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Hello Brad. In my current class we are being taught how a bit of disparity in the discourse is not only expected when you graduate to the group of 10, but it’s also very helpful as a means of growth. Ascents and descents. Don’t get complacent in the ascent and grow when the descents present. Love your friend as yourself is the lesson.
So I am going to let my mother instinct take rein here (since I’m old enough to do that) and say that your post appears to me as a bit of egoistic need and a kinder approach might be considered. Why don’t you just repost your questions with a simple note that you are reposting as they may have been missed.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but perhaps others got the same feeling as I did and my comment is only meant for spiritual growth.
Our connection is fortified when it remains in our consciousness in all that we do. Meaning each thought and act become a means to please the Creator. The transformative influence is amplified when we can share with others who have the point in the heart open, and when alone by listening to the instructors, and especially by reading the books written by, and for, Kabbalists.
I expect I am like all of us, listening to the videos, reading the texts, exploring links provided and more. And then there are the descents. Last night through this morning. So much time invested, what difference does it make, where is the gain, for me? Will I ever really feel that I have attained the spirituality I came to find or will it all be just intellectual?
So I left the computer, left the confines of the house, went outside with my dogs under the blue sky, fresh from the cold and yesterday’s snow, already melted. I walked slowly through the pasture down to the play area, looked at the surrounding mountains still covered in snow. And suddenly it was as if the sky had opened and I could see and feel the presence of the beyond.
The mourning dove sat there on the fence, so close to me that I knew the Creator was in that little bird. With a deep breath I pictured of Rav Laitman walking through the trees where he does many of his videos. I could see him, I was there with him. As I looked up to the top of the Blue Spruce a mockingbird landed right there and started to chirp. He was talking to me. The Creator was talking to me through him. I could see the roots way up in the clear sky as they came down to touch the top of that tree and I knew this day of descent was over.
It made a big difference to go quietly outside and be still, in Nature. To quietly observe the wonders of Creation and allowing it all to flow inside of me brought me back here. I just wanted to share the experience, perhaps it will touch the point in your heart too. I posted it here because it wasn’t really something from the lesson, or maybe it was in a way.
It means we are on the path to understanding equivalence of form with the Creator, the slow climb up the ladder to complete adherence with the Creator. It means opening the point in our hearts to true Joy.
Thank you Gianni! I remembered Bina being the highest level but didn’t realize that the GE of Bina was available in the lower part of Atzilut. After watching your video explaining GE and AHP yesterday, last night the Creator took my hand to pick the Zohar in my reading time, and I discovered a bookmark in the beginning of the Raising a Prayer chapter. I had forgotten that I put it aside, not understanding it, all those abbreviations and Hebrew words. So I slowly started to read it again, the charts familiar because of your video. Now that I am here I will continue to finish this chapter as I progress through the week. Slowly. After all, the Creator sent me there. 🙂
Manuela, a friend sent me a little button that says, Festina Lente! Now it applies to my studies too!
