Daily Wisdom Post, This life is a journey, by Dr. Marc Gafni

This life is a journey

In this vision, life is a journey, not toward judgment but toward super-consciousness. This is commonly referred to as the transpersonal, but as we have seen, it is more accurately termed True Self. This is the third level of Hebrew mystical consciousness,hamtaka.

It is to this level that the Baal Shem Tov refers when he says the crying on the day of judgment leads to hamtakat hadin, the “sweetening of judgment.” Tears themselves are understood by Hebrew mystics both as the pathway to erotic union with the divine and as primary expressions of that very same union Transpersonal True Self teardrops hold the very divine image that is the essence of humankind, which when realized invites humans to transcend time for the timeless, mortality for eternity. In the erotic merger with the divine of the Songs of Songs, you realize that there is no outer and no inner, there is neither yes nor no, there is neither here nor there. There is only the radical One that arises and resides from your own True Nature. You are Abraham even as you are Sarah; you walk in Canaan and Manhattan in the self-same moment; the stars are your eyes even as the earth is your body. Your Unique Self rises spontaneously, and oceans of compassion flow from you to embrace all of Being in the One Taste of your Original Face that is the name of God. In that moment, your tears fall and purify all of existence.

Your Unique Self
(In Press)
Dr. Marc Gafni
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