To Express Divinity As It Truly Is

★The Importance of Governing Your Self-Awareness

When you start feeling as if you understand everything, and carelessness or conceit shows its face, it’s good to stop for a moment and take another look at yourself.

Habitual thoughts clinging to the physical body tend to get carried away or get the wrong idea just because a few good things have happened in a row.

So, to keep you from becoming that way, always govern yourself.

If you don’t govern yourself, what could come about won’t come about, and what could become reality won’t become reality.

And you understand that the only one who can guide you is yourself, right?

If you have a habit of relying on others, you tend to blame others or stay stuck in feeling sorry for yourself.

The self you should cherish is your divine heart and body.

You must engrave in your heart that it is never the ego that misuses divine energy and pretends to be you.

Even among you, some still mistake the ego for themselves.

Ego-thoughts are a recorded video of everything from past lives up to this moment, and they are absolutely not you.

People who can’t shake off bad habits from past lives have become completely absorbed in playing the lead in that recorded video, and have let the consciousness of the divine realm in the true body of life fall asleep.

That’s why it can sometimes feel so hard to get out of suffering.

Looking at that objectively, you may think, “What a waste of time, what a detour,” but please also engrave in your heart that there is nothing at all wasted in this world.

Everything is a phenomenon that happens for a reason, a process of perfectly fulfilling your mission.

So no matter what happens, and no matter what thoughts torment you, believe that deep within that suffering is the consciousness of the divine realm that comes forth from your divine body.

A person who acknowledges the light of life that shines on their life will surely light up their own life through that consciousness. Even those who can’t feel that light yet: from the moment you acknowledge it, the light begins to reach you.

★Let’s Grow Facing the Source of Life, Like Plants

The carelessness and conceit people easily fall into, which we mentioned at the beginning, are also a kind of these dark thoughts.

And thoughts literally have weight, and the heavier they are, the deeper the darkness reflected in your consciousness.

In other words, the farther you are from the truth, the more hopeless this world looks, and the more imperfect human beings appear.

And while it would be one thing if both you and others looked like good-for-nothings, sometimes it can seem as if only you are decent and only other people are good-for-nothings.

Even such imbalances of the heart will someday return to the way they should be, by the providence of nature.

That connects to what we said at the start of today’s talk, about the need to govern yourself.

Just as plants try to grow straight toward the sun, humanity must aim to face straight toward the source of life and live as one with it, leaving no gap between.

The plants don’t do this by thinking it over; they simply live the life they’ve been given, just as it is. And it’s best for humanity, too, to go beyond all kinds of calculation and judgment, and live expressing the light of life just as it is.

Then, without carelessness or conceit, you can look honestly at yourself as you are (arinomama) and leap into life as it truly is (arugamama).

For that, too, live with your consciousness settled all year round.

To do that, deepen your everyday breathing.

This simple thing is exactly what expands your consciousness into the profound universe and leads to expressing divinity as it truly is.

All that’s left is to do it.

That’s all there is to it.