Excerpts from Recent Lectures and Guidance

It is said that “Man cannot live by bread alone,” but finding our mission work is not that easy.
That is because we begin a new stage of training when we are born from the dimension of origin into this phenomenal world.

We begin this life with a drink of the water of oblivion and forget our past including the wisdom we had acquired. This means that even if we have a wish to “help” or to make others “happy,” we completely forget about it. In other words, we forget the wish of our soul – our soul’s aspiration. Even though we have come to earth to fulfill an important mission, we forget what that is.

It is very troubling that we forget our mission when we are born into this phenomenal world, in which problems arise one after another and unpredictable rippling effects occur. We are thrown into this kind of world without remembering what is important to us.

Moreover, we acquire a physical body and with it, we gain a survival instinct to live from which pleasure and pain first arise in the mind. Pleasure is what feels good to us and we seek to attract that which brings comfort, gain, and pleasure toward us. Pain represents loss and that which we want to avoid, like difficulties. Add to this the fact that we have forgotten everything in the past, and view everything from the perspectiveof pleasure and pain, we become more at a loss as to what we are supposed to do.

Second, as I mentioned before, there are various problems in this world. However, we are in a state in which we have forgotten which problems we were supposed to solve. Problems continuously arise and come to us, as we are in a state of oblivion. In such a state, everything appears to exist in a parallel state to us – we do not know which problems to prioritize for solution; we do not know which problems we are meant to take on and they are varied and are scattered, nor do we know how we are to interact with these problems. Time continuously passes without us being able to find what we are to do.

Seinen-Youth Training Project Hindsight-Wisdom Gathering,
69th Missionary Members Cultivation Series on September 1, 2013 at
Prayer Hall in the General Headquarters Building