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I suppose to help others would mean to do for them what I would do for myself. If my work is to attract the light that reforms, then I should also make it my work to attract that light for others. I’m not sure how to do this. Prayer, yes. Treating them with love and kindness, yes. But I’m not sure how to go about doing those.
Why is it very important to only practice this in a Kabbalistic group? Should I not attempt to “build love on top of conflict” in my every day life, with coworkers, family, etc?
“Our suffering is a means for us to evaluate and correct our selfish ways.”
And this really changes how you see life, doesn’t it? Great insight, thank you.
I wish I knew this experientially but from my current egoistic and limited perspective, I think it would mean truly seeing others AS yourself. Not metaphorically, not symbolically; but taking their needs as your own because they ARE your own. We don’t see the vast interconnection between individuals, where every choice someone makes inevitably impacts the whole. (Butterfly effect, essentially.) I know that when I make choices that I’m ashamed of or that put me in a sour mood, I then go to work and my sour mood impacts others, who then go about their lives and that impacts others, and so on.
I want my perception to widen beyond my minuscule, fleeting desires and to expand to include the larger organism of humanity that I am apart of.
Unfortunately, everything I do is driven by ego- I fear even the desire to expand my perception beyond myself has some sinister egoistic drive behind it! Only the Creator can expand the point in my heart, that point of the desire to bestow. And I look forward to that.
