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In the related material, in the video “How to Attain the Deepest Form of Independence”, there is a clip from the daily kabbalah lesson (23 Dec, 2009) “The Creator’s Revelation & Concealment – 5 Minutes Of Light”.
Dr. Michael Laitman explains how the Creator’s revelation brings you goodness, & the Creator’s concealment brings you troubles.
I would like to dive deeper into this topic.
Could you please share with us some links to some articles, passages from a book, some videos… to go full into this idea?
Thank you very much
What really surprises me and inspires me is the idea that suffering is caused by the inability from the perspective of the will to receive to see the will to bestow beyond an event.
This is good advice for me, and I take it. It’s not about intellectual understanding, but about spiritual attainment.
So it’s better to learn the fundamentals well, and not try to assimilate this information by the previous knowledge we had.
Thank you.
In the related readings, in the article “Preface To The Wisdom Of Kabbalah”, from the book Kabbalah for the student (p.565), it is said that:
“(…) I shall briefly reiterate that the Thought of Creation was to delight the creatures, in accordance with His abundant generosity. For this reason, a great desire and craving to receive His abundance was imprinted in the souls.
This is so because the will to receive is the Kli (vessel) for the measure of pleasure in the abundance, since the measure and strength of the will to receive the abundance precisely corresponds to the measure of pleasure and delight in the abundance. And they are so connected that they are indivisible, except in what they relate to: the pleasure is related to the abundance, and the great desire to receive the abundance is related to the receiving creature.”
Could we state that the need and craving are feelings of the creature, due to its desire to receive, and the pleasure is actually related to the bestowal, it is, that there is pleasure in giving, and a sense of lack and yearning in receiving?
That could be a reason to imitate the Thought of Creation by receiving in order to bestow, since there is pleasure in giving and only a fleeting satisfaction in fulfilling its needs, only to return to the sense of lack and the craving and yearning.
Thank you for clarifying this point!
My question is: could it be a way of taking not only for itself if the creature desires to give itself totally to the Creator, as a response to the fulfillment it has received from the Will to Bestow? Could it be this open up and total surrender of itself a way to correspond to the fulfillment of the thought of creation? A way of giving (itself) caused by receiving, as a natural reaction to the fact that it has received fulfillment from the Creator.
Thank you!
