Thought Bubble - Have You Prepared for Your Future Lives?

If you have learned and understand that past lives exist, then it is only logical that you will live again in new lives in the future. The question is, have you done anything to prepare for any of them?

Most people spend this one brief life that they currently have trying to fulfill all of their desires in a vain attempt for perfection. It will never happen because they are trying to get everything outside of themselves perfect in order to finally be satisfied. It is impossible to get everything in life perfect. No one has a perfect life, so just about everyone is wasting their time and efforts to get rich, or famous or whatever it is they think they need to finally be happy. They are blind to reality and are ignorant of the truth.

This is only one life out of countless numbers of lives we have had and we will experience. Throughout most of our lives, we have spent our time trying for this outer perfection that cannot be achieved. We only focus on the life we are currently living, not giving much thought to any lives we will have in the future. This leaves us blowing in the wind of chance. If we do nothing to prepare for those future lives, we will be at the mercy of the karma we created for ourselves having no idea what will be in store for us.

We would be wise to spend this one brief life, preparing for all our future lives as much as possible, so they can be better than what we have experienced in this lifetime. We need to do all we can to provide for those countless lives waiting before us. We need to engage in positive actions in this life to create good karma to ripen for us in the future. We need to minimize the negative things we do, to prevent having bad karma fall upon us. We need to meditate properly on virtue to implant these ways of being on our mind, so they will become our natural way of being in those lifetimes to come. We need to dedicate our virtuous actions. We need to purify all the negative actions we have done in this life and all of our past lives that we aren't even aware of so we can lessen our suffering.

Doing these things prepares a better future for us. We will still be blowing in the wind of chance, but it will be a much more gentle wind for us. The ultimate achievement we can work towards in this life and every life, is to gain as much spiritual progress as you possibly can towards gaining control over your future rebirths. Why risk leaving it up to your storage of karma? Why not remove yourself from the cycle of uncontrolled rebirth? 

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