Truly delicious food Meishu-samaAs you heard from the reading of the teaching just now, what you need to grasp the most is how the world has been misunderstanding suffering as a good thing. As a result, humanity has come to take delight in suffering. Many religions...
O Meishu-sama, I acknowledge that suffering is indeed salvation! Meishu-samaIn life, you encounter various things like illness and suffering, right? They, themselves, are salvation. What I mean is this: to suffer is to be saved. Sermon, April 4, 1949 ...
We discipline every single evil person, one after another Meishu-samaWhen I write like this, many of you might think, “Oh, Meishu-sama. You are quite merciless even though you are a man of religion.” But actually, there is no problem if you see it from God’s point...
Meishu-sama now lives in a paradise on earth Meishu-samaHere, there is one thing to be saddened over. That is the sins that have been accumulated by humanity over the long period of the last thousands of years. Needless to say, a great purification is going to take...
Meishu-sama, you definitely have a spiritual connection with Jesus! Meishu-samaFor myself to be compared to Jesus Christ is a recent event of delight. I am not intending to deny this fact by putting myself down nor am I trying to affirm this by praising myself. I...
We do not hide God and religion Meishu-samaYou may find it strange to hear this from me, but before the end of the Second World War, I was not able to do anything related to religion. I was doing something called Japan Purifying Therapy, which is a form of folk...
Love and love only Meishu-sama We often talk about how God punishes us when we have done something wrong, but gods that punish belong to Satan. Think: to punish is to inflict pain on humans. Would the righteous God whose nature is nothing other than absolute love...
Be resolute. Meishu-samaTo defend justice whatever it takes—this counts the most. Why? Because God protects justice. No matter what you do, if you forget justice, you will fail in the end. In my life, I fought many times and met with various persecutions, but I...
One God and many gods both at the same time. Meishu-samaNow I am going to explain what God is, and it is not as simple as people might assume. In Shinto, they claim that there are eight million gods, and it is true indeed. Each one of the gods belongs to one of...
Love and peace come from heaven. Meishu-samaThe path of the material preceding the spiritual cannot produce anything that lasts for eternity, but that of the spiritual preceding the material prospers eternally. This is because while the material preceding the...