Him but I don’t want to make this constant communication “familiar” or “domestic” (I wish to be respectful and aware of the range difference).
I would appreciate any senior indication in this respect, via links or passages of the course books that I have bought.
Thank you very much in advance for your kind reply.
Best Regards
June 18, 2023 at 1:49 pm EDT in reply to: Preparation Question: What do you expect from the lesson? What do you desire to achieve from it? #322913MARTA PAGES ALARCONParticipantI really want to change my perspective. I expect that this lesson will change my mind. I have already experienced these previous days, as I was watching the course preparation materials (videos), these deep insights have made me understand some important realizations that until now I couldn’t see. For example, I saw an interview to Rav Laitman about prayer (www.youtube.com/watch?v=cztp8B_ILyk), and while I was listening to his words of wisdom, I saw clearly that all the effort I put in trying to learn and to be a better person is a kind of lack of confidence.
All my efforts are sustained by the belief that my progress depends on me. If I trust that I am guided by a provident upper Wisdom, there’d be no need to worry or to get stressed about the unfolding of my mind. To be exposed to these ideas and material makes me see points about myself to correct. That I can’t reach on my own. So Thank you very much, I’m very grateful to be on board!
MARTA PAGES ALARCONParticipantHi everyone,
I’m Marta and I live in Spain (Barcelona).
I would love to study this ancient and respected tradition to become a more loving and grateful person. I really want to enjoy the freedom that comes from learning to observe and letting the limits that prevent us from sharing life-sustaining benevolence be removed. I really want to free myself from the shackles of self-interest, self-gratification, judgments, conflicts, competition. I don’t want to experience being at war with myself and others.
I would love to breathe calmly, to smile frankly, no craving, no needs, no expectations. Without ideas to defend, without the pressure of wanting to be right. Just being here, enjoying the beauty of the gift of being alive, letting myself be open to life and to every living being. And live happily and simply, thanking and praising the wonders of continuous creation.
I thank you for the opportunity of taking this course and I wish you all a very happy and meaningful life forever.
Have a nice day!
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