Chapter Five : Cause and Effect 18

The Founding Master said,
“If a person has created no merit, then no matter how well he wishes to do in his next life, it will not turn out that way. This may be compared to the case in the present life where, no matter how much someone wishes to reside in a nice home, he wouldn’t be able to live in it unless it’s his own. Look at Kongch’il! When he gets off at Iri Railway Station there is a row of fancy Western-style homes, but he does not dare even to think of going inside them and goes into his own humble dwelling. This is indeed a concrete example of how things turn out as one has created and a model of how one receives in accordance with what one has created.”

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