Faith Mediated by Other People No Longer Works

Bad new religions and psychics have to make money in order to maintain their organizations or lead a luxurious life. They use God not for their believers but for themselves. They work for money against their conscience. They care nothing about the people who visit them for help. If the believers feel great security and become happy, the gurus or psychics become unnecessary. This is why they make those in trouble temporarily happy and then unhappy again and again, stirring up trouble to get credit from the solution.

• religion 　宗教
• maintain　維持する
• organization　組織
• luxurious　贅沢な
• conscience　良心
• this is why S+V 　こういうわけでSはVする

Some gurus or psychics know what they’re doing and others don’t. Gods never support spiritual teachers working to maintain their organizations. What they do to make money to maintain their groups is like this:

● They make their believers scared, saying bad things are going to happen to them.

● They squeeze money out of their believers, suggesting the world or nation is in danger.

In short, it is wrong to form a religious group or to become a full-time psychic in the name of God. Such conducts make them away from true gods.

• support　応援する
• scared　怖い
• squeeze　搾り取る
• suggest　暗に示す
• be in danger　危険にさらされている
• full-time　専業の
• conduct　行い

Such religious groups and psychics separated from true gods will be possessed by evil spirits. No other profit groups are better than bad new religions for evil spirits, who enjoy fear and greed of human beings. They consume negative energy such as sexual desire between believers, sadness of family members who have their family life ruined, sorrow by the believers who have become broke because of religious activities and so on. Devotees of such religious groups are nothing but immolations.

• possess　憑依する
• fear　恐怖
• greed　貪欲
• sadness　悲しみ
• immolation　餌食

It is true that spiritual leaders, gurus or psychics who screw money out of those in trouble are possessed with evil spirits, no matter how much they appear to be good persons. Spiritual possession enables them to commit such bad deeds. They will keep producing such pathetic believers to earn their livings. They don’t know they themselves are bound to fall victims to the evil spirits in the end. They will see the true identity of the evil spirits at their deathbeds and, frozen with fear, be recalled from the World of Reality.

• screw　搾り取る
• pethetic　哀れな
• earn　稼ぐ
• be bound to~　~する運命にある
• victim　犠牲者
• frozen　凍って
• recall  回収する

It is natural and can’t be helped that greedy people are exploited by bad religions or psychics whom they got in contact with. But it’s very sad that their relatives or children who share the same family line are also affected. If they had had nothing to do with such religions or psychics, their living environment would have become much better.

• natural　当然な
• exploit　搾取する
• get in contact with A　Aと接触する
• relative　親戚
• affect　影響する
• environment　環境

Keep away from any negative handicap that wastes your life energy and money. Spiritual light in the electromagnetic waves of the sun will divide companies, people and religions in two: those with conscience and those with no conscience.

• waste　無駄にする
• electromagnetic wave　電磁波
• divide　分ける

It’s important that you hold a memorial service for your ancestral spirits at home to appease them every day, which deed develops your conscience, and remind yourself of gratitude to gods. The new age has already begun when the faith mediated by other people no longer works. True gods need no money. You have to know that, once you get involved with a fee-based psychic, it becomes impossible for the holy energy to approach you.

• ancestral　先祖の
• appease　慰める
• develop　発達させる
• remind　思い出させる
• gratitude　感謝の気持ち
• mediate　媒介する
• approach　近く

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The World of Reality is Where You can Find out God

The other day, our family was in charge of keeping an eye on the dump site so that animals such as crows or cats wouldn’t scavenge on garbage bags. People in my neighborhood have to do this job by turns.

• be in charge 　責任者である
• keep an eye　見張る
• dump site　ゴミ捨て場
• scanvenge　漁る

One of my family members got up early in the morning, went to the dump site and found the garbage was scattered by animals. I, together with the other family members, went there with cleaning devices and garbage bags to clean up the site. The dump site stunk.

• scatter　撒き散らす
• device　用具
• stink　臭う

If I had left the site as it was, other inhabitants would have hesitated to put their garbage and garbage trucks wouldn’t have collected the broken garbage bags as a rule. This happening was stimulating for me because normally I’m not the person to take care of our house’s garbage.

• inhabitant　住人
• hesitate　ためらう
• collect　集める
• as a rule　原則として
• simulating　刺激的な

If garbage trucks were to stop collecting garbage in the city, the people would get into real trouble. The streets would be full of garbage, cars couldn’t pass along the streets and people couldn’t live there due to the bad smell. Epidemics could break out, too.

• get into trouble　厄介なことになる
• due to A　Aのために
• epidemic　疫病
• break out　勃発する

The fact is social lives, which we are apt to take for granted, are easy to collapse. The happening on that day made me reaffirm the importance of the unnoticeable people working for the whole society such as refuse collectors.

• social life　社会生活
• be apt to~  〜しがちである
• take A for granted　Aを当たり前と思う
• collapse　崩壊する
• reaffirm　再確認する

Their importance is also true of the spiritual world. Spiritualistic ideas remote from reality are useless, like high dimensions, spiritual ladders, aliens and so on.  These are nothing but illusion like daydreaming.

• remote　離れた
• psychic　霊能者
• nothing but A　Aにすぎない
• illusion　幻想

Some psychics may say that they’ve found God through meditation. So what? They call themselves enlightened men and receive a lot of money from believers just by talking about their unusual experiences. What a peaceful world!

• meditation　瞑想
• enlightened　悟った
• peaceful world　平和な世界
• unusual　普通でない

However much they boast of their “high” spirituality, they cannot eat anything nor have their excreta and garbage collected without others’ help. Indeed, they are being kept alive by people working hard in the real world.

• boast　自慢する
• excreta　排泄物
• indeed　実際

You have to observe the fact that you exist in this World of Reality with your physical body, which a succession of miracles can only make possible. This world is within God. In other words, only in your daily lives can you have the chance to see God.

• observe　よく見る
• physical　肉体の
• succession　連続

Thanks to your ancestors, you have your physical body now. Your body is a product of both your invisible ancestral spirits and your soul. Purify your physical body and ancestral spirits, and you’ll see this world is filled with God’s will. Only in your ordinary lives can you catch a glimpse of the blessings given by the Great Being.

• thanks to A　Aのお陰で
• product　産物
• be filled with A　Aでいっぱいである
• catch a glimpse of A　Aを垣間見る
• blessing　恩恵

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In the World of Reality only Efforts can Improve the Situations

A reader of this blog said, “Am I allowed to say ‘I’m grateful for being kept alive’ ?Because I live in misery and I don’t think I’m grateful for my present situations.” I replied “Repeat the phrase even if you don’t believe it.” Another reader said that she hated her husband so much that she could kill him. I replied “Say the phrase to him in silence for all your hatred against your husband.”

• allow 許す
• misery　悲惨
• reply　答える
• hate　憎む
• for all A　Aにも関わらず

Even if you keep on thinking “I’m miserable,” or “I hate him,” you can never change the reality. On the contrary, you will end up wearing negative magnetism all the more and your situations will get worse. It’s no use waiting for the time you can be grateful for the present situations. You have to make a move.

• reality　現実
• on the contrary　それどころか
• end up ~ing　結局は〜することになる
• It is no use ~ing　〜してみても無駄だ
• make a move　行動する

The World of Reality is where making efforts is important. Even when you are suffering from poverty, illness or hatred against someone, repeat the phrase “I am grateful for being kept alive,” which I received from the World of Gods, and you’ll come to see things objectively from the point of view of life and death and your hatred will disappear because the phrase is very powerful.

• effort　努力
• suffer　苦しむ
• objectively　客観的に
• disappear　消える

The souls of Amaterasu-o-ho-mi-kami （天照太御神）and Kunitokotachi-o-kami （国常立太神）dwell in the phrase “I am grateful for being kept alive”, or in Japanese “Ikashiteitadaite arigatougozaimasu.” To say the words is to call the names of the gods. In response to the call, the gods appear from the universe of your heart as Kanzeon Bosatsu（観世音菩薩）, a bodhisattva of mercy and salvation, to save you.

• dwell　住む
• in response to A　Aに応じて
• save　救う

There is a tale in Buddhism called the Burning House. In the tale, some children are playing in a burning house without noticing the critical situation. Though an adult standing outside the house is telling the children to get out, they refuse to listen to him. Seeing the state of emergency, Kanzeon Bosatsu appears as a child of the same age and says to them “Hey, come outside! I’ve found three great toys. Amazing!” Then, the children come out of the house, dubious of what he said and they are all saved.

• tale　説話
• burning　燃えている
• critical　重大な
• refuse　拒む
• emergency　緊急
• amazing　凄い
• dubious　疑わしい

To help someone, you need to tell necessary lies in some cases for the sake of the person. You have to believe that the mercy of God does exist in this world. It shows itself through your ancestral spirits, who watch over you all the time. With efforts, it would all work out OK.

• for the sake of A  Aのために
• mercy　慈悲
• watch over A　Aを見守る
• work out　なんとかなる

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A Lot of People Do the Opposite of Truth

Office workers are sometimes scolded by their bosses for unreasonable reasons. In such a case,  I’m willing to be scolded. Looking into his eyes, I give responses to what he’s saying. But you have to be careful not to do so too frequently because your attitude can be offensive.

• scold 　叱る
• be willing to~　進んで〜する
• rensponse　反応
• attitude　態度
• offensive　相手を害する

It makes him more angry for you to say what you have to say while he’s scolding you. So, it’s better to say what you want to say briefly only after your boss has finished saying what he wants to say. You don’t need make him understand all of your say on the spot because you’ll have to get along well with him from this time on. It’s not your words but your behavior and attitude that matter at workplace.

• briefly　簡潔に
• on the spot　その場で
• matter　重要である
• workplace　職場

If you’re right, what you said will turn out to be right sooner of later. When your boss finds what you said to him is right, he’ll remember your responses and attitude at the time. I don’t get angry even when I’m scolded by my boss for an unreasonable reason. During that time, I think about his everyday life or background. Seeing that he easily gets mad at trifle things, he must be full of stress and I feel sorry for him.

• sooner or later　遅かれ早かれ
• unreasonable　納得の行かない
• get mad　怒る
• trifle　些細な
• feel sorry　可哀想に思う

People often suffer from their own “poison.” What tortures them is themselves, not others. The same thing can be said about people suffering from spirit possession. The more afraid you are of spirits, or the more you try to avoid them, the more spiritual dirt you’ll attract. “I want to avoid unpleasant beings,” “I wish I were the only one who enjoy happiness,” “I want useless people to keep away from me,” – this kind of selfish way of thinking attracts wandering spirits. Also, the desire that you want to attract only good things and what you want attracts evil spirits, too.

• suffer　苦しむ
• tortunre　苦しめる
• possession　憑依
• attract　引きつける
• evil　邪悪な

Just trying to give something to others brings you good fortune, for spirits who want to give in the same way as you do will come near to you. More often than not, small business owners can’t make profit as long as they desire to make a lot of money. This is because such strong desire shows itself in their businesses or their attitudes to employees. Customers will sense their desire and won’t feel like buying their products somehow.

• fortune　運
• more often than not　しばしば
• employee　従業員
• feel like ~ing　〜したい気がする

Also, if you believe in God, it’s no good to ask God for help all the time. It is those who want to make God happy, support God and offer gratitude to God that will be given delight, helped and thanked by others. There are a lot of people who do the opposite of truth.

• ask A for B  AにBをくれと頼む
• gratitude　感謝の気持ち
• delight　喜び
• opposite　逆

Now that the dark world where true gods have hidden themselves is over, the original right kind of current or world will get back. There are a lot of religions or customs that will backfire. It’s important for you to be grateful for your present situations and what you’ve taken for granted and make decisions with a heart to give.

• now that S+V　今やSはVするので
• be over　終わる
• current　流れ
• backfire　裏目に出る

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Human Genes are a Tunnel to the Universe

I once wrote in this blog;

It seems that the universe is composed of roughly two parts: the front universe and the back universe. These huge universes are connected at one pole. A star in the front universe has its counterpart in the back universe and their locations are similar to each other. There seems to be a regularity such as similar or symmetrical figures in these universities.

When I was looking at aspects of these two universes spiritually, I remembered a similar thing- the human brain. The front universe corresponds to the left brain and the back universe the right brain. The human brain might be a miniature of the universe. Nerval cells in the brain might correspond to stars in the universe.

• be composed of A　Aから構成されている
• pole　極
• counterpart　同等のもの
• symmetrical　対象的な
• correspond　相当する
• miniature　縮図
• nerval　神経の

As I try to look at the end of the universe furthest, I find myself looking at my own brain. I have had this kind of experience many times. The universe equals the human brain. Go beyond time and space, and you’ll find yourself returning to the inside of the body.

• furthest　とことん
• return　戻る
• inside　内側

I feel that the moment you are born in this World of Reality, the configuration and state of the stars at the time are copied to your brain. The copied information influences your genes, forming your physical body and life. Astrology is a kind of statistics of how stars influence your life.

• the moment S+V　SがVするやいなや
• configuration　配置
• gene　遺伝子
• Astrology　占星術

Well, then, does it mean that as soon as you are born, the direction of your life is fixed? Is it impossible to change it? Do fortune tellings prove to be true? I can say like this;

＊ Stars used to act on dependant persons without indivuidual indenties like machines.

＊ Stars had influence on human lives until the end of Showa era when the World of the Dead was influential.

• direction　方向
• fix　固定する
• impossible　不可能な
• prove to~  〜であるとわかる
• act on A　Aに作用する
• era　時代

At present, a reverse phenomenon has been occuring now that the spiritual vibration frequency of the earth has been rising. It’s a reverse turn. That is, human thought in the brain has begun to influence the universe through human genes. Genes are like a tunnel to the universe. It’s possible that human thought can even change the orbits of heavenly bodies.

• reverse 逆の
• phenomenon　現象
• vibration　振動
• gene　遺伝子
• orbit　軌道

Fortune tellings based on astrology won’t prove to be true any more. The new age has already begun when your thought can change your destiny and future of your own free will. It’s your efforts that can actually make your dreams come true. Conversely, now is the time you must not feel sad or despair unnecessarily, for if you feel sorrow, the universe feels the same and breaks down.

• not any more　もはや〜ない
• destiny　運命
• conversely　逆に
• despair　絶望する

Are you mad at your husband?  Is there someone you hate at workplace? That’s bad. You could break the universe. Smile and blow your worries away!

• hate　憎む
• blow A away　Aを吹き飛ばす

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Do not Separate The Dead from God

In India, where Sakyamuni was born, there has been no custom of building gravestones since ancient times. They burn dead bodies and throw the ashes into the sea. It’s natural and reasonable that living things that were born on the land return to the sea because all creatures were born in the sea in ancient times and moved onto the land. I feel the custom of the deceased returning to the sea through the river reflects the world view of Shinto. There is no tomb in India, while a lot of tombs in Japan, the final destination of Buddhism.

• custom  慣習
• gravestone　墓石
• reflect　反映する
• world view　世界観
• destination　目的地

Sakyamuni wouldn’t understand any Japanese Buddhist rituals for the dead. He doesn’t even know the Buddhist sutras written in Japanese at all. He would be surprised to hear Buddhist monks chanting them because they are meaningless, phonetic equivalents. Almost all of Buddhist sutras were made up hundreds of years after he passed away.

• ritual  儀式
• meaningless  意味のない
• phonetic equivalent　当て字
• pass away　亡くなる

Buddhists, however, believe in Buddhism or Buddhist scriptures just because they believe in Sakyamuni. The truth is the Japanese Buddhism lacks spiritual ground. They bury the dead under the name of Sakyamuni on the basis of Buddhist scriptures he doesn’t know, which is horrible. It’s no wonder they can’t send the deceased to the other world in the right way.

• lack　欠く
• on the basis of A　Aに基づいて
• horrible　ひどい
• no wonder　驚きではない
• the other world　あの世

Well, how did Japanese people treat the dead before the Buddhist custom of building gravestones diffused all over Japan? I feel that people in those days used to put dead bodies on the ground away from their houses and covered them with earth. When someone dies, they lay the dead body next to another and cover it with earth. If the space for the dead bodies reaches its limit, they put them onto other ones. As the result, the accumulation of dead bodies became like a small hill, which is the prototype of ancient tumuluses for the Emperor. A huge tumulus like a small hill was built for each emperor and its form was the result of accumulation of interments.

• treat　扱う
• diffuse　広まる
• earth　土
• limit　限界
• prototype　原型
• tumulus　古墳
• interment　土葬

Japanese people in ancient times believed that death is returning to nature, and that the deceased become part of nature, or God. The essence of Shintoism is offering gratitude to Great Nature(=God）that gives them everything. So they offererd gratitude to the dead, too. This is why they devoted the magnetism of gratitude to ancestral spirits on a stated day or in a stated season in accordance with the movement of the sun.

• essense　本質
• gratitude　感謝の気持ち
• stated　決まった
• ancestral　先祖の
• accordance　一致

Modern Buddhism is very costly and perform unnecessary rituals. It’s a shame that they lack the point of view, or the deeds, of offering gratitude to the dead. I hope all Buddhist sects adopt rituals that express gratitude to the dead and hold rituals at local temples to pray for the repose of the deceased. It’s unavoidable that Buddhist temples are dependant on  contributions from local people for their living expenses. I think it’s necessary for them to conduct activities based on their conscience so that local people can contribute to the temple of their own accord.

• costly　お金がかかる
• unnecessary　不必要な
• shame　残念な
• deed　行い
• conscience 良心
• contribute　献金する

It was a mistake for Shintoism to hand over its role to hold funerals to Buddhism. Since Shintoism separated the dead from God due to the concept of impurity, Shintoism has lost its true ancient spirituality. I think Shinto Shrines have developed in such a way that they keep God to themselves and treat God as if God were a patented article.

• hand over A　Aを手渡す
• funeral　葬式
• impurity　汚れ
• keep A to oneself　Aを独り占めする
• patented　特許を取られた

As more and more schools of Shintoism make up their original prayers, they have come to be self-assertive. Such prayers are meaningless for God. Ohara-e-no-kotoba（大祓詞） is the only prayer that reaches the World of Gods. It’s important to restore the deeds of offering gratitude to both God and the dead without separating them.

• prayer　祝詞
• self-assertive　独善的な
• offer　捧げる
• gratitude　感謝の気持ち

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Humans Never Evolve Without Death

The other day, I met a doctor I knew, and had dinner with him. He used to be a hospital doctor working for two large hospitals. He’s now a medical practitioner. According to him, he worked for the hospitals more than ten hours a day for more than 300 days a year. At the hospitals, he faced a lot of patients’ deaths. For example, he had to inform his patients of their life expectancies, be on his patients’ deathbeds, have families see their parents’ dead bodies who were killed in car accidents, see unidentified dead bodies without relatives passing away and so on.

• the other day 先日
• medical practitioner　開業医
• face　直面する
• inform　知らせる
• relative　親戚
• pass away　亡くなる

What he realized after facing these deaths was that people never evolve without death. If humans were immortal, their spirituality, intelligence or cultures wouldn’t reach the present level. It is because they are mortal that they make efforts and suffer, trying to demonstrate their own personalities, which may be due to an instinct of a living thing, he said.

• evolve　進化する
• immortal　不死の
• intelligence　知性
• demonstratate　発揮する
• be due to A　Aが原因である
• instinct　本能

Well, do creatures exist that never die? Yes, there is – myxomycetes, which have been on this planet since long before the emergence of humans. Myxomycetes are both animals and plants and turn themselves into either of them depending on the environment. Scientists cannot trace their evolution, which means that they don’t evolve. They have just existed as they are from time immemorial. Kumagusu Minakata（南方熊楠）, a Japanese great scholar and an incarnation of a spirit of woods, saw God in the world of myxomycetes.

• myxomycete　粘菌
• emergence　出現
• trace　辿る
• evolution　進化
• time immemorial　太古の昔
• incarnation　化身

As long as you live, you cannot avoid unpleasant things and are troubled by many things. But these things are limited and come to an end. They will become good memories once you’ve got over them. Everything that happens to you in this world is a rare and precious chance to develop your mind. This World of Reality is where great gifts for you are all around. Yes, human minds are like myxomycetes. They never die.

• unpleasant　不快な
• trouble　悩ます
• get over A　Aを乗り越える
• develop　育てる
• gift　贈り物

Your mind never dies like a myxomycete however much your body changes. That minds never die means that the deep part of your mind never develop nor change. It doesn’t need to from the beginning. Spiritual awakening doesn’t mean changing yourself drastically to something other than you. It means that you realize that your mind has already been perfect.

• however~　どれくらい〜でも
• mean　意味する
• awakening　目覚め
• drastically　劇的に
• other than A　A以外の
• realize　気がつく
• perfect　完璧な

Be grateful for your present situations and enjoy them, and you will come to realize the meanings of everything. You will be quick of apprehension and a person to make peace with everything. After this, all you have to do is protect or cultivate your mind. There is nothing to be scared of in this world. You just enjoy both good times and bad times.

• grateful 　感謝して
• present situations　現状
• come to~  〜するようになる
• apprehension　理解
• make peace　和解する
• scared　怖がる

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