If walking on this path one can become an arahant, then what stage have you reached? I have not reached the stage of an arahant. What stage I have reached I cannot say, there is no meaning in my saying. It is for you to judge. If all my behaviour in life is full of impurity, then I have not reached anywhere. But if you find something good in me, then certainly I have developed on this path. Is there a past life, or life after death? If there is, what is the proof? What have you known about the past lives from your experience? It is not necessary that first one should believe that there is a past life, or a future life, and only then will Vipassana help you. You believe that this is the present life. Give all importance to the reality of this moment. Every moment you are dying, every moment you are taking a new birth. Observe that, feel that, understand that. And also keep understanding how you react to this changing flow, and how by reacting you are harming yourself. When you come out of that, your present becomes better and better. If there is a future, certainly you will get the benefit of it. If there is no future, why worry? You have done your best to rectify your present. The future is nothing but the product of the present. If the present is all right, the future will be all right. Somebody does an evil deed and goes to the lower world. Someone else does the same amount of evil, it bears fruit immediately and he gets it over with in this life. Why is there this difference? Because one understands what Vipassana is. In Vipassana, the fruit of the past life will come up first as a sensation on the body. If it was an evil deed, very unpleasant sensations will arise in the body. For example, if you abuse or hit somebody, you generate anger. When you generate anger you are burning inside, so whenever the fruit of this seed comes it will come with burning. When burning comes you are trained how to observe it, it loses all its strength and passes away - SNG!!!
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 18:00:12 +0000
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