Cultivate Completely Free Thoughts
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Masahisa Goi
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Always Keep Your Thoughts Anchored in God
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It is very important for people to cultivate completely free thoughts. To be able to free your thoughts means that you are enlightened. Suppose you cannot help thinking that a person is awful and you cannot rid yourself of this thought. Keep in mind that this thought is solely your own. It is for this reason that you need to somehow rid yourself of these thoughts .
The same may be said about illness. If you continuously think you are sick, you will get sick. However, if you can discard these thoughts, the illness will leave you. Suppose that your feet hurt so much that you must be hospitalized. Still, if you hear the warning “FIRE” while lying in bed, you will jump up and reach for a pail filled with water.
This means that your thoughts are focused on illness. Prayer is the means to free yourself from these thoughts. Instead of keeping our thoughts in the astral world as karmic thoughts, always keep them anchored in God. The most important thing is to keep your thoughts always within the love and harmony of God. This is prayer. This is Toitsu (the state in which one’s thoughts become one with one’s true mind, i.e. the God within).
Prayers usually contain words and through these words our life spans out. Using prayer words as a ladder, we enter the Source of the world of God which brilliantly shines. A mind of prayer means always to be within God, in the Source of life.
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Build up a Habit of Love for All Things
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This is why we should always bear in mind to love others. We should pray for the happiness of people, to be of aid to others, and to pray for the peace of the world. A mind of love for people, a mind of love for one’s country, and a mind of love for humanity is a mind of prayer. The moment you say may peace prevail on earth, your true nature expands throughout the world. Your thoughts expand into a vast mind. Praying the peace prayer is not an egotistic way because you are not praying for your own happiness, an increase in your wealth or a better position in life for you. Your thoughts spread throughout the universe through the prayer for world peace. This is love for humanity.
And to pray may peace prevail for one’s own country is to express love for one’s country. When I say, may peace prevail in one’s own country, I am speaking about the source of the world as well as that particular country. If you cultivate a habit of loving all things in this manner, your true nature will gradually open up, and you will be unable to anything that is different from your true nature.
To hate, resent or be jealous of others has nothing to do with our true nature. They are mistaken thoughts from the past – karmic thoughts. When these thoughts arise, we tend to hate and resent others. Therefore, as soon as these thoughts arise in your mind, cast them into the prayer for world peace and think of them only as vanishing phenomena. This is the best thing to do.
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To be Respected by People very Close to You
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To be respected by your husband, your wife, your children or those closest to you is the most difficult. People will love their husband, their wife or their children when they act the way they want, however, when they act counter to their wishes, it is quite different and love turns into anger or resentment.
Therefore, to be loved by your husband, wife, children or those closest to you serves as the best proof of a high personality. This is why you have to be loved by people very close to you. The criteria for measuring a person’s personality is for parents to be loved by their children, husbands to be loved by their wives, wives to be loved by their husbands.
There are also those who while taking care of their family, they also work for humanity. To pray for world peace is one of the noblest deeds one can do. This does not mean they are neglecting their family, but rather they practice a great love for humanity while they are devoting themselves to their husband, their wife or their children. A way of living which enables you to pray for peace is the easiest, simplest and most noble way.
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Do Not Become Caught Up in Your Thoughts
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It often happens that when people make errors they cannot help feeling regret. They often think, “I am no good…why do I generate such bad thoughts even though I have faith.”
Some time ago I composed a song that goes like this, “Shun repenting errors, foolish is a life of regret only.” If we hold on to regret only, we will be catching karma forever. Those who understand truth, know that all karmic situations which are manifesting, be they good or bad, are vanishing phenomena. We are always perfect, integral and beautifully shining in our essence which is a life divided from God.
Thoughts which consider ourselves as bad which hold on to karma and errors are the elements that cloud our brightly shining True Self. This is why we should take a new look at our true nature, and when thoughts of hatred, thoughts of jealousy or self-torment arise, we should step into God’s world through the mind of prayer and say… “these are all vanishing phenomena….. I am brightly shining…thank you God, thank you Guardian Spirits and Guardian Deities….may peace prevail on earth.” This is what we need to practice for our entire life over and over again.
Therefore, people who begin practicing while they are young are truly privileged. We can learn a great deal through this practice. At the same time as we develop our true nature, we contribute to humanity. All of you are advancing on this great road. This is why before anything else, do not be caught up in your thoughts, make your thoughts free, live the way you like best.
Those who do not like alcohol, do not drink alcohol. Those who do not like to drink anything, do not drink anything. People are free to do what they like to do. We should become this kind of free person. To attain this goal, the best way is the practice of the prayer words, Fading Away – May Peace Prevail on Earth.
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From Japanese Byakko Magazine, June 2003.
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