Who's right?
This religious leader, or that prime minister, or my mother, or that guru, or my school teacher, or that tennis player?
Are any of our opinions truly right? This article generalizes what all of our opinions are based upon, according to the wisdom of Kabbalah.
Every person who answers this question thinks themselves to be “right” in their opinion, even if only that “it’s right for me.”
The question then is, are any of our opinions truly right?
Our five senses pick up a very small, limited amount of information from all the information that exists outside us, and we make up our minds about what is right or wrong based on this limited amount of information we receive.
How do we judge our opinion to be right over other opinions? Put simply, our human nature does it for us.
Human nature is a will to receive pleasure. I will make any one of my decisions based on the best possible outcome I can see for myself in that situation. For example, right now I’m sitting in front of a computer screen, in Suite101’s Kabbalah section because I can’t think of anything better that’s achievable for me to do than this for the moment.
And so it’s the same with what I consider to be right and wrong: I decide, based on what decision will give me more satisfaction, that [insert a name] is right only because it suits me to think of it that way.
At the base of the matter, we are not actually deciding anything; all of our opinions are being decided for us by this internal mechanism that is operating our every move, which is called “I want to receive the best outcome out of this situation!”
The question then is: Can we attain a perception of reality outside of our five senses to see what’s really going on out there?
Are we able to change human nature, so that our every decision isn’t operated by “I want to feel what is most worthwhile and pleasurable for me!” but instead operates by “I want to feel the real truth, and make my decision according to it!”?
Related Material:
- Kabbalah.info - all concepts presented in this article were learned from the free materials and resources available at the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education and Research Institute - www.kabbalah.info
