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Marion,
You are correct. If the method was to sit and inhale for 10 seconds and then exhale for 10 seconds or if the method was to repeat a mantra or if the method was to say some lines from a prayer book, we could say that we did it at such and such a time each day, we did what we were supposed to do and we can then measure our results.
But for us, we have a moving target, the world around us is always changing. Sometimes we wake up and feel great, inspired, full of hope and other days, everything feels wrong, nothing goes right and we feel terrible.
And what is everything? If you’ve ever been really hurt by someone, maybe someone close to you, there is this feeling that there was life until that moment and then after that moment, you just can’t believe that such a thing could happen, you couldn’t imagine this person could do that, in short your definition of “everything” has to increase to include even this terrible thing. And like that, “everything” keeps changing.
Actually nothing is changing with respect to the upper light only our vessels are changing as each new record (reshimot) reveal, each new step.
As much as you can invest in the study when you have a good mood, keep a journal of your inspiration and new insights. When you feel down, go back to that.
Hold on. We are all here and each one will help the other.
We are spiritual pioneers and we will succeed together,
SethPaul,
Very good question, nice discernments. Actually very similar to Michael and Henry’s questions below.
If you have kids, you can understand this concept very well.  Tell a teenager to put on a jacket, they say, I’m not cold. You however know that in 30 minutes the teenager will be cold, because you in your wisdom were also once a teenager and also a 20 year old and 30 year old, so you’ve seen this rodeo a few times and you know in 30 minutes he will be cold.
Or tell them to eat dinner because they will be hungry later. And they say no, and then you get in the car and …”Dad, I’m hungry”.It’s not that you can tell the future, it’s just that at our current degree, we can’t see the next degree, so if we are wise, we will seek out those that have reached what we want to reach and we will see what they did and what they recommend.
Of course, we don’t know where these spiritual degrees are, we are the teenager who doesn’t feel cold. It is cold and he will feel cold, but in his current perception, he doesn’t feel it.
The mitzvot are corrections that we make upon spiritual desires, that happens after we are on the ladder of degrees. The numbers are not so important now as we the numbers speak mostly of qualities and it’s not worthwhile to spend time sorting out all kinds of numbers, because, once you feel the cold yourself, for example, you will know what cold feels like and understand to put the jacket on. So our main think is to approach the method and organize ourselves in simple ways, do leave behind all kinds of confusions that we brought here with us about what is spiritual and what is not spiritual and all kinds of imaginations that cause us to waste a lot of time until we clean ourselves of them.All in all, we are talking about natural laws. A baby does not sit in a classroom memorizing words, but she learns to speak. It’s a wonder. And that is like us. Mostly our work now is to be absorbed in the influence of the upper one, the light, the sources, the spiritual environment that I am making around me so that I can live my normal life and also in my internalilty, I’m starting to build a place where in addition to paying taxes and buying groceries and dealing with difficult people at work, I’m also building a new perception. At once, I am the teenager and the parent. I don’t feel cold, but I already start to understand that what I feel and what is the truth are different things.
I feel according only to my will to receive pleasure, that determines my perception of reality. And I want to acquire a new perception that includes the endless reality, the endless fulfillment.
When we have the opportunity to invest in raising the importance of our spiritual goal, then we do it as much as we can. Then the Creator adds thickness to us and then we raise the good connection again and like this we approach the ladder, left, right, left, right.
Seth@KabUMichael,
On the one hand, you continue to live your life in this world, with work and family and health and on the other hand you continue to read and study what the kabbalists write to us. We are like that mango seed but, we have the plan of creation in our hands. To the extent that we can appreciate and make this treasure great in our eyes, to that extent we will get the strength to listen deeper and deeper. And time after time you will feel how you are advancing and then you invest more and make the treasure great again in your eyes, and again you will get powers to rise.
Seth@KabUHi Henry,
Actually the Upper Light performs these actions.
Our work is always on the side of the vessel.
We arrange our lives, we invest in the spiritual society so that these new discernments, new reshimot all awaken and again we get up again and again and build this connection and this structure inside of us and then when we do this, the light fills this kli.Unlike a yoga pose or a meditation technique that you can do something with your hands and feet, we are learning about something that has to do with the heart. How can we change the heart from wanting to receive for itself?
There is no problem to earn a living or even to be successful. On the other hand a person can be simple worker in the street and spiritually they can come to similar degrees.
Regardless of what we do in our animal life, that is what it is called, the level of “animate”, so above that is where we can enter a spiritual perception.
In real life, you will learn the fundamentals of the wisdom of kabbalah and after that be organized in a small group with other students and then you will begin the inner work in two lines and then three lines and then you will be on your way.
Seth@KabUNancy,
I have few teenagers and with their senses they perceive their reality as true.
No explanation of mine will convince them otherwise, so I aim them in the right direction and impart on them good habits so they will develop in a safe and comfortable way and then they will acquire my perspective on their own through experience and they will finally make their bed and do their dishes LOL.
The kabbalists are doing the same with us. There is only one reality and what we think we feel is a spec of sand on a spec of sand of what exists.
Take any of our sense, for example, take our sense of sight. The spectrum of light spans from ultraviolet rays to infrared rays and there is a tiny sliver that is the visual spectrum. This means that with better tools, we could perceive much more reality, we’d see other forces all around us that we don’t see now. The same goes for all of our senses.
We didn’t even speak yet of what we begin to feel when we start to perceive the spiritual reality that exists beyond the skin, that is built with a common vessel between people’s intentions. Here there opens up 5 more spiritual senses.
All of this is ahead of us.
Seth@KabUMichael,
There is a very important principal that we will study called there is no light without a kli.
And we will study this in depth later. In short, all of reality is filled with upper light, filling everything everywhere evenly.
We on the other hand feel almost nothing.
You never wanted those sneakers until you saw them somewhere. They existed, but you never wanted them until there was some impression made in your vessel and then you went out to fill that emptiness that was left by the light making an impression in your vessel.
That’s a pair of shoes. The same things happens when we get hungry and for everything we do, an emptiness opens up and we look for a spark of light clothed in matter to fill that emptiness.
But how can we ingest all of reality, how can we attain something endless, real, true?
For that we have the wisdom of kabbalah, which means literally the wisdom of receiving.
In order to perceive the endless reality, we need to relate to reality with new senses, we cannot only perceive life through the desires of our protein body, which by the way we must also, we must eat and take care of ourselves and our family, our friends. And also we will learn how to make a spiritual vessel and the light will make an impression in their and we will feel a new reality.
Seth@KabU
