I’m very confused about something and am hoping to gain clarity around it. If I am not wrong about hearing the instruction for us to maintain faith above reason why then in the week 3 lesson reading from the Shamati it says this:
“This is considered that the judgment is just, that only in this manner can we come to the ultimate goal, to understand within reason, with complete and absolute understanding of which there is no higher, that only by way of faith and bestowal can we achieve the purpose.”
It says this again in the first part of the reading. This seems like a contradiction to me. Please help me to understand. Thank you.
I would like to know who I am and from there find out why am I here? The Kabbalahists say they can help me with discovering the answers. And so I study.
I see freedom as rising above the ego that only desires for itself alone. I see the reforming light as doing what its name suggests as re-forming the ego that would desire to bestow.
I understood from this video that Tony presented, our primary focus is to build the desire for a vessel for the Creator’s Light because all thoughts and feelings until that happens come from Him. So until that time when the vessel is made, any thought that comes to mind such as the necessary need for food or shelter as a desire or even a trivial desire for entertainment comes from the Creator or is that from the ego inserting itself and therefore something we must rise above?