@ecotrain Question of the Week Tie-up Post: What lessons will you take with you for your potential next life if you die tomorrow?
Welcome to the Question of the Week! We ask our @ecotrain passengers and community a question each week and then we all answer it in our own post! To make them easy to find I've tied them all up in this post so you can peruse and choose the ones you want to read! This week we have many gems, and thankfully a none political post.. well sort of.. at least relative to last weeks Tr*mp question! I wont do it to you all again i promise!
The question this week prompts us to delve deep, and consider many things including whether we even believe in rebirth! What we do here in this lifetime may have consequences far into the future, and if we really are evolving and learning during our live(s) then it is surely worth spending some time thinking about the most important lessons we have learned in life. This week we have a very diverse set of answers and definately food for thought for people of any age!
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What lessons will you take with you for your potential next life if you die tomorrow?
@misslasvegas
The questions we're seeing these last few weeks in the @ecotrain could possibly reflect what many people in the world ask themselves right this very moment. This subject is particularly interesting to me, because somewhere in my not-too-ancient past, I decided to study hypnotherapy. How I got to that may well be another story for another time, but at this point I would like to focus on why I mention this.
I have always had an interest in hypnosis and the clinical version of it, but I never knew what I would get myself into when I started the study.
It was a long road of self-discovery, confrontations with myself and other students and eventually 'seeing the light at the end of the tunnel'. I learned so much during that intense time in my life and ever since then, I know I will never stop learning. Learning about myself, the world and others, but mostly about myself.
@nainaztengra
For me personally this life has been one roller coaster ride, like those daily TV soaps, one episode gets over and there's something in store already waiting for me, so with all of this, life has given me rich learning experiences some in pleasant ways and some in not very pleasant ways.
First of all, I feel I have had enough of this living life after life, where you are born without any memories of past lives and you keep going through the same rut again and again in the name of so called karma, where humans are nothing but just puppets in this large matrix.
If ever I have to come back in another life once again I would like to get all of this life learning's along with me but if I have to select some most important ones than it would go as below.
Living with satisfaction
Too much of lack of things at times make you want more and more. With all the difficulties of childhood days I always had this thing in mind to fulfill all that was missed then when I would grow up. Not that I have been greedy or had any malicious thoughts to fulfill my needs, but there was always a desire to aspire for more and more in life, and this is not only about money but in every area of life. Though in the last few years I have come out of this zone but I still keep slipping. But overall I am very contended and satisfied with my life at this point of time. Not that I have all that I used to desire for, but now I feel that I do not need that more. This learning has taken away a lot from me so I definitely want to take this to my next life to not get into the same rut again and go through all the lessons to reach this stage once again.
@porters
A question that got me thinking deeply and which bought to mind a realization I once had.
Our body formation came about because of our actions
With that said one must take into consideration one's birth circumstances and the years lived as a dependent (oh! We owe our parents so much for bringing us up and getting us to a point where we could take care of ourselves!)
Now just think on this for a bit.
Think of what it is you put into your body, is it junk food or something that keeps your body healthy.
At one point I had lost my health and had to fight to get it back. This bought about a real appreciation of the care my mother had given me so I could grow up healthy. This appreciation kept me wanting to take care of my health for I valued having a healthy life.
One thing that will show up in your body is if you have ever abused yourself, let your desires get so overpowering that you don't even recognise what you are doing to yourself.
Another thing to look at is your activities. How do you spend your precious time (it is limited you know!)
Are you just chasing after your desires or being pushed around by your every whim? Or do you have more purpose?
It is when I take responsibility for my actions and do things that have meaning, not just flit away my life, that I feel joyful. My body responds likewise being light and very capable.
@riverflows
Ah! Next life! I'm having a tough enough time with this life already! WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME THIS QUESTION OH TRAIN DRIVER!!
There's something kind of timely about this post though, as Friday I was sitting on the beach watching the martins dip down for insects and the waves lick the rocks, and I had this sudden realisation that I might only have twenty odd years left. Sure, I might have 10 minutes left if I go outside and be struck by a hailstone in this tempestuous Spring Victorian weather, but that's a moot point - I'm assuming that things go okay, I might have that much time left. I always 'get' that as an intellectual exercise, but this revelation swept right through my bones. What am I doing? What have I learnt? What have I got to do, yet, to have lived life enough
Perhaps it is because, as many of you know, it's because we've been struggling through my father's cancer and his mortality that I've been having such thoughts. Most of the time I'm quite cool with all of that, because intellectually, I understand I am one with all the living things and all living things must die to be cycled back into the earth. I'm fine with being food for worms, or birds, or dust adrift in an ocean current or on the fine breeze under the wise sunlight.
But what if - what if, I came back? I've never need an afterlife or the promise of one. My scientific, rational self doesn't need a higher purpose - I'm just flesh and blood and when I die, so does my chi, prana, breath, spirit, and I become absorbed in all that is.
@trucklife-family
I needed to rephrase this question in order for me to feel comfortable answering it. So I chose to talk about My life and the lessons I have learnt. Why?
Because I really believe that all our energy needs to be put into living the life we have right now, that this is the one chance we get to really live and become the person we are meant to be. To not look to future lives, but to understand that the choices we make now are what matter, what we are feeling now, how we are treating others, our impact on nature right now is all that matters. I sometimes worry that some people become too complacent, because they believe they only need to achieve certain things in this life and that in their next life they can focus on the rest. But then that all really depends on what you believe life is all about, do you think you need to achieve certain things, do you believe in future lives?
But the question is not about future lives, it is about the lessons we have learnt and wow there have been so many. One of the earliest lessons I learnt was that life can be painful and that those who you thought were meant to look after you, to care for you do not. I know not a very nice lesson, but one that shaped me all the same. Life can be painful, it can hurt a hell of a lot and we can get lost in that pain for a while. We have to allow ourselves to feel, allow ourselves to explore that pain and then let it go. Because holding onto pain is more damaging that how we came by it in the first place. It took me a long time to fully let go of the pain I experienced when I was a child, part of me was afraid of who I would be without it, because it was embedded so deeply within me. But in letting go of that pain I allowed the other parts of myself to flourish. I have learnt the importance of pain and also the importance of letting that pain go.
@eco-alex
Ahh what a question, and one well worth considering whilst we are still alive! For me there is no question that there will be a next life, but just what kind of life it will remains a mystery. The choices we make here in this life are the ones that will dictate what choices we make when we leave our bodies and discover the celestial realm once again. Sometimes we are guided right back to earth, to continue learning and deepening our life lessons, or we may continue onwards in the higher realms and dimensions. If we are ready, we may merge back into all that this, the universal one consciousness of Love. These are not ideas, words, or a theory of things.. this is who we are, and whatever we think today, we will all once again discover and remember who we really are sooner or later.
Isn't it interesting how different we all are! Some of us are so polite, kind, loving, and giving. Others are very angry, mean, and abusive. I find it even more interesting when we see the strength and gifts of some very young children who clearly have talents way beyond their years.. and those OLD SOULS as we commonly call them, are here to share and discover ever more depth to life. And to keep this thread going, I find it perplexingly interesting that so many people speak of OLD SOULS, or say that someone probably did something in a previous life. How can we deny that we are infinite, eternal, and can never die.. ever! We know in our core that this is true, but many people are sceptical because our ego will not let us admit 'certain things' for a host of reasons.
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I am so looking forward to reading everyone's answer, this was a joy for me to answer even if I did start off questioning if there is any next life after this. But what a great way to focus on the many positive things within our lives and even in those difficult moments they teach us so much. Thank you @eco-alex xxxxxx
I am truly looking forward to reading everyone answers. I didn't get mine written but not for the lack of trying. I must have a dozen drafts but none of them quite said what I wanted to say. I'll keep at it.
aweee! good to know you are so dedicated! keep going yes! xx
What a beautiful collection of responses! That was a great question! Really got us thinking and looking at our life lessons! Thanks for curating all those posts @eco-alex!
Oh man.... I wish I hadn't missed this one!!! The number one lessen I would take for sure would be the idea that the everything we do matters so smile, love thy neighbor and happiness are what really counts.... and following your heart no matter what! The heart always knows better 😁...
Sorry I missed this one Alex