The Dimensional Ascension of “What Comes First”: From Wealth to Virtue

Right now, in your heads, when you hear “what comes first” (in Japanese, “sakidatsu mono,” the thing you need before anything else), you think, “Money, of course, above all,” right?
But a time will come on the future Earth when money will be of no use at all.
It would be sad for you to be in trouble when that time comes, so while there’s still time, let’s at least ascend “what comes first” in your consciousness.

Now, here comes a stretch for the heart.
What is the “what comes first” that will be valid in the future world?
Picture exactly what you think it is.

Gold?
Rice or flour?
Land?
Love?
Richness of heart?

Hmm, none of those.
The answer is “virtue.”
On the future Earth, a time will come when virtue replaces money as what comes first.

So let’s untangle it, starting from “What is virtue, anyway?”
First, look it up in a dictionary.
The meanings of the quality called “virtue” are explained in various ways: “moral character that has become one’s own,” “a socially valuable quality,” “the personal ability to follow goodness and justice,” “a desirable attitude that influences others widely,” and so on.

That understanding is roughly right, but maybe it’s easier to understand if I say, “It’s a person’s savings of the heart, stored up in the heart through thoughts, words, and deeds based on divinity.”

People today try to increase the total of their wealth by buying stocks, buying real estate, saving money, buying precious metals, and so on, but it’s better to remember that once the age turns into that of sacred civilization, those things will mean nothing at all.

In the new age, every single person who can live richly, both spiritually and materially, will be living accordingly, based on the quality and quantity of the virtue they’ve built up until then.

The accumulation of virtue will come to be reflected directly in the richness of one’s life. But virtue can be built up starting today, so it’s all right.

Even people who don’t particularly wish for abundance will, if they’re rich in virtue, become rich in heart and in daily life.

You’ve heard the saying, “Heaven’s net is wide, but nothing slips through,” right?
Heaven, God, the source of life, grasps every thought, word, and deed of all human beings in every moment, without missing the slightest bit.
All of it is recorded in the heart.

And there’s no fudging it.
Even if you think, “No one’s watching, so it won’t hurt to cheat and report a little more,” and try to fudge the amount of your own virtue, each person’s divinity won’t let them do such a thing.

And by that time, it’ll be a world where everyone’s state of thought is transparent to one another, and no fudging whatsoever will work.

You understand, right?
The world ahead will be a world where no unfaithfulness or immorality whatsoever will work.
People who take time to let go of such feelings may end up relearning in another place.

But even if you see such people around you, you don’t need to worry more than necessary.
As I always say, even if people’s states of evolution differ by two or three hundred million years in Earth time, from the world of the source of life, that looks like no difference at all.

Don’t worry about where others will end up; remember your own mission.
What did you come to Earth for?
What were you born now, in this age, for?

And at the same time, always ask yourself who you are.
Because people who don’t know the true substance of their own life have hearts like drifting weeds without roots, and even if they want to build up virtue, they have no way to do it.