When we reflect on our past lives, we would find that we have made our circumstances by ourselves. Our circumstances are results of our decisions which we have made since our birth. Some people may think our social and home environments influence our decisions. Nevertheless we have been decision-makers and have had free wills to decide in our life. (You are reading these sentences. Whether you read or not, it is up to you and you have chosen to read. It depended on your free will.) Whether you accept my messages or not, it is up to you too. So we can choose to accept or not to accept influence of environment to a certain extent. Our decisions are the cause of our circumstances, our circumstances are the result of our decisions.
But still, some people may assert that we had not chosen our parents nor home countries before we were born. Master Ryuho Okawa teaches us that we had planned our life before we were born into this world. In the transmigration of souls, we had chosen our suitable circumstances such as parents, occupations, our wives or husbands for the soul training in the this world, before we were born.
Life is a series of exercises and our daily lives are like each pages of exercise-books. Every day we open a page of exercise-books. And we must solve our own exercises by ourselves to grow spiritually. Our circumstances are the result of the answers to our own exercises. So we should not complain of our circumstances, which are the best condition for us to train our souls. Everyone has his or her own subjects of life which are keys to grow spiritually. If you reflect on your failures in your past life, you may find the subjects of your life and perceive the reason why your exercises are so hard to solve.
The most important factor of our circumstances is the relationships with others. Many of those who complain of their circumstances do not have good relationships with others. But happiness comes from relationships between others and us. Unhappiness also comes from relationships between others and us. When you come to think of emotions, you will find every emotion such as joy, sorrow, anger, jealousy, pride usually results from the relationship with others. In short, to be happy or not, it depends on the relationships which we establish with others.
The relationships with others are keys to solve exercises of life and to grow spiritually. Then it is very important for us what kind of relationships we establish. We should establish and keep good relationships with others.
Unended part II
Unended part IV
Unended Quest
