The Teaching of Ajahn Suchart.
10 November 2023“The cycle of human evolution in terms of the spiritual life.”
Male: “I read a book about going out of the body (to the psychic world). Some people said that they can see past lives and some said that it’s possible to go to the future. Is this possible?”
Than Ajahn: “As far as recollecting past lives, it’s possible. As for going to the future, since it’s not happening yet, I guess people can only project the future. If you have the right kind of knowledge, you can project what the future will be.
Like the Buddha, he could recollect his past lives and he could project the future of the world. He saw that the world will decline in spiritual interest. People will be less inclined to do spiritual activities. People will be more inclined towards gaining material things. The world will become more problematic because people start fighting for material things. Eventually people will end up killing each other. All will die.
Then, a new group of spiritual people will start the world all over again. This is the cycle of human evolution in terms of the spiritual life. It will rise to the top and then eventually it will come down to zero.
The top is during the time of the Buddha where there were many spiritual people and all live in harmony.
People don’t hurt each other. They don’t kill each other. People live in peace and happiness.
As soon as people start to stay away from the spiritual life and start moving towards gaining material things, they will start to fight with each other. They compete with each other to acquire more material things. They will be less kind. There will be more cruelty. They will start hurting each other. Eventually, they will end up killing each other just like the two World War we had. We’re going to have more World War. We’re going to have a big war that will kill almost everybody except for a few people who will restart a new world again.
As soon as people start to stay away from the spiritual life and start moving towards gaining material things, they will start to fight with each other. They compete with each other to acquire more material things. They will be less kind. There will be more cruelty. They will start hurting each other. Eventually, they will end up killing each other just like the two World War we had. We’re going to have more World War. We’re going to have a big war that will kill almost everybody except for a few people who will restart a new world again.
From: “Dhamma in English to layperson from Austria, Jan 15, 2018.”
By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
www.phrasuchart.com
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