2010-07-19

2010-07-01

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

O God, Lord of absolute mercy, we kneel in thanks for your love.
Accept our gratitude for bringing us out of ignorance, and for your patience with our willful ways.

In despair we cursed the world.
We blamed others for our misery.
But your light led us out of suffering and rescued us from death.

You taught us to love and understand each other.
You gave us the power of Johrei to heal our distress.
Your abundant blessings on us, unhappy sinners, never cease.

O God, we, but grains of sand on the shore, give you our boundless thanks.
We offer ourselves, soul and flesh, for the fulfillment of your plan.

Give us your grace and guide us in our mission, so that the whole world may know of your love.

2010-06-28

Prayer of Johrei

Prayer of Johrei

God of boundless love, reverently we offer our prayer.
To our teacher you revealed that the time of judgment is near.
In repentance, we remember our sinful acts and ask your forgiveness.

You have made known your will for us, to build on earth your paradise, free from sickness, poverty, and strife.
You revealed to our teacher your command: that we are to build a world of perfect truth, goodness, and beauty, where your will reigns supreme.

In your forgiveness you gave us your grace through the divine light of Johrei to heal the sick and save their lives.
Through the gift of Johrei you revealed to our teacher the path of righteousness for humankind.

For our betrayal of your love for us, for the untold sins we and our forebears have committed through all the ages, we have penitent and humble hearts in acknowledging our wrongdoing.

God of infinite mercy, we beg your forgiveness of our sins and pray that our souls may be purified.
May we, by your grace, be blessed with purity and strength to fulfill our mission.
May we build earthly paradise, and under your protection achieve ultimate union with you.

O God, Lord of the universe, hear our prayer for your blessings and protection.
And if it pleases you, grant peace and happiness to our souls.

2010-06-11

Amatsunorito Prayer

Amatsunorito Prayer

Takaamahara ni Kami tsunarimasu.
Kamurogi Kamuromi no Mikoto mochite.
Sumemi oyakamu Izanagi no Mikoto.
Tsukushi no himuka no tachihana no odo no awagui hara ni.
Misogui harai tamou toki ni nari maseru haraido no Ohkami tachi.
Moromoro no magagoto tsumi kegare wo.
Harai tamae kiyome tamae to maosu koto no yoshi wo.
Amatsu Kami Kunitsu Kami yaoyorozu no Kami tachi tomo ni.
Ame no fuchikoma no mimi furitatete kikoshimeseto kashikomi kashikomi mo maosu.

2010-06-01

Zengensanji Prayer

Zengensanji Prayer

Uyauyashiku omonmiru ni
Seson Kanzeon Bosatsu konodo ni amorase tamai
Komyo Nyorai to guengi
Oshin Miroku to kashi
Meshiya to narase.
Daisen sanzen sekai no sandoku wo messhi gojoku wo kiyome hyaku sen man oku issai shujoh no dainenguan.
Komyo johraku eiguoh no juppoh sekai wo narashimete gofuu juh-u no kurui naku fukukaze eda mo narasu naki.
Miroku no miyo wo umitamou.
Muryoh muhen no daijihi ni tenmarasetsu mo matsuroite shoaku jahoh wa aratamari yasha ryujin mo guedatsu nashi.
Shozen busshin kotogotoku sono kokorozashi wo toguru nari.
Sansen sohmoku kotogotoku seson no itoku ni nabikaite kinjuhchugyo no suemade mo mina sono tokoro wo ezarunashi.
Masa ni kore shibi jissou sekai nite karyou bingua wa sora ni mai zuiunten ni tanabikeba banka fukuikuchi ni kunji tahoh buttoh sosori tachi.
Shichidoh guaran wa kasumi tsutsu koguane no iraka sansan to hi ni terieizu kohkei wa gueni mo Tengokujodo nari.
Gokoku minorite kura ni michi sunadori yutaka ni ameguashita.
Iketoshi ikeru moromoro no eragui niguiwau koegoe wa tsutsu uraura ni michiwatari.
Kuni to kuni to no sakai naku.
Hitogusa tachi no nikushimiya isakai goto mo yume to kie.
Ittenshikai Kannon no Miroku no miteni ki-itsu sare jinji no immune ni idakaren.
Warera ga hibi no segyou ni mo myouchi wo tamai shinkaku wo esashime ie wa tomisakae.
Yowai wa nagaku muiyaku ni zentoku kou wo kasane sase.
Fukujukai muryou no daikudoku.
Taresase tamae mashimase to nen-nen juushin geza tonshu kifuku raihai negui maosu.

2010-05-27

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You may feel warm and comfortable when you pray or Johrei. Particles must be finer than before. It makes you comfortable. It is Love of God.
When you are in such spiritual environment and feel comfortable, you will enjoy health. Of course you may get sick, but be patient and you will be healthy spiritually, mentally, and physically.
Try to forget with the thought that the physical body is a clouded form of material. Rev. Nakahashi says; “When I sat before the alter, I felt a breath of air, a gentle breeze. I felt it God’s life itself. In general air bumps against my body and reflects. But at that moment, I felt air penetrating my body and then going out. I can feel it, ‘Oh, this must be a spirit. I am experiencing now. Thank you, God!’”

This story is not surprising. You know, the body is covered with holes and so is the bone. The breeze passes holes in the body.

When you want to live with the thought that you are going to connect to the divine realm, all you have to do is to try to lift up your spirituality. If your thoughts are only to pursue ordinary benefit, this indicates a lower, undeveloped and primitive spirituality. That is a shame. When one is purified, he or she may feel something divine. You can see beauty in nature, beautiful works of art such as flowers, paintings, and so on.

Such beauty of thought creates gratitude to everything you are given. Such gratitude creates the emotion and the joy of faith in you. Emotion of the soul. If you are not such person, your soul has not yet awakened and is being dominated by materialism. Johrei can shake all souls of humans. You have to focus on this aim. How can you be purified? There is a way to find it. You would know how you have changed spiritually and how your body has changed physically.

Meishu-sama called himself as a spiritual scientist. A scientist observes, and we must also learn to observe things. Try to find if there should be a law. Try to observe how God works in the process of purification given to you. God uses individuals like you as his instrument and allows you to meet miraculous happenings around you. And you can witness it objectively.

Your body is a borrowed one. You are being allowed to use it. Know that His creatures are in perfect existence and participating in the divine program. Now you have entered the 21st century. Take the first step to become a spiritual scientist by following the footsteps of Meishu-sama. As you were told today about breathing with Johrei, you may be allowed to lift up your spirituality and then to find how you can improve it. May you be allowed to stay in a God given spiritual atmosphere as long as you can!

2010-05-21

I wonder if Johrei people in Japan inhale with the idea that universal life energy from the source of light is taken in when they breathe. I wonder if anyone channels the Divine Light through Johrei with this idea as well. Most have ignored this way of thinking.
This is an area we can change ourselves by learning to observe ourselves from a distance. In doing so, we can learn to change ourselves freely. However, people who only focus on physical matters only, tend to believe only in themselves and their own experiences and will only do things they are comfortable with. Because they always look at things from a physical point of view, those kinds of people usually worry too much and lack confidence in what they are doing. Their thinking is materialistic; their spirits are not working and probably dying. So they first have to be purified. Otherwise they are too spiritually clouded. Since spiritual clouds feed germs and cause diseases, physically speaking, if one is purified, they are not affected by diseases and germs.

If you don’t have spiritual clouds, bacteria will not affect you. They will pass through you and seek other people. Sickness will be totally gone. In Kanji, sickness means ‘energy is being sick’. The invisible power of the soul becomes radiant through Johrei and you get well. When the power gets weakened, you get sick as a result. You must have a basic understanding of this. So you need spiritual training as I said.

In the age of darkness, the healing power was weak. Now is the age of light. And you now have breathing and light shared by Meishu-sama. The power now is amazing! It is important for everyone to understand this.

2010-05-18

When you inhale, try to envision that you are receiving the Divine Light into your whole body, as if your spiritual body was getting filled. By doing so, you are taking spiritual training. It is very important in the initial stage of giving and receiving to think of this. When you exhale, envision that everything that is contaminating your spirit is also leaving your body. After the contamination leaves your spirit, you will be able to absorb the Divine Light you received. In addition to that, air you breathe is God’s life itself. Let me share with you some episode of Meishu-sama.
To help patients heal, Meishu-sama apparently experimented with breathing on them. Please try this. First channel Johrei to the front the receiver (recipient) and then breathe on the back. It’s effective and I’m sure you will see the difference. There must be working with some settle or high level energy in this process. This will help eliminate the spiritual clouds of the receiver (recipient). It will also help change the spiritual atmosphere around the receiver (recipient). The receiver (recipient) may feel better than before. He/she may feel blessed and will be in rapture. Try to think by putting aside the physical body and practice what it is called spiritual exercise. Many exercise by walking, jogging …whatever. How about spiritual exercise or training? Try austerity through breathing while Johrei.

When I see Johrei members, however, most of them misunderstand thinking because Meishu-sama once taught us that anybody can practice Johrei without much training. So most love to practice Johrei, but less care about spiritual training for their own good. Let me give you another example; Meishu-sama loved calligraphies written by Zen priests. He said that they are among the finest works of art in the world. Zen Buddhist Priests are in training for much of their lives, and this manifests in the higher spirituality of their art, which are so spiritually high, it makes one want to bow before them. This is the world of faith.

2010-05-14

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When you see people today, they seem to have been enslaved by the material world, like a high-efficiency robot. They don’t care about the work of mind and soul. They probably have not had enough opportunities to lift up their own spirituality in daily life. That causes their spirits (souls) to weaken, become powerless and then get sick. That is, I believe, one of the reasons of illnesses.

Today, I would like to explain how breathing efficiently works together with Johrei in our daily God’s work. We breathe at every moment without thinking much about it. Try to motivate your spiritual body and soul to breathe. I am telling this because the divine light comes from heaven (divine world?), the source of light. To transmit it to others, all you have to do is to become a better instrument of God. When one’s spiritual body gets clouded, it is reflected to the physical and according to a divine law called spiritual precedes the physical, we get sick. In other words, God’s instrument gets tainted.

When one’s spirit is purified, one’s spirituality is uplifted, one’s thoughts will have purified too. When one becomes spiritually clouded through ego and attachments, they are not easily removed. So this is the point (my suggestion).

As we live, we accumulate impurities. Physically, we are cleansed after taking bath or shower. But what about the spiritual side? Along with Johrei, I recommend the following breathing technique to cleanse spiritually.

2010-05-12

Art of Healing 1

Art of Healing (Process of purification of the spirit and the body)
On September 24
By Rev. Minoru Nakahashi

Today’s poems written by Meishu-sama are about the origin of sickness and how to be healed. We are taught that a human being has not only a physical body but also a spiritual body. A human being has a spiritual reason to exist as well as a physical. In addition to that let me add that our soul is an individualized part of God, so we have a sacred existence. It’s important to be aware of this.

We live a complicated existence because we are connected to the three dimensions of the divine realm, the spiritual realm and the physical realm and it is impossible to tell how influence each realm has on us. It all depends on how we think and act. It is probably right to say that 99% of the time we live and are influenced by the physical realm, while 1 percent by the divine realm. That sounds appropriate.

Sickness is a process of purification process and is just a phenomenon (simply mysterious). The cause lies in the spiritual realm. When your individualized part of God (soul) gets weak or malnourished, you get sick. Most people don’t know about this. We must raise our souls as we resolve to overcome our suffering.

After knowing the origin of sickness and how to deal with it, we don’t have to focus on the physical but we should try to live in accordance with spiritual laws. Yes, it is easy to say but hard to do. All the sufferings you may experience in this world must be resolved. For this, you don’t need the arbitrary distinctions between the three dimensions. You can learn from experiences in your life.

You probably notice that when I speak, I close my eyes. The reason I do so is to refrain from merely looking what I can physically see. While it may be best to open one’s eyes while speaking, we cannot overlook things that can’t be seen. So again, I close my eyes. In that way I feel it possible to dip out the water from the deeper place in the fountain. I hope that you can understand.

2010-05-11

FAITH AND FREEDOM

16. FAITH AND FREEDOM

There is, in the world, several religion types; some more, other fewer notables, that can be classified as big, averages, or small. All, without exception, are considered superiors and they judge the other inferior. For that reason, they forbid the followers of maintaining contact with the other ones, affirming that are demoniac faiths. Besides, they fear the own God in which they believe and they say that there is not salvation for who divides their faith between two credos. Some religions are, in that aspect, extremely rigorous the such point of their preachers threaten with terrible misfortunes, serious diseases, loss of the own life, or until the death of the whole family, case some of their members manifests the desire to change the other faith. For incredible that it seems, that species of faith, quite common in the venerable and old religions, it still today shows even in the most recent doctrines. We see, like this, that as regards to freedom of thought, there are many points to perfect, therefore they persist rests of feudalism not only in the social and political field, but also in the religious person.

2010-05-03

STRONGER OR WEAKER JOHREI

15. STRONGER OR WEAKER JOHREI

That problem is plenty complex, but there is difference of power in a person's Johrei for other, depending on the honesty with that acts or it accomplishes their dedication work. A lot of times somebody looks kindness; however it is bad in the bottom of the heart; another seem bad; however they have a lot of Makoto and they get excellent results with Johrei that supply. There are cases, especially of older members, which do not get many satisfactory effects in cures, because they are dominated by the vanity or for they interpret in an erroneous way the Teachings. Of another part, Johrei of a recent member, that it was not still 'touched' by the presumption, has more power and it brings extraordinary results, almost always. Another point to which we should be very attentive is the availability for the dedication. There are members seemingly good, but that are not devoted enough. In this case, Johrei that they channel is weak, because God only grants to power to who has deserve. Even it seems an excellent person, if he/she doesn't have praiseworthy, it will never supply a good Johrei. In synthesis, it can be said that is important to observe the results. It is impossible, therefore, to distinguish only through apparent observations, nor to admit the truth without first to accept God as the only expert of the human heart. Only of that way there is possibility to understand each other the divine designs.

2010-04-27

HEALTH AND NUTRITION

14. HEALTH AND NUTRITION

I constantly exercised a rigorous control about my feeding, trying to avoid the excesses, fact that it takes a lot of people to be sick.
In that way I tried to always establish the difference between nutritious with spiritual and physical values. The green vegetables, in a general way, are spiritually stronger, while meats and fish have to be material more.
On the other hand, it should be eaten, preferably, the victuals that more it likes himself. I, for instance, appreciate a lot of sweet potato.
Another important recommendation: the fruits should be avoided in case of diarrheas.

2010-04-22

KANNAGARA TAMATIHAE MASSE

13. KANNAGARA TAMATIHAE MASSE


Through this sentence, we make a special prayer in that we promised to accomplish the will of God, obeying him the orders (Kannagara); we also asked for the invigoration and the amplification of our soul (Tamatihae masse). That small passage is, actually, the summary that translates Amatsu Norito's essence. Like this, in moments of urgency or in moments of great danger, it can be prayed only that part, short and fast. It is also good to repeat it a lot of times during the day because we will be asking like this that the Light of God involves us so that our soul expands. It seems incredible, but few people have idea that a lot of times the soul is small, doesn't get to enlarge because it is wrapped up in thick clouds. Only after they be eliminated it is that he/she becomes possible the increase of our divine flash, as well as the appearance of conditions so that the breeze of each one of us becomes more compact.

2010-04-17

GOD IS GENREI

12. GOD IS GENREI

It is said that the world where the words act it is Kingdom of Genrei. God is Great Genrei that moves the cosmoses. It was also starting from the word that the Supreme Creator established the life and the universe, as it is in the Bible:
"At the beginning it was the verb and the verb was in God". Then it can be ended how they are important the words because, through them, freely creating or destroying, all the things change in well or badly, sky or hell; life or death. Once the human beings communicate for the word, they live in the world of Genrei, for that they should emit only good things for, in that way, they be rendering in every moment of the life Genrei of God. *It is read: Genrei

2010-04-11

THE SENSE OF BEAUTY

11. THE SENSE OF BEAUTY

The sense of beauty must be cultivated by all the persons so that the nation, the society and the universe receive constructive influences and, as result of the embellishment of the environment, so that they perfect his way of living. It was for this reason because I always ruled my life in accordance with such beginnings. From the childhood I was a lover of the beauty. Even in the times in which it was poor, it used to cultivate flowerbeds of flowers, drew and painted at the moments of rest. Whenever it could, it was visiting museums and exhibitions of art. In the spring I was delighting in the bloomed ones; in the autumn, with the reddish foliages. Today, with the God's grace, I dispose of resources to appreciate the perfection so that he better gratifies me. I can employ, inclusive, the true concept of beauty in the realization of my work in the Divine Work. This is one of the motives for which many persons find my luxurious life. They find my behavior strange, especially when they compare me to founders of ancient religions, who were spreading his doctrines practicing asceticism and suffering deprivations. In fact, those were the time of the Era of the Night, in which the faith was getting confused with an infernal state. Today, however, we are joining the Era of Light, during which the task of the salvation will be prosecuted in a celestial environment. Let's ponder, so, deeply on this truth, so that we can incorporate it to our daily life.

2010-04-04

THE BEAUTY

10. THE BEAUTY

Each one must be quite conscious of what the beauty gratifies not only to you yourself, but also to others and, therefore, it represents the form of virtue. So, the more loudly the level of a civilization, bigger will be the worship devoted to the perfection. It is enough to see, for example, the life of the barbaric people where the rudeness of attitudes always ruled. So, it is possible to affirm that the value of a culture corresponds, in part, to the development of the sense of beauty. From there, then, to be important which men and women take care appropriately of their appearance in order to bring others a pleasant impression. The women, specially, must try to become more and more beautiful. Likewise, the house to be always clean and in order, never allowing the presence of dust or cob-webs, as well as untidy furniture and out of place, the disorder offends the sight, causes ailment and anguish. On the other side, a harmonious environment provides pleasure not alone to the family; I eat also to the visitors, besides the respect and esteem what they all will devour to an owner of the house.

2010-03-25

DO NOT GET IRRITATED

9. DO NOT GET IRRITATED

In accordance with an ancient proverb “what is easy they support all; but the true tolerance consists in accepting the unbearable thing”. Another sentence teaches that it is always necessary to have hung to the neck a receptacle of patience and, if he is broken, it is repaired by as many times as will be necessary. It is a great truth. Many persons ask about me to which sort of asceticism I devoted myself to become a master. Were they health-resorts of waterfalls, fasts and much penitence? Simply I answer that never I devoted myself to this type of spiritual exercise. My religious practice was always based on two beginnings: to support with patience the suffering of the debts and to repress the wrath. While hearing this answer, many people are dumbfounded. Nevertheless, it was really so. I think which God made me pass by these trials aiming for my accomplishment. So, try to control the wrath. And, when they face humiliating situations, be remembered of which God is perfecting them. There is the true spiritual attitude of the man of faith.

2010-03-20

BUSY PERSONS HAVE THE BAD HEAD

1. BUSY PERSONS HAVE THE BAD HEAD

God is never overexerted, because it transcends the time and the space, therefore His thought does not delay a second; there is not, so, I cause of preoccupation. That only happens with the men. They are always agitated because they live inside the time and of whose space they cannot escape. If, however, they are very much preoccupied by this limitation, it is a sign of what have bad head. Sometimes, the persons question me: “The man must have much work to carry out; because it is ever overexerted?” “It is simple”, I answer. “I do in a minute what you delay an hour to execute”. It is a question of discernment. Though the man has to take into account the time and the space cannot be preoccupied exaggeratedly with that, since the bigger will be the attachment, juvenile will be the period of which it disposes to carry out the work itself.

2010-03-15

HOW TO DISCOVER THE CAUSE OF A PROBLEM WHICH SHOWS TO HAVE NO SOLUTION

7. HOW TO DISCOVER THE CAUSE OF A PROBLEM WHICH SHOWS TO HAVE NO SOLUTION

To discover the cause of a problem apparently without solution it is necessary, before, to polish the Tieshokaku (wisdom). I have already mentioned our proceeding has to be always in accordance with the logic. If, after having pondered on a subject, we do not manage to discover the cause it is because our Tieshokaku is maculated, i.e. there are clouds in the spiritual body. We have, so, to do a great effort to be always carrying out to remove stains the most possible thing. For that, we need to read the biggest number of Teachings, and very often, so we will be removing clouds and will developing the Tieshokaku. Like consequence we will realize quickly that we are discovering which the best way of acting and, in this way, all the things run normally.

2010-03-10

WHAT IS TIESHOKAKU?

6. WHAT IS TIESHOKAKU?

When one speak about on spiritual elevation, it is preferable to refer to the Tieshokaku, which means opinion of correct way all the things. The ones who has the developed Tieshokaku, understands, for example, perfectly the Teachings. Naturally, speaking of understanding, I want to say to understand of moment and in all, without distorting them. There are persons who do not manage to catch any parts, who think that, after having read or listening to them, they understood everything, I while returning for house they forget the most important points. It is necessary, so, always to be expanding the Tieshokaku. A reference in order that they know if they have spiritual evolution enough, is the right understanding of the Teachings. So, then, when you will have the highly developed Tieshokaku, they will put right, in an instant, the type of disease of a person, observing, only, the symptoms. So when they will realize that, formerly, they were putting fifty per cent of the cases right and today already they get sixty or seventy it is a sign of what are evolving his Tieshokaku.

2010-03-06

THE HAPPINESS OF MEISHU SAMA

5. THE HAPPINESS OF MEISHU SAMA

I believe what at present does not exist in the world person happier than I. Therefore I am always thanking for God on so precious gift. Which the cause of my happiness? I, in fact, am a quite different person of too much, so I received of God a mission very important to whose fulfillment I devote myself day and night. Mamehitos know that, through this work, I have been managing to save countless creatures. Nevertheless, there do not think what though being common persons; you also could not become very happy. I am going one day to write on this subject more in detail. At this moment, however, I want to express what me goes in the soul. From child, I liked providing joy to others. So, this way of always acting was a special characteristic of my personality and I, at all the moments, I come practicing it almost like a "hobby". I live constantly intending and trying to discover ways for which I could return happy mine similar.

2010-03-03

The MISSION OF THE ART

4. The MISSION OF THE ART

Notice that, from the origins, the mankind is modifying its way of living and, step by step, reaching a more civilized world. In this sense, the progress represents the elimination of the bestiality of the barbaric times, obsessive mark of the human behavior. This brutality without limits is, inclusive, one of the causes that maintains the humanity exposed to incessant threats of wars. The art must be an incentive to the elimination of the human bestiality, as well as a resource for which they all could conquer more noble feelings. So then, the literature, the theater, the singing, the dance, the painting will have to be the way for which the spiritual values of the artist, expresses through his sensibility, will touch the soul of the people, when between both are established, a link of feelings and emotions highly elevated. So, to an artist the advisor's paper of the true behavior too many members of the society being followed for. From there it is ended that, if the spiritual life is not very polished, also the feelings of the people they will not be able to make that you more improve. It is in this point that the dignity of the art resides, or his commonness.

2010-02-27

Johrei by Meishu-sama

Meishu-sama, whose original name was Mokichi Okada, born in District Hashiba, east of Tokyo, capital of Japan (which in turn is located east of Japan, a country in Far East of the Globe) on December 23, 1882 . Meishu Sama was therefore born in the easternmost part of the Earth, a fact that has profound meaning.

From a poor family, Meishu Sama has always been a hard worker. Since little has developed a high artistic sense, a fact that is partly due to his father, because this antiques dealer. Thus Meishu Sama learned early on the importance of the "artistic eye" and vision of the business, including economic aspects.

He devoted himself, therefore, commercial activities and art studies, leading a normal life until age 40 when, after a series of events began to turn to religion, becoming a staunch supporter of religion Oomoto.

In 1926, he began to receive revelations of God, some of the past, present and future of human history, as well as on the great mission that would be exercised by him in the salvation of mankind. From there, it only became aware that he would be chosen by God to fulfill this mission, but also have the power necessary to carry out such an undertaking.

On June 15, 1931, received God's revelation that it was approaching the era of the Day, starting a march of a new civilization, and also able to teach how they can be eliminated around the world, such as the causes of diseases, poverty and conflict, the main sufferings of humanity.

So Meishu Sama devoted himself, putting his whole energy (body and soul) to spread the teachings that were given by God until his ascension to the Divine World, 10 February 1955.

Photo: Meishu-sama (left bar)

The PERSONALITY OF THE ARTIST

3. The PERSONALITY OF THE ARTIST

All the things created by God aim for the good of the humanity. They practice, therefore, a celestial mission. Naturally, the art does not constitute exception. From there that the artist should take conscience of his important paper and fulfill it with perfection, contributing in this form, to the establishment of a just society. It is not, however, what it happens. I am astonished while observing the attitude of the artists in general. There are, of course, many people between them that are good; the majority, nevertheless, is forgotten of his true mission, or does not take it into account. Being considered special creatures, they judge that the existence of their sensibility is the expression of individualism, or of genius. So thinking, they act as well they understand, without the least discernment. The society, for his time, treats them like being special and tolerates in them almost completely, which makes them more and more haughty guys. This social behavior prevents them from having the most elevated spiritual qualities, which should be a normal characteristic of the personality of the truthful artist.

2010-02-24

ART AND RELIGION

2. ART AND RELIGION

Many persons believe that between religion and art there is no relation, I do not agree. It constitutes a mistake. In fact, the art has how target to lift up the feelings, to make the most ample life, to provide joy and to revalue the sense of dignity of the human existence. When someone of certain artistic culture contemplates the spring flowers, the colorful autumn foliages or any other natural scenery, it feels to produce inside you an uncurbed joy. It must be expressed, then, in some form these sensations so that the rest realize there a reflex of the God's Kingdom on the Earth, that ideal world been composed of Truth, Virtue and Beauty, about which I always talk to them.

2010-02-23

Johrei by Meishu-sama

Teachings of Meishu-sama

1. SURPASS EGO

To be perfected in the spiritual world, it is necessary, first of all, to surpass your own ego. We can know so, that in the daily life there is nothing more frightening than the ego. In the teachings of the sect Oomoto, we find the next passage: “Even gods have been wandering because of ego. There is no thing more terrible than the ego. So, it is not good to let it be pointed out”. This sentence, which in so simple way defines perfectly the ego, and it let me impressed me and took me to a deep thought. In the same teaching, the next words are also: “The man must be above all simple”. Sentence what I find very right, so for whom, up to now, he heard my words with simplicity, everything runs normally and without stumbling blocks. It is for me much painful to see persons who fail because of his strong ego. To reach the true faith, it is necessary, above all, to surpass the ego itself, to be simple and not tell lies.