Anyway, Jiko says that as long as you keep trying to be a good person and making an effort to change, then finally one day all the good stuff you do will cancel out all the bad stuff that you’ve done, and you can become enlightened and hop on that elevator and never come back—unless, as I said, you’re like Jiko and you’ve taken a vow not to ride on the elevator until everyone else gets on first. That’s the great thing about my great granny. You can really count on her. She might be a hundred and four and say some pretty wack things, but my old Jiko is totally dependable.
