ORIENTATION
---WHERE WE'VE
BEEN
Last week we
began the first of a series of meditations designed to enable us to see through
the eyes of a mystic. We dealt with the specific topic, ''Seeing the Unseen''
[corresponding to one of the titles that Kabbalah is known as, 'Chochmat
HaNistar' ---'The Wisdom of the Unseen'] ...We learned that when one is deep
enough inside a state of receptivity [correponding to another Kabbalistic title-'Chochmat
Hakabbalah' --'The Wisdom of Receiving or Receptivity'], than not only will
they be able to see and receive that which is barely seen by most people, but
one can even see the unseeable---ie...parallel dimensions in the realms of
space and time and soul...........This ability to see the unseen, is the first
step required for gaining a mystical perspective---for becoming a mystic who is
at one with the world and one with reality....
THE NEXT STEP
The next
step---the next Kabbalistic mindset, perspective or state of consciousness to
be grasped, corresponds to another meaning of the word Kabbalah--from the root
'HAKBALLAH' ['PARRALELISM OR CORRESPONDENCE]...This aspect of Kabbalah teaches
us that everything corresponds to everything else.....This leads one to be able
to perceive an all-embracing unity----unifying the seemingly most insignificant
details with the most profound root axioms and everything in between.....This
transcendent aspect of Kabbalah makes it clear why Kabbalah is regarded as a
bridge to all types of systems and wisdoms, and why it's regarded as the key to
Messianic consciousness and as the soul of the Torah and of life itself But , I
would prefer that you learn about this topic from someone far above my level
---especially in his grasp of the subject and his ability to communicate it....
Here are the
words of R. Avraham Isaac Kook[zatz'l];
THE MYSTICAL
DIMENSION THAT EMBRACES EVERYTHING Philosophy embraces only a given part of the
spiritual world. By nature, it is detached from whatever is outside it's
sphere. By this itself, it is fragmented in it's being. The grace of perceiving
how all feelings and tendencies, from the small to the large, are
interdependent, how they act on each other, how separate worlds are organically
related--this it cannot portray. For this reason, it must always remain an
aristocratic discipline, set apart for special individuals. Greater than this
is the mystical quest, which by its nature penetrates to the depths of all
thought, all feelings, all tendencies, all aspirations, and all worlds, from
beginning to end. It recognizes the unity of all existence, the physical and
the spiritual, the great and the small, and for this reason there is, from its
perspective, no bigness or smallness. Everything is important, and everything
is invested with marked value. There is no lost gesture, there is no vain
imagining. Because of this advantage, mystical vision, in being able to embrace
within itself all thoughts and all sparks of the spiritual, is alone fit to
chart for us the way to go. Therefore, the mystical dimension is the soul of
religion, the soul of the Torah. From it's substance derives all that is
revealed, all that is circumscribed, all that can be conceived by logic, all
that can be carried out in actions. The far-reaching unity of the mystical
dimension embraces all creatures, all conditions of thought and feeling, all
forms of poetry and exposition, all expressions of life, all aspirations and
hopes, all objectives and ideals, from the lowliest depths to the loftiest
heights. The source of life deriving from the highest realm of the divine,
which only the light of prophecy, the clear illumination, the light seen by
Adam, , the supernal lights can disclose, streams into and valuable, all is
complimentary to all else... passes through all stirrings of thought, all
movements of the spirit. [R. Avraham Kook zatz'l --The Lights of Holiness]
Kabbalistic Unity Consciousness Meditations
[SEEING THE KABBALISTIC UNITY THROUGH THE EYES OF
THE MYSTIC]
1.SEE HOW ALL IS INTER-INCLUDED See how everything
is inter-included in everything else---what's outside of you is also inside of
you---what is needed to realize this, is to plug in and feel and resonate and
recall---try to feel and resonate inside of yourself, with things that are
outside of yourself ---whether they be outside of yourself in space or in
time---Experiment, keep on pushing the buttons of resonation, until you can
truly identify that which is outside of yourself , inside of yourself---until you
can feel what a person, a place, a historical happening ....etc...feels like...
2. SEE HOW ALL IS INTERDEPENDENT See how everything
is dependent on everything else---- how actions are dependent on words, and how
words are dependent on feelings, and how feelings are dependent on thoughts,
and how thoughts are dependent on will, and how will is dependent on HIS
Will... See how one person's will, thoughts, feelings, actions and words are
dependent on other people's same faculties, and other's on them and many
people's on one central person's, and this one central person's faculties is
dependent on their teachers and their parents and their teacher's teachers and
parent's parents faculties going back and back to the beginning... See how the
animal and plant and mineral kingdoms are dependent upon each other....See how
large parts of the world's people are dependent upon a small part....See how
large parts of history are dependent on one specific part....See how all these
independent entities are all significant---are all necessary parts of the
whole...
3. SEE HOW ALL IS SIGNIFICANT See how the
interinclusion and the interdependency of all things, makes everything
significant---because everything, in it's own way and time and place, is
absolutely necessary for the needs of everything else----the body is
significant for the soul, the physical is significant for the spiritual, the
small is significant for the big, the dark for the light...etc...etc...All is
important, all is 11
valuable, all is complimentary to all else...
4. SEE THE RAMIFICATION[S] OF THIS UNITY See what
is learned from this mystical unity --this interincluded, interdependent unity
-----See how this unity penetrates to the depths of all dimensions--all thought
, all aspirations, all perfection---for when everything fits in, when
everything harmonizes, when there is a special place reserved for all
things---then there is peace, and there is oneness, and there is goodness, and
there is clarity, and there is meaning and the soul of reality is revealed and
in control --and then everyone will know and see with the supernal hidden light
that all is One and that all is connected together and connected to the Divine
source of all life ...
my best,
Yitzchak
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