See all situations with love

     Can one person really attain spiritual growth alone? One fact is that we already have the perfect being (innate god) inside of us. So it's really not about growing but to reconnect or to awaken to the true-self. But can we do it alone? I think we couldn’t.

     When we want to see ourselves, we need a mirror (others).  Even Buddha was not able to reach enlightenment through all the hard practices and meditations. I think this is a big message to all humans. Buddha did some extreme meditations to challenge the physical limitations. At the end, he was so weakened he almost died. But at this moment, Sujahta comes along carrying the heavy cow milk. She sees Buddha under the tree wearing a rag and looking very weak. She first passed by. But on second thought she returned to him and gave him some milk porridge. Why did she return?  It was her compassionate heart (mercy, love) that made her do so. And through her kindness and love, he was enlightened. He had forgotten about compassion and kind, caring love. He had abandoned his own family and went to search for an answer on his own. But after all the hard practices, he was enlightened through one act of kindness from another person.  So was all the tough meditation meaningless? No. He had to experience it all in order to come to this realization.

1.    You act and struggle for yourself, for your success, for enlightenment, for something..

2.    This bring suffering and hardships and your ego grows. Even if you had reached some success, you are still unsatisfied and carry anxiety.

3.    At the end, you finally awaken to the love within through being touched by compassion and love from others.

     This is one typical pattern. What I sense is that the ultimate existence wanted to see his own figure. In order to see himself, he had to divide his own energy into billions. This is how humans were created. It is written in the Bible and in the Kojiki.  We are part of the process of the creation. Out of the seven billion people, encountering someone you don’t like, there is a strong fate. The members of your own family is a very strong fate.

    Observe people in a calm manner. Then you are able to relate to yourself. Try to see others with compassion. The loving energy will always return to you and change you. It will make things melt and dissolve.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Caring for everything

(written Dec.28)

    In the old days, Japanese people felt spirits and fairies everywhere in their daily lives. In restrooms (water), kitchen (fire), drawing room with tatami mats (wood and grass), bathroom (water)…. mountain, river, ocean, forest…  Everywhere that was connected to the daily life, they felt that they were using the nature’s property and always feeling grateful and asking permission to the spirits who are looking after the area or the elements. They may not have seen the fairies but they knew they were there. It was natural to think that way and be in gratitude. Just feeling the invisible existence and caring for them is a higher state of spirituality than being a psychic.

     We really don’t have to think about the fairies nor send gratitude. Never the less, those who feels that asking permission to the nature spirits for letting us use the energy or the elements as a material, they do it naturally. They are affectionate people. Those who would naturally send gratitude to the invisible are those who are able to feel what others are feeling.    

     What we are feeling is also something invisible. Still the affectionate ones are able to care about other’s feelings. As a life partner, whom would you choose? A rationalist who will be grateful for visible things or a caring person who would also care for invisible things? 

     A relationship that is built by only corresponding to the appearances is somewhat truculent. I think that the old Japanese way, believing in seeing god spirits in everything (eight million gods) is highly spiritual.  We all came from the Root of the Universe. Thus seeing the fundamental god (the divinity/sacredness) in everything is possible. Everything is connected in a profound sense.

    In the toilet, there is a toilet spirit. It is true. When our sewage is disposed from our physical body that contains a soul (innate god), for a certain period of time, our spiritual energy remains in the sewage as well. A public restroom used by many people, the energy of all is accumulated and remains there for a while. Through a psychic vision, it looks like a small cloud or smoke floating in the air. It is possible that eventually it forms a figure.

     This is called bunkon (分魂) in ancient Shinto. It means that your spiritual energy could be divided and is a part of all. When you come to a realization of the miracle for yourself to be here today, naturally you become grateful to your ancestors.  If you cannot be appreciative about your ancestors, you lack love within yourself.

     Try to be conscious about it, be a pure honest person and be grateful to everything. Leave the energy of gratitude everyday in your daily life. The accumulation of that energy will for sure do you good later in life.

     I sincerely want to thank you for reading my blog throughout this year. I tried my best to make strenuous efforts and one year is almost coming to an end. I will enjoy the year 2011 in the same manner.

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.