Questions for today:
What metric can I use to measure if the love that I’m feeling is my personal experience, or if it’s a wonderful thing that’s happening outside of me, and I’m participating in it?
Today's Tanya discusses a verse that describes “how beautiful and how sweet it is, ‘ahava beta’anugim’ - a pleasurefull love.
There are two types of love; a desirefull love and a pleasurefull love.
What’s the difference?
Firstly, both desire and pleasure are internal.
Let’s look at these in contrast to thought. Thought happens inside of me, but it’s about something else outside of me. If you and I are thinking about an equation, we are both thinking the same ‘thing’.
By contrast, my desire and my pleasure are both ‘me’.
My desire is not a thing, it’s ‘me’ ‘wanting’ a thing. If you want a car, and I want a car, your desire is a feeling inside of you, and mine is a feeling of mine, despite the fact that the object of our desire is the same.
Similarly, Pleasure is the inner experience of you or me ‘having’ the object of our desire.
Tomorrow we are going to discuss desirefull love.
Today we’re going to discuss the pleasurefull love where I ‘have’ the Creator, I’m one with the Creator.
This is something that is impossible to achieve with human achievement. As we’ve discussed many times, no matter how high I achieve, my achievement will always going be limited and defined by my limits and characteristics.
To have this pleasurefull love, being one with the Creator, is something that I can prepare for my whole life, but it can only happen as a gift from above.
275 55 Tanya Chitas thought for Elul 27 ~ m293 46 Elul 23
Tanya book 4, Essay 18, pt1
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