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Here’s a summary in bullet quotes format of “We Can Never Go Back. What Lies Ahead?” by Luna Kadampa:
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“You can never step in the same ocean twice.”
Everything changes—places, people, memories, and you. -
“Lido Beach wasn’t the same. But neither was I.”
Revisiting familiar places only highlights impermanence. -
“Memories are selective and unreliable—shaped by mind, not truth.”
What we recall is not what truly was, and may never have been. -
“We weren’t really there—it was all just a dream.”
The past exists only as karmic imprints, not as fixed realities. -
“We can’t go back. Not to yesterday, not to last year.”
Each moment is fresh, each appearance a new karmic unfolding. -
“Our attachment to memories and nostalgia binds us to illusion.”
True freedom lies in letting go of the past and being fully present. -
“Every person, place, and moment is a label our mind projects onto emptiness.”
Even returning to a beloved place is not ‘going back.’ -
“The eternal hourglass of samsara turns again and again.”
Impermanence is real, but samsaric suffering repeats endlessly. -
“Could you bear to live this exact same life over and over again?”
Nietzsche’s challenge reveals the weight of recurrence and the urgency of change. -
“Samsara is horrifying in its sameness—birth, ageing, sickness, death.”
Even good lives become unbearable when repeated without freedom. -
“Only the bliss and emptiness of enlightenment could be joyfully eternal.”
Everything else is ultimately hollow. -
“This life is our chance to break free.”
With renunciation and wisdom, we can escape the wheel. -
“We’re running out of karmic grains of sand—impermanence is racing us.”
Time is not on our side; now is the moment to wake up. -
“Samsaric success is like getting rich in Monopoly—can’t take it with us.”
What matters is what we pack in our mind's suitcase for future lives. -
“Death is our only real deadline—yet we ignore it.”
Awareness of death brings perspective, purpose, and spiritual energy. -
“Modern society worships youth, not wisdom.”
We distract ourselves from decay, and in doing so, lose depth. -
“Tourists in a resort”—our human life is rare and precious.
Let’s not waste it. We won’t get this combination again.
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