神と人間 安心立命への道しるべ
ー 五井 昌久著
第６章 正しい宗教と誤れる宗教⑦
因縁を説いて、その因縁を消し去ることを教えぬ宗教は人を救えない。
それは因縁、因縁と因縁を想う念に捉わせさせて、人間の本来の自由自在性を失わせてゆき、安心立命どころか、不安心の生活にその人間を追いこんでしまうからである。
因縁を説いたら、必ず、その因縁の消え去る方法を教え、その本体の神仏であるところまで説かねばならぬ。
これは、因縁を、想念（心）の法則と説いても同じである。
この不幸は、この病気は、みんなあなたの心の影ですよ、と指摘する類である。
形の世界の運命は、みんな心の影であるのは真理であるが、現在そこに現われた、病気や不幸が、その人にとって記憶のある悪想念の現れであることは少なく、大半は、記憶に出て来ぬ過去世からのものも含めた潜在意識にあったものであり、あるいは祖先や縁者の悪想念に感応している場合も多いのである。この理を考えずに、ただ、あなたの心の影だと説くことは、その人を救うより傷つけ痛めることが多いのを私はよく知っている。
これは愛の不足ということで、知識が智慧と離れた状態である。心の温い人、愛の深い人はどうしても相手の心の傷や痛手に、ぐさっと突きささるような言葉は吐けないもので、まずその不幸にたいして、同情せずにはいられなくなるものではないかと思う。
いかに真理の言葉であっても、聴く人の心が、その真理の言葉に遠い境界にあったり、空腹に喘いでいる人に、高遠な理想を説いても、ほとんど効果はあるまい。
真理の眼玉よ 降りて来い
おまえがあんまり高すぎるから
世の中は暗いのだ
と歌った詩人がいるが、これこそ、肉体人間一般の叫び声であろう。この声を無視した教えでは人類を救うことはできまい。
一の因には一の縁をもって、この因を消し、二の因には二の縁をもって、この因を消すべきで、一の因に十の縁をもってきてもこの因は消えずにかえって深くなるであろう。（註……一を低い念（おも）いとし、十を高い理念とする）
牛肉（真理の言葉）が栄養があるから、といって、毎食牛肉ばかり食べさせられてはやりきれないし、鯨が食べたい（真理が知りたい）といったから、といって、鯨をそのまま眼の前に置かれても、どうにもしようがあるまい。
指導者は常に愛と智慧とに導かれていなければ、かえって人類を不幸にしてしまう。
以上で大体正しい宗教と、誤れる宗教の区別がついたと思うので、次には、私の祈念法を書いてみることとする。
God and Man ～Guideposts for Spiritual Peace and Awakening
ー Written by Masahisa Goi
Chapter 6: True Religions and Mistaken Religions Part 7
Religions that explain karma but do not teach how to purify it cannot free people from their errors. This is because they cause people to get caught up in the idea of karma and to gradually lose the infinitely free spirit that human beings innately have. This drives people into a life of anxiety that is far from spiritual peace and awakening.
If one explains karma, without fail one must teach how to purify the karma, and one must be sure to teach that a human being's original Self is God.
The same applies to teaching cause and effect in terms of the law of thought (law of the mind). To point out that this misfortune or that illness is 'all the shadow of your own mind' is an example in point. It is true that one's fate in the world of shapes and forms(※21) is all the shadow of the mind. However there are not many instances where the illness or misfortune that a person is experiencing now manifests a mistaken thought which that person remembers. Most illnesses or misfortunes are manifestations of thoughts that were stored in the subconscious, including thoughts from previous existences which a person cannot remember. Also, there are many cases where a person is responding to the mistaken thoughts of ancestors or other deceased people who are in some way connected with him or her.
I know very well that just telling people 'your misfortune (or illness) is the shadow of your mind,' without giving any thought to this principle, often hurts those people rather than helping them. Such words come from a lack of love, where knowledge is separate from wisdom. I do not think that a warmhearted, deeply loving person would be able to utter words that pierce into a painful spot or deep wound in another's heart. Rather, a loving person could not help feeling compassion for others in their misfortune.
However true the words may be, if the listener's state of mind is far from those words of truth, the words will have little effect. Or, if one preaches a lofty ideal to someone who is panting of hunger, the effectiveness will be almost nil.
Eye of truth come down.
Because you are so high
This world is dark.
So sang a poet.(※22) But this might be the cry of physical human beings in general. A teaching that ignores this cry cannot deliver humanity from its errors.
'Cause one' must be erased by 'effect one,' and 'cause two' must be erased by 'effect two.' 'Cause one' cannot be erased by 'effect ten,' and might be deepened by it instead. (Note: 'one' stands for a low thought and 'ten' stands for a high ideal.)
Even if you believe that beef (words of truth) is nourishing, if you were served nothing but beef at every meal, it might be too much for you. And if, because you said that you wanted to eat dinosaur meat (wanted to know the truth), a whole dinosaur were placed in front of you, you would be able to do nothing with it.
Leaders must always be guided by love and divine wisdom; otherwise they will lead humanity into misery.
Now, since I believe I have set forth some general guidelines on how to distinguish true religions from mistaken ones, I shall go on in the next chapter to describe my method of prayer.
※21: The world of 'shapes and forms' is the same as the physical, or phenomenal, world.
※22: The name of the poet is Genzo Sarashina.
Dios y el Ser Humano (Spanish Edition)
Deus e o Homem (Portuguese Edition)
