kabbalist discusses the nature of evil

[yankeedoodle]

He says "humans" are evil, and doesn't the kabbalah say that only jews are "human?"   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVdgafyef48


Kabbalahinfo

What is evil? When investigating the nature of evil in humans, we need to look into how we are designed—with a program that directs us to use all of our desires only for self-benefit.

Animals are also born with a program to cater for their self-benefit, but there is a difference between humans and other animals.

Animals instinctively fulfill their desires for food, sex, shelter, and procreation according to their natural necessities. Humans are different, as we develop the idea and the intention to enjoy by being better and having more than others.

We build ourselves on the ruin of others even if it does not manifest openly in everybody. This program openly or latently exists in all of us.

We collectively need to recognize this inherent program is us to some extent, to be aware of who we are, and the program that operates us.

Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) writes, "All the pains we suffer are but revelations of the nothingness and harmfulness of the intention to receive for oneself." This means that every pain we experience is due to our inherent intention that is opposite to the intention of the governing force of nature.

We are gradually discovering what this program of "intention to receive for oneself" actually means. Sometimes it manifests in horrible events, but this recognition can also unfold on the level of consciousness.

Baal HaSulam continues to explain, "Indeed, when all humans agree to abolish their selfish intentions and desire only to work to bestow upon their fellow humans, all worries and jeopardy in the world would cease to exist and we could ensure for ourselves a healthy, wholesome life as each of us would have the whole world caring for us. While each has only a desire to receive for oneself, this is the source of all worries, suffering, wars, and slaughter we cannot escape."

We do not have to abolish our desires for living a good life. The abolishment refers only to a deeper program that operates our desires which concerns the purpose, intention of our fulfillment, pleasure, the direction of how we use our desires. As long as we use our desires for our own sake, we remain in this corporeal reality, detached from spirituality.

We can only be safe and ensure a good life for all if we all introduce a new intention into the body of humanity, all working for each other's sake. This is not a utopia that can just happen by itself. This is a complicated process that starts with the recognition of evil in us, followed by the development of a conscious desire to become something else. This is called "free choice," the volition to become conscious participants in our own evolution.

It does not simply mean to be good toward each other. We first have to recognize that according to our inherent program, we cannot be good toward each other as we all only care about ourselves. When we recognize this and want to be in a higher state, then nature and its program can develop us. Only our conscious participation is missing.

[abduLMaria]

Discussing the Nature of Evil

Without Mentioning Israel & Israel Supporters

is like discussing Room Temperature Liquids

Without Mentioning Water.