Overcome Sins with Goodness

There is a summer event in Shinto called “Chinowa-kuguri”. The event is to pass several times through a large loop made out of kaya-kusa, sedges, and bamboos. By doing so, it is said to cleanse you from sins and epidemics, and clear away evil spirits.

I sense “death and resuscitation” in this act of “passing through the loop”. And when I did a reading on the origin of this event, I started to see the ancient agricultural age. After the harvesting, people made a hut with the same materials, sedge and bamboo. The farmers would stay in the hut quietly for two weeks to experience the oneness with god. It was to heal the body from all the work, but also to apologize and cleanse the sin for killing the small creatures in the soil during the production of the crops and to capture animals for food. The idea of “vow and cleanse” is the basics in Shintoism. As the time goes by, people felt that they didn’t have enough time to sit for two weeks, so it had been simplified into the event of “Chinowa-kuguri”. In the ancient times, people shut oneself in a hut once a year in order to experience the oneness with god, and to cleanse one’s sins.

The cells that construct our body are repeating the cycle of “death and resuscitation”. Even in a healthy body, cancer cells are produced every day and immune cells are fighting against it on a daily basis. When the cancer cells are little stronger then the immune cells for a certain amount of time, it will form a focus. Whether the cancer is malignant or benignant depends on one’s emotions. If one is cursing another, complaining all the time, selfish, or worried and having no sense of gratitude, these feelings will help to increase the cancer cells. On the other hand, feelings that will help to increase the immune cells is to have the sense of gratitude that you are led to live by the source, the Root. Everyone possesses both cancer cells and immune cells. As long as we live, we will make mistakes and create sins. Everyone carries both “Sin and Goodness”. If you know that you have sinned in the past, don’t forget about it and keep adding more goodness into your life, so at the end, goodness overcomes the sins. If you know you have sinned, you have more fate to be saved. Today, the “Chinowa-kuguri” can be done by saying “Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu. Thank you for letting us live.”

Christianity and Ancestral Worship - part 2

As far as I know, the idea of ancestral worship is not mentioned in the teachings of Christianity. I sense that the conditions of one’s ancestral spirits are reflected in the descendents’ lives. If your parent(s) or your grandparent(s) were not full filled during their lifetime, they still carry those emotions even after death. They will be still wondering around close to you on this dimension of Reality, not being able to go to the Spirit World of Christ. When a person dies with unsolved emotions, that soul remains on this plane in the same condition. You may not be able to see them, but they come to you and try to ask for help along with their negative magnetic energy. You are constantly receiving that energy. You become irritated or short tempered all the sudden not knowing where it’s coming from. Having this condition, you will be making wrong decisions and things just keep repeating the same bad pattern.

For example, if one of your ancestors was killed, he or she might have feelings of regret or resentment. He or she feels the need to take revenge. In this case, the soul remains on this plane not being able to reach the World of Spirits of Christ. Because he/she no longer has a physical body, in many cases, he/she will manipulate things from behind so that person will have an accident or get killed by someone else. The real problem starts from here. He/she is now ready to go to the upper world but cannot make it to the Spirit World of Christ. When one dies with any negative emotion and stay in this dimension, the emotion freezes in that negative state. Even after the revenge is over, the emotion remains in the same condition and the soul keeps repeating the same thing to others. If a soul is in such condition, even when the angels come to take him/her, he/she is not able to see the angels. The vibrational energy of revenge or anger is very different from the angels. Therefore they cannot be met. So the soul has nowhere to go and keep wondering around the descendents crying for help. You may not be able to feel them or see them, but they are around you, sending you negative magnetic energy. When you are constantly receiving this energy, most likely, you will follow a similar path.

The most effective way to save the poor lost soul(s) is by the direct descendents sending the feeling of gratitude. We need to purposefully send gratitude to the lost ancestral spirits caught up in anger. Most of the time, the descendents wouldn't know which of the spirits are suffering, so we send it to address them all by saying, “To the ancestors of the LAST NAMEs”. Ancestral worship is not about worshipping the ancestors like god. You may worship your religious god, but for your ancestors, the sense of gratitude will heal them. The words best to be used is “Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu.”
It means, “ancestors, it is because of you that I am here to live this life, and I am grateful for it.” This expression will work best for the invisible ancestral spirits.

You should not ask for any kind of wishes to your ancestors. They would try to do anything for you, but if the wish cannot be answered, they will suffer from it. Then that suffering energy comes back to you.

I sense that the areas with many residents who carry suffering ancestral spirits tend to have more problems between neighbors or incidents within the area. If each household sends gratitude to their own ancestors, each one of them would start to have the sense of gratitude to each other and the community will change to a peaceful place.

Ikashite-Itadaite Arigato-Gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Christianity and Ancestral Worship

Becoming one with Christ (in a true sense)

The soul of a man who has awakened and became one with his/her own innate god, will no longer be in the cycle of reincarnation. This soul will be fractionized and reside in every human soul that are later born. The soul or the consciousness of Jesus Christ lives in each and everyone of us. The consciousness of Christ is “forgiveness” and “tolerance”. We all inherit this consciousness. The consciousness of Buddha is “mercy” and we were all born with this. Even the westerner who has nothing to do with Buddhism inherits this consciousness.

If you are Christian but cannot forgive yourself or others, why is that happening? Even you have Christianity as a state religion, in reality, the country is still in war or people suing and fighting against each other.

In order to awaken the true consciousness of Christ that sleeps insides you, there is something you need to do before going to war.

Think about this. You were born. From where? From your mother. And where did your mother come from? … From the beginning of humanity, the relay race passing over the baton has continued non-stop and this is how “you” exist here today.

If you do not have the “gratitude” and “respect” to your own ancestors, it means you are in denial of yourself. If you are in denial of yourself, you will never feel the true sense of happiness. Even if you dislike your parent(s) or your ancestors, you, as a spirit, are the one who actually chose the family line. You are only temporary borrowing the physical body from the family. You may understand this after you die, but then it will be too late. Whether you will have another chance to redo a life depends on how you live this life you have today.

By sending gratitude to your ancestors (you don't need to know exactly who they are), will bring most practical power to the World of Spirits. If any of your ancestral spirits is a “lost soul”, they will truly appreciate your gratitude. The ancestral spirits who are already stable in heaven will elevate to a higher dimension and become a great support to you and your family.

The less lost ancestral spirits you have, the more you will be able to resonate with the vibrational energy of Christ. For you to sense the true Christ consciousness, you will need to elevate the lost and suffering souls of your ancestral spirits. It can be done simply by sending gratitude “Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu, Thank you for letting us live” on a daily basis.

Today, people are worshiping God(s) all over the world and neglect to save our own ancestral spirits. This is not the way to reach the true righteous god.

While you carry the lost soul’s electromagnetic wave of your ancestors, the god you might be sensing is not a true god. There are many spirits from the World of Ghosts that are pretending to be gods.

This applies to all religion including Christian, Jewish, and Muslim. In order to pursue your religious path and see the truth of your god, it is important to worship your ancestors with gratitude.

"Ikashite-Itadaite Arigato-Gozaimasu." "Thank you for letting us live."

Gods are terribly fair

-Imagine you are at the end of your life-

Comment from a reader:
I live outside of Japan and my husband is a foreigner. Keeping one’s maiden name after marriage is quite common in the country where I live, and most homes wouldn’t have any Buddhist or Shinto altar. However, I have registered my last name to be the same as my husband’s and I have made my own memorial to do ancestral worship with gratitude. I would usually put the altar away after a while, but one day, I left it out. And my father-in-law saw it. He said, “What is this?” So I answered, “I send my gratitude everyday to my ancestors.” He said, “Oh! So you will continue to do this even after I am gone”. He seemed very impressed and happy. It made me happy too to see him smile.

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This is an ideal way for a Japanese woman to be married to a foreign man. In this way, the marriage becomes a true, spiritual marriage. The husband’s family has accepted her spiritually. She even becomes the “special one” who started sending gratitude to her husband's ancestors. I am sure the old man was so joyous to know about this. When one becomes old, he/she would start thinking about his/her own death, worrying about the future of their children or grandchildren. When one knows that one’s children will not forget about him/her and continue to send gratitude “on their own will”, that is most comforting and reassuring. By knowing this, when the time comes, they will be ready to leave this plain.

In the Western part of the world, Christianity is the main religion, and ancestral worship has not been part of their custom. When you were young, your religion may have served you well. But as you are getting closer to the end of your days, even you have been religious all your life, you are still not so sure about god. You think, “I have done some sinful act in the past. When I die do I really get to go to Heaven? Is my family going to forget about me? Am I just going to disappear?” In a real sense, I feel people are worried about these things.

The idea to honor one’s own ancestral spirits is the shortest way to reach Heaven. By worshipping your own ancestral line, and opening the path by "your own effort" is the "safest way" to reach the Kingdom of God. This way, you will be able to reach Heaven as a "true identity".

People tend to look for a powerful figure, such as God, to depend on. But imagine that you are a God. Would you help the ones that ignore their own related family, and lost ancestral spirits?

A selfish act could lead to serving a wrong spirit such as a concealed spirit, or the ones pretending to be a God, but in truth, eats the human souls. Unfortunately, it seems to be a fate to be on such path. But when you realize that you had been selfish, you will still have the chance to save your soul.

Without doubt, the righteous god will come to help for those who are helping the weak. Gods are terribly fair.

"Ikashite-Itadaite Arigato-Gozaimasu." "Thank you for letting us live."