You Don’t Need to Know Your Past Lives (Part 2)

★Live the Present Fully: Past and Future Are Both Here Now

When you have the wish to know about past lives, as I said a moment ago, your heart is often tired, so knowing can actually catch you up in a whirlpool of karmic connections and increase your suffering.

If you’ve realized you were in the wrong, all you need to do is have your present self turn over a new leaf and live brightly and with deep love. That’s all.

Try not bullying, not hating, not resenting yourself or others, but forgiving and loving.

And don’t give up right away just because it didn’t work once; try again and again.

And if you ever face a situation where you could be harmed, don’t hesitate: run away as fast as you can and protect your safety.

There’s absolutely no need to put up with it and try to accept it, thinking it’s the settling of karma.

I don’t know if it’ll be helpful, but even among saints of the past, there are examples of those who, in the final scene of their lives, accepted their karmic connections, were killed, and are now working in great positions in the other world.

For example, Jesus Christ had what we’d now call psychic powers, so even when he was crucified, he could have easily escaped if he’d wanted to, yet in the end he left his physical body through crucifixion, right?

That was because it had been the plan since before he was born into the physical body to take upon himself the karma of the humanity of that time and carry it back to heaven (return it), for the sake of the later development of the Earth realm, so he carried it out with grace.

Also, Maudgalyayana, the disciple of Shakyamuni foremost in supernatural powers, knew long in advance how he would die. On that very day, knowing that a Brahmin fanatic with a blade, who resented Shakyamuni’s order and was targeting him, was approaching, he kept sitting in zazen meditation and left his physical body, cut down in that very posture.

His state of mind, without the slightest fear, suspicion, or thought of self-preservation, could be called the very heart of God, having fully entered his own divinity. As the end of someone who could know their karmic connections, it was a very fine one, a perfect hundred out of a hundred.

These are stories of saints with special missions, and we don’t want anyone to imitate them.

Much better than that is to erase and purify karmic connections before they appear, so that they don’t appear as destiny.

The way to do that is to form the IN brought down through cosmic life physics, but let’s talk about that another time.

To sum up today’s talk: there’s no need at all to know about previous lives to overcome present difficulties. Living this very moment sincerely and positively is like a retake exam of life for the soul, so it’s enough to focus your consciousness on seriously solving the present problem.

The past and the future are all condensed and exist simultaneously within the present. So without deliberately seeing the present and the past as separate, or thinking of the present and the future as separate, living the present fully is the best way of living, above all else, which changes the present and at the same time can make the past and the future shine. When you know this, your resolve to live becomes firm and you can walk a more grounded life. So people who have the wish to know about past lives, please read today’s talk over and over and polish out the strength to live through the present.

For as long as you live that way, however difficult the situation, it will surely, surely turn in the direction of hope.