Graduating from Racial and Ethnic Discrimination

★Graduating from racism

Among the various peoples and nations, there are still deep-rooted ideologies: nationalism of the kind called far-right, a “my country first” attitude that rejects or treats other peoples as enemies, and, at its worst, racist ideologies that look on others as parasitic pests.

No matter how skillfully it is spoken, don’t be taken in by any line of thought that stirs up the superiority of one’s own people or country and tries to force other peoples or countries under its heel.

No people is superior or inferior, right or wrong.

Whatever unfortunate events may have happened between peoples somewhere on Earth at some point in the past.

All there is, is a difference in roles.

People who try to keep other countries and other peoples at a distance haven’t yet realized this.

Let’s see… Try thinking of each people living on Earth, and the individuals who belong to it, as the cells of different parts of the human body.

Suppose the cells of the eyeball and the cells of the sole of the foot were in conflict.

If the sole-of-the-foot cells treated the eyeball cells as enemies and said, “Let’s blind that guy,” and really did it, and the body lost its sight, then it couldn’t go where it wanted to go, and Mr. Sole of the Foot would be in trouble too, wouldn’t he?

And the other way around, if Mr. Eyeball attacked Mr. Sole of the Foot and the body could no longer walk, the whole body would be in trouble, wouldn’t it?

The hostility between peoples in the Earth world is exactly the same. In truth, it is a very sad family quarrel.

★Humanity is one life that makes up the world of a star

There used to be a kind of slogan, “The world is one family, and all humanity are brothers and sisters.” But in truth it goes far beyond being siblings: in the body of the star, you are “one life.”

Every race and every people is one of the cells that make up the Earth world.

That’s exactly why, in the process of reaching complete peace, it is important for each person to have a breadth of consciousness that recognizes and respects one another’s differences.

In the first place, each position has its own way of seeing things—or rather, its own way things look—doesn’t it?

The way human beings are truly meant to be is to respect those differences, honor one another, feel grateful that you can work as a part of the whole, and work together in cooperation.

We’d like to explain in detail how each individual case came to be as it is today and how it will develop from here, but that would take a long time, so we’ll leave it out and give you only the conclusion: the misunderstandings and hostility between peoples today will ultimately fade as the whole Earth world becomes spiritualized.

To create a better world, rather than everyone looking only at the past and letting their thoughts linger there, it’s good to look toward the future, join hands, and live together in a spirit of serving the whole by making use of your own strengths.

However pessimistic memories rooted in the past may make you feel about the future, this can surely be done.

Because all of humanity carries divinity within.

Don’t lose sight of that hope.

Hope is light, and light is divinity.

Without divinity, human beings could not exist for even a moment.

The fact that this divinity keeps them alive means that every human being has a reason for being.

So it’s good to see only divinity as the true nature of humanity, and to see all words and deeds that have lost sight of that essence as things that are fading away.

Because people who live like that will surely find the sparkle of divinity in everyone and can live in harmony with all.