Is it possible that the past life, the present life and the future life , the three lifetimes exist at the same time? Or do they come one after the other?
I find this video explaining the above question when I read Dying to be Me by Anita Moojani when in her near-death experience," she was aware of everything that pertained to her- past, present and future-simultaneously... When we are not expressing through our bodies, everything occurs simultaneously, whether past, present, or future."
Master Sheng Yen explained that their force exists simultaneously, but as phenomena they are definitely separate.
They are real in terms of the single thought in the current life. The infinite virtue, merit and karma of your past lives, whether good or evil are all concentrated in the present life, and are always with you. Your future is developed within the present life. All your merit, up to the moment that you become a Buddha, exists within the single thought in the present life. A soybean for example, we don't know where the soybean originated from.
This soybean has the vital force inherited from that primal ancestor through countless generations. So this soybean is intimately linked with its ancestor
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