Dear Zoom Prayer Meeting members,
I am sharing with you partial translation of Mr. Nakazawa's Peace Letter #809 that features Byakko YouTube on June 25.
Infinite light, infinite love,
Kinuko Hamaya
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Talk of Yuka Sensei
Mr. Ben Bowler, a guest in this year's SOPP hosts an event called World Unity Week. Rika and I attended it and performed the prayer of Byakko. Also, Fumi hosted an event called Life & Legacies in which she introduced Goi Sensei and Master Kim of Peace School and Byakko's prayer colleagues formed the Divine Spark IN. I was enchanted by the sheer beauty of their IN, and was moved to think that through such events, we are having more and more opportunities where the INs of Byakko Shinko Kai are seen and felt by the people outside of Byakko.
Maki Sensei
Let me read Masami Sensei's essay titled "Believing in the power of love" from one of her publications "Drawing Forth the Power of Love On Our Own."
"The power to express love that is possessed by everyone indicates the power to accept, appreciate, understand, and embrace—not the power to attack. It is not about accusation but about forgiveness, not about blame but about praise, not about struggle but about harmony. We should never hesitate to give expression to this all-inclusive power. If we have the illusion that we are unable to express love and firmly keep believing in this illusion, we will end up feeling only pains and miseries in our lives."
Masami Sensei writes that we are originally existences of love itself and that we are in an illusion if we feel that we don't have love within us or that we cannot express love. It is up to the choice of each of us which we believe—the illusion or truth.
If we choose and believe that we are not the existences of love, then that instant, all the incidents that occur around us become experiences of not being loved, however loving incidents they may actually be. On the other hand, if we have an unshakable belief that our existences are love itself, then even the experiences that appear to be painful to the people around us become experiences of love within us.
The truth is as Goi Sensei states, "We are originally spirits branching out from the divine heart." It is also true that we are the existences that are loved and protected by our Guardian Spirits and Guardian Deities.
In a sense, this is a world of illusion. We are here to re-confirm that we are originally existences of love, and that we are loved by our Guardian Spirits and Guardian Deities. When this belief within us wavers, that moment, the world we experience deviates from love and we begin having experiences of not being loved and not being capable. This happens by as much as our belief in the divine love wavers.
Such experiences are expressed by the term "vanishing phenomena," but vanishing phenomena come about not to torture us but to make us remember and reconfirm that we are originally spirits branching out from the divine heart and that we are loved, protected and guided by our Guardian Spirits and Guardian Deities. Therefore, there is no necessity for us to grab hold of the incidents that have happened. We only need to let go of them, and in the process of letting go of the vanishing phenomena, truth comes into view.
There are times when we experience incidents that are so painful from the physical point of view that we think, "Why has such a thing happened to me?" At such times, we need to remind us that we are originally existences of love. The deeper we think so, the faster we can transmute painful experiences into loving experiences. The incidents that we acknowledged to be painful at first gradually shift into loving experiences, and ultimately, they all turn into purely loving experiences. When this happens, all those experiences vanish from our interior, and we return to the axis that all the incidents are love.
Masami Sensei tells us that the things we see and experience are not meant to blame or accuse us. She says that by re-examining the experiences that appeared to be accusing or blaming us, we will notice that they are urging us to notice the divine love—that they are not accusations. However, there is no necessity to push ourselves to the thoughts, "I need to notice the divine love," or "I'm an immature person because I can't notice the divine love." I say so because it is a natural process that we achieve this mental state. We don't need to feel impatient about ourselves. Even if we can't notice it now, the time will eventually come when we notice it. The thing to do is to let go of the incidents that happen to us without paying attention to them. And we ought to persuade ourselves that we will be all right because we will eventually become able to notice the divine love. While doing so, we will come to realize that all the incidents that occur around us and all the people connected with us are not the existences that hurt, blame, or judge us but rather, the existences that make us notice that we are originally love itself.
The large power that drives us to this awakening is the Prayer for World Peace. This prayer returns us to the axis that we are originally love itself. It has the noble energy or vibration that gives us this world-view and enables us to re-connect with all the incidents and people in the world.
You may be thinking now that you are without value, that there is no meaning in your existence, or that you are not loved. Every time you think so in your daily life, please pray the Prayer for World Peace. By doing so, you will remember and reconfirm that you are originally loved, that you are originally love itself, and that you are originally watched, protected, and loved by your Guardian Spirits and Guardian Deities. By reconfirming this and living your daily life once again on this axis, you can obtain the awakening that must otherwise be acquired through experiences. Therefore, there is no necessity for you to feel impatient.
We are the existences of love itself and forgiveness itself. These are not the attributes to be obtained from the outside, but rather, something that innately exist within us. Let us pray the Prayer for World Peace sensing it anew within us.
- May peace prevail on Earth -