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Loyda,
OK, so first of all, imagine you are a child and you went to see the Olympic figure skaters and you decide at that moment that that is what you want to do with your life.
Mom agrees and the next day you go and buy skates and sign up for lessons.
Now first day on the ice, do you look like the olympians? How about after one week? One year…five years?
So you read something, but first of all you need to understand what it means and second of all, you need to understand that you can’t just jump on the ice and execute it. When you do what the book says, you will already be in a good life, in contact with the Creator and harmoniously integrated with the world around you.What the text is telling you is that we are completely influenced by the world around us, the food advertising, the political advertising, the news, the movies, the music, the fashion around us, it all influences who we are and how we think, feel and behave.
In short, you came to a place where people are studying an authentic method of spiritual attainment passed from teacher to student for 1000s of years. In this environment is where you can talk a lot about what we are studying, but bringing this outside, no one will understand what you are talking about, you can’t go into the supermarket and start saying that there is no time and space and everything is love.
You wrote, “only if necessary”, so more or less, that’s most of your day, kids go to school, we take care of them, we go to work, the grocery store, pay the bills, exercise to stay healthy, spend time with our relatives, so all of that is necessary and with the 1 hour of free time that you have, so there deal with your spiritual life.Later, after you have been washed in the wisdom for some time, you will feel how it affects your thoughts and desires and it stays with you as you go to the market and work, etc.
And regarding connecting the wisdom to the outside world, this also will come later, once you integrate the wisdom there will be many opportunities to spread the wisdom in the form of books or videos, songs, poems, sharing links online, there are 1000s of ways to connect more and more people to the good. We’ll get into all of that later.
Good luck, take it slow and with much more nuance and everything will develop in a healthy way,
Seth@KabUMaria,
Let’s look at this like this, when you get up in the morning, whose teeth do you brush? Whose problems do you think about? Who do you make coffee for? When you go to work to earn a living to pay bills, whose bills are you paying? When you are driving and thinking about life, whose life are you thinking about. When you plan to watch a show, whose preference do you consider when you sit to watch something?
In short, all day long, all we do we do for ourselves. That’s it.
Now, if you have destructive habits that you acquired by being around a negative environment with negative influences, so then you need to move yourself to a constructive, supportive environment (you definelty found one here). But don’t confuse having bad habits with being totally self-loving. Everyone does everything for themselves, and if they do for someone else it is only because there is a calculation that by doing for the other it is better for me.
Egoism is defined as love for ourselves.
Seth@KabUCarlos,
If you are sick you must go to a good, competent doctor. The Creator gave permission to the doctor to heal.
We do our practical work together in a special arrangement of Kabbalists called a group of 10, you will learn about it in the future.
From that work you will be able to develop a screen and with it you will be able to relate to all of your life.But now you can imagine while you eat and do all of these things that you are doing what you must but your intention is that all of the pleasure and good will pass though you and onto all of creation, to bring contentment to the Creator.
Seth@KabU
Carlos,
We must first understand what does spirituality mean?
The kabbalists tell us that the Creator is 100% bestowal, to receive nothing for Himself, but only to bestow endlessly.
The Upper Light extends from His essence and cascades down through 4 degrees.
And what is the only thing that the Creator created? Only a desire to receive that delight and pleasure, that developed according those same 4 degrees.
That desire developed for billions of years according to those same 4 degrees. from the degree of inanimate, vegetative, animate and finally speaking.
And within the speaking degree itself, there is also those 4 degrees which you generally described.
Spirituality is not a corporeal desire. All of our corporeal desires are to receive. Spirituality is to be like the Creator, which is only to bestow.
But He made us to receive. So we must receive, but ontop of our reception there must be an intention to bestow. That is we receive, not in order to receive, but we receive in order to give contentment to the One who Gives and wants for us to Receive.
So, actually as we develop spiritually, our desires also increase.Regarding “religious fanaticism”, this has absolutely no connection with spiritual attainment.
Seth@KabUZachary,
There is a concept of sin in the wisdom of kabbalah, but like all of the other definitions, that have been taken by others who stole them or just used them and then through the generations they were corrupted, so when we arrive back at the books that were written by the kabbalists, meaning, only by those who attained what they are writing, all that we read from Baal HaSulam was written from his attainment, there is no philosophy, no theorizing.
So we need to recalibrate ourselves to definitions.
Take a word from our normal life like “cool”, someone can say, “that’s so cool”. No go back 200 years ago and use the word “cool” of course someone would have different understanding of the word.
Now we are talking 1000s of years and not only that we’re not even talking about the same world. “cool” and “cool” seperated by 200 years are still on Earth.
But not only do we need to grasp the words of the kabbalists, we also need to grasp that they are describing a spiritual system, they use a special language called roots and branches, so they point to something in this world and refer to its root in the spiritual world.Regarding sin. In order to sin, one would need to do something, let’s say against the Creator. However, no one can do anything against the Creator since each person is 100% controlled by their desires and has no freedom of movement to the left or to the right and if he didn’t think he’d get more pleasure from say, lifting his finger to scratch his cheek, then he’d leave his hand where it was.
So on this degree, there is no such thing as sin. And there are many scrutinise and questions that everyone has about how and why and what about….
In order to sin, one needs to be in place exactly between reception and bestowal, half way between 100% to receive for himself and 100% connected to the Creator. From that place there is free will and from there it can be said that there could be a sin.
We will learn about this later.
Seth@KabU
