Retrieve the Black🔗

Box of Your Past Lives

February 25, 2011

Buddha, I can say, is the greatest incarnation who has given a clear understanding and technology for understanding your past lives. Buddha has not only given the understanding, he has given an amazing technology. He has inspired people to know about their past, to work on their past, by revealing all his past lives in the Jataka Tales.

Every person, before achieving enlightenment, at the last moment when he is disappearing into enlightenment, will have the complete recollection and complete awareness of all their past births; that memory will be opened. But Buddha is a great Master. Almost like a black-box retrieval, he retrieved the whole thing and presented it to the whole world.

When you read the Buddha's Jataka Tales, you will understand all these four:

First, if you are just curious, you can see how life progresses.

Second, you can know how the past births have impacted Buddha's present incarnation.

Third, if you understand the Jataka Tales, you will see how knowing the past has healed many of the Buddha's traumas and phobias, and how quickly his intelligence was awakened.

Buddha saw all these three only once: a sick man, an old man, a dead body. Immediately the individual inner awakening happened in him. We also see whatever Buddha has seen in his life. We see all these three almost every day. Why does nothing happen?

If you read the Jataka Tales of Buddha, you will understand why he had that inner awakening. He was prepared and ready. Buddha's past life memories had made him more intelligent.

Fourth, ultimately, knowing how he has been repeating many lives, he decided not to take one more birth, and experienced his own enlightenment.

If you read Buddha's Jataka Tales, you will be inspired by all these four. If you look into your own past and know your own Jataka Tales, you will have the experience of all of these four, and you will intellectually experience them.