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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 existence*, 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 enriched 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 reborn again in this earthly realm—to build more virtues, I will invite you to come with me. October 28, 1980 75. DON’T GIVE UP You can give up on anything, but never give up on building merit. February 11, 1981 *Practitioners of meditation who have reached a very high level of attainment can look into the past lives of themselves and others to study the Law of Kamma.