On the Altruistic Heart as It Should Be (Part 3)

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(Continued from last time)

★Evolving your consciousness by controlling your breath

That is the way of living that reaches the state of evolved consciousness by controlling your breath.

Since it deepens consciousness, you could also call it a way of living that deepens consciousness.

This is a path of the evolution of consciousness that couldn’t be simpler, and that anyone can practice.

As long as your consciousness is in your physical body—unless you faint, fall asleep, or die—thoughts keep appearing and disappearing, appearing and disappearing, moment by moment, don’t they?

Most people are pushed around by those movements of thought and can’t bring out the divinity deep in their hearts, so what’s needed is the power to control those movements of thought of your own accord.

That is the power of life that comes to the surface when you make your breathing slow and relaxed.

Watching from deep within your hearts, we see that in most cases, many people stir up needless worries about things that haven’t happened and negative thoughts they don’t need to think, and then get pushed around by the thoughts they themselves created.

And that waste of thought, that squandering of life energy, becomes clouds in the sky of the heart and hides “the sun of life (the sun of spiritual light)” that illuminates the heart within.

If those clouds are thin, the light of life shines through the gaps and you can keep a bright heart. But the thicker they become, the more they block the rays of the sun of spiritual light, until they become black clouds like the ones you see in the physical world maybe once every few years, darkening even your surface consciousness.

So if you change your habits of thought, the sun of life will shine in the sky of your heart, and people can live their lives in this world with bright, positive hearts.

★The truth about breathing, and a natural altruistic heart

What makes that possible is deepening your breath.

And breathing is fascinating.

When you continue your everyday breathing at a slow, relaxed rhythm, you firmly breathe out the old carbon dioxide and other unneeded things (things that have a negative effect on mind and body) that had built up in your lungs, right?

At that time, each breath out releases the vaporized form of the unneeded things that should be metabolized and let out of your mind and body. At the same time, while you are breathing out, you are taking into your physical body the spiritual nutrients of the sun of spiritual light (the essence of life energy supplied from the source of life), keeping your mind and body always vitalized.

And when, after breathing out completely, you breathe in plenty of fresh oxygen, you are at the same time breathing out the unneeded semi-material elements (vaporized mental and physical waste) that you couldn’t fully release when you breathed out.

Do you understand?

Breathing in is breathing out, and breathing out is breathing in.

When you breathe out physically, you are breathing in spiritually; and when you breathe in physically, you are breathing out spiritually.

In truth, not only in breathing but deep within all things, the in and out of vibration are happening at the same time. But we’ll talk about that when there’s another chance.

We’ve wandered quite far from where we started, but the secret to having a true altruistic heart—so that when you speak and act from altruism, not the slightest self-centered egoistic thought arises, and you think, speak, and act altruistically in a natural way—is to go through your days repeating your ordinary breathing slowly, very, very slowly.

If you live practicing this method, anyone will, before they know it, can love themselves without straining, gain confidence in life, and on top of that confidence—in Japanese, jishin, which can also be read as “the god within”—a natural altruistic heart will take root.

With this way, you don’t have to torment yourself by twisting your thoughts this way and that, nor be tied to extraordinary times and places. You can keep going with your ordinary daily life just as it is, and yet, before you know it, your consciousness deepens, and anyone can independently grasp and feel the real sense of a self-awareness living within the great ocean that is the source of life. Seeing is believing, so please try it.

Then you can surely embody the altruistic heart as it should be. (The End)