Benefits
This post is about the benefits of remembering our past lives.Below in point form are some of the benefits of working to remember our past lives, which also are the reasons why we want to remember our previous lives.
See Who We Really Are
We can who we really are. We get the chance to see ourselves as an essence, which is the one that has traveled from life to life. This person that we are and the person that we were can not travel into the next life.It also shows us that we are not home and here - the planet Earth is not home. Home is where we stop travelling. We have been and are right now still travelling - transmigrating.
Seeing this point, that we are an essence, we see that we are part of a very big scheme of things.
Loose Fear
If we really accept past lives we will trust that we will have another life and that we will see those whom we love again. This life is not so bad is it? So the next will not be as bad either.We have died so many times before and we are ok now. So our coming death will be ok too and soon will be a joyful child looking upon the world with renewed wonder and awe.
Inflated or Humiliated
Over our many lives we were so many different people. Some wealthy and successful and some miserable and poor.The Buddha is said to have said the following: ‘Who toiled a slave may come anew a prince, for gentle worthiness and merit won. Who ruled a king may wander Earth in rags, for things done and undone.’
Sorry out of time...Will complete over the weekend - my weekend assignment.
Karma Explained
The karma that we have can only really be explained by taking into account our past. Karma works in time and space. Karma was accrued in time and in space and so will be paid in time and space.Knowing what we did in our past lives gives us knowledge, and knowledge gives us meaning. Knowledge makes sense of the karma that we have right now.
The meaning that we gleam from our past lives gives us the love and strength to pay our karmic debts. Meaning very much so diminishes our suffering.
I have past life memory of at least 5 or 6 different lives. Seeing some past mistakes has made me careful to choose opposite action and avoid repeat outcomes. Some say whats the point of remembering when you have to live this one. By experience the past life awareness is very helpful in paying karma without reinventing it.
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