Thank you, Gianni! What if I don’t want to be a toddler anymore? I don’t want to serve make-believe pleasures to my parent or do for them something that I would consider enjoyable. What if I want to really understand them and please them on their level? Shouldn’t I be aiming to grasp what pleases them? Or am I not capable of even that at this point? And what do I need to do to come to a point where the Light’s influence has matured me enough? Somehow it doesn’t feel possible for me to rest now in the awareness that I am just a kid. The moment I become aware of my smallness, I immediately want to move past it and offer something real to the Creator and my friends.
What are Mitzvot? I realize that this is a very broad question, so let me elaborate. I have a general understanding of what a Mitzva is, but I don’t understand what my attitude should be (and without the proper attitude, it’s just a mechanical action). So is it something I believe would bring pleasure to the Creator or something that I know would bring Him pleasure? Do I keep questioning and examining it until I know or do I focus on the internal sensation towards the Creator and continue to perform an action as a tool, with the belief that it brings Him pleasure?
Is the bulk of the work done specifically when you don’t wanna do it? It feels like this is the only place where I can go against the ego, because even if there is a small desire to do the work, I am not going above reason, I am still in self-love, fulfilling that small desire. So, logically, the more resistance I experience, the better. But how can I come to this place? What can I coerce the body to do? Go to meetings? Read? Watch lessons? I find that every time I decide to coerce the donkey to do something, it tricks me by finding pleasure in it. This makes it impossible for me to find a place where I can go above reason. What am I doing wrong?
Gianni, we accidentally stumbled on a potential source of fuel in our ten meeting today and wanted to know if it was ok to use it. This source of fuel is called “imagine the alternative” :> So basically, is it ok to depict to ourselves what the failure to make the efforts that the Creator gives us opportunities to make can lead to (for us as a ten and for the whole world) in order to intensify our desire and make our prayer/need more pressing? Or is this digging to much into the left?
Gianni, do I have to hate the ego? Can I come to spirituality because my current affiliation with it torments me to an extent that is unbearable? Isn’t that a selfish reason? See, it’s everywhere :/