راز گذشته و آینده، قسمت ۴ از ۱۲

Sometimes when you are about to do something, you suddenly think, “Oh, this won’t work. This definitely won’t work.” Suddenly you know it won’t work. But you haven’t even done it yet, so how do you know it won’t work? Some people say that is the sixth sense. Some people say it comes from the experiences of our past lives, that the experiences from previous lifetimes remain with us. Actually, that’s not quite right. That’s just how people say it. It is explained as the subconscious, or as the accumulated experiences of past existences, or even of future existences. But in reality, there are no past lives and no future lives. The life of a human being is an endless, infinite chain. […]

People are born kind and pure at heart, but over time they become influenced and conditioned by society. People learn bad habits from each other. All the bad habits get passed on between people. Good things are rarely passed along. So as we grow older, we become worse. Eventually we become numb and lose our sensitivity. We don’t know which path is good and which is bad anymore. […]

So that’s why, when I tell you that you are Buddhas, that you are saints, you don’t really know what I’m talking about – because you have chosen to forget who you truly are. Now you’re tired of it, there’s nothing special about being human. Too boring. Not a not very interesting path to choose. You’d like to choose again. So now you choose to return to being a saint, to being a Buddha. Or maybe you have been human for so long, repeating this kind of life again and again, and unable to get out of it. We feel bored already, there’s nothing interesting about [this path]; we want to return to clarity and wisdom, so we choose to follow the Quan Yin path. […]