Answer: It is actually very hard to attain the highest release in one lifetime, unless one had already trained well in past lives.

答：一个人要想真正达到万物皆空的最高精神境界是非常难的，除非他已修行几世。

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You should understand that people who have nothing to eat now are undergoing the retribution for having wasted food in past lives.

要知道世上没有饭吃的人，都是因为在往昔糟蹋食物，所以今生才受没有饭吃的果报。

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The nuns, understanding my naivete, kindly explained that many people who enter monastic life, usually make vows in past lives to return as monks or nuns.

这两位比丘尼了解我的情况，慈悲地告诉我说：许多人出家，通常是在过去生中发过愿，要再回来当僧尼。

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Although Carnegie had watched Scott deal with similar problems in the past, lives and property were at stake.

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Others have been more directly scolded in his past public lives.

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