And yesterday, my understanding of your yesterday, the way I can get to make your yesterday for you, so you'll agree with me, and so you'll feel like I can represent you about your yesterday, is the same way that I can feel like you allow me to represent you for your 10,000 rebirths before this one. Okay? And this is how the bodhisattva... learns his own past lives and other people's past lives. Whatever man has to do, he is mutually all apart. So to come over this year, whatever you go, whatever you do, are you going to be in fact disappointed in your ancient discipline, ancient past lives? I mean, it seems like there's no particular singularity.

[01:07]

You see somebody from that part of my past life, but not that. Everything that we see is huge. Is it important to track one particular? Like, it's very neat. Well, it's one you have to start with that one. That's the one you're most expert. To do other people's, you have to talk to other people about it. Because they also, when you have to talk to them about it, you have to get their cooperation. But anyway, the way we see the present, we say it's conditioned by the past. But another way to say it is the way we see the present is conditioned by, in the present, our understanding of the past. We have a way of understanding how we have behaved, what we have done, what we have believed has happened.

[02:21]

That has a lot to do with what we think can happen at this moment, or what we think is happening at this moment. So past lives That's what past lives mean and they're very important because our past lives are what make the present life. But the past lives that make the present life are in the present. But if you look over here and you see I was a murderer in my past life means that in the present you think you were a murderer. Therefore in the present you're terrified. If you actually murdered someone someplace else some other time and you didn't remember, and you weren't looking at it right now, it would have no effect. But actually, the murder you have done, you know today, you see it today, and because you see it today in the category called past, you're terrified. Your karma you did, plus your way of looking at the past, now makes your present terror.

[03:25]

So past karma is important. You should know it. And it shows you how you think. It shows you why you think the way you do. And also, by studying it, if you can go back endless lives, you will be partly, it will illuminate some of your misconceptions about the way the present is. Because ordinary people, part of their misconception about the way their mind works and about the way their karma works is they think they can't go back. They can't understand how they can go back. And that's because They think their mind works a different way than it does. They think they know yesterday better than they know a million years ago. Both yesterday and a million years ago are completely gone. It's not that yesterday is sort of here and a million years ago isn't. But actually, people think that way. And they think that just because you were a zygote in between now and a million years ago, but you weren't between here and yesterday, that for those two non-existent things, you're more in touch with one than the other.

[04:34]

Well, it doesn't make any much sense. And in fact, if you do this meditation, by the time you get to 10 million years ago, you'll be very good at it. And you will have given up your idea. that it's harder to memorize, that 10,000 years ago was less real than yesterday. You would have given it up by then, but it would take you a long time to get there. You can't take big jumps, otherwise you lose your confidence. Because the farther back you get, the more confidence you need to make it real. Because in fact, you've got this comment that says, I don't know if I can do this one. How can I say that I would... How can I just make that up? I don't dare. Well, anyway, we could go on with these bodhisattva characteristics forever. We didn't get to the eyes.

[05:35]

So, next week, I would like to go on to something else. Maybe just talk about the eyes for a few minutes. But... Do you want to study the rest of chapter? Do you want to study this drama? Or do you want to go to the thoughts of enlightenment? What? How many people want to go through this drama? One, two, three, four, five, six. How many people want to go to chapter, go on to the thought of enlightenment, skip the drama? One, two, three, four. Well, more people want to read it than don't want to read it. Except, of course, Rocio counts two, but still didn't make it. If you put your hands up, put your feet up too, that'll be, it'll be a tie.

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No, please.

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