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The perspective on prayer was eye opening. I realized many of my prayers were pleas for the Creator to provide me with something or to change someone in my life. The course emphasized the following:
1. True prayer should be self-judgment or self analysis. The person judges and analyzes himself with regards to the upper force.
2. We ask the Creator to change us, to change our perception so that we can understand Him. We should not ask the Creator to change His attitude towards us.
3. God the Creator does not pay attention to the Words but to the intent and sincerity in our hearts.
The difference between Kabbalah and religion was very revealing:
Kabbalah is a scientific method of establishing DIRECT relationship with the Creator. Kabbalah teaches that the Creator does not change His attitude towards us. Religion teaches an angry God who changes His mind about us based on our actions.
My goal is to understand my purpose and to truly understand the Creator. My goal is to walk in the path of life and to develop my Spirituality. As the lesson stated “In order to know who I am, I need to know who the Creator is.
Deuteronomy 10:12 tells us to Fear the Lord, walk in all His ways and to love Him with all our heart and with all our soul.
The most important fact is there None above Him. Learning to put our egoistic traits aside receive and then become a bestower.
The fact that the externals can effect the quality of development of the essence, but NOT the essence itself. I found that perspective quite interesting.
My question has to do with the lesson statement for what we will learn in week 2:
“How you are completely controlled in every aspect of your life and why you still think you can achieve freedom.”
From what I read, it appears that we are influenced by outside forces and inside (internal) forces. However, according to the lesson, “Free Will is really ignorance.”
I do understand that our environment influences our choices (where we were born to whom we were born) but I am baffled by the thought that we are completely controlled in EVERY aspect of our lives.
Please explain. Thank you.
True freedom is in the connection with the Creator by not just the absence of certain things but by the spiritual. That point in the heart that leads us to connect with the Divine. It’s not so much dos and donts but understanding the root of our soul. “There is no coercion in spirituality.”
The environment that appreciates the internality more than the externality is one we want to dwell in.
Internality: the state of being internal focused on our inner nature, or psychological inwardness.
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