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David,
Get comfortable with paradoxes in the wisdom of kabbalah. We are on a path towards a spiritual perception. In the simplest example, a child thinks you are a bad dad because you don’t let him have chocolate ice cream at 11pm and stay up until midnight on a school night. So from his perspective how can you both be a good dad and not give him what he wants? In his perspective you are so mean. But from your perspective, which is much higher than his, you seen another reality where the child will be exhausted at school the next day and will suffer because of it.
So we are approaching a spiritual reality where the laws are not the same as our corporeal reality and even though we don’t feel spirituality yet, we need to begin to follow them. Like the child who needs to agree that dad is loving and good even though it makes no sense to him and a child is incapable of this, but we are capable.
The Creator is controlling everything David. Every thought and action arises after many preceding events. Everything that we experience is an “effect” that follows many previous “causes”. All the people around us that you mentioned are running a program of how to get the most pleasure for the least effort. There is no reason to criticize them for this, this is how they are created, this is how all of reality is created. So where is our free will in all this? In the meantime we don’t have any, of course if feels that I chose which shirt to wear and what to eat for lunch, and it must be this way and will continue to be this way for now, and we shouldn’t fight against this, just to be a regular person, eat, work, rest, be healthy, family. And also while living this life, to start to feel the governing force behind everything. Live a normal life on the animate degree and also in your heart and mind begin to feel that there is an operating force, guiding and arranging everything. This is called that the Kabbalist lives in two worlds and later when you develop your spiritual perception you will feel the spiritual world and understand and feel where is the freedom, the freedom to be in love and bestowal like he is love and bestowal and the lower degrees, ….well, now for example you are breathing and your heart is pumping but that doesn’t get in the way or effect you having grapefruit or alternatively orange juice for breakfast. So later your entire animate existence will be and there are reasons why and from it, it will give us a launch pad to many feelings and discernments, but above it on another degree, higher than the corporeal world, you will also exist.
Seth@KabUClara,
I don’t understand what you wrote.
Fear and love come together. We cannot say that we truly love someone if we don’t have fear of losing them.
Seth@KabUTodd,
Yes. Imagine if you are in -28 degrees and it is very cold and you had to walk for miles, how would you feel?
Now imagine that you trained to climb Everest and this is your life goal, and now it is -28 and you are walking for miles, it is a totally different experience.
It’s a small example, but when we understand and feel what is really happening to us, what process we are in, why and where it is guiding us, a new world opens.
Seth@KabUŁukasz,
The answer that you want is impossible for me to give you, or anyone. The answer you want will come to you when you have what the Kabbalists call a corrected vessel called NRNHY. Those are the 5 degrees of the vessel – that the now all of the light is outside of our vessel – and when it fills that vessel (called NRNHY) in your internality, then you will taste and know.
In the meantime you are asking about where is our point of freedom. Truly there is no point of freedom now. According to our perception we feel that we are free in this or that. But look at at the universe and realize how small we are against the infinite power that developed us from matter over billions of years and the even before that. So who are we at all except the result of many causes that preceded us.
Adhesion with the Creator means that we make our quality like His quality.
As he is merciful (Hasadim), so are we merciful. It means that although we are 100% a desire to receive and that will not change, that is all that He created, but through corrections in love of the other and we will learn what this means and how and why and where, then we can develop a quality of hesed (hasadim) above our quality of reception.
And even if we are 1% in hasadim, so we are 1% in adhesion with the infinite bestowing force we call the Creator.Seth@KabU
Zorica,
1. You’re a very healthy egoist and you’re starting to recognize it. So you have a head start. Be patient. Nothing is wrong. You are discovering our true nature.
2. This means that this is your nature. Some people get pleasure from spending some people get pleasure from not spending. It’s not important.
But all of us on the path work to grow our desire for spirituality regardless of the nature we were born with.3. You are here, so you’ve never been closer.
I recommend spending more time reading the lesson material, if you have time read it and watch it again. Make notes. It’s time for a software update on your operating system 🙂
Have some patience, take good notes and keep asking questions.
Seth@KabU
Devorah,
I don’t know if it was intentional. But it may have been a stumbling block.
It is known in the work that Jew, Israel or Hebrew all refer to qualities in a person.
A person also contains in him the 70 nations from Zeir Anpin.
Zeir Anpin is composed of seven Sefirot, and each Sefira of ten, which totals 70.
We will study the structure of reality in later classes, but when kabbalists speak of Israel they are describing a desire in a person Yashar El, straight to the Creator.
A person also has all of the other desires on the inanimate, vegatative and animate degrees. This is not considered spiritual but a person must live according to the laws of nature of those degrees, he must eat, and work, and provide a comfortable life for the family, etc. That is on the level of animate like every animate creature, some sleep a lot, some not as much, some eat meat, some eat vegatation, some are aggressive, some are passive ,etc.
But on the degree of human, the spiritual degree, we are given the books and the kabbalistic group and the teacher to direct us towards the Creator.
So it doesn’t matter if my body, if my 70 nations are eating, sleeping, making and raising children, working, exercising, resting, above all of that on the degree of my soul, on the degree of the desire of Israel, I am in adhesion with the Creator.
Seth@KabU
