Ajahn Suchart
“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.
From: “Dhamma in English to layperson from
Austria, Jan 15, 2018.”
By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
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