Kabbalah and Eternal Liberation from Pain

JUNE 29, 2014 - Kabbalah and Eternal Liberation from Pain

SUNDAY MORNING

    Hi, Honey Bun.  We were together again last night for a long, fun filled time.  You and I talking in high spirits and happily with each other as we busied ourselves in activities with lots of other people.  Wonderful that astral experience was, though the details faded quickly after re-entering this current waking mode.  But it was a wonderful time for us.  And this astral experience came after a kind of epiphany I had been surprised by yesterday.

    The epiphany was a new understanding that pain and suffering does actually have a positive role to play in our spiritual lives.  It produces a desire in us to escape from the suffering and impels us to search for a way out of it.  Ultimately to rise above it.  This moves us forward in our spiritual growth and learning.  We search for and find lasting ways to exist free of the pain, which ultimately are levels of living in a conscious state above the pain, and above material concerns.  Without experiencing pain and suffering and our desire to rid ourselves of it, we might otherwise settle into a stagnate mode of no spiritual growth and even a slow decay into lower levels of consciousness.  (We see this often in the society of the decadent rich and how utterly ignorant and emotionally miserable their self-indulgent lifestyles make them after so many years of living the so-called easy life).

    Anyway, I realized during my epiphany that this inner search for freedom from suffering must culminate in a state of being which rises completely above the ups and downs, the backs and forths, the pain and pleasure and swings of yin-yang in the material world.  Our search must take us above all that.

    I have seen seeds of this idea come to me throughout my life, starting in my late teens when I began investigating esoteric literature.  The image that always accompanied my questions of how to rise above the duality of the material world was the mental picture of struggling to emerge from a deep hole in the ground.  

    The only way out of the hole was to push one arm and leg against one side of the hole, and angle the force of the foot downward a little bit against the side of the hole, which forced the other side of my body to inch upward toward the hole's opening above.  And then to do the same thing with the other side of my body, that is push with the other arm and leg against the other side of the hole, and inch the other side of my body up a little more.  And to repeat this process until the friction of pushing my legs against the sides of the hole alternately, one push after the other, eventually pushing my whole body steadily upward until I came out of the wide open brightly lit opening at the top of the hole.  Then I could stand up in the wide world of freedom outside of the hole.  

    There, I would emerge like a baby from a womb into a brand new life of much greater dimensions.

    So the epiphany I experienced yesterday is much the same thing.  Through pushing away back and forth against the sides of the world of pain and pleasure we naturally move upwards toward freedom and the light of understanding and find our souls free of the traps of materialism and the yin-yang.  

    The following is a quote which caps this narrative off wonderfully and is the cause of the celebratory nature of our dream last night:

    “From the perspective of Kabbalah, it is important that a man and a woman be together, marching together on the path of self-correction and reaching congruence with the Upper Force. By doing that, they will complement one another on both material and spiritual levels. Both the man and the woman have certain corrections to make. By making their personal and reciprocal corrections, they will come to the right connection in such a way that their relationship will resemble the Upper Force.” - Rav Laitman

    So this idea, Honey Bun, also confirms our eternal life together and the correctness of our actions so far.  Over the 30 years of our material life together, we have seen many wonderful loving lessons and corrections to our relationship which always brought us closer and closer together in love and trust and joy, and grew into an enormously powerful selfless love sustaining us continuously.  And still does!  

    So you can see why we were celebrating last night in spirit.

    I love you, Darling Wife!  See you after I’m done tying up these loose ends in the material world.  Keep the porch light on.