| Kabbalah Meditations & Resources From the Kabbalah Centre's book 72 Names of God by Yehuda Berg |
| Weekly Meditations (from Kabbalah Centre's Conciousness Tune-Ups) September 26th � October 2nd, 2004 The Bank is Open |
| The past few weeks you have been going through a process of judgment. It started with Virgo, where you saw what you needed to change about yourself. On Rosh Hashanah, you planted seeds for the New Year. During the Ten Days of Cleansing and on Yom Kippur, you reviewed your work and found more things to change about yourself. It was a challenging time � to say the least. When you look at what you need to change, it�s always difficult. Let�s face it, no one wants to see that they�re an angry person, or jealous, or insecure. It�s not a pleasant process. This week we�re in a different rhythm than we�ve been in for the last few weeks. The High Holidays create very intense energy, so there might be the tendency to take it easy. It�s human nature to fall into this trap after such hard work has been done. But don�t fall - your work is not done. We are now entering the second part of the whole holiday process. It begins with Sukkot. The purpose of Sukkot is to inject light into the vessel you built. You spent the last few weeks removing all of your negativity. You threw out all of the garbage, and now you�re clean. So now what? BRING THE LIGHT IN! The Zohar says that the energy of Sukkot is the energy of mercy. During the first part of the holiday process you�ve sealed in how much Light you�re going to get for the coming year. The question is, do you want to get it with difficulty and judgment, or with ease and mercy? What is mercy? Mercy allows you to change yourself. It is the time between cause and effect. If you create a short circuit by stealing or lying, you create effects. If there was no mercy, you�d feel the negative effects of your actions immediately. Mercy allows you time to change yourself - without judgment. As you have experienced, the hardest thing to understand is what real sharing is. When are you sharing or not? Should you tell someone what�s wrong with them � is that sharing? Or is it sharing not to say something? How do you know? It�s not clear how to be merciful and without judgment. But there are five days between Yom Kippur and Sukkot where you can see what sharing is simply by sharing with no calculation. Don�t think about it! Don�t think about who you�re giving to or what you�re giving � just do it. You might also be feeling, well, a little �off� these days. It�s because you received an enormous amount of Light. What happens when you keep Light without sharing? You short-circuit. So to balance yourself out, you have to share. Whatever you create, you get. When you put out negativity, it comes back to you. When you love, it comes back. The energy of the Light is to share, so to get Light back, you must share. It�s like relationships � you have to keep giving to get. And all of the sharing you do stays with you, in a sort of spiritual bank account. These 13 days � until the end of Simchat Torah (the week after Sukkot) � you have the opportunity to fill up your spiritual bank account. Call it the rainy day account. Having enough energy in this bank account is what will keep you from being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is also where you can borrow from during the year in times of difficulty. The manifestation for all the Light in your life is now. All the Best, Yehuda 72 Name Meditation: CLICK HERE for the Name to meditate on. Use the meditation found below: Purifying Light banishes the unseen ominous forces and deactivates harmful influences that may be lurking nearby, especially those that dwell inside me. Stress dissolves. Pressure is released. Balance and positive energy permeate my being and my world. |