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John,
Here is a blog post by our teacher Rav Laitman that gives a good feeling for your answer.
https://laitman.com/tag/spiritual-work/#gsc.tab=0Seth@KabU
Michael,
All of this is taking place before there is time and space.
We are learning it in a sequence in order to build a in us a structure of reality.
These four phases plus the root phase come from the 4 letter name tip of the Yud – Yud – Hay – Vav – Hay.
And after the four phases, there comes the partzufim, sefirot, the spiritual worlds and the degrees of the soul. All of this comes from this same structure.Think of the four phases like a line of computer code that just sits there until the last line which executes the code and runs it. There is no phase 1 without the root phase and 2, 3, 4 after it.
I don’t relate to your questions because they are not really speaking about what is happening here. Listen to the lesson again with this explanation.
As for “20%” this is only an example. It could be 18% or 33%.Seth@KabU
Jeff,
Our goal is to attain Godliness. “Attainment” [Heb: Hasagah] means the ultimate degree of understanding. It derives from the phrase, Ki Tasig Yadcha [“Your hand shall attain”]. That means that before something becomes utterly lucid, as though gripped in one’s hand, Kabbalists do not consider it attained, but by other names such as understanding, comprehension, and so on.We are right now in a field of endless light there is nothing that changes on the side of the light. We are before a set table filled with all of the delights. Imagine a cat sitting in a movie theatre. He just does not have the vessels to perceive the nuance of the acting, the visual effects, the musical score.
And even a human. Take a child to the opera and he will sit there bored while the adult next to him can go from tears to laughter from the depth of emotion.
So all of our work is only to acquire vessels. This takes time and much effort.
This is the secret of the matter of the exile in Egypt, that the children of Israel needed to go down into that darkness in order to acquire vessels, to acquire a need for all that the Creator wants to give to them.What you are studying now is invaluable. Your are beginning to organize your inner life and discover what is the matter that we are made of, what is the system that we find ourselves in, what forces are acting on us and where can we make a spiritual move.
Stupid…this doesn’t matter at all. It is not the wise who attains.
It depends on the desire of the heart which develops slowly over time.
Miserable…this is a good state, that you are not satisfied with the what the world has to offer and you need more.
Take notes from each lesson, squeeze the juice out it, write down a few sentences from each lesson. What you understand from it. Just a few words, the essence of what you got. Do this from week to week.
You found a true method passed from teacher to student unbroken for thousands of years.
You found what you are looking for.
He put your hand on the good fate, now you need to take it.
I look forward to hearing how it is going as you progress. We will have many more degrees of ups and downs to go though. The righteous falls 1000times and rises. That is our way.
Seth@KabUDave,
Great question, because in the first place if we are a receiver and will always remain a receiver, what anyway can we bestow?
So on the one hand there is the desire to receive that developed according to the four phases: inanimate, vegetative, animate and speaking. During this time the desire is growing in order that we feel ourselves and develop a desire for the Creator, not simply a desire for food, sex, family like all animals and money, honor, knowledge and power like the other social humans creatures, but that we a new desire appears in us for eternity.
All of our work is not to attain the thing, our work is to attain a desire for the thing. We are sitting before a set table with all of the delights. We exist in the upper light, our problem is that we don’t discover it because we don’t have the right vessel for it. For us to develop a desire for love, for bestowal, really it is an intention, we remain as receivers but we work with our intention that we want to receive not towards ourselves but towards the Creator, the others, all of reality is outside of my imaginary perception. When I want only for myself that is called that I am a will to receive with an intention to receive. When I want to connect with the system with the life of lives, with the source of all good, with the integral connection of all of reality, that is called that I am a desire to receive with an intention to bestow.
Seth@KabUShaun,
You are correct, there is a book that is called the Torah, or a group of books including the prophets and the writings.
But what this is referring to is the light that is contained in the books.
The ego must grow, by this we do not remain as beasts who only run all day to fill their “belly”, but our ego grow so much that we want to devour the world and on top of that we draw that light that corrects it.
At the end of the day, we are a desire to receive and that will not change, we cannot bestow.
What we can do is receive with an intention to bestow so that all of our receiving is for the sake of the whole system that we are an integral part of, we receive for the sake of the Creator.
That action comes as a result of the light that reforms us.
Seth@KabUYvon,
The answer depends on the goal that you want to attain.
Imagine that there are 10,000 white blood cells per cubic millimeter of your blood.
When we breathe bacteria enters our body and the white blood cells attack and kill the bacteria all day. When we get a cut the white blood cells go and fight the bacteria that try to get in through the cut.
Imagine if you could give a voice and emotions to each of those little battles, millions of little fights and wars all day, every day from the moment that you are born until your last breath.
You can look in a microscope and see your cells and study them because you are on a degree above them.
Now imagine that you find a method and through studying and connecting you begin to perceive that you are not just this person called Yvon who sees reality through these two eyes, but you start to perceive in a common vessel that Yvon is is a cell in the body of humanity and all together there is completely different perception and you are not relating to these things in the same way.
Yes they happen, but the whole perception of them itself changes.
Now simultaneously you also feel life as the part called Yvon because specifically from these feelings of repulsion and fear and anger that those terrible things that you listed bring up, that drives us to want to find an answer, to exit the limited perception and by this we attain something while we live.
Seth@KabU
