What does Kabbalah identify as the fundamental creation, and how does it define the relationship between the creature and the Creator? How does the concept of desire as the root of human consciousness compare to a metaphor of a tree with branches and leaves? How do desires influence human thought and the perception of reality?
We don't understand why things are happening to us.
Kabbalah tells us that there was only one thing that was ever created: a will, a desire to receive, that was created by the desire to bestow. And this relationship is between the creature and the Creator.
But the only thing that was created was this desire, and that thing that desire is the whole cosmos and everything that's in it. In other words, that's what you are.
We are the will to receive. Reality is the will to receive.
So what you are is not your mind but your need. Consciousness and thought have to arise from desire. Desire comes first. You could imagine this desire as the root of a tree and the thought as its branches and its leaves, and the stronger the root is, the stronger the desire is, and the more vibrant the life of the branches and leaves is.
Everything that we think comes first from a desire. As soon as we want something, all kinds of thoughts arise that are designed to help us get that thing that we want.
Even the smallest desire will bring a whole bunch of thoughts up, and it operates like an operating system to fulfill the basic level of existence and reality, which is this desire.
So, it's not that thought becomes more and more complex. The background energy of existence already has a kind of base consciousness, but it requires targeted desires to bring up certain aspects of thought, and the creature with the strongest, most intense quality of thought is the human being.
But this desire that we're after is not just a desire for material things. The most fundamental desire underlying everything is actually the need, the desire for spiritual fulfillment. Everything in existence is moving towards spiritual fulfillment. That is a fulfillment that transcends the separated appearance of things.
This is unfolding in us all the time through a succession of desires, but this is hidden from us in ways that we really can't grasp. Now, the only place we really do meet this fundamental force is in the appearance of new gut-level desires in us, and these desires are meant to change our perception of reality, where we are, what we are, what we want, and it does this by changing what we consider to be pleasure or fulfillment at each new step in our development or in our evolution.
It does not mean that the desire simply grows and the thoughts that fulfill it grow as one particular desire gets stronger and stronger quantitatively. It is the quality that changes.
What changes is what we consider to be pleasure, the thing that we're after. At each new stage, nature places this chain of desires in us in order to evolve, for us to actually want that level of fulfillment, the thing that it wants to give to us as this complete fulfillment.
If the thing that all of life is after in every part of nature, but especially focused on human awareness, if it were given to us before we actually had that kind of desire, we wouldn't want it. We would reject it because it would be bitter to us, like unripe fruit; it would repel us because it's opposite to us.
The fulfillment that nature’s system wants to give us is this opposite desire that created us in the beginning: this is the desire to bestow, to give. So the system qualifies us so that when we do reach this complete fulfillment of reality and our existence, it won't be bitter, but it will be felt by us as sweet and absolute total fulfillment.
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