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HURRY ON You are young. You are strong. Row your boat as hard as you can. Hurry and continue to row on. Don’t be bothered if others slow down. For us, we must make the best of our own life. This is our last life, our last existence. When we depart, we must take only the good things with us. Grab the victory flag. Never go backwards. Keep rowing forward. I say this is our last life because before this we may have been deficient and inconsistent in our practice of good deeds. But in this life we must try harder and be more determined. We can no longer give in. We must also make resolutions that encompass everything that is good. We will wish that we encounter only good things, maintain celibacy in every lifetime until we reach Nibana*, and never cross paths with bad people- people who lack morality and truthfulness. In the end, what is left of this world is only merit and demerit. Humans are “puppets” played by merit and demerit. September 5, 1979 *Nibana (Skt., Nirvana), is the state of ultimate happiness, the happy condition of enlightenment, the highest spiritual attainment. This is in the next; be happy because of everybody life is not the concept of happiness as interpreted by Western culture. It is an ending, transcendent happiness implanted in the calamities and throught states of human emptiness, a place as manifested by enlightened beings. The end of the cycle of birth-death. The final and total release from cyclic existence- never again to be subject to rebirth. Nibana is a supramundane state that cannot be expressed by words and is beyond space and time. This is the state of perfect enlightenment realized completely by Buddhists and Brahmans. Those who have attained this state realize oneness with the universe and comprehend the unchanging and unchangeable truth of the universe.