God and Man ～Guideposts for Spiritual Peace and Awakening
ー Written by Masahisa Goi
Chapter 7③： My Method of Prayer
If you wish to improve another person's life, you yourself must first of all become light.
To become light is to become love itself.
You cannot become love itself if you entertain any selfish motives in assisting others, wishing, for example, to improve your own position, to exhibit your own power, or to be thanked.
You must be motivated by pure love, really and truly wishing only for things to get better.
Pure love is the same as stopping all your thoughts (selflessness). This allows the light of the original Source to flow through you to the other party.
The strength of the light differs according to the purity of the love.
When the other person is ill or otherwise afflicted, any strain, such as thinking 'I'll cure him with my healing power,' will disturb the light and weaken it.
In the same way, any feeling of uneasiness or anxiety will also disturb the light and weaken it.
There are people who undergo spiritual or psychic training because they wish to become healers or teachers with special psychic or clairvoyant abilities, but I am against this.
The mentality of wishing to attain special powers is far from the Mind of God.
I say this because God has already given each person his or her own mission to fulfill, and those who are meant to have authentic psychic abilities will be naturally guided in that direction by their Guardian Divinities.
They will be given the necessary spiritual training, whether their present consciousness wills it or not.
As for me, I wanted to be a musician when I was younger, so I studied music.
Yet before I was aware of it I found myself drawn into the path of philosophy, religion and spiritual studies.
I was given many kinds of discipline and training by my Guardian Divinities, and in the end I turned out to be a guide on human life as I am today.
During that period I did not study more than did any of my friends, nor did I wish to have any special abilities.
But it is certain that I always, always prayed to God.
The sense of that prayer was as follows:
God, please use my life for the sake of the world and humanity.
Please let me carry out the mission given to me at the earliest possible moment.
This constant prayer never left my mind.
What wishes to have psychic abilities is the ego.
The mentality that wishes for special powers is also the ego.
Such wishes or prayers of the ego easily trigger responses from low-level souls.
Even if those prayers meet with their objective, and the person obtains psychic abilities, I think that the person's destiny will eventually come to an impasse unless he or she discards the ego.
And I do not think that there will be anyone who is truly uplifted by the psychic powers of such a person.
A sincere prayer of love, an innocent brightness, an optimistic faith in one's own destiny: these are the qualities that connect a person with God.
However hard one might pray, if there is malice in one's heart, or dark thoughts, or apprehensiveness, one cannot come in touch with God.
If you have a very anxious or gloomy frame of mind, the thing to do is to constantly practice looking up at the sky.
Positive energy vibrations are always beaming down from heaven.
Even on a rainy or a cloudy day, it is important to turn your heart and mind toward heaven.
If you do, before you know it you will have a light and bright feeling.
And I also suggest that you pray in the following way:
God, please fill my heart with love. Let me become one with my true 'Self,' overflowing with profound love.
Praying this kind of prayer every day, without fail, will lead you to a much higher state than if you visited shrines and temples to make a variety of detailed requests.
It does not matter what posture you take when you pray.
Whether you are standing, sitting, walking, or lying down, the important thing is just to continuously and earnestly pray to become one with your true 'Self' that is filled with deep love.
To always, always hold a thought in your mind is much more effective than praying only at a fixed time.
Therefore, if you continue to harbor thoughts of complaint, envy, inferiority, grudge, and anxiety over illness, through the functioning of those thoughts your life will turn out to be always dark and unhappy.
Never forget that thoughts exert a great influence on your destiny.
To be continued in Chapter 7④
Dios y el Ser Humano (Spanish Edition)
Deus e o Homem (Portuguese Edition)
