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Connect with others to help them advance, trying my best on this journey, reflecting on where I am and going on from there, correcting what I am able to reveal as being an egoistic state. Listen to my friends‘ advice and reflection, and knowing it is a lifelong process, and not a race….show mercy towards myself and others… for maybe not getting where I  feel I should.
Dear Gianni, thanks for letting me know… I am glad I am not heading into a totally wrong direction. 😊And a big thanks to everyone for all these wonderful courses and material. Itś really just so mindblowing, and I am impressed at how all these very life-changing content is presented in such a patient, and gentle way.🪷
Hopefully, itś not getting to bothering, but there is yet one more question that has been with me for the past weeks… and that is how to study correctly? So far, I just got this very rough overview, but I really tried to feel all the content, so I tried to be there with an open heart… and open my mind as much as I could… but I probably could go through the courses another ten times to memorize all the names and structures. It felt all right to do it this way,  more focusing on the experience than the cognitive process alone, but then I always wondered… what is the purpose of studying? What would be the right preparation… and what should be the goal?  You know, I would like to just use these ressources wisely…
Hi, so now that I am almost through this course and a few more, it just dawns to me that this form of Spirituality, Kabbalah, is really fundamentally changing my perspective, and really different to anything I have learned so far. Now, I am wondering, if my understanding is correct, because if it is … it means a deep shift of perspective and deep inner change…
I wonder if you could please tell me if I got something very wrong in how I understood things, so that I know before I start walking into the totally wrong direction.
So thatś what I understood: In terms of Kabbalah, itś about the development of the whole of creation. We are just little fractals of this whole, and as such there is no point trying to advance our individual skills or even power, ask prayers for ourselves or our benefit,…because we are just these tiny little parts of the whole anyways. So we dońt inherit any power in ourselves or for ourselves, just like a cell is not sovereign of the body. In fact, there is no need for us to have more power, because creation is one whole, and all we are is a tiny piece. But what we may have is the chance to develop a connection to the whole, and as such we may learn to direct our intention and energy towards the whole.
And if we want to develop, then it should be to develop our understanding and attainment of this , in benefit for the whole. Like an ant in an anthill or a bee in a beehive. And therefore, any prayer needs to contain that yearning and wish for the whole ,and not for us… and the later is not needed anyways, because the light of the upper force is as good as can be anyways, only we might not feel it from where we are. So, any development in this world as a human being should be directed towards understanding this system, overcoming that egoistic state of mind and heart again and again, and advance in really attaining this world of spirituality being …even while being just a tiny spark of creation. However, in connection with the other sparks, each correcting bits, it will develop the whole. And the more we learn to connect and correct, the more light we will feel.
OK, so hopefully that doesńt go too far astray. I feel quite overwhelmed (in a good way) with the change of perception this form of spirituality is asking…
HI, I have got a question about prayer… now ,I understood, that religious prayer is not the same as spiritual prayer. And I understood that in a way we are always in prayer. Does this refer to our corporeal yearning… like when we are yearning for something for ourselves or our friends or hope a burden is taken from us?  And while this is natural, it´s not a Kabbalistic prayer. Now, how to deal with those yearnings nontheless? I read in one answer that it´s jst fine to keep it up, to keep praying, just not with the expectation of fulfillment, because that´s not how we draw the light plus the upper force means good to us anyways. However, for me just knowing it changed the process, reduced my desire to even focus on it. Yet, something is jsut missing now, and since i didn´t learn how to ray in terms of kabbalistic prayers, it feels like there is a space to fill. So… I am just wondering what to do with this old way of praying… does it have any effect.. and even if it´s just a psychological trick to calm one´s mind? Or will it just dilute the experience of real prayer? And is there any such thing like a “format” for spiritual prayer? For religious prayer it seems so easy, so trained, because there are all those setups like prayer books, places to go, rituals to do… How is the preparation for a spiritual prayer in relation to that? Is there any at all?
Hi, I`ve been studying with KabU only for a few months, and first of all I just wanted to leave a big and  heartfelt „THANK YOU“ to all of the KABUTeam… KabU team, the way you lead us beginners through all this is really, really helpful, and it´ś such a great setup with all the different courses, the forums, the Q/A sessions… and all those Videos, they are really amazing … I am truly grateful for the chance to study Kabbalah this way, and I so much appreciate all the work you put in this. 🥰
Now, in this forum I read a lot of very detailed questions, and quite a few of them were discussing the meaning of Torah, of some specific rituals, laws, commandments, … on the other hand, in the courses I learned that Kabbalah is exactly not about religion, that it´ś rather science, because it needs to be attained, observed and not believed in. When I started the courses, I was all intrigued by the scientific aspects of Kabbalah, maybe because I have some background there, and I really liked the idea of not having to believe but try,… anyways, now that I am progressing with the couses, I just dońt see the science yet. Please dońt get it wrong, I am totally happy with all that I learned… And for me, itś deeply spiritual, more than anything I have learned or practiced so far,… only I want to perceive it the right way. So, what I am trying to do is read it with an open mind, try to be unprejudiced, ready to be surpised by any revelation. In that, I am trying an empiric scientific approach. And I am getting, that once I get into a 10, the „lab“ might really be such, if the conditions to practice have determined factors, like in an experiment in a science lab.So, I am just seeking reassurance… well and the group, a teacher , and books of course…is that how it´ś meant? And is that all it needs? An open heart and an open mind? (Point in the heart included, for I am here…) After all,  I did not bother much about the religious impact yet, although I find the texts hard to understand as I dońt have any Jewish religious education, and the terminology reminds me so much of religion after all. Can I go on like that? Or will I just be disappointed then or getting to limits of understanding, if I dońt have that religious background ( I have a Christian background… but I never really took anything literally, and I am not into religion in terms of laws and dogmas, so I just cannot relate to it).
Thanks a lot :-))
