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have got a question on Saturdays evening lesson …ca minute 52… This is the chatgpt translation from the Hebrew transcription,
Rav (later):
In every situation you should maintain alertness—not nervous tension, but constant readiness toward the goal. This should not interfere with work, study, or daily life. If spirituality interferes with ordinary life, something is arranged incorrectly. Spirituality should fit into corporeality exactly like a hand inside a glove.
If not, you are still confused.
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Student:
If spirituality does not fit into corporeality like a glove, is the problem my relationship to spirituality or to corporeality?
Rav:
Neither.The problem is learning how to connect them.Both spirituality and corporeality come from the same source.There they are already completely united.We simply do not yet perceive them that way.
I am trying to get a grip on it. Dors it means, that when spirituality and corporeality are completely opposite ,something goes wrong, and things need to be approached differently… and actually in corporeality? Did I get that right? And which corporeality is meant here? Only relations to the ten…or “life”?
Hi Gianni , thanks a lot for your many answers. They are so helpful.
There is something about the morning lesson I don’t understand yet . And I’ve been trying to figure out for a while .
What is the purpose of corporeality Other than not to get distracted by it?I understood that a state is revealed through internal and external obstacles, Because it is shown from its posterior side, and that life in general is a reflection of our uncorrected state.
The examples that were given about obstacles, they were from corporeality. And from experience, I feel that, too. Like life can be so tiring out …it feels impossible to go to the morning lesson.Or on the other hand, maybe there is a conflict, and suddenly there is so much adrenaline, it makes it possible to stay awake.This is just an example.
Anyways, how do we lay out our lives so that they don’t produce more obstacles than necessary. And which purpose to we give the rest, I don’t mean that we have to go to work to be decent citizens and all that… I mean, that cop reality is occupying the mind and heart. Especially when it’s about people we love. And I’m not talking about spiritual love. Say children , relatives and so on.
How do we learn from our lives, how do we go through life not being totally asleep during the day, How do we have to understand obstacles given to us in a way that we can learn from them, or do we just overcome them as if it was a mosquito on our skin? How do we stay awake and in connection and during the day, while we are pulled away from the connection as it seems? Probably the answer is simple, but I don’t get figured out it in “real” life.
Second question: How would one guide a teenager who has not been brought up in an integral environment, who has no such network, but who starts asking questions?
And how , specifically, if it’s a boy asking a mother (or maybe vice versa).
What should be the guidance and what should be avoided?
For example… (because that recently just happens), a teenage boy suddenly comes up with a concept of integral society in all sorts of details, as well as his perception of the function and consequence of having an ego, …- saying his ego was a huge bubble, only filled with his self , unable to get satiated, disconnecting from everyone else, because they are also in their bubble. And he wants answers. and asks what could there be more,asks for something that goes beyond the ego, that will be so much bigger than the ego so that this ego cannot keep swallowing all it gets and empty out again. Who feels that all fear of death comes from being out there alone with his ego being like a blackhole swallowing everything it receives.
How do you relate properly? Which sources or videos would be reasonsble? It’s still only a teenager… someone who wants to find his own way… who has no real understanding of these concepts…who avoids anything coming close to religion…
I am using this as an example because it left me stunned, and I cannot figure out how to relate. Of course, I carefully gave answers…. but still… I wonder how to answer correctly
Hi Gianni…I have got a question about how to relate to the meaning of childhood in terms of how we are placed into this world to develop/ grow until the point in the heart awakens and we can actually work on correcting our desires somehow consciously.
If I think that the only reason we start searching is due to a lack, a deficiency … and the way we perceive the world/relate to others/our values… including our desires , longing, and deep lacks… this is all built throughout the childhood, it seems this all and naturally our development depends all on the environment …
so my question is simply:
Is it somehow like that, and if yes…how do we relate to the responsibility within ?
Hi Gianni,
This is basically not so different to what I asked… but it’s a topic in our ten… which had lots of ups and downs,and it started to get to all of us… feeling we miss out on something essential… like wanting to work, to be there for the friends, to really form a ten… but feeling we run behind things… being „too late“ …
so… How can we , especially in a virtual environment, come to true care for one another in a Kabbalistic sense- and thus strengthen the ten and get ahead of these ups and downs or ins and outs , in other words strengthen the quality of our connection and help each other through phases of disconnection .
And one last question… If possible…
(It’s one question… can’t write it better)
… how do we truly keep the goal in our hearts, not in our minds, or in our egos? And in this, how do we really ask for correction and keep going in this direction- which may e a very unpleasant state in between- and not just because we are ordered, or „want“ it… , and how do we find guidance in this process? It’s so easy to get it wrong… what to look out for… and where to ask …(well, I an asking you know:))…
Thank you
