To Live with a Consciousness That Has Graduated from Shifting Blame (Part 1)

★The many forms of blaming your suffering on others

In our talk a few days ago (on the altruistic heart as it should be), we said that suppressing your “honest feelings”—what “you” want to do, or what you’d like the “other person” to do—while outwardly thinking, speaking, and acting as if others always came first, is “a pitfall easily mistaken for altruism” that people who are good at heart tend to fall into.

As a related topic, in the world where you live there seem to be conditions called by names like “husband-caused illness,” “wife-caused illness,” “parent-caused illness” (father-caused, mother-caused), and “child-caused illness.”

These seem to be names for conditions in which a family member’s words and deeds have triggered a loss of mental health (balance). Having a name can help some people understand their condition and feel saved, but on the other hand, the heart can also become bound by that name, so it’s important not to be too caught up in names.

Because by shining light on the state of the thoughts that lie behind the heart’s suffering, the heart can regain its original harmony.

With or without the name of an illness, your essence is always healthy life itself.

So there’s no need to shut yourself up in something small because of the name of an illness.

★The root cause of all disharmony, and cause and effect

In a world where many people hand over the power of their own life to others and tend to rely on authorities in some field or something they trust, if there is no one who guides others in a way that draws out the divinity within themselves and others of their own accord, each person in humanity will tend never to escape a state of shifting blame and depending on others.

The balance of the heart can be lost not only with family, but also in relationships with bosses, neighbors, and friends, can’t it?

That’s exactly why, along with receiving the treatment you need, it’s also important to turn your eyes to the power of life deep in your heart.

Behind the disharmony arising in the human heart, the fact that your thoughts had drifted away from the essence of life also plays a part.

That you cannot like yourself, or don’t get along well with others, is simply a matter of thought-consciousness that has forgotten the true body of life clouding the sky of the heart because of relationships with people.

As for the adults of the world, as long as they understand this principle, they can improve disharmonious situations by their own will.

The exception is children. For example, small children who are being one-sidedly harassed by their parents find it hard to escape that situation by their own will, so someone around them has to protect them.

A young life leaving its body too soon because of abuse by its parents is a truly sad event that must never be allowed to happen.

And for the adults who end up hurting others, too, it means carrying a long and heavy burden of suffering. So if there is someone nearby with soul-power, it would be best if that person could guide them so that they don’t make such a mistake. (To be continued next time)