Luang Phor Lek Suthammapanyo
Devotee: If all beings fare in accordance with their kamma, and yet those with apinya (psychic powers) know the future, does that mean that they will be able to escape misfortunes? Or is it that the future cannot be changed?
LP Lek: Everything is not stable and uncertain (impermanence). For ordinary people, their kamma is constantly in flux.
But those with the Higher Knowledges have insight of the future.
Most of these wise people will accept the Law of Kamma. Simply put, even if you try to change the future, the ending might still not be good. So you have to accept it reluctantly.
As an example, there was a tudong monk at Phu Kra Dueng who had some trouble with a large snake. In fact, he was swallowed almost in half by the python already. It was strange, the snake started swallowing him from his feet up.
When the villagers and hunters found him, they were discussing a way to save this monk, how to kill the snake so that they could save him. But the monk used the remaining of his strength to wave away the villagers, telling them not to interfere.
The monk said that he had once committed bad kamma and harmed this being and as a result he is accepting that he wants to let the snake eat him as a form of compensation.
Even though he knew in advance and could escape, but he still let the snake attack him.
Luang Phor Lek Suthammapanyo
Wat Tha Kha Nun, Kanchanaburi Province
28 June 2023
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