Your true self 1
Here and now, all sorts of sounds arise and then fade away.
There’s nothing that you need to do.
Sounds simply arise and then fade away.
Sounds arise and then fade away spontaneously, without any effort.
Everything, such as the clouds in the sky, wind, sounds, smells, thoughts, and sensations of your physical body, simply arise and then fade away.
Plants (flowers, grass, and trees), animals (dogs, cats, birds, and humans), mountains, rivers, the earth, the sea, the stars, the sun, the moon, and all other things in the universe simply arise and then fade away.
I suppose even the universe itself simply arises and then fades away as well.
This is truly the world of “life” and everything is only happening here and now.
Is anything happening in time and space other than this moment and this place?
Is there anything apart from here and now?
Does yesterday really exist?
Does tomorrow really exist?
Both yesterday and tomorrow exist in your head, here and now.
Only here and now exists. This is the fact: there is no other truth.
Don’t try to think and understand with your brain, however. Just accept the fact lightheartedly.
By the way, while you are practicing the natural way of meditation or the self-observation method, you might notice that with all things that happen here and now—thoughts, sensations in the body, and sounds that arise and then fade away—there is something watching everything intently and gently deepest inside these occurrences.
This something does not arise and then fade away, however.
The thing itself remains deep inside things that arise and then fade away, all the time.
This thing is free from time and space, or cause-and-effect relations; we cannot really call it “something.”
It has nothing to do with “you,” “your life,” “your problems,” or stories made up with the intention to pursue the spiritual.
It transcends stories of the past and the future, illusions, or even oneself.
This is because “you” are merely a story made up in your head, which is not anything of substance.
If I were to give it a name, I would call it “that.”
That is the only entity; that transcends everything and is impaired by nothing.
That is exactly life itself, where all things in the world originate.
That is what makes everything simply arise and then fade away.
And, that is exactly the true identity or the real self.
Sounds, clouds, cars, trees, people, smells, tastes, sensations, thoughts, pains, your body; everything arises and the fades away.
Deepest inside everything that arises and then fades away exists something that never arises nor fades away.
That is your true self.
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Everything is fine 3
Everything is fine 3
This world is constantly changing, or in other words, alive.
This is the world of life—revealing and unfolding itself moment by moment—neither arising nor ceasing.
We commonly think that this changing world has various forms of life that are all born and die separately.
All seemingly separate things are also a manifestation of a single life that neither arises nor ceases, however.
All things in the world are the same single life in nature, even though they differ in form or shape.
This means that the world is a manifestation of life, or a “great being,” and does not mean that life exists in addition to all things the world reveals.
That said, an attempt to search for the truth of existence or enlightenment, thinking it exists in addition to what lies in front of your eyes, is absolutely irrelevant.
In dualistic, relative thinking, life as the essence may seem to make the phenomenal world reveal and unfold itself.
Yet, these two things do not exist separately as if life were a creator and the world were a creature.
They are merely variations of the appearance of the “one and only” when viewed from different angles.
The truth is that life is the world; they are one and the same thing.
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, for example.
Warblers warble, sparrows chirp, and crows caw.
White clouds float in the sky. A car roars past.
Eyes are horizontal and the nose is vertical.
In this way, life or the truth of existence reveals itself as bare facts in the world. Life does not exist as something else.
In any case, all things in the world are the natural result of an absolute, greater life force revealing and unfolding itself, and everything is complete as it is.
Individually, we worry, we doubt, and we even receive enlightenment; socially, we make a variety of serious problems—because life makes us do so.
In the end, everything is complete; everything is fine, no matter what we think.
Does that mean we should merely accept everything that happens because “everything is fine,” and should judge nothing further or take no actions based on our judgments?
You may be led to this notion if you cut out only part of the living, changing matters and consider them on a planar level, without seeing an overall perspective; like watching still pictures on TV.
The truth is otherwise, however.
The world is complete in all respects and everything is fine, including our judgments on various things and actions based on these judgments.
We tend to fall into thinking on a planar level unintentionally and see distorted facts.
Practice meditation properly in order to intuitively see correct facts.
Lastly, let me introduce a poem written by the master Shigemasa Wada.
In the world of life
Joy is found
In happiness
As well as in pain
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This world is constantly changing, or in other words, alive.
This is the world of life—revealing and unfolding itself moment by moment—neither arising nor ceasing.
We commonly think that this changing world has various forms of life that are all born and die separately.
All seemingly separate things are also a manifestation of a single life that neither arises nor ceases, however.
All things in the world are the same single life in nature, even though they differ in form or shape.
This means that the world is a manifestation of life, or a “great being,” and does not mean that life exists in addition to all things the world reveals.
That said, an attempt to search for the truth of existence or enlightenment, thinking it exists in addition to what lies in front of your eyes, is absolutely irrelevant.
In dualistic, relative thinking, life as the essence may seem to make the phenomenal world reveal and unfold itself.
Yet, these two things do not exist separately as if life were a creator and the world were a creature.
They are merely variations of the appearance of the “one and only” when viewed from different angles.
The truth is that life is the world; they are one and the same thing.
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, for example.
Warblers warble, sparrows chirp, and crows caw.
White clouds float in the sky. A car roars past.
Eyes are horizontal and the nose is vertical.
In this way, life or the truth of existence reveals itself as bare facts in the world. Life does not exist as something else.
In any case, all things in the world are the natural result of an absolute, greater life force revealing and unfolding itself, and everything is complete as it is.
Individually, we worry, we doubt, and we even receive enlightenment; socially, we make a variety of serious problems—because life makes us do so.
In the end, everything is complete; everything is fine, no matter what we think.
Does that mean we should merely accept everything that happens because “everything is fine,” and should judge nothing further or take no actions based on our judgments?
You may be led to this notion if you cut out only part of the living, changing matters and consider them on a planar level, without seeing an overall perspective; like watching still pictures on TV.
The truth is otherwise, however.
The world is complete in all respects and everything is fine, including our judgments on various things and actions based on these judgments.
We tend to fall into thinking on a planar level unintentionally and see distorted facts.
Practice meditation properly in order to intuitively see correct facts.
Lastly, let me introduce a poem written by the master Shigemasa Wada.
In the world of life
Joy is found
In happiness
As well as in pain
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Everything is fine 2
Everything is fine 2
“Life” makes the world reveal and unfold itself, moment by moment.
Life keeps everything in the world alive.
This does not mean that life and everything in this world exist separately, however.
Every moment, life reveals and unfolds itself as all things.
In short, life equals everything.
Let’s put it this way, in an easy-to-understand manner: “life” is an absolute, greater life force making the world reveal and unfold itself.
In line with this, all things in the world are essentially integral and inseparable.
That is to say, life makes no mistakes at all.
We can easily presume the fact by observing the way various elements maintain harmony and pass through cycles; we can see this in the regular movement of the sun, the moon, and stars in the macrocosm, in Mother Nature, the human body, and also the microscopic world and even atoms, for example.
In addition to the above examples, we can see the truth of existence in almost everything in the world.
Most of us, however, have mistaken perceptions of the truth of existence and mistaken ideas based on these perceptions because our cerebrums focus on dualistic, relative thinking.
The “sense of separation” is a typical example of these mistaken ideas; other examples include ideas of possession, superiority and inferiority, discrimination, good and bad, and also ideas about freedom, equality, happiness, and life and death.
A variety of personal and social mistakes then arise from our ways of thinking and actions that are based on these ideas.
Personal mistakes include worries and doubts, and social mistakes include all sorts of serious social problems.
The previously stated “almost everything” means everything except our personal and social mistakes.
As I described in the beginning, all things in the world that “life” reveal must be essentially complete.
Only personal and social problems created by our mistaken perceptions of the truth of existence or “illusions” deviate from this completeness, however.
Does complete life create something incomplete?
An absolute contradiction, indeed, but this is absolute fact.
If that should be the case, “something incomplete” seems so only by appearance but must be “something complete” by fact.
How is this possible?
What kind of secrets lie here?
Two: the fundamental reason each individual person is born into the world and the true purpose of living.
I strongly hope that you will thoroughly examine the following questions: “Who am I? What was I born for?”
I hope you can see for yourself that the truth at the heart of the matter is that “everything is fine.”
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“Life” makes the world reveal and unfold itself, moment by moment.
Life keeps everything in the world alive.
This does not mean that life and everything in this world exist separately, however.
Every moment, life reveals and unfolds itself as all things.
In short, life equals everything.
Let’s put it this way, in an easy-to-understand manner: “life” is an absolute, greater life force making the world reveal and unfold itself.
In line with this, all things in the world are essentially integral and inseparable.
That is to say, life makes no mistakes at all.
We can easily presume the fact by observing the way various elements maintain harmony and pass through cycles; we can see this in the regular movement of the sun, the moon, and stars in the macrocosm, in Mother Nature, the human body, and also the microscopic world and even atoms, for example.
In addition to the above examples, we can see the truth of existence in almost everything in the world.
Most of us, however, have mistaken perceptions of the truth of existence and mistaken ideas based on these perceptions because our cerebrums focus on dualistic, relative thinking.
The “sense of separation” is a typical example of these mistaken ideas; other examples include ideas of possession, superiority and inferiority, discrimination, good and bad, and also ideas about freedom, equality, happiness, and life and death.
A variety of personal and social mistakes then arise from our ways of thinking and actions that are based on these ideas.
Personal mistakes include worries and doubts, and social mistakes include all sorts of serious social problems.
The previously stated “almost everything” means everything except our personal and social mistakes.
As I described in the beginning, all things in the world that “life” reveal must be essentially complete.
Only personal and social problems created by our mistaken perceptions of the truth of existence or “illusions” deviate from this completeness, however.
Does complete life create something incomplete?
An absolute contradiction, indeed, but this is absolute fact.
If that should be the case, “something incomplete” seems so only by appearance but must be “something complete” by fact.
How is this possible?
What kind of secrets lie here?
Two: the fundamental reason each individual person is born into the world and the true purpose of living.
I strongly hope that you will thoroughly examine the following questions: “Who am I? What was I born for?”
I hope you can see for yourself that the truth at the heart of the matter is that “everything is fine.”
*****
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