Joining Our Loved Ones

I personally can't really speak about it from any personal experience. On the other hand, as I have said that more and more data are being gathered what happens to people nearing death or what we might say near death, meaning having actually died officially, at least medically died. So in those cases, it does seem that they are in many cases, not in all cases, but in many cases, they actually encounter their loved ones. Or even before they actually physically die as if the loved one is reaching out to them to hold their hand. There are many cases of this kind being reported.

So it does seem this is just speculation really on my part. I'm not entirely sure how to understand these things, but it does seem as if the relationship between lovers or family relationships to some extent seem to continue in other lives as well. I think I was mentioning this to you earlier, that, for example, a Zen master in South Korea who I had never met, I had never heard of him. Somehow, the forces so arranged that I should get to meet him. And he obviously was highly regarded Zenmaster.

The president of Korea is his disciple, the admiral of Corey is I had absolutely no idea. And then he insisted on giving me a lot of money as well as an image of the Buddha from the tenth century from the Sila dynasty, which is about $15,000 in The US market here. Because I had done something for him in a previous life. Now I have no idea of this. And so I say that that people it's very difficult for me to dismiss this Zenmaster.

He would sure as hell know hello a lot more than I do about these kinds of things. And then initially, I even thought he's somehow maybe trying to exploit me for something or the other. But, no, I was completely surprised. And then also nobody would have believed any of this except that Tresila was there and my ex wife was there also first time when I met him when he gives me this money. And I was surprised to take it, and he says, this is to pay for your next visit.

And and that if we had more money, he would definitely have given me more. This happened to be the only foreign exchange he had there at that. So he was clearly, hardly, hardly trying to exploit me about anything. He didn't ask me to do anything there. So on what basis he's actually seeing my previous life, but this might amuse you.

I even asked him. What was I in a previous life? He said, first of all, he started laughing. Then he said, maybe you were a monk. And then I said, what happened then?

Then he laughed even more. He says, maybe you met a beautiful girl. So there, I don't know what how to seriously to take it, but it's entirely possible that I was a monk. In fact, only once or twice in my life, I have had this vague background kind of feeling. I can't honestly say that I could completely agree with this, but a great feeling that I actually was a monk in a Christian monastery.

And even my great respect for the teaching of Christ, possibly comes from that. I I don't know that. And but that is the only vague impression I have had more than once. That I was probably a monk and a Christian monastery, but I had no idea why I was kicked out or whether I left this then master's remark is well helpful, maybe, or interesting in any case.