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Eva,
There is none so wise as the experienced.
A kabbalist learns to live in two worlds at the same time.
It takes time, but you will become accustomed to it.
Seth@KabUMatanah,
Of course it is good.
The ego isn’t so thrilled about the situation. He doesn’t know how he’s going to get paid if everything is for the sake of the Creator and not for him.
Seth@KabUEva,
If I go to see a concert, I can be impressed by the band. But if I’m a business man, maybe I’m counting seats multiplied by the number of dollars per ticket multiplied by the cost of t-shirts and thinking of if this is a good business to go into.
If I’m the guy selling hot dogs I’m thinking how many hot dogs can I sell.
So we are “in” the environment, but in what way am I influenced. And to what degree have I placed myself in the environment.
I can be the usher showing people to their seats and I’m in the concert hall every night but I don’t have an emotional experience.
Where are you? How are have you planted yourself in the spiritual environment? What is the goal you hope to achieve by being in this environment?
These questions are for you to ask yourself. You are an artist in the spiritual realm. A slogan such as “let the environment influence you” is a slogan, but what does it mean, what are the nuances, where is the investment of inner power? Think about it. Work on it.
You’ll see how it works from your own experience.
Seth@KabUAndrea,
Here is a great book by a wonderful friend and long time student of our teacher the kabbalist Rav Laitman.
This book will reveal many of the secrets of the Bible for you.
http://www.kabbalah.info/files/public/Files/ebooks/The_Secrets_of_the_Eternal_Book.pdf
Seth@KabUElvis,
As we learn, there is no light without a kli. It means that although all of reality is right now permeated with the highest spiritual lights, we don’t feel it at all because we don’t have a kli, a vessel for it.
You and your cat go to the opera. The opera hall is filled with beautiful music but the cat has no kli for it, he doesn’t understand romance and nuance and vocal performance and the costumes and the theatre. He has no kli and so he does not receive in his kli any of the sensation of the “light”.
In short, we acquire the sixth sense by developing the kli for it.
To do that, one needs an environment that constantly develops that desire in him because unlike our desires for food, sex, money, honor, power, knowledge, etc. the spiritual desire requires an awakening from below, it does not renew on its own like the corporeal desires.
Seth@KabUDavid,
We are a developing desire that due to the degree of our desire we only perceive reality as corporeal.
As that desire develops and it cannot be fulfilled by corporeal fillings…it needs food, it needs all the corporeal fillings, just like an animal, but these things don’t fulfill him, like they do fulfill an animal, then this person starts to develop his spiritual desire.Inside of all of us is a tiny black point, it is called the point in the heart, it is like the single sperm that will later be a person, this is the single seed that will grow to be our soul. It grows by the desire for spirituality growing.
This requires time, a method, books that contain the reforming light that transforms the desire.
Seth@KabU
