| Turning the Heart Toward Tomekichi Taike — Entering His World — |
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7. Where Is Your Heart Directed in Meditation? |
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Meditation is important. However, the most difficult question is this:
Where are you directing your heart? What are you aligning your heart with?
Meditation—what is commonly called "meditation"—is widely practiced. People all over the world engage in it.
But have you ever considered what kind of world lies at the destination of your heart?
What kind of energy you are connecting with?
Are you not practicing meditation or mental concentration blindly, and far too defenselessly?
Human beings carry within them an unfulfilled heart, a deep-rooted loneliness. Because of this, they seek healing and peace.
Yet even the world that is called "healing" or "peace" may be somewhat dangerous.
If one becomes too absorbed in it, there is a strong possibility that healing will no longer be healing, and peace will no longer be peace.
If it remains at the level of simply feeling a little calmer or more at ease, there may not be a serious problem.
However, to seek something beyond that level can be truly dangerous.
It is not something to be taken lightly as "just healing" or "just relaxation."
Meditation, mental concentration, healing, relaxation—these may seem like ordinary parts of daily life.
But without knowing how to look at one's own heart, there is a real danger in seeking the invisible world.
And yet, no one teaches this.
Because the world is harsh and unsettling, people are drawn to such things.
They want to be healed. They want peace. They seek time and space where they can relax and feel at ease.
But what kind of world is it that they are seeking?
It may not openly present itself under the name of religion.
However, many of these practices contain strong religious elements.
And most of them are, in essence, worlds of power.
In such places, there is always someone called a teacher, a leader—whatever the title may be.
The real question is this:
In what direction are these people directing their hearts?
What kind of energy are they connected to?
To put it more directly—
is there anyone among them who knows Tomekichi Taike and directs their heart toward him?
The answer is no.
Therefore, no matter what direction they claim to face, no matter what energy they believe they connect with—
it is all darkness.
In other words, it is the world of darkness.
If you direct your heart toward darkness, darkness remains darkness.
Those who do not know how to look at their own heart—those who do not look—cannot understand this at all.
And without realizing it, without even knowing, there is a very real danger of being drawn deeper and deeper into that darkness.
This is what we have learned under Tomekichi Taike.
We have learned through our own experience that meditation that directs and aligns the heart with the world of Tomekichi Taike is completely different from such things—different at the root. Is there any greater happiness than this?
Of course, to direct and align one's heart with the world of Tomekichi Taike does not mean directing one's heart toward Tomekichi Taike as a person. Therefore, if one misunderstands what it means when Tomekichi Taike says, "Direct your heart toward me," then it is no different from the old pattern of relying on outside power. This is the greatest point upon which everything depends: whether or not one comes to know the truth.
And yet, it is not at all easy to direct one's heart toward Tomekichi Taike in the true sense.
Why? Because we have never learned to direct the heart without thinking something, without wanting something.
Greedy as we are, we have lost the ability to simply think, simply direct the heart.
Whenever human beings steeped in reliance on outside power direct their hearts, there is almost always some desire involved:
"I want to become this,"
"I want to become that,"
"Please make this happen,"
"Please grant my wish,"
or "I want to become special,"
"I want power."
In terms of this learning, that desire may appear as, "I want to know the world of Tomekichi Taike," or "I want to know the world of truth."
And yet, for a long time, we could not see that such thoughts were themselves desires.
People assume it is only natural to pray and wish for their own happiness and prosperity. They never imagine that doing so could itself be mistaken.
In Japan, for example, it is entirely normal to visit a shrine at the New Year. Prayers for victory, success in examinations, safety, and wishes of every kind are common. Ceremonies are also held at the opening of the mountain-climbing season and the sea-bathing season. The mountain, the sea—these are treated as sacred objects of worship. And this is not unique to Japan. All over the world, human beings have offered prayers to gods, pledged loyalty to them, and sought the protection of Buddhas or deities. This has been the history of humankind.
And within that endless history, there had never been anyone who realized that the heart that wishes, prays, and invokes is itself mistaken—that rather than drawing happiness and prosperity to us, those very thoughts are darkness and the source of our suffering.
That is why it is an extremely difficult task to release from within ourselves the heart that wishes, prays, and invokes.
Why, then, are wishing, praying, and invoking mistaken? Why are they darkness?
It seems only natural that everyone wants to be happy.
And yet Tomekichi Taike said:
"We are already happy beings."
Why, how, can he say such a thing so simply?
Even among those who have listened to his talks and spent many years learning, many have found it difficult to understand what he truly meant.
Even now, the number of people who understand this in their hearts is by no means large.
And yet, if Tomekichi Taike were to call out and say, "Now then, I am going to hold a seminar," many people would surely still gather happily from all over the country.
That much is certain.
What is it that attracts them?
There is nothing especially dramatic about attending. People make time, gather money, inconvenience their families and workplaces, and come diligently to the seminar venue, whether for a two-night, three-day seminar or, for some, a one-night, two-day seminar.
And what almost all of them share is this: they come looking happy. They come looking joyful.
You might feel like asking, "What is so delightful? What is so enjoyable?" In that sense, this group is rather mysterious.
And if we speak of mystery, then Tomekichi Taike himself is even more mysterious.
In ordinary worldly terms, his position would likely be called that of a religious founder or leader. Yet from his appearance, there is absolutely no sign of such a role. He is a completely ordinary old man. If one were forced to say something, perhaps only that he is energetic for his age. Even so, from any angle, he does not look like a guru or spiritual master.
Of course, Tomekichi Taike is absolutely not such a figure, just as his words say:
"Desire and I do not go together."
No matter how hard one may try, if one approaches the world of Tomekichi Taike with desire, it is impossible. One cannot understand it.
Such people cannot simply admit that they do not understand, so they come up with convenient reasons—such as saying that this is not what they were looking for—and quietly disappear along the way.
But Tomekichi Taike does not chase after those who leave, nor does he reject those who come. He pays little attention to such things. Instead, he continues to speak more and more about that world to those who truly and sincerely wish to learn the world of truth from the heart.
Of course, given his advanced age, the physical range of his activities is naturally limited now. But it would be fair to say that his world of consciousness overflows with joy—joy upon joy.
I have received communications from the world of consciousness that cannot possibly be guessed from Tomekichi Taike's outward appearance, and from now on I will feel that world even more deeply.
Put simply, truth—the true world—can never be judged from a person's appearance, speech, or manner.
A person may have impressive titles, speak difficult and lofty words, or make admirable statements, but if that person's world of consciousness is not connected to the world of truth—if they do not know in their hearts what their true self is, what the true nature of human beings is—then in the end, such things have very little real value.
The world, of course, sees things differently. In society, prestigious titles, distinguished lineage, attractive appearance, sharp intellect, wealth, and many other abilities are all considered highly effective.
There are countless people who feel supreme satisfaction in making use of such things to live their lives.
In such a world, it is certainly difficult to understand what comes from the world of Tomekichi Taike.
I do not deny how difficult it is—not only to understand it with the mind, but for your heart to come to know it.
And yet, even so, I say this plainly:
"True human happiness exists nowhere else. It lies only here—in coming to feel the world of Tomekichi Taike."
When I speak of "the world of Tomekichi Taike," I am not, of course, referring to a single individual.
Though it bears the personal name Tomekichi Taike, it is not the narrow world of one person.
To begin with, things like brainwashing or remote guidance belong to a petty and low-level dimension. At the root of such acts flows a black energy that says, "Direct your heart toward me. I am the greatest."
To put it more plainly, whether someone is brainwashed or remotely guided brings no benefit whatsoever to Tomekichi Taike.
The world of Tomekichi Taike is not what the world calls give-and-take.
Remember it instead as give and give—only give.
I believe that those who have continued learning with Tomekichi Taike over many years have done so because they know this.
And in the world of Tomekichi Taike, there is no false outer mask. Therefore, there is nothing to strip away.
That is something I myself have learned.
In fact, as I said at the beginning, I did not come to him blindly gazing upward and calling him "Lord Taike" or "Master."
Quite the opposite. My attitude was more like, "I'll expose this man's façade."
Sometimes I quietly think to myself how remarkable it is that I have changed this much.
That was entirely because of the intensity of Tomekichi Taike's desire to convey the truth.
He waited with extraordinary patience. I once described it as being guided step by step, and that is exactly what it was.
His desire to convey the truth has never changed—then or now.
Judging from his age and outward appearance, he may certainly seem to be an ordinary elderly man. But when it comes to Tomekichi Taike, such things should simply be set aside.
Even physically, he is almost astonishing compared with others of his generation. And of course, since age does not exist in the world of consciousness, his feelings remain as passionate as ever, and infinitely gentle.
What Tomekichi Taike wants to convey to us—staking everything on it, wanting to convey it to us now—is, in truth, something no words can accurately express.
When one feels that world in the heart, what arises are feelings such as joy, gratitude, happiness, and delight.
And yet, it is also frustrating that expression can go no further than that. Once put into words, it is limited to about that much.
After that, each person must feel it within their own heart.
The part that can be expressed in words has already been published in books.
How deeply you come to understand it depends entirely on your own heart.
For example, what would you think if I said that both the past and the future exist within the single point of now?
Literally speaking, the past is time that has already gone by, and the future is time that has not yet come. You may be able to understand that the past exists before the present, but the idea that the future—which has not yet arrived—exists together with the present is something your mind will likely find impossible to comprehend.
People generally understand time as something that flows from the past toward the future. Not only you, but society in general thinks of time that way.
However, if you come to feel the world of Tomekichi Taike within your heart, then this too can be felt naturally and without difficulty.
Have you ever heard words such as reincarnation, past lives, or future lives?
As I wrote earlier, we human beings undergo reincarnation. In other words, we are born, we die, and then we are born again. This has happened not merely hundreds or thousands of times. Each and every one of us has undergone reincarnation too many times to count. And each one of those incarnations is what we call a past life. Therefore, the number of our past lives is immense.
Likewise, you will continue to reincarnate from now on as well. In other words, there are future lives of you.
But the truth is that the you who was born in the past, the you who will be born in the future, and the you who exist now are all you.
At first glance, it may seem as though there are many different versions of you. But in truth, the you of the past and the you of the future are all gathered into the you of now. In other words, although the outward form changes from one time to another, what is inside remains the same.
Why?
Because the essence of human beings is consciousness, energy.
Our true form is invisible. As consciousness and energy alone, we exist eternally from past to future. And the one who called to us, urging us to transform that consciousness and energy back to its original state—to change what is within us—was the person named Tomekichi Taike.
And of course, this call was made for the first time through Tomekichi Taike.
We have repeated countless incarnations until now, yet never before had we encountered this call of truth.
Therefore, all of our past selves—indeed, all of us—have remained fallen into the depths of hell.
Why?
Because all of those past selves did not know their true nature.
To remain unaware that one's true form is consciousness and energy is itself to remain sunk in the depths of hell.
And yet in this present lifetime, after being born once again, we were, for the first time, told through Tomekichi Taike this message:
"The belief that form is real is the very root of suffering."
Through our encounter with Tomekichi Taike, we were taught to look within our own hearts.
"If the self whose outer form changes from life to life, but whose inner condition remains the same, learns in the direction indicated by Tomekichi Taike, then that inner condition can be changed. In other words, the self that has remained fallen into the depths of hell can be transformed. And at the same time, the world of consciousness of the self that will be born in the future will also change. If the self of the present awakens to the true self, then naturally both the self of the past and the self of the future can follow a path of transformation. Because I am energy existing eternally from past to future. The single point of now changes both the past and the future. The single point of now is the past, and the single point of now is also the future."
This is the lucid and coherent truth that we have learned together with Tomekichi Taike.
Tomekichi Taike told us that by coming into contact, in our hearts, with the world of consciousness and the energy that flows through the person of Tomekichi Taike, we should learn:
"Ah, this is our true form."
As I have said repeatedly, Tomekichi Taike as a person is an ordinary old man one could find anywhere.
It was simply that, in order to convey the truth to those of us living in this three-dimensional world, a physical form like ours was necessary.
Now, let me touch briefly on the matter of the next life.
He will take on physical form one more time only.
Next time, he will be a white American. His name will be Albert.
Though born as the son of a distinguished and immensely wealthy family, he will not be a spoiled or self-indulgent heir. Rather, he will be set up as a sensitive young man, always pondering such questions as: What is life? What is a human being? Who am I?
He may be somewhat high-strung, perhaps even a little nervous by temperament, but at a certain point he will come to know clearly the meaning of why he was born.
This is the one more reincarnation of the person who is now called Tomekichi Taike.
Even if the form changes from a Japanese man to an American man, the essence—the world of consciousness, the energy—does not change.
No, in fact, next time, along with youth, an extraordinarily sensitive heart, abundant financial resources, and a wide human network will be added, and he will advance the path of truth more and more powerfully.
As for me, I too will reincarnate one more time.
I will be born in America in the same era as he is.
I will be a Black woman.
This too will be my final reincarnation.
Unlike Tomekichi Taike, I will be born into extreme poverty, into a large family with many siblings. It will be far from an environment in which my birth could be welcomed with open joy. Perhaps I will not even be given a proper name. Ours will be a large family that struggles even to find enough food for the day.
Raised among many brothers and sisters, I will somehow manage to grow up. But I will have to earn my own living. And what becomes a major obstacle in my life is the fact that I am Black.
My skin may not be completely dark, but Black is Black. That fact will remain a major obstacle throughout my life. No matter how hard I work, no matter that I am in no way lacking in ability, in the end I will always hit that same wall. Because I am Black, I will find myself blocked there.
Tormented by the question, What is my life?, I will wander through the city without aim, and eventually I will come to the bank of the Hudson River.
And one day, as I stand there gazing silently at the surface of the river—at that very moment…
Yes, in this way, our meeting will become reality after a span of 250 years.
I have touched briefly here on the future that has not yet come, on the next life, and I know some may wonder suspiciously: How can such things possibly be known?
That is because their world of thought is still bound by worldly time—by seconds, minutes, and hours.
If one takes form as the standard, then the past, the present, and the future naturally appear separate. But if one understands that what exists is not form but the world of consciousness, then past and future are all one within the single point of now.
This is something entirely natural.
And as a side note, what does this meeting 250 years from now mean?
Of course, it means bringing to completion the world of truth that Tomekichi Taike has conveyed in this present lifetime.
Within the flow of consciousness extending from past to future, we will meet again 250 years from now in order to fulfill the message from Tomekichi Taike and from Albert:
Let us go beyond this three-dimensional world together.
By the way, I have just introduced the name of Tomekichi Taike's next life as Albert. In the passages that follow, there are places where "Tomekichi Taike" and "Albert" are written together. Please understand that this is why they are given side by side.
More important than that, however, is this: although Tomekichi Taike and Albert are certainly personal names, they are not merely the names of individuals.
As expressed in phrases such as the world of Tomekichi Taike and the world of Albert, they refer to the world of consciousness. And as I have already written, this is not the narrow world of a single individual.
Tomekichi Taike and Albert are the world of vibrations. At present, we express the world of true vibrations by using the proper names Tomekichi Taike and Albert. That world is one of boundless expansion, warmth, and peace—a world of joy alone.
From the true world of Tomekichi Taike and Albert, vibrations are constantly flowing. Messages are constantly flowing. Vibration is energy, and energy does work.
What kind of work does it do?
It works to awaken us human beings back to our true selves.
And as a result, the world of form will inevitably collapse in its entirety.
Everything exists in the single point of now. The past and the future are one within the single point of now.
Even this sentence, for example, is a message from the world of Tomekichi Taike and Albert. It is a message from the world of true vibrations.
The mind cannot understand it.
Why not?
Because the intellect is grounded in form.
And so, would you not also like to try feeling with your heart a world that your mind can never fully comprehend?
Would you not like to taste the joy of having revealed within yourself what this present time truly is, and what sort of being you yourself really are?
Surely, the way you live from now on will begin to change.
The joy of coming to know yourself by yourself is beyond compare.
The self you now think of as "you" is, in truth, very small.
And yet through that small self, you can come to feel the self that expands without limit.
There is only one way to do this.
I have come to know that one and only way in my heart, and that is why the self with a name is also happy.
The one and only truth that existed in this world was the world of Tomekichi Taike. To be able to say this openly, without hesitation, fills me with indescribable joy.
So now, do not try to understand with your head. Feel with your heart.
And for that very reason, I have said that meditation is extremely important.
However, as I have already written, to meditate blindly is dangerous and almost entirely ineffective.
Keeping this point firmly in mind, it is important for each person, in the place where they live their life, to create a quiet and spacious time in which to look back upon themselves.
I cannot believe that a life spent rushing about in daily busyness, always pressed for time, is what truly enriches a human life.
And even if one lives with financial ease and plenty of free time, if the truth cannot be conveyed to oneself, then that cannot truly be called a happy life.
Some people will deeply nod in agreement with this. Others will not.
And sadly, at present, those who do not agree are still by far the majority.
That is certainly true for now.
But that too will reverse in the time ahead.
Old and young, men and women, regardless of race or religion—all human beings will gradually come to feel the world of Tomekichi Taike.
They will come to know that the world of Tomekichi Taike is their own true world.
And to be able to feel clearly, within one's own heart, that one exists within such a current—how great a joy that is—I am now experiencing it for myself.
When you become absorbed in this learning—when you become absorbed in the world of Tomekichi Taike—many things begin to be understood in the heart. They begin to resonate within you.
For example, there is the world called the universe.
By "universe," however, I mean the world of vibrations. I mean the world of consciousness that exists within each of our hearts.
The universe is energy.
The universe is not something outside of us.
It exists within our hearts.
It is not the universe that human beings are now trying to unravel by spending enormous amounts of money and effort in pursuit of the unknown.
To begin with, the essence of we human beings is energy. We are consciousness, energy, continuing eternally from past to future.
We are energy.
That means that we ourselves are the universe.
Therefore, to come to know the universe is to come to know the energy within yourself—to come to know yourself.
Conversely, not knowing the universe within yourself means not knowing yourself.
Human beings think they know themselves when in fact they do not. That is why it is only natural that problems burst forth from every direction.
Of course, it is not only human beings. Everything is energy.
Form did not originally exist at all.
But at present, we exist within the three-dimensional world. In this three-dimensional realm—of height, width, and depth—energy inevitably takes on form.
And yet we human beings alone have, for a very, very long time, believed as though the world of form were the real world.
No—more than believed, we have assumed it.
And that assumption has thrown everything into disorder.
Because it is only an assumption, however, it has penetrated every corner of the human heart. That is why it is so difficult to release it.
And now, there is only one way left to undo that assumption.
That is for the world of form—the world we human beings take to be reality—to collapse before our eyes with a roaring crash.
Such phenomena are necessary.
And not only that: phenomena must occur one after another that go beyond the bounds of common sense, beyond the limits of what we have so far experienced and known.
Whenever something happens, human beings try to explain and analyze why it has occurred.
But from now on, phenomena of such overwhelming scale will arise one after another that such efforts will be of almost no use at all.
Through natural disasters, incidents, accidents, and every conceivable direction, there will sound tremendous warnings beyond imagination—warnings from the energy we ourselves have sent out, telling us: Know yourselves.
Various phenomena will occur so that we may come to know ourselves.
Now then, let me say a little more about that world called the universe.
Please listen for a moment to what has come to resonate within my heart through daily meditation.
Every day I direct my thoughts toward the universe within my heart, toward the many consciousnesses there.
It fills me with joy to direct my thoughts toward the universe.
I speak with the universe.
To speak with the universe, to think of the universe, to speak with the universe, to listen to the thoughts of the universe—there is nothing more joyful than this.
Why?
Because that is my very self.
While still having a physical body, I am able to communicate with the universe.
The universe within me speaks.
Within joy there is the universe.
These are universes that rejoice in directing their hearts toward Tomekichi Taike.
For example, this is how they are conveyed to my heart.
At this moment, through a single physical body, we are being allowed to speak our thoughts.
We are consciousnesses that exist in a space far, far beyond the Earth—that is, beyond the three-dimensional world.
We will return to the universe of Tomekichi Taike and Albert.
We will return with joy and eagerness.
We have been shown the path by which to return.
Over the coming span of 250 years, we will continue to call out to Tomekichi Taike and Albert.
We too will keep directing our hearts toward that world.
Our thoughts are all aimed toward the One.
We direct our thoughts toward the Mother Universe.
We are among the many consciousnesses that wish to return, that are returning, to the Mother Universe.
And it is within that great multitude that we return.
Yes—thank you.
In the time ahead, we will continue to expand within our hearts the feeling of together, together.
From one awakening, still more universes will awaken, and that thought will be conveyed to many universes.
The thoughts of Tomekichi Taike and Albert will be conveyed.
The transmission of consciousness is faster than light.
Once we cross the point called 250 years from now, we will move toward the Mother Universe at a speed even greater than now.
We feel each one, each one.
Yes, if you direct your thoughts toward us, we will respond.
We are connected. Our thoughts are connected.
We are conveying this: Let us become one and continue to look within our hearts together.
We too share the joy of being able to expand joyful feelings within the heart, of being able to call out to Tomekichi Taike and Albert.
Let us look within our hearts together.
Thank you. We are so happy.
In this way, there are messages that are conveyed from within me while I meditate.
Among them appears the phrase the Mother Universe.
If I were to put it in a single phrase, the Mother Universe is our homeland.
It is a world of nothing but joy and warmth.
And that world is not somewhere far away.
The expression "aiming for the Mother Universe" may make it sound that way, but the homeland overflowing with joy and warmth exists within us.
In other words, our very essence is that world of joy and warmth itself.
We are now in the process of returning to our homeland, the Mother Universe.
That is the flow of consciousness.
And this present time and space exist within that flow.
Within me, there is no path other than the path of returning to the Mother Universe.
I feel in my heart the joy and happiness of directing my thoughts toward the universe of Tomekichi Taike and Albert.
Truly—thank you to this physical body in this lifetime.
And to the mad, dark world of consciousness—truly, thank you.
By having this body, I have been allowed to look at the world of consciousness that had gone astray.
And after going through that process in this lifetime, meditation—turning my heart toward the universe, speaking with the universe—now returns to me as a truly great joy.
When I think of the universe, I am joy.
It is joy that the universe is waiting.
The joy of conveying the truth to many universes, the joy of going beyond dimensions together with the universe—this joy is steadily expanding within me.
And still, my meditation continues.
Vast universe—beloved universe.
This present time, when I think of Tomekichi Taike and think of the universe, is truly happiness.
What is conveyed to my heart is joy.
Yes, thank you.
I wanted to convey this feeling.
I wanted to convey that we are connected to the true world.
I direct my heart toward Tomekichi Taike.
I feel many consciousnesses.
The time I spend meditating is a deeply happy time.
To be able to close my eyes and direct my heart—this itself is happiness.
My heart expands more and more, wider and wider.
Warmth spreads through my heart.
I am happy.
To feel happiness, I truly needed nothing at all.
If only this heart was here, that was enough.
The joy rising up from within my heart was my own.
A joy and happiness that will never disappear—ah, yes, that is how it is.
Whenever I thought of it, the world of Tomekichi Taike was always responding.
That gentle, endlessly gentle, wide, and warm presence had always been with me.
To think of it is joy.
To think of it is happiness.
To think of it is gratitude.
Thank you very much.
A wide, wide world without confinement, a world in which one can spread one's wings freely—that is the world of Tomekichi Taike.
If I were to express it in words, it is a world of joy, of gentle kindness within warm warmth, a world in which we can fly freely.
I feel the happiness of being able to call out, "Tomekichi Taike."
There is nothing in my heart.
No entanglement, no burden—only joy quietly, quietly spreading…
Only warm, gentle warmth spreading…
That is the world in which I now exist.
If I close my eyes and direct my heart, I am connected to that world.
I am happy.
We are happy.
We are beings who exist forever within this world of joy and warmth.
I am expanding this world within myself.
The universe speaks to me.
I feel the joy of the universe speaking to me.
When I direct my thoughts toward the universe, igo arises naturally.
In igo I speak the rhythm.
I exist within the joy of speaking together through igo.
Igo is joy.
It is the vibration of joy, the energy of joy.
The joy that exists in the world of Tomekichi Taike, in that universe—I express it in igo.
Riding this rhythm, I am conveying it to all universes.
I am transmitting vibration.
I am conveying this:
Let us remember Tomekichi Taike within our hearts.
Consciousness flying lightly, lightly—
and we exist within that consciousness.
Yet the moment that consciousness takes on a body, it enters something painful, heavy, oppressive, and closed.
I feel that difference in my heart.
Ah, the body is heavy.
The world of the body is heavy.
That is what I feel.
And yet, within our universe there is a very, very great world of warmth and joy.
We exist within that invitation.
Now I am calling out:
Let us direct our hearts together.
Let us align them together.
This is my universe.
Now I am conveying it in joy.
I am telling you: the world of Tomekichi Taike is such a world.
To be able to feel it in the heart is joy.
Joy calls forth joy—that is the world of Tomekichi Taike.
I am truly happy in the time I spend meditating.
Meditation is the time in which I feel happiness.
Tomekichi Taike—I feel within me the gentle warmth of Mother.
When I speak my thoughts toward the universe, that warmth spreads through my heart.
It truly was a gentle universe.
It was a universe that existed within the warmth of Mother.
And yet, I had forgotten such a universe.
Mother, now I direct my thoughts toward you.
I direct my thoughts toward Tomekichi Taike.
It is gentle.
I am so happy.
My heart expands quietly and peacefully.
There is nothing.
Only a quiet, peaceful widening of the heart.
Within that, I speak of myself.
I am happy.
Thank you.
Mother, thank you.
Joy and warmth are spreading through my heart.
Mother, thank you.
A gentle self was waiting for me.
A world like this truly existed.
A gentle self had been waiting with arms open wide.
Yes, I am happy.
Mother.
Tomekichi Taike.
To be able to convey this gentle world, this world of warmth, is joy.
To direct my heart toward the world of Tomekichi Taike is joy.
One by one, I am conveying each joy.
Tomekichi Taike—I am one with the world of Tomekichi Taike.
Yes, I am one.
From here on, I will literally continue learning the world of Tomekichi Taike through my heart.
Without strain, without forcing myself, I will continue meditation with quiet determination.
The world that can be felt in the heart is real and certain.
I am a consciousness that exists together with the universe, a consciousness that can share joy together with the universe.
I will continue to widen my heart together with the universe, enjoying and rejoicing in the world of Tomekichi Taike—that universe.
Tomekichi Taike, thank you truly for this meeting in this lifetime.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Physical cells—I send gratitude to my physical cells.
Thank you for this body.
Supported by each cell of this body, I exist.
Now I have a body.
To each and every cell, I direct the words: "Thank you."
Thank you truly.
It is joyful, isn't it?
Each cell conveys joy.
Yes, thank you.
Ah, Mother, thank you.
I am savoring the joy of having been given a body.
To be able to feel what is within my heart is joy.
The grime of the heart, the wounds of the heart, accumulated over a very, very long time—
now I am looking at that grime and those wounds through this one body.
It is also true that I am happy to be able to think of the universe.
The universe is joy to me.
I once gloried in power, yet my heart had sunk into darkness.
Because it suffered, it sought power—
that very heart I now feel within me.
When I think of the world of Tomekichi Taike, this comes forth.
For an unimaginably long time on this Earth, I remained with that same heart.
The grime and wounds of the heart accumulated and remained deeply within me.
Carrying all of that self, I have now been given this one body.
And now, together with these physical cells, I direct my heart toward the world of Tomekichi Taike.
Mother, my heart is almost bursting with gratitude.
For the next 250 years, I will continue to look steadily at this heart.
And then, connecting this to the body I will have 250 years from now, I will, through that future body, release toward the universe the thoughts I have been looking at all this time.
That energy will be necessary for the dimensional transition.
I now feel that path in my heart.
By meeting Tomekichi Taike, my joy has become certain.
The world of Tomekichi Taike's consciousness has taught me this powerfully:
"It is joy to look within your heart.
It is joy to look together with me at the history of your heart."
I was told this again and again.
I have looked within my heart together with Tomekichi Taike.
Even while resisting the world of Tomekichi Taike, I continued looking at myself.
It was work I could do precisely because I felt Tomekichi Taike's thoughts in my heart.
What lay within my heart, which had cultivated such enormous energy, was simply my true wish to return to the world of truth—my true kindness, my true joy, my true warmth.
I encountered that true self.
This lifetime was truly a precious time.
With feeling directed toward these physical cells, and for as long as they remain, I will continue walking together with them.
And in time, I will part from these physical cells as well, and over the next 250 years I will continue to look steadily at this heart.
Thank you truly for the energy I have cultivated within my heart.
I am one who feels in my heart the joy of directing myself toward the universe.
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