Now Is the Crucial Time (Part 1)

★Amid the pressing situation of the Earth

Looking only at the surface of the world, this world seems utterly chaotic and in a very severe state.

At a single glance, the sight of the environmental destruction brought about by Earth’s humanity is painful to behold.

The seas, mountains, rivers, forests, land, air, the diversity of living beings other than humanity, and even outer space… What is being lost, polluted, or destroyed through and through by the doings of humanity is vast beyond measure.

Do you, the people of Earth, truly wish to destroy nature completely, without improving the present environment, and enter a realm where survival is impossible?

Nor is environmental destruction the only thing endangering the future of the Earth.

It also lies in self-centered thoughts, words, and deeds that stray from divinity, and in a consciousness of discrimination that has completely forgotten that all humanity shares the same root of life.

The many thoughts, words, and deeds by which people wound and destroy one another bind the consciousness of good but faint-hearted people in a prison of suspicion and fear.

Yet things change for better or for worse depending on how they are seen.

It is precisely at the worst of times that the best rises to the surface.

And the deeper the darkness, the easier it becomes to find the light of truth.

Light that could not be found when the view was only half bright can, precisely in pitch darkness, be clearly distinguished, discerned, and discovered.

That is the light of life dwelling within each person’s life.

That is the true self, which holds within it the wisdom of the universe that gives life to all.

There has never been an age better suited than now for each person of Earth to revive the divinity of love and sincerity with which they are endowed.

No past age has ever offered such an opportunity for the evolution of consciousness.

This very age is the greatest opportunity to attain true enlightenment.

Fortunately, you have found the divinity within yourselves and others, and have gained the means to bring it forth in yourselves.

You have made the consciousness of the divine realm your own, and have remembered a way of living that manages the mind and body that entered the physical body and brings out the creativity of the life force.

It is the path of setting aside the impulses of self-serving thoughts, seeing in yourself and others only the divinity that is their essence, and living with wholehearted gratitude toward all living things and all of nature.

In the depths of every human heart, the divinity that gives them life is shining.

Even people you find difficult or dislike, even people inconvenient to your ego, even people whose thoughts, words, and deeds do the world no good, and of course the people you feel fondly toward: divinity dwells equally within all of humanity. (To be continued)