The Ascent

The avalanche of genesis started speeding downwards rolling, before anyone could comprehend how to control it & provide it with a vector. Since childbirth the micro unit is subjected to unlimited conditioning towards a weird fashion called life formalities, as per the birth stats and forbidden it is, if not done - is a moral duty gone haywire. 

I am addressing the thought of non initiation for birth, though sounding Utopian and not possible, very similar to wave particle mystery non similar to a blanket of mature knowledge is worn by the virgin soul allowing some confluence of its experience on the pallet of life. A signature remains inborn to all creation whereby some innate force makes them native to their nature, still there is huge scope of novelty because if we dont create as we live, the clutter of sameness will burden creation. Creativity alas balances this paradox.

This manifestation & departing of the primordial energy cluster from units is a process eternal and centuries have faded knowing it.

The lifting up from the heavy dimensional plane of our living on this planet towards a lighter motive is something worth practicing. How rises the question? Answer being :: by Burning the internal pure bright flame towards rising, rebelling, revealing - unexplored mind corners and slowly fading and merging with the sublime firmament - aspiring towards 90 degrees upwards, persistently across eons.
The fire never disappoints us it always reminding silently the way towards up. Elements are our dial tone to unique bliss. The finer realities don’t have a burdensome obligation towards the pull of gravity somewhat post a full five course meal you may experience, instead very lofty sublime and unique short lived experience mark their advent as if a fiber of dream touched us and went away. The perfume of pure embracing and parting away giving us a sneak peak of our own development.
Rebellion from gravity by ripening karma will enable us to levitate within. 

The centering is beautiful to know. Yes by hearing and reading divine texts some indications will be passed upon you if you will to bring/create the perfect stars and the will to improve upon yourself but awareness of being dawns through mediation & that will make us reach the bright abyss of the single ness. Tantr, Cabbala are methodologies for the practitioner for the seeker in silence. For the know-er however these are grand books which he may flaunt to the ignorant.  

With Faith only I may state that fiery focus sustainable coupled with silence, like this Eg: of virtually imagined expanse of an auditorium possessing grand 2000 Buddha’s meditating. The grandeur can be beholden upon in your being  to turn mind inwards and then rise. Support per say tradition has been revered where a mentor ship alliance is sought, Mentoring and deserving are grand plays they co exist with their set of demands in conjugation.

The internal fulfilling is profound by understanding the two grand complete systems - (tantr & kabbalah) that nothing more is needed only practicing of centering and more centering//
Praying is penultimate initiation in front of the absolute, then up-gradation from praying towards honing yourself to be receptive is desired to receive grace with knowledge.

Imagine an owl, a tiger a nebula or a dreamy desire; go deep inside yet travel afar: project your internal strength and bend a spoon. Be united in the synthesis of unification or contradiction :: yet encompass all.

I hope & pray the higher forces pay grace and heal us.

Remember the aspect of infinite that suits you and never cease to know.

Wise Tortoise 

The Zohar Pritzker Edition, Volume One TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY DANIEL C. MATT SERIES: THE ZOHAR: PRITZKER EDITION

The first two volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, translated with commentary by Daniel C. Matt, cover more than half of theZohar's commentary on the Book of Genesis (through Genesis 32:3). This is the first translation ever made from a critical Aramaic text of the Zohar, which has been established by Professor Matt based on a wide range of original manuscripts. The extensive commentary, appearing at the bottom of each page, clarifies the kabbalistic symbolism and terminology, and cites sources and parallels from biblical, rabbinic, and kabbalistic texts. The translator's introduction is accompanied by a second introduction written by Arthur Green, discussing the origin and significance of the Zohar. Please see the Zohar Home Page for ancillary materials, including the publication schedule, press release, Aramaic text, questions, and answers.

Further information on the Zohar:

Sefer ha-Zohar, "The Book of Radiance," has amazed and overwhelmed readers ever since it emerged mysteriously in medieval Spain toward the end of the thirteenth century. Written in a unique Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of literature, comprising over twenty discrete sections. The bulk of the Zohar consists of a running commentary on the Torah, from Genesis through Deuteronomy. This translation begins and focuses here in what are projected to be ten volumes. Two subsequent volumes will cover other, shorter sections.

The Zohar's commentary is composed in the form of a mystical novel. The hero is Rabbi Shim'on son of Yohai, a saintly disciple of Rabbi Akiva who lived in the second century in the land of Israel. In the Zohar, Rabbi Shim'on and his companions wander through the hills of Galilee, discovering and sharing secrets of Torah.

On one level, biblical figures such as Abraham and Sarah are the main characters, and the mystical companions interpret their words, actions, and personalities. On a deeper level, the text of the Bible is simply the starting point, a springboard for the imagination. For example, when God commands Abraham,Lekh lekha, Go forth... to the land that I will show you (Genesis 12:1), Rabbi El'azar ignores idiomatic usage and insists on reading the words more literally than they were intended, hyperliterally: Lekh lekha, Go to yourself! Search deep within to discover your true self.

At times, the companions themselves become the main characters, and we read about their dramatic mystical sessions with Rabbi Shim'on or their adventures on the road, for example, an encounter with a cantankerous old donkey driver who turns out to be a master of wisdom in disguise.

Ultimately, the plot of the Zohar focuses on the ten sefirot, the various stages of God's inner life, aspects of divine personality, both feminine and masculine. By penetrating the literal surface of the Torah, the mystical commentators transform the biblical narrative into a biography of God. The entire Torah is read as one continuous divine name, expressing divine being. Even a seemingly insignificant verse can reveal the inner dynamics of the sefirot—how God feels, responds and acts, how She and He (the divine feminine and masculine) relate intimately with each other and with the world.

About the author

Daniel C. Matt is a leading authority on Jewish mysticism. For over twenty years, he served as Professor of Jewish Spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He has also taught at Stanford University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has published six books, including:The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume One and The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Two Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment; Zohar: Annotated and Explained; The Essential Kabbalah; and God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony between Science and Spirituality. He has spent the past four years in Jerusalem working on this translation and currently lives in Berkeley, California.

Am reading this presently and my eyes are opening to the grace each moment. Post Tantra theology and Indian divine systems this provides an amazing platform to bring lucidity to individual's knowledge. Very Very rich text Daniel has done a work of 2 lifetimes in one. 

It will take 3,4 years to complete all 9 volumes. and then other works of Daniel C Matt.

Abhinav