Live Freely
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Masahisa Goi
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Everything is Left to the Free Will of the Individual
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As human beings are children of God, they are completely free. The fact is, however, that so far religious faith and moral culture have deprived people of this complete freedom, and restricted them into a narrow framework that determined how they should live. People cannot be free when they are living in a restricted framework. Therefore, they remained patient, unable to do what they wanted to do reducing their life. In addition, they joined a religion that instructed them not to do this or not to do that and became even more reduced. And so, they could not accomplish their wishes.
Not being able to do what one likes and being patient is not a form of karma fading away. It is nothing more than remaining patient. Remaining patient causes everything to accumulate in the subconscious. The more one accumulates these pent up thoughts, the more the subconscious becomes condensed. The moment these accumulations come in contact with an affinity, there is an explosion.
All human beings are born having their own track on which their destiny rotates. Therefore, whether parent and child, brother and sister, or husband and wife, to subdue to another, to surrender to him/her, or to make him/her behave like you is not the will of God. Regardless of how good something is, it is never the will of God to make the other party obey your own will. As God is all mighty and omniscient, if God really displayed His divine power and thought a particular political tyrant was bad, he could exterminate him. But God does not do that because He never interferes – whether people perform good OR bad deeds. He leaves it to the free will of each human being. Herein lies the problem.
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Method to Strip off Karma
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The fact is that there are two types of freedom. One is to live freely on friendly terms with each other, and the other is to deprive others from their freedom and insist only upon one’s own freedom and rights. This is karma. It is the will of God that everyone freely lives on friendly terms with one another. Through my teachings, I guide people toward a way of living of freedom for everyone, which is the will of God.
What should you do to attain that goal of true freedom? Whether you are parent and child, husband and wife, brother and sister, or friends, it will not do to suppress each other’s actions. I believe it is all right to make mistakes, or to fail, because it often cannot be helped due the fact that we are swirling in the whirlpool of karma. We need to move outside this whirlpool of karma around us, and enter the mind of God. The mind of God is love, light and complete freedom. Therefore, the best thing to do is to direct our light toward the mind of God.
Let us suppose that a particular person is consumed by karma. If you say to him/her, “It is mistaken to do such a thing,” you strike that karma, which diminishes the light even more and causes the karma to manifest even more. Since it is mistaken to act this way, if two or three like-minded persons are present and pray for this person saying, “We beg you God. May the mission of this person be accomplished, may this person become great somehow,” he or she will turn into light, and this light from God’s mind will enter that person and peel away or decrease his/her karma. The more people pray together in a group for that person, the larger the amount of light will enter that person and peel away strip his/her karma. If we send light to the person in this manner, instead of saying, “it’s bad or it’s good,” the karma will decrease, and the person will jump onto God’s track.
Up to this time, religions and spiritual cultures have focused on the bad aspects of people. They often say, "You are quick-tempered, and therefore you must correct this trait….since your are jealous, you must correct this……since you are weak-minded, that is wrong, etc.” These remarks cause people to admit they are bad, and they begin to harbor such thoughts as, “I am a jealous person, and therefore I am wrong, etc.” Thus, people will become very small karmic people.
I advocate saying to such people, “you are a brightly shining child of God. If you bring forth your inner power, you can accomplish anything you desire. But it is necessary to connect with God. God works through your Guardian Spirits and Guardian Deities who are always with you. The way to connect to them is to pray the prayer for world peace.”
Regardless, scolding people never has any good effect whatsoever. Ill behaved children may be born in this life due to previous karmic lives, but they should not be reprimanded too much in this life. However, haphazardly letting them act being driven by karma is also mistaken. You need to peel away the karma. Scolding will only press the karma together which means that life is not flowing equally. Remarking, “Don’t you think what you are doing is wrong” is derived from a proud mind. Such words are karma that will collide with other karma. This is nothing else than pressing the karma together, and becomes the reason things end in a quarrel.
If with true love and understanding of the other party you say, “That’s right, it cannot be helped. You dislike studying, don’t you? I too disliked studying because it is tiresome. But if I did not study, I would not become great.” Go about it with all your might, and children will cooperate and study. But most times, the parents will say, “you are wrong because you are making mistakes.” Such comments cause people to catch karma. Instead, you must peel away the karma instead.
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The Most Important Thing
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We can erase our own karma and erase the karma of others. However, since our own power is not sufficient to do so, we borrow the power of God and ask the assistance of our Guardian Spirits and Guardian Deities. If a family is united, the whole family will help with all their power. The children and the parents will help, and our own power will tremendously increase. This is why division between husband and wife and parent and child is mistaken. It is wrong to become an disconnected person because all life is one and all things are one, and we need to all be of one mind. Scolding is disconnecting and separating.
Love knows no separation. Love does not scold. Scolding children means to see them as different. When husband and wife see each other as being different, the husband will state the faults of the wife and vice versa. They are spiritually separated at this point. When this occurs, it is better to say nothing at all. If we must admonish children, we should always do it when our mind is calm and never when it is angry. When we’re angry we should pray, and when our anger has disappeared and our mind is calm, we can say to our children, “Do this and your mother (or father) will help you.” Doing so will create understanding. Please think whether your words originate from emotional anger or not. This is the most important thing.
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It is Mistaken to be Impatient
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What I teach is to make most of your life in a free manner. Due to the large amount of karma from previous lives, there will be errors and failure before we become brightly shining. But you should consider all this as vanishing phenomena. If you must act sternly, it will be ok to do so. But in most cases rather than acting sternly, if you act gently and pour in warm light towards the other person, there will be good effects. I know this from personal experience. This is why I seldom scold or show anger. I clap hands in rapid succession. The hand clapping becomes light because I am empty. When I clap hands wishing that the true nature might shine through, then light enters, and if this is continuously done, the karma of the subconscious world steadily fades away. The inner true nature steadily comes forth. By doing so one’s destiny becomes better unknowingly.
People should not make undue haste. The destiny of people who pray the prayer for world peace is decided in the prayer for world peace. Since this prayer is a supreme prayer, and since it is the intention of God that all humanity live in peace, people who pray for world peace cannot be evil. They cannot become worse than they were before they prayed this prayer. As everything will certainly change for the better, if they do not become impatient no matter what occurs, if they consider bad occurrences as vanishing phenomena, and pray fervently only good things will appear. In due course of time, good or bad will no longer be a problem. Our mind will always aim only at being in peace.
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Japanese Byakko Magazine, May 1999
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