Dear Zoom Prayer Meeting members,
I am happy to share with you Vol.9 of Hideo Takahashi’s Poems that I translated with kind cooperation of Pamela Beasley. If you wish to give any messages to Mr. Takahashi after reading these poems, please feel free to send them to me. Mr. Takahashi always greatly enjoys reading the impressions you had.
Kinuko Hamaya
Hideo Takahashi’s Poems #9
<![if !supportLists]>1. <![endif]>We are not alone
The time has arrived for the mission of each of us to be accomplished.
The time has arrived for each of us to accomplish our life.
We are not alone
But are protected by our Guardian Spirits, Guardian Deities,
By our numerous departed prayer colleagues who are working as divinities
And by Goi Sensei.
We have no past.
Our past has vanished.
And our present is also vanishing.
We only have infinite light unfurling before us.
We have around us
Lao Tsu, Buddha, Jesus, Enno-Gyôja*, Hônen*,
And many other gurus and saints who
By forming a huge body of light
Are walking ahead together with us.
We are not alone.
As embodiment's of Goi Sensei
And members of the Great Assembly of Light for World Rescue,
We pray the Prayer for World Peace
And form the Divine Spark IN.
*Enno-Gyôja: A Japanese hermit who lived in the 7th century. He is the founder of Shugendô—spiritual practice that aims at awakening through ascetic training. Goi Sensei writes in his autobiography that Enno-Gyôja is one of his Guardian Deities.
* Hônen: (1133~1212 AD) Founder of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. He taught people that they could be enlightened and attain rebirth into the Western Pure Land after death by reciting the chant “Namu-Amidabutsu” (I entrust myself to Amida Buddha) a million times.
<![if !supportLists]>2. <![endif]>No Sacrifice is Necessary
Parents no longer need to sacrifice themselves for their children.
Descendants no longer need to sacrifice themselves for their ancestors.
Citizens no longer need to sacrifice themselves for their nations.
No one needs to sacrifice him or herself for others
Or to kill or deceive others any longer.
Just by offering the prayer that emanates the divine merciful love
And by forming the Divine Spark IN that manifests the infinite divine power,
We can bring peace and security to the world.
The spiritual path we walk along from now on
Will endow us with love, joy, cheerfulness, and infinite prosperity
And enable each of us to naturally manifest these blessings
Freely, lightly, and spontaneously as our own resources.
<![if !supportLists]>3. <![endif]>No Necessity to Change Your Faith
You don’t need to change your faith or belief
You can continue believing it just as it is.
When you pray May peace prevail on Earth
And form the Divine Spark IN
Then, you are Buddha, Christ, and an angel.
When each person acknowledges him or herself
To be a member of humanity
And gives first importance to the peace of the world and humanity
Then human thoughts will naturally be integrated into one.
You are free to maintain your own belief.
All that is requested is to pray May peace prevail on Earth
And form the IN.
There is no other request from the Great Savior.
<![if !supportLists]>4. <![endif]>A Member of the Great Light
[I]
May peace prevail on Earth………
These prayer words for world peace
Are brightly shining words of the Great Savior
They are the prayer of the Great Savior.
While continuing to pray this prayer, regardless of when I am awake or asleep,
It became my single prayer.
I pray for world peace each time I inhale and exhale
And the Great Light for World Rescue shines
Within each inhale and exhale
I wash my tea cup in the Prayer for World Peace
And I drink tea in the Great Light for World Rescue.
Even without trying to pray
The World Peace Prayer wells up from within me.
Even without trying to remember or not to forget,
The World Peace Prayer is echoing within me.
The World Peace Prayer and I are inseparable.
As a member of the Great Light for World Rescue
I send forth the brightly shining words of the Great Savior.
<![if !supportLists]>5. <![endif]>[II]
When I pray the Prayer for World Peace
The Great Savior dwells within me
And recites the brightly shining words for world rescue.
I look no different from before
But my interior is completely different.
It is replaced by the Savior.
I am a savior
Of the Great Light for World Rescue.
You, who are praying are also a savior
Of the Great Light for World Rescue.
By turning into a savior
Each of us will bring total harmony on earth
And brighten humanity’s thoughts.
How wonderful the world peace prayer is
How wonderful Goi Sensei is,
The one who conducts the Great Light for World Rescue.
<![if !supportLists]>6. <![endif]>Belief
[I]
I can’t see divine light
But I believe in Goi Sensei’s words, writings,
His promise with the divine world
And in the Great Light for World Rescue
Because I believe in him.
Nothing is as precious and wonderful
As being able to believe.
By believing
Everything turns into light.
And by believing
Everything becomes a reality.
It is a reality that the Great Light for World Rescue shines on me
And illuminates me when I pray.
Just by praying the Prayer for World Peace
I become brighter
And shine together with divinities.
This is not a logic but reality
That is brought about by belief.
Just by believing
We become divine light
And divinities themselves.
<![if !supportLists]>7. <![endif]>[II]
Believing in Goi Sensei means
Merging into one with Goi Sensei
And becoming Goi Sensei.
Believing in God is
Becoming God.
We become God by believing in God
And we become Goi Sensei by believing in Goi Sensei.
Through belief
Human beings become God
And God becomes human beings
<![if !supportLists]>8. <![endif]>As Usual
Every day, for 365 days a year
I pray the Prayer for World Peace,
Call on the name of Goi Sensei
And form the Divine Spark IN.
I do nothing special other than these.
Based on the promise between Goi Sensei and the divine world
When I pray the Prayer for World Peace
The Great Light for World Rescue shines on me
And uses me
As a workplace for the Great Light.
There is nothing more than this or less than this.
I have lived as an ordinary human being
Up to the age of ninety.
I will focus my entire self more and more
On the Prayer for World Peace
On the recitation of the name of Goi Sensei.
Doing so, I wish to live with a heart of sheer gratitude.
<![if !supportLists]>9. <![endif]>Life Will Become Brighter
Each time we pray
And call Goi Sensei’s name
We are purified by the Great Light for World Rescue
And Goi Sensei.
Then only the thoughts that attune to the wavelength of our true mind remain
And all other manifestations disappear.
Thus the thoughts that attune to
The wavelength of our true mind will rapidly multiply
Letting our true mind shine forth
And brighten our lives.
<![if !supportLists]>10.<![endif]>A Dream #2
It was a warm place like Hawaii
Where my church was located.
Since it was a day of gathering
People gathered one after another.
I greeted each of them who cheerfully approached me
For the first time in many days.
They all looked livelier than before.
My wife was standing beside me assisting me.
While I explained the program,
She was smilingly looking at me.
“We will recite the creed and pray the Prayer for World Peace.
Then, after my brief speech, we will offer gratitude to the earth and environment, pray for peace in each country of the world, and lastly, we will perform the unification meditation.”
During this explanation, additional people kept gathering by car.
It seemed the church stood on a large hill.
All those who gathered were aware
That my wife had ascended to the heavenly world.
But she descended to the physical world and was physically manifesting herself.
“Your Guardian Spirits and Guardian Deities are assisting you just as my wife is assisting me”
My explanation was readily understood by people
Because my wife was actually assisting me with smiles.
“We don’t call divinities and saints by specific names, and instead, only call them the Great Light for World Rescue. This is to prevent us from being attached to one divine being or saint…..
For those who perform Buddhist chants, offer Christian prayers, and practice Shinto prayers, Amida Buddha, Jesus Christ, and Shinto deities will respectively shine on them, infusing into them the Great Light for World Rescue. Thus, by praying for world peace, we can be rescued and also can contribute to the rescue of humanity.”
I awoke while making this explanation
Even before starting the program.
<![if !supportLists]>11. <![endif]>Loving the Earth
In order to reward the blessings of the Great Earth Spirit
That gave birth to me and nurtured me
I have daily been offering the brightly shining words of the Great Savior―
The Prayer for World Peace.
I know that the Earth is on the verge of collapse
Due to humanity’s karmic thoughts
But I don’t have the slightest thoughts that
I will give up on the Earth and transfer to some other planet.
I will remain on the Earth that I love so much
Will not desert its vibrational sphere
Even after losing my physical body
And continue emanating
The great light of the World Peace Prayer to the Earth.
The Earth and I are one body
Now that the World Peace Prayer is advocated
And as long as there are prayer colleagues,
The earthly world will surely achieve total harmony
Humanity will surely achieve peace
And the planet Earth will surely be accomplished.
I will continue loving the Earth and praying for the Earth
Thinking it to be my own body.
[Translated by Kinuko Hamaya & edited by Pamela Beasley]