[Nika Student]

This wisdom offers a new and wider lense through which to experience life, reality and inform day-to-day choices. I make a choice every minute – to do or not to do something, to make an effort to hear a friend’s question or  let my thought drift away, to pass a judgement on another or inquire within why does nature show me this particular irritation or enhancement right now. The simplicity of the picture framing existence as development of the desire and my unique role in it is attractive. The study is liberating because it places everyone and everything into a purposeful path of development. As long as i am able to stay in tune with the purpose, there isn’t much to worry about day-to-day.

[Nika Student]

Just to add: I feel very lucky to be roaming through this course. Watching one of the additional older videos where – with Marcos and Chris explain the evolution of desire helped clarify the overall direction. If a person feels in the bones that Creator guides development with ultimate care and perfection every tiny moment of contributing to the development consciously must be precious.

[Nika Student]

Among other things this lesson teaches about closeness/remoteness in spirituality. It seems to indicate that being in a same states and thoughts is closeness. When I read a text written by a kabbalist and understand in my mind what it says, can I say to myself that it is  a state of spiritual closeness?

When studying music or any other craft: as a novice piano player I may fall in love with a melody but it would take many practice sessions to develop the muscle memory in my wrists/fingers to play the same melody flawlessly. Yet, my heart swells with joy from the melody, even if i can’t play it completely error-free. I imagine that it is the same type of joy experienced by a composer and thousands of other piano players who played that piece before and after me – i.e. I am in unity with them, even though I am still a clumsy performer and nobody would enjoy listening to my performance.

Is the study a gradual progression to a complete unity with the state of being that these kabbalists wrote about? or would be it be more accurate to say that “falling in love”  (be it music or kabbalah)  is already a complete unity, and the rest of the study requires patience, perseverance to uncover the intricacies and minute details of the state of unity?

Like some other students I have difficulties embracing the word ‘hate’ (i.e. my own current identity does not fit my own definition of being hateful).

How to apply all these words – hate, love – correctly in relation to the study here, in Kabu?

Example: i am learning to recognize in my own feelings one current of desire that wants to be immersed in the lectures, videos, reading of the kabbalistic texts and also, another one surfacing regularly that shuts down my faculties of perception (my eyes get heavy and I can only fall asleep) or yet another one, whereas i notice annoying defects in the words of teachers or whatever the organization sends my way.

Since nothing is redundant in the world, should I pay equal attention to whatever comes up and examine every single thing? Do we need to pick a position and stick with it? Or do we jump from one point of view to another, while studying kabbalah?

[Nika Student]

The Creator places the soul into the body so it can elevate the body’s desires when the soul rises and merges with the Creator again. I, creature is placed in my unique circumstances in the world and developed by the Creator – through people/situations/intuitions – to uncover the yearning for the Creator and bring a person to a place, where this yearning can develop into a soul. By engaging in the wisdom with friends – reading and examining together – we develop a stronger striving to comprehend the characteristics of the Creator in order to become one with Him. The Creatar is unattainable but we are given all the tools to be a fit partner for the Creator to fulfil the thought of creation. Living with the spiritual “glasses” on, fills the daily field of perception with the most relevant information to guide us there.

[Nika Student]

I am still digesting one of the comments regarding religion being a state of amnesia, removed from kabbalah. Personally, I have no experience with any kind of  religious practices associated with the Abraham’s religions. Does it mean it is easier  to study and participate, because there is no need to spend energy to decode the amnesia? Or is it other way around – religious practices, prayers, etc. encode our pliable synapses, mingling all the childhood sensations with the ancient code?

I never felt any need for religion – perfectly content in the deep knowledge that the Universe loves me and all is for the best, in this best of  all possible worlds (Candid, Voltaire). Looking back, I know that I was surrounded by the “oral Torah”  – and confidence that people around me also strive to practice the “golden rule”.

[Nika Student]

One of the concerns I heard from a Torah-educated man living in Israel, is that the study of kabbalah takes you over: i.e. once you start, it is impossible to leave. Is it a misconception or a legitimate fear? Kind of like when a person becomes a criminal, they cross-over into a different world. A person can stop committing crimes but the moral distance travelled stays with an individual (all covered in depth in Dostoyevsky’s novels and other good literature).

The blog post by Dr. Laitman  referenced above offers a compelling vision of spiritual humanity >>>”The only resemblance to this system in our world is the perfectly corrected human body, in which the heart and mind and all the systems like the circulatory, nervous, lymphatic, and other systems operate in harmony, in unison.

They support each other, nothing is superfluous, and only the correct mutual functioning creates the opportunity to experience the entire system and study it.”   Will taking the course bring all the participants to this state? If this is so…. 

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