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Always fighting wars to have bodily freedom but we easily give up in the spiritual/inner fight. Unless we enter the stream (sotappana), nothing guarantees us against falling into the lower realms (animals, hell, ghosts etc.). Set up your goal, see what is important in your life and put in the effort to get there. Going to heaven: keep the 5 precepts and develop generosity/respect/gratitude. Entering the stream: you have to break the first 3 fetters: doubt, not keeping one's sila (5 precepts), thinking that you are the body. “Where there is a will, there is a way”. The Lord Buddha teaches us that you have to live at least 12 years with someone/a culture to really know it, but most of the western monks bring back a wrong Buddhism after a few years in Thailand. A true disciple of the Buddha: not having a thought of ill-will even if bandits cut you with a raw saw.