If someone were to say to me, "You and I are linked by fate," I would say, "Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong." What I mean by that is whether we are linked by fate or not is unimportant. What is important in terms of relationships with others is finding out about yourself through another person. Relationships with others are opportunities to learn about the true world and learning about your true self. That is why relationships with others are important. People are the only sources of opportunities to learn about your true world. There is nothing sadder than not being able to see others around you as nothing more than such roles as spouses, parents, and children.
Life comprises opportunities for choosing whether or not to allow oneself to free his/her true self from the world of his/her false self.
Life inevitably contains crossroads. In our past lifetimes, we have always been unable to free our true selves from the worlds of our false selves. We have always wanted to free our true selves but been squeezing our true selves into a small container called our physical bodies. People may say aloud that they are free or that at least their hearts are free; however, I believe they misunderstand the meaning of the word "free."
We need to train our eyes in ways that will allow us to seriously reflect on ourselves. Eyes that pursue the truth are sharp but nice. Such eyes exist inside everyone's heart.
We need to focus on seeing things through our eyes that pursue the truth and remind ourselves why we were born.
If one feels like he/she wants to build a fortune, become famous, and/or leave his/her name in history, I do not necessarily think that is a bad feeling to have. The important thing is to spend as much time as possible with oneself on reflecting on such feelings. Spend as much time as it takes to figure out why one feels that way. If one spends enough time on reflecting on such a feeling, he/she will come to realize with his/her heart how foolish it is to have such feelings and also come to know that he/she has the eyes to pursue the truth.
One will then realize with his/her heart that his/her eyes are saying, "Keep those eyes directed toward the truth." In this context, to realize with one's heart means to be able to honestly accept the message that one's true self is sending himself/herself.
If I still felt like I wanted to build a fortune, become famous, and/or leave my name in history, I would probably spend all my time and energy on pursuing such an aim. In fact, I had been pursuing such an aim up until the point when I came across this study of the heart, so I have no doubt that I must have been pursuing such an aim in my past lifetimes. I had always been obsessed with the energy of war and been fighting with those around me over who is better, believing that I would be able to build my own world and be happy in that world once I became the best.
Now that I realized I made a mistake and corrected it, I can say that I feel the following statements as containing the truth: 1) people need to go far down the wrong path before they can realize that the path that they took was the wrong one; and 2) people need to realize with their heart that they made a mistake, if they want to correct their mistakes.
In addition, I feel that I was born from the deepest bottom of hell and that my current lifetime is a once-in-all-past-lifetime opportunities to return to my true self. So all I am interested in now is applying the preceding two truths, which I learned from my past mistakes, to pursuing the truth.