[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Mark,
In theory you are right.  In practice, not yet.
Everything you said we can agree to, however, there is no such thing as good or bad about it.
Q:  What did the Creator make?  What is the only creation in all of reality?
A:   The will to receive, which develops according to 4 phases, inanimate, vegetative, animate and speaking.

So that there is a calculation running in me that I don’t do anything unless there is some benefit for me, in that I am no different than a molecule of water or a banana or an orangutan.  We all are running the same software, just at differing degrees of complexity.
So if I give food to a starving person, and you tell me I did it just to make myself feel better, well it’s true, but someone else was concerned with getting home to feed her child didn’t notice the starving person and the soccer player who was playing soccer all day didn’t see the starving person, so we are in a very large and intricate web of forces.  It is good to think about it, but we have no use to waste time calling this or that selfish, it is a law of nature, just like rain and sunshine.
All of the inanimate, vegetative and animate desires in us are running this software without our permission, they just do.
According to our society we decide what is called “good” or “bad” and that can change from society to society and from generation to generation.

Now, here, we are discovering where is the human part, the spiritual part, the part where we can be free and fulfilled.  In spirituality, “good” is called that I have an intention to bestow and “bad” is called that I have an intention to receive for myself.  However we already said that in the previous 3 degrees that is my natural software running, so it’s not considered bad spiritually, that is how nature, the Creator made me.  So now I need to find where is the spiritual action?
This takes time, that is what we will be working on as we progress together, where is that place where I can have the intention, what is that intention, how to I build it, upon what do I build it?
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Laila,
There are a few things here.
If the end of the story was where you say, then you are right, the vessel is filled with light, everyone is happy, let’s go home.
But we are not there yet.
The vessel is  full of light.  That is something.  But what do we have now.
We have 100% minus (vessel) and 100% plus (filling/light).
In the material world if you are there and I am here, then we are far.  If we are next to each other then we are close.
In spirituality, if things are opposite they are far and as much as they are similar, they are close.
So, the vessel and the light are as far apart as possible.  They are the most opposite.
So now we have a problem.
I’m going to use examples from this world, only to point to specific qualities and attitudes, this is not a representation of spirituality: a baby is a perfect baby, she eats and plays and receives everything from her mommy.  As a baby she is perfect and if that was the end of the story, we’d be good.  But if the baby is 40 years old with the same qualities of just receiving mindlessly from the upper ones, we’d say that there is a problem.  We want the baby to grow up and become an independant creature.
Back to the vessel…the vessel is full and 100% opposite.  She has nothing to bestow to the Creator, she has nothing of her own, so all she can do and it’s in her attitude is to stop receiving, to at least not be 100% opposite from the light.
This sets into motion a whole next set of events.
From here as the vessel starts to calculate how much it can receive but only as much as it can receive in order to bestow.  And by this we set in to motion the creation of all of the partzufim, sefirot and worlds and by this there is the ability to “purify” the vessel until  100% of the vessel can receive in order to bestow.
We will learn about all of this, including where the vessel receives more than it can bestow and the vessel shatters, known in the books as the “sin” of Adam, etc. etc.  There are many many details here.
Your question is accurate, the answer comes from broadening your understanding and perception of the bigger picture.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Kay,
When there is a child in school, the child must do her work, to try, make mistakes, corrections, make all kinds of efforts.
But we as the parents provide the food, the clothes, the pens and paper, we drive the child to school in the morning, we arrange each and every detail so that the child can take a step on her own.
Similarly, the Creator is arranging each and every detail, including all of our mistakes and corrections and all of our efforts, but on our part, we feel independant and in this we build impressions in ourselves about what is this reality.  We feel that we are in control.  Later we will discover the Creator arranged everything in order to bring us to close contact with Him.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Philip,
He is the source:

Take our sense of sight, for example: we see a wide world before us, wondrously filled. But in fact, we see all that only in our own interior. In other words, there is a sort of a photographic machine in our hindbrain, which portrays everything that appears to us and nothing outside of us.

Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Book of Zohar,” Item 34

 

Now go learn 🙂

Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Ben,

ohr pnimi = inner light
ohr makif = surrounding light
derech bito =  the long slow procession of nature without our addition
nekuda emtzaii = the middle point
MA”N = lower waters, prayer from below
AH”P = one of the parts of our soul that receives in order to bestow

Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Ben,
We are not yet talking about the created being, we are still talking about the blueprint of creation, prior to the material world.  Learn this process well as the structure, later you will feel how all of the other processes extend from here.
A discernment is some clarification that one makes, a simple example is that you have a pile of rice and you sort the good grains from the bad ones, you clarify what you are doing, what you have in front of you.  From a distance it looks like a pile of white rice, then as you get close you realize, oh, there is some sorting to do here, then you start the process and the more you get closer and get your hands in the work, you start to see what you need to do.
Seth@KabU

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