1. Spiritual Music
2. Love
3. Meat
4. Finding Good Teachers
5.
Reincarnation - The Effects
6. Reincarnation - A Story
7. Positive Books
8. God is like Mozart
9. Proving God
10. God and the Banana: A Story
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Did you read the story The Meaning
of Life?
The story "The Meaning of Life"
is of course not completely serious. Not many chain smokers return
as chimneys. But sure, if you die with unfulfilled desires, then
your soul will return in a body that gets the chance to fulfill
these desires.
Are you tangled up?
Someone
who dies from lack of food, may reincarnate in a rich country where
there's more food than he can eat. Someone who is very attached
to his wife, may meet her again in his next life. The same applies
for negative attachment: if you die hating someone, you'll come
back in a situation in which you see -and hate- this person again.
A chance to decide that you don't want to hate him anymore. Or a
chance to take revenge on him, so that he will hate you and you'll
meet each other again in your next lives.
Many people are
tangled up with one or more people that they keep fighting with,
in one life after another. Not a nice prospect, to be chained to
all the people that you don't like at the moment...
Coming
to you sooner or later
You know Newton's famous law? Every
action results in an equal but opposite reaction. It's not only
for billiard balls, this law. If you steal an apple from a shop,
you create an imbalance in the world. This imbalance will automatically
be corrected; that's the nature of the world. So sooner or later
someone will steal something from you.
If you give your
time and energy to help someone, you'll get help when you need it.
You can count on it. It is the law of nature. If you hurt someone
unnecessary, you'll get the reaction too. It's unavoidable. So when
something unpleasant happens in your life, it might well be the
result of something unpleasant that you did in the past, or in your
past lives.
Cutting the chain
Seeing
things from this angle gives you a new perspective on things.
It doesn't mean that you should accept everything that happens.
But it's good not to throw yourself in a tantrum. You might be the
cause for the event. And even if not, your anger might be the cause
for more problems in your next life...
So when something
difficult or unpleasant happens, you have a choice. You can continue
the chain of events that led up to this situation; you can also
cut the chain.
Problems don't exist
Every
problem, every temptation that comes up in your life, is not a problem
-it's a chance. If you were an alcohol addict in your previous life,
for sure you'll be tempted by alcohol this life again. And if you
don't resist the temptation, you'll be reborn again with a weakness
for alcohol. Again you will have to struggle with this. So it's
better to resist the temptation this time.
If you can't
stand a certain person, maybe you had difficulties with him or her
in your previous life, maybe even in many lives. Here is your chance
to stop quarreling with this person forever -stop even thinking
negative things about him or her.
One of the major things
all of us have to learn in our life-to-life evolution is to love
others, even when we don't like them. Look around you. Isn't it
true that you get many chances every day to learn this difficult
thing?
To a good life
To control your anger, to control what
and how much you eat, to help others instead of putting yourself
in the center of your universe, to keep your mind free of negative
thoughts, not to be jealous, to see the interconnectedness of everything,
all these things we can learn on our lives-long journey towards
the end of our spiritual evolution.
Every time again we
will get the chance to learn them. Every time we encounter the same
difficulties and temptations. Until we choose to overcome them,
and we free ourselves from them.
And when we have chosen
to overcome all of them, and we see the interconnectedness, the
Oneness of everything, then we have arrived at the highest point
of our evolution. At that moment we are free from habits that disturb
us and free from guilt, fear and all other limitations. Then we
can really begin to live.
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