On the Truth That Lets You Keep the Authority of Your Life (Part 1)

★The Darkest Hour Comes Just Before Dawn

In your world there are businesses that call out to people seeking peace of heart with advertising slogans like, “If you pay this person a lump sum, they’ll remove the blocks in your thoughts, your heart will become lighter, and it’ll be easier to ascend,” or “They’ll even heal physical damage to your DNA, so you can walk a healthy, sound life in body and mind.”

What we need to consider about such businesses being viable is that, “before saying ‘You shouldn’t do such things’ or ‘That’s a lie,’ there are people who seek it, in terms of supply and demand, so naturally people appear who reach out there with the hand of desire.”

In terms of the balance of supply and demand, you understand that as each person notices the power within themselves, such businesses will naturally decrease too, right?

As long as there are people on earth seeking true peace (as long as there is demand), in the present age when spiritualization is advancing, people may still appear who gain some kind of spiritual ability, stop there, and start businesses like the ones I mentioned (people who claim they’ve become enlightened, been given a mission by God to save people, or achieved oneness with the light of the source of the universe).

As long as there’s a business opportunity there.

What I think in all this is, “If only they would firmly grasp real truth and live by it, they wouldn’t have to take such a detour…”

What’s important is that the fundamental dissolving of the blocks of the heart (the karma accumulated in the age when people forgot their divinity) is accomplished, in the end, by your own inner light, rather than by having others remove them.

I understand very well the feeling, “It’s so hard right now, I want even a little relief.”

But to tell the truth, the harder things are now, the more your soul is being thoroughly purified.

That is also wiping your own bottom (thoughts), and such people, if they just see that suffering through a little longer, will find that the great ocean of life that has been deep in their hearts from the beginning opens a passage to their surface consciousness, and they will evolve into adults of life with independent souls.

I used to tell you this often when you were in that state before, remember?

“Right now it’s the time just before the dawn of your heart. It’s natural that the darkness is deepest just before dawn, so don’t keep listing complaints, ‘It’s dark, it’s hard, it’s painful,’ and so on…”

So people who, at this very moment, are suffering unbearably in their thoughts or in their bodies are actually on the verge of graduating from that state of suffering. Of course, when things are hard, please don’t hesitate to consult a doctor or someone you trust. That too is cherishing life.

And beyond that, rather than trying to leave everything to someone else to fix, walking while believing in the light of life within you lets the journey in which you are about to finish repaying your soul’s debt lead straight to a sure harvest.

Heard as someone else’s story, you’d think it’s a waste, right?

But anyone might actually do that kind of thing when they themselves are in that position. So it’s good to stay close to the feelings of those who are suffering now so their heart’s suffering may become even a little lighter, and, while thanking their Guardian Deities and Spirits, pray for the fulfillment of their mission.

Prayer is a light invisible to the physical eye, like the rays of the sun shining in the sky. When one person connects straight to the heaven deep in their heart and radiates that light over the earth, depending on that person’s soul-power, courage, and spiritual stature, one person’s prayer becomes a hidden virtue pouring bright light of hope into the skies of the hearts of hundreds to hundreds of thousands of people.

That light of hope eases suffering of the heart and opens breathing holes in the habits of thought that create suffering, and it also becomes a trigger that makes it easier for the suffering person’s own light of life to connect directly with their surface consciousness.

Now let’s return to the beginning and look again at the truth that, if you know it, spares you from depending on others, the truth that lets you keep the authority of your own life. (Continued next time)