Eradication of Poverty
Is the Eradication of Poverty Necessary for Equality?
A popular belief these days is that if we eradicate poverty through all sorts of means, we can create equality on both local and global scales. Kabbalah says try again.
Every person in their lives, and humanity throughout its history, has been trying to achieve peace and comfort by changing systems outside of the person.
Those who start a charity foundation to eradicate poverty, and those who start a war, both believe they are doing something that will ultimately lead to a better state. And we see that either way, things only get worse.
In all of our attempts to change things outside of ourselves to come to a better state, we fail to see the causes of our problems: that the very desires and thoughts which surface in us, programming us to carry out these actions, are based on an incomplete reception of information through the five senses, and thus, an incomplete perception of reality.
When I say that “I want to change the world for the better through eradicating poverty,” and when someone else says “I want to change the world for the better by killing [insert race here],” there is a common human problem that we don’t know the source of the “I” which is speaking. And to ask this question, “Who really am I?” is much too threatening without a testable answer—so we keep coming up with all sorts of ideas based on “what we believe” in order to change things outside of ourselves for a better life.
During this process, of constantly trying to change things outside ourselves for a better life, we continue to repress the more fundamental questions of our existence.
And here is where the wisdom of Kabbalah appears in our times to tell us: This process where we change things outside of ourselves for a better life is part of nature’s plan. By so doing, humanity will be lead into more and more suffering until it reaches a tipping point. At this crucial point, suffering will have accumulated to such an intensity that people will no longer be able to repress the fundamental questions of existence.
Kabbalah defines this tipping point as “the recognition of evil.” It is the recognition that human nature itself is the cause of all our problems and inequality, and only it has to change. In other words, only by changing the system inside the person, a person’s own perception of reality, can we achieve a better state.
Kabbalah offers this method of inner change. It is precisely in our era (The Book of Zohar and writings of other Kabbalists stated that it would begin in the year 1995) that human nature would become pronounced and evident as the cause of all our problems, and that the remedy—the ancient science of Kabbalah—would be disclosed to us for our remedy.
The single goal of Kabbalah study is the attainment of equality with nature at its source, called “the world of Infinity.” The more people who embark on this journey, the more their influence will attract others to embark on this journey, and gradually, either through an accumulation of suffering in humanity’s current path, or through overcoming this path through the process of self-transformation, every person will reach their root, adhered to everyone else, equally, in the world of Infinity.
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- Kabbalah.info - the concepts in this article are founded on the fundamental principles of Kabbalah taught at the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education and Research Institute: www.kabbalah.info
