God and Man ～Guideposts for Spiritual Peace and Awakening
ー Written by Masahisa Goi
Chapter 5④： How to Overcome Karma
God is Love. Because God is Love, God sent Guardian Divinities to us and appointed Guardian Spirits to guide and protect us. Because God is Love, God is working to purify and extinguish the disharmony that engulfs the human world.
Unless human beings trust in their Guardian Spirits, think of their Guardian Divinities and thank God, they will never be free from their karma, even if they know about cycles of cause and effect and the law of thought. Guardian Spirits are always silently protecting human beings, regardless of whether people are aware of it or not.
Dreams are one striking result of this protection.
The question of why people dream continues to be the subject of a great variety of research by scholars across the world. Even so, the issue has not yet been clarified.
I say that dreams are the disappearing images of human beings' karmic causes.
Thoughts will surely manifest themselves. This is an inflexible law. If, in accordance with this law, all thoughts were to manifest themselves in this physical world just as they are, this human existence would certainly have been destroyed a long time ago.
I say this for the following reasons. If the mind of physical human beings is thoroughly analyzed, it becomes clear that love turns into affection, which then leads to possessiveness or 'attachment.'(※12) Grudges bring about more and more grudges; sorrow follows sorrow; a combative mind always feeds the flames of war. The karmic fires of sexual passion spread everywhere, and killing and wounding spread to all places, wherever one may look.
One of the great tasks of the Guardian Spirits is to skillfully depict a person's karmic thoughts and emotions in the form of dreams. This is done apart from the physical world, while the thoughts in the physical brain are dormant. The nature of thoughts is that once they become manifest, they disappear. So, if they manifest themselves as dreams, they will vanish. When thoughts manifest themselves in the physical world, the form of the thought may be caught again in the brain, and the same thought will be recorded once again in the subconscious body. (But even so, once a thought becomes manifest, it will disappear to some degree.) In the case of dreams, however, since the thoughts are skillfully caricatured and it is not clear what thoughts have manifested themselves, thoughts that come out in a dream will never be rerecorded in the subconscious body, no matter how hard one might try to recall one's dream with the physical brain after awakening.
Since those thoughts have been once cut off by way of the dream, one's karmic causality has disappeared by just that much.
Occasionally, there are dreams that one remembers clearly. However, because the images in these dreams have been depicted in such a way that the contents of the thoughts cannot be recognized, the significance of these dreams remains unclear. An exception to this would be a spiritual dream, shown by one's Guardian Spirits so that one can anticipate some impending circumstance.
Sigmund Freud, the psychoanalyst, interpreted all these dreams as expressions of sexual desire (libido), and analyzed the content of each dream according to the materials, scenery, names and so on that appeared in it. This interpretation is entirely different from what I am saying, and I do not believe that it will be particularly helpful in freeing human beings from their sufferings and illusions.
It is not necessary to clarify dreams that are unclear. Rather, the thing to do is to simply thank your Guardian Spirits for manifesting in dreams, and thus erasing the unharmonious thoughts that would otherwise have taken shape in the physical world through an unpleasant future circumstance or turn of events.
I think that knowing this will turn out to be of great help to people.
Everyone ought to truly thank their Guardian Spirits for this wonderful work.
※12: The term used is shuchaku (執着), sometimes translated as 'attachment.' Shuchaku does not refer to harmonious attachments such as faithfulness and devotion, but rather to obstructive attachments such as fixed ideas or obsessiveness.
To be continued in Chapter 5⑤
Dios y el Ser Humano (Spanish Edition)
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