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- Through a young purified lady
- The Holy Being said
- Over a period of 60,000 years
- You have gone through at least 1,000 lives time
- And over this period many of you have been monks or nuns
before
- A life cycle is comparatively very short
- Some not even last a sneeze
- Some just a blink of the eye
- Some just a flick of a second
- An old man just remembered when he was a boy yesterday
- Never wait for tomorrow to change for the better
- Tomorrow may never come
- If you think you are still young to leave a good life, then
listen
- A sinful soul, after passing away
- Asked the Emperor of the underworld
- Why there was no warning and then his life was taken away
- The Emperor told him that he had already sent him three
letters
- The sinful soul answered
- I did not receive any warning letters
- So the Emperor said
- When your eyesight blurred, that was the first letter
- When your teeth loosened, that was the second letter
- When your hair turned grey, that was the third letter
- Unfortunately you did not understand my message
- So whatever age we are
- Remember, we are never too young to change
- May a sneeze remind us
- A lifetime could just be a sneeze
- And the three letters
- Remind us it is time to change
- Buddha said:
- "Half the graveyard is of young people
- Coffin does not only contain old
people
- It contains dead people."
- This is how we are lost in a poem by JiGong:
- "The misty drizzle and the clouds have
veiled the stars
- The seven emotions, six desires and
material desires
- Have shaded the spiritual nature
- When clouds are dispersed, stars
regain their brilliance
- When desires are expelled, one beholds
and sees the inner being."
- When we have already received any of the letters
- Or aware that one day the letters will come
- Understand fast that the clouds have already shaded our good
hearts
- Before a sneeze could happen and that’s the end.
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