Iff only we had d an effective prayer that would protect all the Rattle Snake that are killed each year in the inhumanely trapped and killed here in Texas each year.
1:07:10 past lives recollection OK, memory is weak, we often can't remember what we did last week... HOWEVER... If past lives are more numerous than grains of sand in the sea, then one of them must have been in the Hell realm and I am sure I would remember SOMETHING from the eternity spent in the Hell realm. So, why don't YOU remember it? MAYBE because, the realms are metafores for various states of mind, and not actual places somewhere nobody knows where. And rebirths in these various realms are nothing more than a more less dramatic change of the mental state. So when the mind burns in hatred, a person is born as a demon, and the world is Hell. When the mind is calm, composed, focused, at peace, filled with loving kindness - the person is a heavenly being in heavenly realm. If the person is an addict (drug, food, alcohol , sex, computer games, social networks...whatever else) then the person knows first hand how it is to be a Hungry ghost... It is these births that Dhamma is about! So, recalling past lives? Sure! They all happened in this very lifetime. It is just that some of them we really don't want to remember, while others we really don't want to forget. "Rebirth" is Samsara is a cycle of Dependent Originarion of Gladness - Sadness, Dukkha - Sukha, in the mind.
