Yu Team Moments: Yu’s Review of Seven Lifetimes (Part 1)
Ariel: Are you guys around? I'd like to hear what you think about The Seven Lifetimes. No need to be so serious—let's just chat casually, and I'll take notes.
Li Fu: I'm never serious.
Tianming: Only those who cultivate spiritually can truly let go of human emotions and attachments. It is precisely because of these emotional bonds that people continue to meet again and again, for better or worse. Those who long to reunite with someone yearn for these bonds, while cultivators seek to let them go.
Ariel: Groom-to-be (Yu Qian), some people say these reincarnation stories read like novels. What do you think?
Yu Qian: Actually, my purpose in writing this long story, The Seven Lifetimes, was to tell everyone that every encounter is a reunion after a long separation. You may think meeting someone is merely a coincidence, but in reality, it may be the culmination of someone's very long wait.
Li Fu: Exactly! The members of the Yu En Transmission team and I also waited for a very long time before we could finally meet again in this lifetime!
Yu Qian: If everyone wants to hear stories about spiritual cultivation, we can certainly share more of them. But every story we tell has a purpose. First, we hope to help people obtain the Key to the New Universe. Second, we hope to pass on divinely inspired traditional culture so that people can understand what people in the past were really like. If the same things happened to modern people, the story might end after just one lifetime, while those who still needed to face punishment would continue to do so.
Tianming: If everyone only wants to read stories about cultivators, of course we can write them. Buddhism has said there are more than 84,000 cultivation paths, while Taoist cultivation has hundreds or even thousands of paths, not to mention many others that people today know nothing about. Any of these could become stories. But why did we choose to write The Seven Lifetimes? Because people don't realize that a relationship they have in this lifetime may be something they once prayed before the Buddha for hundreds of years to obtain. That's why they are finally able to be together in this life. Yet once they're together, they fail to cherish one another. When we—the different Yus—see this, we can't help but sigh. That's why we asked Yu En to write this story for us.
Ariel: Yes. Sometimes, when I encounter these reincarnation experiences, even I hesitate. None of us knows the truth or the price behind a particular encounter in this lifetime. But after finishing The Seven Lifetimes, I felt a sense of relief unlike anything before. No matter what we experience through reincarnation, it is ultimately an expression of divine compassion, paving the way toward the most beautiful destination for every life.
Yu Qian: Ariel, don't be sad or feel disappointed. People feel this way because they can't see their past and present lives. If everyone could see them, they'd probably cling to the person they love in this lifetime and refuse to let go no matter what. But because they can't see, they often begin finding fault with each other. Over time, the bond the gods arranged for them gradually fades away until eventually, it's gone.
Ariel: So perhaps the best way to treat everyone we encounter in life is with the greatest kindness we can, while allowing things to unfold according to fate. Otherwise, one day, when we finally learn the truth, we may deeply regret how we treated them.
Tianming: Exactly. Don't wait until you've lost someone you love to regret that you failed to cherish them.
Yu En Transmission: If you don't know who Yu Qian, Li Fu, and Tianming are, please read "Yu Team Moments: Meet The Yus We Know."
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