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Whether we're good or bad, and whatever our definitions may be about good and bad, everyone seems to suffer. So doing good doesn't actually have an effect on whether I suffer or not. So what has an effect?
It seems like if I'm good in the eyes of the all-encompassing force of the universe, of reality, the Creator, then my life should be good. Or we could make an excuse: okay, my life is bad now, but maybe after this life it will be good.
Kabbalists want good right now. Kabbalah is called reception in Hebrew, and what we want to do is receive all of the good right now. We want to understand how life can be good now and how we can reach the ultimate good that we're destined for in this life. We don't count at all what could happen or might happen. Nobody really knows what's going to happen.
When things start going not our way, what happens? We are in a system of forces, and every animal, even every plant, has some kind of relationship with the upper force that created it, whether it is aware of it or not. It has some kind of disposition toward that force. That comes from the plan of creation itself.
We have an instinctive feeling that good should come. When good doesn't come, or even the opposite comes, when suffering comes, we start to curse this upper force. The slightest dissatisfaction in my heart, the slightest suffering, counts as cursing.
This is a state that any person can be in, and it's a very important state. Things are going well, you're happy, and you don't have a care in the world. You have no deficiency. Then all of a sudden things start going badly. This is an extreme response of the system to a person being within it according to certain conditions.
The question is: if I find myself in a situation where, for some reason, the upper force of nature has decided that I had it good and now I'm going to have it bad, and one wave after another comes and takes away more and more, how do I respond?
We're talking about forces within the system that work upon a person who is asleep. That is a state where I think everything is fine and I have no questions about the meaning of life because my life is going great. I don't wonder what it's all for. I just know it's good, and I want to continue enjoying more and more by the day.
But the system of nature needs to come to balance. It needs an equation between bestowal and reception. It does not agree to a static state. This system expects a person to always be moving toward the purpose of creation, toward the goal of life.
What happens is that there are forces in this system ready to awaken a person. These forces awaken from within a person and can bring negative states into a person's life if we don't respond to the system correctly. It starts internally.
If we don't identify these forces and work with them correctly—and that's what Kabbalah teaches us to do—then we see their manifestation in our reality.
The purpose of every incident that occurs is to awaken us. The attempt is to awaken us gently. First it seems far away, then it seems to be in my country, then in my town. If I still say, "At least it's not happening to me. Thank God everything is okay. Bless the Creator," then it comes to my door. If I still close my eyes, it comes inside my door.
That's because blindly blessing the upper force is not what's expected. These awakenings are meant to gently awaken me. I could have dealt with them at an internal level before they manifested in the world. I could have dealt with them before they got closer to me, and before they reached my doorstep.
There is nothing that is not the system of nature relating to me. There is nothing incidental in my life—not even the spiderweb up in the corner.
What we need to understand is that this system is expecting something totally different from us. It is expecting us to bring ourselves into balance with the force of nature, not to close our eyes and pretend that everything is fine.
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