I said earlier that the first gate to a life of joy and happiness is being able to correctly and accurately receive the message that you send to yourself. By now I am sure that you are aware of what that message is: Meet your true Self and find your true existence. I have also given you the steps on how to receive and respond to this message correctly.
These processes are cleaning the dirt that stained over the numerous cycles of reincarnation. In my own words, I have referred to this process as "self-salvation." I have said that the purpose of being born in this world, of having received a physical body from our mothers, or, in short, our purpose of life has been for this "self-salvation."
"Self-salvation" is a term I created and does not exist in the dictionary. Ancestral salvation is a term that may sound similar and is a common term in Japan. Ancestral salvation has been a practice since ancient times, with the purpose of respecting and caring for one's ancestors; asking for one's own happiness and prosperity; or asking for familial prosperity. Despite it being practiced less today, when something bad happens to the family, there are still many who will immediately listen if told that their misfortune is due to their ancestral spirits being at unease, and that they must make amends to give them peace.
This may be common practice in Japanese society. But what I have been saying is before you try to save your ancestors, first save yourself. You are the one whose spirit is at unease and not at peace. Even those who are warily suspicious of ancestral worship, may still spend a lot of money on a psychic reading, or look expectantly toward food or drink or strength and power that promises to cure a health problem or illness. Why is it that even though you may think that you could never be tricked into something so ridiculous, there continues to be so many incidences of people being easily fooled?
If people misunderstand their purpose in life or the reason they were born, then they do not know how to find happiness, so they go from one thing to another, gathering information, trying to figure out the answer. As a result, they end up seeking outward, outside of themselves for that answer. They seek outward to find the cause of their unhappiness, and then seek outward again for a solution. This may sound extreme, but if one could really become truly happy, feel joy, and have a peaceful life, it would be fine to spend as much money as needed for that. But you must know that there is not a single chance that this could ever happen. I would like people to realize this in their hearts. I want you to be clear that without knowing your true purpose in life, you will never, ever, be able to find happiness. The reason for this is because we are consciousnesses. It is because our true Selves are our consciousnesses, not our physical bodies.
We will have to learn that even if our physical bodies are healthy, our families well, and our society and companies successful, that all of these things can crumble and disappear within a second. The time we arranged to have our physical bodies was not for our physical bodies themselves. But obviously, most people who believe that their physical body is their true form will plan their life goals centered on their physical selves. The meaning of one's life becomes completely different depending on whether one believes in their physical self and world, or centers their life on the world of their consciousness, putting their time and energy toward repairing themselves internally. I think it will become clearly evident within the future, which among these two will be the path toward happiness. In fact, there have been signs of this already.
With the occurrence of various events in society, with each sudden incident, the ugliness, awfulness, and foolishness of people's hearts have surfaced. No matter how much we try to look for happiness and joy in the physical world, that physical world will end up collapsing and crumbling. Simultaneously, the ecology and nature will change its form as well. Through these various forms, we will come to believe the change through sight, sound, and our entire body. I believe that we will finally come to realize that we had been moving forward on a path right into hell through the experience of seeing the collapse of the happiness and joy that we believed in.
I will clearly state here that the direct path to happiness is to make a 180-degree turn in your thoughts from believing in the physical world and physical form, to believing in the world that can be felt with the heart. The path to happiness is for each of us to meet our true Selves. There is no other way.
Whether it is sooner or later the time will eventually come when you will be asked whether you will choose to continue on your current path toward hell, or change your direction to the path toward happiness. The path to hell is one that suddenly becomes even harsher and more painful from the moment you feel happiness and joy. You can feel happiness and joy in hell as well. It is an unsure and superficial happiness, but for a short moment, you may indeed be happy and feel joyful. However, that happiness never lasts long. And because it is short-lived, people seek the next thing that will make them happy. It is okay if people are able to obtain the happiness they pursue, but this is not what often happens. When they fail to obtain what they wanted for their happiness, people have feelings of dissatisfaction and attack. These feelings are definitely not feelings of happiness. If so, they will wonder, what was the happiness and joy I felt earlier? They will likely end up confused, wondering what the happiness and joy they clearly felt earlier had been. They end up unsure of whether they are really happy and joyful or not. If you think that you do not mind this temporary gratification, and you that temporary happiness and joy is your life's goal, then please do continue on with your life in that way. I think that you will eventually learn from your own experience that even though the result of your hard work may appear to have created changes for you, if you have not changed yet in your heart, the core decay remains without change, and will begin new decay from that same area.
Of course, dealing with your daily life is important. Your physical body is important. Your physical body is the tool to assist you to meet your true Self. If you didn't have your physical self, you wouldn't be able to find the truth, because the world of your consciousness is at a state of being drowned in darkness. Please be aware of this and work on maintaining a good rhythm for your every day life. As long as you have a strong affirmation of what you really need to do while in your physical body, and moreover, because you come to realize that this is important for you to do, the routine of your daily life will naturally come together.
In order to know the truth, you must first have a physical body. If I may say more, you must have a certain level of stability in your life to do meditation or reflect on your heart productively. Stability in one's physical life includes financial, health, and relationships with the people around you. However, it does not mean that you can deepen your study of the world of truth just because your physical life has a high level of stability and security. In fact, once one's physical life becomes stable, it is most likely that one will end up living their life peacefully. And if you are just living in the comfort of your stability, what exactly is the point of your life?
Having a physical body is essential for looking at one's heart, but the difficulty in seeking the world of truth is that if your life is very stable, you become too absorbed in the physical world, and if your life it too unstable, you have no way to get around to looking at your heart. There is a limit to the time you have to deepen your study of, or widen your world of, consciousness in your heart. If you miss your opportunity, it becomes difficult, even though you may have the desire and intention to do so. As everything has its time, I think that the world of consciousness also has its window of opportunity.
Of course, you can always adjust your route at anytime. Once you realize that the purpose of your life is to correct the world of your consciousness, or "self-salvation," all you need to do is simply continue forward from that point on. Because we must correct a path that we have been on that was going straight toward hell, it cannot be denied that this needs strong determination, physical strength, and energy. This is also why I say that your time is limited, and that if you miss your opportunity it will be difficult.
Please learn through your daily life the difference between understanding it intellectually and understanding it in your heart. And please know that you yourself have planned to have the chance to learn this. And please go straight ahead on the path to happiness. I am looking forward and waiting for you from my heart.