Kabbalah Thoughts

[Menolly]

We have Zen thoughts, why not Kabbalah-based ones. I get most of these from a Facebook group, Kabbalah Online, which is associated with the The Spiritgrow-Josef Kryss Wholistic Center in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

I hope you enjoy and feel free to add any you come across which may resonate with you.

To practice ego all you need is fear; to practice compassion all you need is love.

[Caelyn]

To practice ego all you need is fear; to practice compassion all you need is love.

I am still small and had to ask my Mama to explain some of the words, but I recognized the end as being the same as my favorite song.

I think what the nice lady repeated from her book of faces is right. Fear is bad and so is caring to much about yourself. Love is good because it is all about caring for other people.

[Savor Dam]

Continuing what seems to be a theme:

You can love someone and feel good about it. Or alternatively you can just love someone.

[Savor Dam]

Your soul can not function if your body can not function. Get your act together -- for spiritual reasons.

[aliantha]

Your soul can not function if your body can not function. Get your act together -- for spiritual reasons.

Yeah, yeah, yeah -- your body is a temple, and all that.

[Menolly]

If I had been online earlier in the day, I would have posted earlier in the hopes of helping everyone through "hump" day.

In any case, here is the thought I wish to share today...

Ego means focus on self. Compassion is focus on other.

[Menolly]

Between compassion and ego lies the spectrum of consciousness. At one end is mindfulness and at the other end is habit.

[Orlion]

Ego=habit? Hmmm... that's an interesting assessment.

[Menolly]

I'm simply glad to note others are reading these thoughts.
Take from them what you will.
And meditate upon them.

[Savor Dam]

The spiritual seeker seeks the meaningful. The mystical seeker seeks the experiential. The material seeker seeks a security blanket.

[Menolly]

ah, SD...
You're jumping way ahead of me.
That one is a good eleven posts down the road for the path I am following.

[Savor Dam]

Well, I suppose there is a certain poetic justice in that, Menolly. The Kabbalah thought I originally had in mind for this juncture, Abra KeDabra, is the one that you posted as your Facebook status yesterday.

That we are led to overlapping thought patterns is an interesting coincidence. Where this will lead as we continue this twice-weekly cycle...who can say?

[Menolly]

Abra KeDabra is also way in the future for the path I am following, which is basically mostly the order in which I have read them. Perhaps when I repeat them, they will have a different meaning than when first read.

[Menolly]

Tikkun Olam: our job to take the rose that fell out of the vase on the cosmic mantle piece and restore it to its proper place.

[hierachy]

I wonder if there is a link between Kabbalah and the fine structure constant.

[Menolly]

The concept of fine structure constant is new to me with your post, so I definitely can not answer. But a quick search reveals that the gematria of the Hebrew letter spelling of Kabbalah equals 137...

The litany of modern physics is replete with assaults upon common sense: the speed of light remains constant regardless of the circumstances surrounding its measurement; energy-changes in the universe occur at fixed "quantum" intervals (Planck's constant) rather than in contiguous increments. These two "constants" in nature -- "c" (the speed of light) and "h" (the quantum-energy unit) -- change forever the way we conceive classical concepts such as "infinity" and "zero". A third "constant" in nature, derived from these first two and positioned -- as it were -- between them, is the "inverse of fine-structure constant" equal to the "pure" (i.e. dimension-less) number of 137. (The number 137 is also the numerical equivalent of the word Kabbalah in Hebrew.) Together, these three constants comprise a set that corresponds to the sequence of stages in one's service of G-d explained elsewhere in Chassidic tradition.

I will admit it is pretty much gibberish to me. But is seems a fascinating concept to introduce, Holarchy.

[Menolly]

Love means connectedness. Fear means disconnectedness.
Fear destroys love.
Love tames fear.

...
"Love is Divine..."
...been missing you lately, Furls.
Love and Light.

[LaRocca]

All mysticism is a waste of my time. I am an Unbeliever.

[Menolly]

Again, welcome to the Watch, larocca.
Be Well Come and True.

You will find many here who agree with you regarding the possibility of The All.
And The Close is the perfect spot on the Watch to discuss such.

I myself am not much of a debater though, so you may have better luck generating discussion in some of the other threads.

[LaRocca]

Not much of a debater myself either these days. It's for the young. I'm more of a hit-and-run poster, often in 140 characters or less even away from Twitter.