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Nathan,
We are not in receive to bestow.
What we do in this state is first recognize that we are will to receive and everything we do, every step, every thought and every move is for our own benefit. From here, from this recognition we will be able to then start to feel what bestowal is and to develop a true need for it. Then the light fills that vessel.
Seth@KabUHai Mag,
When you say “religion”, you are not referring to attaining the Creator.
You are referring to the religions that we see in the world.
The Tanakh is written only by kabbalists, by those who have attainment of the spiritual degrees that they write about.
There is no words in any of those books about philosophy or theory.Here are some excerpts from our teacher, the kabbalist Rav Laitman,
” Kabbalah was born before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Torah speaks of Abraham “bestowing gifts” to the sons of his concubines and sending them East, thus laying the foundation for Eastern teachings. Everything stems from one source.The collective desire is divided into many parts, and each part has its own individual path of correction. Certain parts can commence with correction immediately. They constitute the group that Abraham had taken out of Babylon. The other parts have scattered around the world, with each part developing individually in accordance with its unique set of qualities.
Their means of advancement are the various religions, faiths, and cultures. A person can easily remain in his faith and follow the spiritual path at the same time. Baal HaSulam writes about this in his Writings of The Last Generation:
“The religious formation of all the nations should first and foremost obligate its members to bestow upon their fellow man the concept of another person’s life coming before one’s own, a formation of ‘Love thy neighbour as thyself’… But otherwise, each nation may pursue its own religion and traditions, and one must not interfere with the other.”
That is, we must not meddle in the affairs of other nations and cultures. Let them have these things; people need them. This whole “territory” has nothing to do with the spiritual world. As a person advances, it turns into a cultural platform for him, a set of traditions, and does not get in the way.
If I want to rise above my nature so as to unite with everybody, even the relationships between religions appear to me in a new light. As a Muslim, I suddenly understand that I can advance toward the goal alongside a Christian, and, truly, what can stop us?
Everyone is used to their own home cooking, and nobody is taking that away from you. As Baal HaSulam writes, everyone can remain in their religion, and nobody has the right to meddle in your affairs precisely because this has nothing to do with the spiritual path. Ultimately, in our world, religions constitute culture, tradition that corresponds from the beginning to the nature of the various parts of Malchut and conforms to the root of the soul.”
Seth@KabU
Hai Mag,
During this part of our study, we are learning many new definitions.
For example when something is great, we say that it is “cool”, but to our grandparents, “cool” means that something is actually cold.
Similarly when the kabbalists write about religion it means attainment.
Obviously for us in our world, religion has nothing to do with attaining Godliness.
Regarding Judaism, Christianity, Islam, etc. these give people important cultural structure in their lives and there is no reason to throw them away, in fact, a person can keep what his family keeps but a kabbalist distinguishes these customs from the work of his soul in attaining Godliness.
Seth@KabUJohanna,
We are made of a material body which is a desire to receive.
This is not praised or condemned. It is a part of nature, like all of the rest of nature that seeks food, rest, pleasure, etc.
We have to eat and sleep and be normal healthy material creatures or we will feel bad.
In addition to that a new desire is developing in us for something that cannot be filled by more rest or more food or sex or money. This is the point in our heart which draws us towards something eternal, something spiritual.Learn how to distinguish when your blood sugar is unbalanced and when you are feeling some deeper yearning.
Sometimes when we feel bad, it’s because we need to exert our body or eat something. But there are other times when we need to delve into the texts (videos, our learning materials) to satisfy that endless yearning in our heart.If you can learn where this boundary is in yourself between what is called your material needs and where your spiritual desire begins, you’ll will be able to orient yourself more and more accurately and develop your spiritual desire more correctly and calibrate it to the light that is pressing on it, developing it and eventually filling it.
Happy to have you here,
Seth@KabUJasmin,
Totally normal and I’m happy for you.
If you are already angry at God, that means that you have a relationship with Him.
Look around, no plant, no animal, and most people are not having such a personal relationship with Him.
Now, let’s not lose the passion that you have, this emotional power, but let’s start to organize some things so that you develop in a more accurate way.
It takes a long time for dust to organize and develop, to be burned and frozen and squashed and stretched before some small particles arrange themselves into the first living cell and then much more time until plants develop and much more time until those pieces keep smashing and burning and earthquakes and fires and ice and time until some particles fit together in new ways and emerges animals and so on and so on until our ancestors climbed down from trees and started making houses and planting crops and then more time until just a few thousand years ago when someone finally said, “Who am I? What is going on here? What is the purpose of my life?”
So first of all, if you got to that point, you’re the vanguard, the tip of the spear of all of creation, so congratulations.
Now, what do we do from here?
Understand who you are and where you came from…there is much more to the story, most importantly what was before the dust and why this whole process, and we will learn about all of that in detail later, but from where we are today, start to understand that it’s not a small task to create a creature and to raise it to become like the creating force itself, to be totally selfless and endlessly loving, actually eternal in its properties.
Imagine you have a dashboard for your life, like a dashboard in a car, that measures your vitals. All the pain in our life is a measure of our distance from where we want to be.
You don’t have free will, you do have free will, these are just words right now.
Start with what is in your hands to do.
Write down in your notebook what you want from life, what you want from this path and understand that you found a place and a method to help you reach your spiritual goals.
If you are angry with God, write that down too. Tell Him why you are angry and what you want Him to show you.
He won’t change from this exercise, He is eternal and only bestowing, but this exercise and prayer in general calibrates us to His frequency.
Good luck and looking forward to hearing about your progress,
Seth@KabUYasmin,
There are a lot of religions, 1000s and each one has its own beliefs and some of them are very corrupted so we are not talking about them. We are talking about realizing the purpose of our lives.
As you study the sources together, we are learning that there is a force of bestowal, some force, we don’t know what it is yet, but something enlivens all of reality, lights every star, makes every heart beat. And on the other hand, there is all of the rest of reality that receives that life force, grass receives the light to grow, the animal eats the grass, we eat and drink, etc, all of reality is a receiving force, some receive more and some less, but every bit of creation is receiving something from the bestowing force in order to be sustained.
Kabbalists, are very precise. They describe to us our state in this world and why creation is built the way that it is and we will learn about that more later. They tell us that while our material body must receive to sustain itself, in our hearts, we can aim to be giving, like the giving force.
In this is the secret of creation, to transcend time, space and limitation.
Seth@KabU
