Excerpts from Recent Lectures and Guidance

Over the course of these past 20 years, we have learned to free ourselves from the Trap of Oblivion that made us believe we were empty inside; and to guide forth our “aspiration” from within us. Having recalled our “aspiration,” we then took our positions in life correspondingly, practicing the principles of the Divine Truth at the home, the workplace, in the community, and in as many a number of places as there are vocations.

You then freed yourselves from the Trap of Loss and learned of the relationship between yourself and the trial that you face and discovered that “trials are callings.”

Furthermore, you went on to free yourselves from the Trap of Ignorance and learned to read the relationship between your heart and reality. Each of you opened the eye of your heart and mind, focusing your energy within your sphere of initiative using the mindset “I will change myself” to transform your hearts, which enabled you to carry each issue, problem, and trial into a realm of development and creativity. With this, you brought joy to your families, harmony in the workplace and activity to your communities, thereby contributing to create a new era. You have achieved each of these things at your respective places of being.

Does this not mean that we have over the course of these 20 years become able to fulfill the “mission of human beings?” Each one of us has walked this path and has reached such a realm.

I see each of your faces very well as I stand here on this stage and I see how many members at GLA have freed themselves from these 3 “Traps Between Human Beings and Heaven” and have walked the path to fulfill the “Human Mission.” This indeed is the challenge that we have taken over the course of these 20 years.

By freeing ourselves as human beings from the traps between human beings and heaven, we pave such a path to become a Bodhisattva; which is available for anyone to walk on – is this not the nature of the path that we have walked? Each individual gathered here has shown me the nature of this path; and I believe that you are indeed the ones who have proven this path.

April 20, 2014: Zenyu Gathering in Yokohama at Pacifico Yokohama National Hall
(Broadcast live to 24 locations nationwide)