More determination, more merit

Support one another in achieving merit! While you are still young, use that youthful energy to support the work of Buddhism. Make a wish for your good work to bring you good merit. The more determination in your heart, the more merit you will gain; the less determination, the less merit. In my next lifetime, I will have the ability to look at a person and be able to recall his past existence23, know his name in that existence, and where he came from. I am too occupied to do it in this lifetime, as I still have to deal with defilements. In my next lifetime, however, it will be second nature to me; I will have an enhanced ability to see through everything. When my time comes to be reborn as a human, I will invite all of you to come with me again to continue pursuing virtues. Wherever I go, whether to Heaven or Nibbana, or to be reborn again in this earthly realm in order to build more virtues, I will invite you to come with me.

October 28, 1980