Serendipity, a step to create the future

  

   Akira Suzuki who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry talked about how an ability to realize the ‘serendipity’ is so important in our lives.

   ‘Serendipity’ means, when you are trying to look for something eagerly, by chance, you discover or realize something totally different but valuable.   

   For example, you might be eagerly looking for a life partner or a job. You are devoted in finding it, but other daily matters are occurring at the same time during that process. Kindness from others or other valuable signs is, in fact, constantly pouring upon you. Even if you are focused on one thing, when you have the ability to recognize other important signs and improve yourself, it will show on your face or in your attitude. This will attract good coincidences into your life.  

   Even when you have a goal to reach, it is important to keep your antenna switched on to be open to all possibilities. Try to see things with an open mind and a bigger perspective.

   Spiritually talking, there is no coincidence. Everything is meant to happen. Coincidence = inevitable.  But don’t misunderstand. Future is not fixed. It is still a blank sheet of paper. Your past experiences and your thoughts, actions in the now moment calls for the inevitable coincidences and writes the script to create your future.  

   Thus leaving the magnetic energy of gratitude for the present condition in the now moment will attract good future. This means that you create your coincidences.

  “The serendipity-ability has another important factor,” says Eiichi Negishi, another Nobel Prize winner. “It is the ability to make an error not to end as an error.”

   By making a mistake, you start to understand the different aspect of things. So mistakes could lead to you to a good future.

   You might say, “That's not true. I make mistakes after mistakes…”  Then you are missing the most important things. It happens when you are not using enough of the power of love and the power of gratitude.

   Therefore, working on the gratitude sending style of ancestral kuyō will attract good coincidences in your life that might have nothing to do with your set goals. Your ancestral spirits with support you to manifest serendipity. The magnetic energy of the words and actions of gratitude will eventually become a great benefit to your greater goals.

   Many people are wasting their time on praying and wishing for their wishes to come true. Aiming only on their goals. This is a big mistake. When two vectors are directed to the same direction, it will only create static. When a vector (magnetic energy of gratitude) is directed to something other than your desire, eventually the accumulated energy will try to make a balance and return to you (it’s hard to explain by words.. hope you can grasp the image.)

To sum up the points:

1. Keep your antenna on to all aspects. Not just towards your goals.

2. Learn from your mistakes.

3. Accumulate the energy of gratitude to your present condition. This energy will be a treasure that you can bring to your next life after death.

Please keep these ideas in mind. As long as you live, you are full of potentials. When things change, it will change in a second.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around us so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.

Thank you for reading this blog. Next update will be on Nov. 22nd.

Don’t think too much! Just focus on the act

(written on Nov.12th)

   This morning was invigorating. Since last night around 11pm, the big spiritual line from the World of Demons opened up to the chain of islands of Japan. It has been a while. The night was somewhat clamorous. All kinds of spirits and fairies that hadn’t been around appeared all over Japan.  During such times, I would shut down my six senses and concentrate on my work. I told my family to go to bed early.

   From the brightness of this morning, I would think that the world has been purified as the dawning of a new day. November 11^th was another spiritual turning point. There will be few more big turning points for purification until the end of 2012.

   Our hearts will be cleaned too. We should consciously start cleaning our own heart. Even if you didn’t consciously work on it, no one will punish you. But your innate god = your spirit-self will be observing everything.

   Many people are suffering. And many of those people are trying to look for the cause outside of self. You will never find the cause outside because it is not there. You might be thinking, “if I had a life like this… I will be happy” or “if this comes true, I will be happy.” That is all an illusion.

   Even if the wishes came true, I bet that person will still carry anxiety. If you don’t believe me, ask some people who look like they have achieved a successful life. Ask them if they are happy and satisfied. Even if they said yes, where they saying it with a true smile? How is their health?

   People who are truly happy, are those who have convinced their own innate god = good will = spirit-self. It has nothing to do with his/her environment situation and/or condition. Even when you are hospitalized, if you feel you have done everything you could and have no dark clouds over your conscience, his/her smile will be a calm and gentle smile.

   Your innate god is a nurturer full of compassion and gratitude. So if you are suffering from pain..anxiety.. just practice to be a kind person and a person with gratitude through the ancestral kuyō. When you start to make it a habit, your hidden conscience will start to show up. And you will be saved by your own innate god.

   It is important to act on it, not just thinking in your head. In this physical dimension, the action is valued. What you give out comes back to you. This is one universal law. But we don’t know when it comes back. That is why it may be hard to understand or acknowledge the law.

   The past is the past. Don’t think about it too much. It is constantly reflecting on your now. So just focus on the now and simply do your best.

   What about the future?  Don’t we need to make a plan?  No, don't worry about the future. Just focus on what you can do at this moment with your conscience. Then your future will unfold to the right direction. This is kannagara. Living in oneness. It’s not a really good idea to make any plans through your poor visions. Nothing can beat the way of kannagara.

   Your own innate god is looking over you.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around us so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.

Your true heart is the key

      If you cannot be grateful to your current environment, you will never be able to go to the next step in your spiritual growth. You will keep repeating the some thing over and over again. Just making a circle. Why am I repeating the same mistake over and over again?  Who is to be blamed?  I am just an unlucky person.. some ghost is possessing me .. it’s the land.. it’s my karma.. I must have done something bad in my past life… I receive many comments like this on my blog. 

And these people would go to 
fortune tellers and money charging healers to pay a lot of money and time. But what is actually happening is their spiritual energy is sucked by these money-charging demons and if it becomes a habit your health will be disturbed.  

     So who is to be blamed?  The perpetrator is actually you. Until you can accept the current environment and be in gratitude, your soul/spirit = true heart, will make you do the same mistake over and over again until you get sick of yourself and come to a realization.





     Your soul/spirit is there with you wherever you go. You cannot fool him/her. If you are true to your heart, he/she will show you the next step. The path will naturally open up to you. That is the invariable law in this World of Reality.

     When the path has open up for you, you might say “I am so lucky.”  But in truth, you did it yourself. Your soul, your true heart, has been convinced and permitted to move to the next step.  



     In this World of Reality, the physical/material world, our ancestral spirits can interfere. If your soul is convinced, your ancestors will also become your support. Thus, in this physical world, it all depends on your good will, your true heart. Good luck, bad luck, health, life span… you have the key to everything.




     No one and nothing is to be blamed. You can fix everything by yourself. Attaining wealth or loosing everything, could happen much faster than you think. Those who have the experience know what I mean.

     Your true heart is the most reliable and powerful source you got. 
But many people cannot see which one is the true heart. And that creates a problem. If you can see which is the true heart, you have nothing to worry about. Just focus on the now. The answer is always there. You don’t have to look for it or ask someone. It might be just bits and pieces and you cannot see the whole picture. But just focus on what you Can Do Now. And it will eventually take you to a better place. And as long as you stay alive, you will start to see the whole.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around us so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.

Now is the moment to change your experiences

As humans, we are constantly facing and communicating with our soul (innate god). But when your mind and heart is clouded, you cannot sense that you are actually doing it.

Your family and everyone around you are your mirror image showing the truth about your sacred inner being.  

Shrines and kami-dana (altar), the yorishiro (tanzaku or a memorial stand) for kuyō are also tools to see the reflection of your inner true being.

 However, the more your ego grows, the more you are distant to your soul, the true divine inner being. And you will start to compare yourself to others. You start to worry what others think of you. These attitudes will pull you away from your inner divinity. The more you grow your ego, the more you will be unhappy, anxious and unstable. You might attain all material things, but you will still feel unfulfilled.

If you are unhappy, stop comparing yourself to others now!  Be grateful for what you have. You must realize, there more people in the world whom couldn’t have what you have now and passed away.

If you see the world, just being alive is already a wonderful thing. And you are already a complete being as a soul. When you leave this plain, your ego and your soul will be separated. On the other hand, only when you are alive with your physical body, you are one with god. Only on this plain (dimension), can you feel the oneness.

So keep your innate divinity (your soul) in mind all the time. And just do your best. You don’t have to be perfect. In this life, time is limited, so why not challenge all you can?  There is no failure and there is no success. It will all eventually pass. Experiences are all that matters. When you look back to your life, all the experiences you did with your good intentions will shine. The harder it was, the more it will shine. On the contrary, everything you did against your good will would create suffering to your soul no matter how successful it looked in the material world.

So when you are having a hard time don't worry. As long as you stay with your good will and be in gratitude, you will eventually become a shining light. The experiences you created with your good will would be valued later in your after life.

Live today by saying, ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu. Thank you for letting us live.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around us so 5% of the world population 

Become aware of your divinity

　 Japanese language is very interesting. All letters have vowels (a,e,i,o,u) at the end. Vowels in Japanese are called boin. “Bo” means mother (female) and “in” means sound. Vowels are the feminine sounds/energy that reach the heavens, the World of the Gods.

     This morning a proverb came into my mind. It is similar to the English proverb, “even a worm will turn.”  Even a tiny insect equally has a soul. The small ones, the weaker ones, they all have feelings and wills. This proverb tells a truth. In this modern society, many people feel they are not worthy.  They are not confident of themselves.  It means they do not trust their innate god (inner divinity).  We all look different on the outside but the size of our souls are all the same. We are derivatives of the ultimate god spirit. There are no smaller or weaker souls. We are all the same, ample, plenty and fine.  The only difference is whether you are aware of the truth or not. Whether you believe or feel that you have a god, a divine being inside of you or not, that is the only difference. This effects and changes our lives.

    The difference between you and me, is how strongly we feel connected to our own soul=god=divinity. Just like anyone else, I have troubles, problems and calamity. I was struck by a lightening last year!  But these incidents are just happening on the surface. Deep inside my heart, I am always in peace and unchangeable because I feel the divinity at all times. I consume all things that happen in my life. Even the hardships are enjoyable.

     Unless you cannot be aware of your innate divinity, the godly spirit, you will always feel lost. At the end, you are going to die with one naked body. That is the truth. Hence, if you cannot trust yourself, there is nothing else. You have to make habit to trust only yourself. If you depend on others, when something big happens you will feel lost.

     You can start today to make a habit of trusting your good will = your innate god. Sending gratitude towards ancestral spirits and god spirits are part of the training. No matter what happens, you must try to enjoy life.

     Our lives are too short to waste time in worrying. At the end, we are all going to be fine. We are all capable of overcoming all obstacles.




Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around us so 5% of the world population will start acting on 

Tears of over joy

   I remember watching an interview of a German guy who was miraculously rescued from a cave-in accident. His value of life had changed completely after this despairingly long and dark days in the cave. He said small problems never bothered him since. Just being alive was a beautiful thing and he could now look at the bright side in everything. This interview reminded me of another story told by astronauts who had returned from a long journey in space. I heard many American astronauts changed their occupation to a priest or some type of social work after coming back from space.  Astronauts are usually people with PhDs, elites. And these elites’ life changed so drastically after the experience.





   Even without some extraordinary experiences or overcoming hardships or near-death experience, if we could appreciate life and sense the existence of the beyond, life could be such a beautiful thing. But many people have to see with their own eyes. They need facts. If you need scientific evidence, you should look at yourself. You are the evidence of a miraculous creation. When the baby cries right after coming out from his mother’s womb, it’s a happy cry. The soul is over joyed finally coming out from the darkness.

   Recently, there was another news about a mine cave-in accident in Chile. 33 people were rescued safely. If they were caved for over a year, they probably would have cried as they saw the sunlight. The experience would be just like a baby coming out from his mother’s womb.   

    As long as we live, many things will happen. We must be grateful to be alive. Every life is worth being grateful for. The soul has waited for decades maybe even hundred of years to come into this life through a mother’s body. The flower blooms within a short period. You are in bloom now just for a short time. Why live in sadness?  






    If you are sick, it means you have a chance to get better. No matter what kind of disease you have, the genes have the possibility to cure. Simply have faith in your root, your ancestors. Send gratitude to them every day. This will regenerate your cell more than you can ever imagine. The universe as a whole may be permanent, but the small elements are constantly changing.

   One day, you will find yourself in tears with over joy.






Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around us so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.

The process is important, not the result

　　Be an observer. It’s not about being indifferent or neglecting the situation, but doing the best you can do and then letting go of the consequences. We tend to have the desire to say something against the result when we had put in so much effort. But when we let that feelings go, and see it in a calmly manner, we will be able to see the truth.

     

  　 You might be wondering what I’m talking about. The point is that if you are really working hard, doing your best, you can become an objective thinker. Most people when they put so much effort, they want to have the result that matches their efforts. They are not happy when the result was less than expected.

　　But the laws in this World of Reality, is that material things are just in this dimension and it will eventually be lost, disappear and the value shifts to something else. The efforts and the hardships you went through during the process of making something is where the value lays. This energy is eternal and will be taken with you even after the physical death. This world and the world after death is almost an opposite world.

　　What I am trying to say is that there are too many people in this world who are only looking for results and forgetting the process. Those who’s purpose of life are only about results, they sort of look edgy and emotionally unstable.

　　Life will always end. It is a limited world. So if you could let go of the results, and simply be truthful to your conscience, not being ashamed of yourself but instead proud of yourself, you are a true winner. The energy of those attitudes will affect the other/after world in a good way.

　　The process of sending ancestral kuyō is the same. You cannot see the results. But it is about having mercy and compassion to those who came before you. Again, it’s not about the result. If I did this… will I get this…?  The fact that you are alive today is because of your ancestors who came before you. You do the kuyō, simply because you want to say thank you to them.

　　There are too many people in this world that takes things for granted. Those are the ones who suffer after death.

　　Be the observer, the one who calmly focus on the process. If you can be a master observer, you will understand eternity.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around us so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.

Your Presence is a Miracle

　　　Destiny is simply a result of what you have made of your life. Many people misunderstand the meaning of “destiny(運命).” Many people think about the future, but destiny is about the past. It is about what you have brought(運) into your life(命). 

　　　When you look back on your traces, it has created a path. You always had and still have many choices. But you can choose only one at a time. And the continuance of all those choices you had made created a path. However, just because your past was in one line, it doesn't mean that your future will go on just the way it did in the past. The future is a blank new page. At the present moment, you only have a direction to follow. You simply follow that step in the best way possible. Those traces create your destiny (=miracle).


     If you look around the vast universe, just the fact you are alive is an amazing.   In one sense, there are no failures and there are no successors.  As long as you live and be in oneness with everything around you, that may be called a big success.



     Planet Earth has a potential to die. But we can change the future. It is simple than you may think. The continuance of every moment creates the past and the future. Hence your consciousness of the now moment is crucial. Being in gratitude is the most powerful tool to create an abundant future.

     The future key medical treatment would be to work on the genes. We no longer have to go through surgical procedure but instead advance the technique of treatments to improve the genes. This is the new way to cure diseases. 



     I believe that the daily gratitude sending to your ancestral spirits is the ultimate treatment to improve your genetic ability.




     
It’s because the energy of gratitude sending will interfere with the actual occurrence of the genetic formation. The genetic substance comes from your ancestors. Everything your ancestors did and felt in the long lineage is built in your genes. If your ancestors had regrets or any kind of negative emotions, that has left marks (scars) on your genes. The kotodama of gratitude will heal the wound in your genes. The gratitude sending to your ancestral spirits would give an affect to overwrite the existing condition that would make improvements to your gene function. Don't underestimate the power of words.

       Our genes are made from all the creatures that have lived in the past few hundred million years. Your whole body is made entirely from your ancestral beings. So when you send good energy to your ancestors, it will reflect back on you.  It’s a natural order/cycle. Sending gratitude to ancestral spirits may sound kind of an old tradition, but in fact it’s the most advance technology.

     If you ask for wishes that may be hard to come true, that heavy energy of not being able to fulfill your desire is reflected back on you. So it’s better not to ask for any wishes and simply send gratitude. This will bring the best results.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around us so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.

Earnest living brings enlightenment

    This is a story about an old man who lived alone in a small village that was about to be abandoned. This old man who is about to become ninety years old lived with his son for several years in the city. He knew it was less trouble for everyone if he had stayed at his son’s house until the end of his life. It was better for his family and himself. But the city life was not easy for him. If he went out, the busy traffic scared him. He couldn’t do his favorite farm work. All he could do was to stay home and watch TV. But now that his sight and hearing has become poor, he couldn’t really understand what was going on either. Life in the city wasn’t enjoyable at all. He was inside the house all day starting to wish he could die soon. He couldn't stand the city life anymore and in spite of his son’s opposition he decided to go back to his hometown, the small northern village.

     From then, the earnest living of this old man started. He was absolutely isolated. One fall could be fatal. There was no one to help him or even notice him. He had to be very careful every step of the way. Everyday, he was committed to think this might be his last day.

     Every morning he would get up at dawn and think what to eat. He cooks his own breakfast. Once he’s finished with his meal, he starts cleaning the rooms. Then it's time to cook lunch. After lunch, he goes out to the field to take care of his farm.  Late afternoon, he starts the fire to take a bath. Once he’s finished eating dinner, he is exhausted and goes right to sleep. He cannot watch TV and he doesn’t talk to anyone all day. He was committed to his daily work and he so enjoyed it. He said, “I look at my life from the point of dying. And when I was able to wake up in the morning, I am already in gratitude that I am still alive.　And everything around me, the farm, the mountains, they all look so beautiful. They look radiant even with my poor sight.”

     His life itself is Zen. He is working and meditating at the same time. You don’t have to pay a lot of money just to sit in the right position and learn about “how to meditate. “ That is only a fun hobby for the people who have time to waste. Just by sitting, nothing is going to happen. It will only take you to the wrong side of the universe.

     When you become truly grateful from the bottom of your heart that you are led to live, you will start to feel the nature spirits. You will start to understand and feel the vibes from others.

     This is kanagara (being in one with the universe, with Kami, with all the nature). It’s about living and doing your daily chores. Having an ordinary life in gratitude. In other words, if you take the fact that you are alive for granted, you will not be able to feel the senses you ought to be sensing. You will always be dissatisfied with yourself and make wrong decisions over and over again.

     Even in the crowded big city, if you can look at your life being in gratitude that you are led to live, you will have a great life. You don’t need the beautiful natural surroundings to be enlightened. As long you are consciously in gratitude, you will come to a realization wherever you are.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Electro-magnetic waves and blood flow dysfunction

Few years ago, one of the famous Japanese soccer players suffered from economy class syndrome. The cause was from his extensive traveling schedule on long airplane and car rides. He is a professional sportsman with a young and well-trained body. But still dysfunction of blood flow occurred. I was wondering why this happened to him and searched for an answer.  I’ve heard when a marathon runner who runs twenty to thirty kilos every day, once he is injured and has to stop running, he has high risk on getting a serious heart or lung disease. Those who train their body every day, the body is used to moving all the time, so once he stops moving it creates extreme stress that could cause serious conditions.

I, on the other hand, sit on a chair everyday for almost eighteen hours. I too must be careful. I usually do my daily Ryman exercise before taking my evening bath. But when we were out on vacation for two days, I didn’t do it. And the next morning, I immediately felt the difference in my body.

From now on, the electro-magnetic waves from the sun is going to increase more and more. Our bloodstream that contains iron and other metallic constituents will be affected. We must seriously take care of ourselves to maintain clean and good blood flow in order to avoid serious heart, lung or brain disease. A lot of people are already experiencing poor heart or breathing conditions on days when many sunspots are exploding.

It’s important to consciously breath deep from your abdomen. Also, if you are sitting on a chair for extensive amount of time, make sure you are not crossing your legs. The blood flow in your lower half of the body is crucial.

Since I sit for such long hours everyday, my idea is to have a small stool in front of my chair and place my feet on them. I spread my thighs and keep my heels together on the stool. This position seems to make me able to breath deeper.  Once in a while, I also put the back of my feet together. This seems to give a great energy circulation to my entire body.

Spreading your thighs wide will give a very good blood circulation. If you cross your legs for a long time, you are oppressing the bloodstream and giving stress on your joints. Try to move your legs in different positions. Just having one little stool, you can do so many exercises while sitting.

One more essential act for good blood flow is to drink enough water. Best to drink warm water about the same temperature as your body. If you drink two liters of distilled water daily, it can prevent you from so many health problems. Add a pinch of sea salt to your water. It will prevent swelling, drowsiness and heaviness.

Be conscious of creating good blood flow! 

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around us so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.