Peace on Earth and the Rise of Spiritual Rank (2/7)

(Continued from last time)

To grasp the truth that lies behind the many truths, as many as there are people

Placing things as up or down, left or right, or diagonal is a convenient way of speaking that makes it easy for people to share a common understanding when looking at things physically, but those words don’t necessarily express the facts.

Because an important piece is missing from them: the depth of dimension.

By the way, we just used the word “fact.” Since this is a good opportunity, let’s define the true meaning of “fact” today, too.

It’s good to remember that surface facts, truths, and principles all exist in as many versions as there are people.

What does that mean? It means that what each person thinks and believes (recognizes) is, for that person, the one and only fact, truth, and principle.

That also becomes the basic understanding for everyone to accept each other’s differences and for all of Earth’s humanity to join hands and build the future.

Why do we say that? Because if people keep being at odds over their differences forever, the Earth won’t become peaceful, and if people try to force sameness despite their differences and push their values on each other, that creates strain, right?

And before that, if everyone just gave up over differences in values (surface recognition) or pretended not to see them, the earth would never become peaceful, no matter how long it took.

So as the first step toward making the Earth a harmonious star, you need to start by respecting each other’s differences.

To explain it with an easy example: people who find Koshihikari, said to be one of Japan’s representative rices, “delicious” feel something is missing in less sticky rice such as Thai rice, and honestly don’t think it’s “delicious,” right?

But on the other hand, for people who love and are used to eating drier rice such as Thai rice, sticky rice like Koshihikari isn’t to their taste because of its softness and stickiness, and, frankly speaking, they too honestly don’t think rice with that other taste is “delicious.”

The evaluation of things where tastes differ like this becomes completely different when the people, places, or lifestyles change, doesn’t it?

That shows that which rice people find delicious differs by person and region, and that you can’t say objectively that this rice is superior and that rice inferior.

If you must evaluate them, a fair way of seeing would be to line them up side by side on one horizontal line, see them as “these different varieties and tastes exist at the same time,” and not label them better or worse. (To be continued)