1 to May 7, 2011
I will not sugarcoat it: we face potentially difficult few weeks, five to be exact.
To understand the nature of spiritual growth need not look beyond our own progress from infancy to adulthood. Using our tools, pro-activity, restriction, unconditional love, acts of compassion is like learning to walk. When first used, we felt that initial feeling of freedom so exhilarating. And when we stumble and fall, the light is there to support us with unconditional love, encouraging us to get up and try again.
Once we master the walk, we must feed ourselves. After the initial luck of the beginner, we have to work increasingly hard ourselves to see where else we can put the tools in use.
And just so that when we grow we begin to feel that we learned everything we could from our parents and we are wanting to get out there ourselves, our soul also want that. Spiritually we are looking up and shouting: "Come Light, let me do it alone. I want to experience true freedom! ". And the Light grant us our desire, pushing us out of the nest, saying: "I've taught you everything I know. Now is the time you sink or swim. "
What does that mean? Suddenly the little things that you could Ignore cling to us like barnacles. Our days are filled with opportunities for restriction. The questions become more terrifying, more burning anger inside us, blame us feel smaller. Our desire to criticize is out of control, our judgments are more cruel and less compassionate.
The purpose of this tuning is to let you know that the next five weeks can be an uncomfortable period. But it need not be so.
In fact, I really want to get this time of year. The Kabbalists explain that it is our opportunity to purify ourselves emotionally, physically and spiritually. If there are issues deeply rooted in us that we have blocked all our lives, now is the time to resolve. During this period, people quit smoking, break addictions, change your eating and exercise habits, and fix dysfunctional patterns in relationships.
If we feel that our studies of Kabbalah have stalled, now is the time to look more deeply what we think we know. If you do not have a teacher, it's time to find one. For many of us, the lessons we learned at the beginning of our journey have become empty slogans. Now it's time to rejuvenate our passion for spirituality, that after all is what this trip is.
So this week go out to the world and ourselves empujémonos. Look at our words and convert our anger into love. Accept the independence, creativity and success that our Creator intends for us.
And remember that the greatest act of sharing a parent can do is not pick up your child after he has fallen off, but let your child wakes up by itself. And so it is for us during these next few weeks.
All the best, Yehuda
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