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Throughout this course I felt that I have already come a bit closer to the Kabbalistic environment and connected to some of my fellow students.
What inspires me most is the way in which Kabbalists relate to their lives. It is a difficult thing for me to understand. I am used to advancing through pain and actually started seeking pain because I thought that it is necessary. Perhaps it isn’t.
I wish to my fellow students that their path in life from this point forward is an “exciting journey; a voyage of discovery” instead of a life filled with suffering.
Let’s make it happen!
I know that we shouldn’t interpret Kabbalistic terms literally. It always points to an inner reality. At the same time, however, there is the rule that what is true for the particular is true for the general and vice versa. At the same time, the reality we see is always an expression of inner states.
So would it be accurate to say that the whole thing of having a person like Jeff Bezos that exploits the efforts of millions of people in his warehouses, factories etc. is the external expression of the internal state of “slavery beneath the Pharaoh”?
I think Pharaoh means “the epitome of egoism”, does it?
Thanks for your answer.
A “dream job” would not count as “necessity” for me, but I will wait for the advanced semesters for any practical applications.
Hey Eliyahu 🙂
You always seem very angry in your comments throughout the forums. I am very angry sometimes too.
However, often I read something that suddenly softens my heart again. Perhaps the following quote from this week’s Recommended Reading material can soften your heart a bit? Of course, if you don’t want that, don’t read it.
In any case, I am looking forward to getting to know you more in the coming weeks/months.
The quote is from “Kabbalah for the Student -> Everything is Evaluated not by its Appearance at a Given Moment, but According to its Measure of Development”:
Everything in reality, good and bad, and even the most harmful in the world, has a right to exist and should not be eradicated from the world and destroyed. We must only mend and reform it because any observation of the work of Creation is enough to teach us about the greatness and perfection of its Operator and Creator. Therefore, we must understand and be very careful when casting a flaw in any item of Creation, saying it is redundant and superfluous, as that would be slander about its Operator.
It is common knowledge that the Creator did not complete Creation when He created it. And we can see in every corner of reality, in the general and in the particular, that it abides by laws of gradual development, from absence to completion of growth. For this reason, when the fruit tastes bitter at the beginning of this growth, it is not considered a flaw in the fruit, since we all know the reason: fruit has not yet completed its development.
And so it is in every element of reality: when some element appears bad and harmful to us, it is but a self-testimony of that element; that it is still in the transition phase — in the process of its development. Hence, we cannot decide that it is bad and it is not wise for us to cast a flaw in it.
Is it true that by living in spiritual perception one will feel the desires of others as one’s own and that one can ONLY ever fulfill one’s own desires inside others?
Meaning, if I have the opportunity for my dream job, I would actually pray for others to get this dream job instead of me?
And even further, I would aim to fulfill my own desires, but only because then others can feel my fulfillment as their own?
Meaning, I would make sure that getting my dream job would bring fulfillment to others and I would only accept this dream job on the condition that others are actually happy for me?
This is the second question of a pair of questions. I will not read the answers to the first question, but it is a prerequisite for this question. Here is the link to the first question: https://kabuconnect.com/forums/topic/ask-anything-2/#post-190686
My second question is as follows:
By posting a question like the first question and deciding not to read the answers because my desire should be fulfilled inside the others and not inside of me, am I on the right track? Am I helping people or am I hurting them? Am I confused already or am I starting to correct my desires (as much as I can at this moment in time)?
Also, should I refrain from any more such posts because it is „too much to handle for somebody just starting out on this path“? I seem to have no idea how to conduct myself properly so I will help the people around them instead of hurting them.
