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  • Ed,
    We want to add and not subtract.
    So make a framework for yourself that for example, everyday I will read, watch videos and take notes for 30 minutes or maybe 1 hour.  You decide.
    Now do that on the days when you are inspired and on the days where you feel nothing, on the days that it is sunny and on the days that it is rainy.  This becomes a part of your life.  Everyday you eat food, now everyday you eat spiritual food.

    You can do whatever you want with your free time.  Maybe while you are cooking dinner you can put a video or an audiobook on.  Whatever extra you want, but you don’t take away from your framework.
    Of course if you have a special family event or if you have something that you are obligated to do, you can move the hour around, but in general, you are creating a framework for yourself.

    And in a few months you can add another 30 minutes or another hour to your framework.

    Later after these introduction courses you will be able to join the world group of students in our daily study with our teacher the kabbalist Rav Laitman.  We study for about 2.5 hours a day together and we also meet in small groups twice a day to read something and discuss.

    There is a whole world ahead.  Step by step.
    Seth@KabU

    Bonnie,
    This is a common question for people who begin to open the books of kabbalah.
    This is a common confusion that many students have.
    On the one hand you live in this world, with police and laws and money and rain and sun and food and work and you must live in this world like a regular creature.  You need to be kind sometimes you need to be assertive sometimes and that is how it is in this physical world.  You cannot try to behave in a loving way to a person who is trying to steal from you or hurt you, you must get away and call the police.  You cannot tell your landlord that you love him and you don’t have money to pay rent.
    Maybe you love him, but you have to pay your rent every month.

    And on the other hand we start to open up the spiritual world, our inner emotional world, we start to feel that there is a guiding force, a governing force that controls all of reality.  This force guides me and you and the police and the moon and everything.  And we start to study the single, guiding force called the Creator.  And slowly we learn how to make spiritual contact.

    And then later we will see how everything even the police and the landlord all come into focus in the spiritual system.
    Seth@KabU

    Williams,
    Take small bites.
    Why does it say “wise heart”?
    Because in the wisdom of kabbalah we attain in our sensations, not in our mind.
    Like we see the way that a baby learns, by sitting on the floor and being with the upper ones, soon the baby can communicate with them.
    That is how we will advance.
    Seth@KabU

    Jj,
    This example comes to tell us that the actions of one affects the other, that we are in a closed system.
    By the time there is a hole in the boat, it may be too late, if there is a storm or if there are no materials to close the hole.
    Of course in spirituality there is no time, but in this particular incarnation of form that may be the end.
    Anyway, it is a simple example to show how much we are dependent upon each other whether we know it or not.

    If it’s not too late, and if words aren’t helping, and if you can, maybe knock him out, fix the hole, get yourself to shore, make him tea and lunch and when he wakes up try to explain that you saved his life and that he shouldn’t drill a hole in a boat even if he’s mad at you because he is killing himself too.
    🙂
    Seth@KabU

    Yajaira,
    First we need to understand a bit about who we are, where we are and what is happening to us.
    First of all, we are 100% a will to receive.  That does not change.  Actually it only grows.
    The Creator’s thought is to create a creature and fill it with delight.
    So, you need to develop to want all of the endless fulfillment that the Creator wants to give you.

    Since the will to receive will not change, because we need to receive from Him, but in order to receive spiritual light we need to calibrate ourselves.  We can receive food, sex, money all kinds of things from this world.  They come and go and most of our life we feel empty, but by being in the spiritual environment, more and more the light influences us and the friends around us give us a good example and we start to value bestowal more and more.  So we still receive, but we want to bestow and we start to bestow in our intention 1% so we feel the upper world 1% and then 2% and we feel the upper world 2%, etc…
    Seth@KabU

    Yajaira,
    First we need to understand a bit about who we are, where we are and what is happening to us.
    First of all, we are 100% a will to receive.  That does not change.  Actually it only grows.
    The Creator’s thought is to create a creature and fill it with delight.
    So, you need to develop to want all of the endless fulfillment that the Creator wants to give you.

    Since the will to receive will not change, because we need to receive from Him, but in order to receive spiritual light we need to calibrate ourselves.  We can receive food, sex, money all kinds of things from this world.  They come and go and most of our life we feel empty, but by being in the spiritual environment, more and more the light influences us and the friends around us give us a good example and we start to value bestowal more and more.  So we still receive, but we want to bestow and we start to bestow in our intention 1% so we feel the upper world 1% and then 2% and we feel the upper world 2%, etc…
    Seth@KabU

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