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We must use the Buddha’s education method to turn our karmic creditors into spiritual practitioners
用佛陀教育的方法把冤親債主變成同參道友 - 第123集
If you have figured out what birth and death is all about, you will not be afraid of it anymore. What is ‘birth and death’? It is just changing of clothes, replacing the dirty clothes with new ones. Transmigration within the Six Realms is changing of clothes. We must know which path we will be transmigrating into. We must break the erroneous view of regarding this body as real self. In other words, if we truly cultivate, we must not think about this body because thinking of this body is wrong. We must think about real self. What is ‘real self’? It is the intelligent nature (we do not call it ‘intelligent soul’). What is the reason? Because the soul is deluded and unenlightened. The word ‘intelligent’ should be replaced by ‘deluded’, and be called ‘deluded soul’ instead. If the soul is really intelligent, it is impossible that it will reincarnate within the Three Evil Realms. When it comes to the human realm to reincarnate, it must choose a wealthy and noble family to enjoy fortune since birth. Only then is the soul considered intelligent. The true nature is intelligent, so it is called ‘intelligent nature.’ An undeluded soul is called ‘intelligent nature’ and a deluded one is called ‘deluded soul.’ A deluded soul will look for a body in the Six Realms. It will change into a new body when its current body is so bad that it cannot be used anymore. It will not randomly look for a body, but will look for one that has an affinity with its future parents. Since it is deluded and unenlightened, the affinities are usually not good. What are the possible affinities? They are either repayment of past kindness or repayment of past resentment, and claiming of past debts or repayment of past debts. Without these affinities, one will not come to reincarnate. The Buddha told us that anyone who comes to reincarnate is bounded by one of these four affinities. That’s why abortion is forbidden. You should give birth to the child and raise him well. If the child has come to repay past kindness, he will naturally be a filial child and great grandchild. Why is that so? Because you had bestowed kindness on him in the past. If you abort (kill) him, this repayment of kindness will become a great resentment. What would he do the next time he comes? He will come to take revenge. If he has come to repay past resentment and you kill him, then that resentment will double and become even deeper. If he has come to repay past debts (i.e., he owed you in the past), he is supposed to make money to return to you and support you. If you kill him, then the added karma of killing will turn into hatred. If he has come to claim past debts (i.e., the parents owed him) and you kill him, you will be in great trouble in the next lifetimes. Your entanglement will never be resolved for innumerable lives (not just one life and one generation). How many people we had created enmity with! Having understood this truth, we must not be afraid of suffering losses and being deceived in this life. What is the reason? Because we treat them as repaying past debts and everything will be settled. We have no resentment and no thought of taking revenge. What is this called? This is knowing how to pay off debts and settle accounts because we cannot commit evil karmas anymore. After learning Buddhism, we know that we must use the Buddha’s education method to turn our karmic creditors into spiritual practitioners. This is the most superior method.