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The Laws of Eternity
The Laws of Eternity
Unfolding the Secrets
of the Multi-Dimensional Universe
Ryuho Okawa
2001050190
Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
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As the name claims, the contents of this book really are the “The
Laws of Eternity.”The Eternal Truth that has never been preached
before, and will never be taught again, is explained logically and
condensed into this one book.
The three unique characteristics of the Law I teach are: a vast
structure of the Law that encompasses all aspects of the Truth of
life, a theory of time, including a description of the historical roles
of the high spirits—the Nyorai and the Bosatsu—and a theory of
space, which presents a concise explanation of the multi-dimen-
sional Real World, the world we go to after death.
These three characteristics are represented in the trilogy of
books: The Laws of the Sun (the structure of the Law) and The
Golden Laws (theory of time) have already been published, and this
book, The Laws of Eternity (theory of space).Taken together, these
three works are an outline of the Law of El Cantare.
This book throws light on the eternal mysteries, and it reveals
the ultimate secrets of the terrestrial spirit group, hitherto hidden
behind a veil of myth.
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I send this book out to you with the earnest hope that we can
surmount all difficulties and work toward the unification of all the
religions of the world.
Ryuho Okawa
July 1997, for Japanese edition
One: The World of the Fourth Dimension
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high, senior high, university, graduate school, and after that still a
myriad of other things to learn.
If we look at these two instances, it becomes obvious that it
is only from the perspective of eternal “education” that human
beings can progress.
Those who believe that their life represents a single, brief
sojourn in the world, flaring up like a match until it is consumed,
are unlikely to discover the importance or the meaning of their
time here.They will devote themselves to pleasure, to materialism
and decadence, thinking only of themselves. It is only to be
expected that if they believe they will only exist for a few decades,
they should feel they would be losing out if they did not enjoy
themselves to the maximum. On the other hand, however, people
who believe in eternal life are able to know that services rendered
to others will surely come back to them some day as nourishment
for the soul.
In this way, it can be seen that having the perspective of this
world and the other world is vital when considering our outlook
on life, its purposes and mission. Without it, it is impossible to
understand the true meaning of life and of human beings.
In this way, our future lives in the other world are affected by
the memories of our life on Earth.There is no omnipotent being
who sits in judgment over us; rather it is our own conscience, our
true nature as children of Buddha, that judges us. If we feel we are
still lacking in spiritual discipline, we may decide, after discussing
the matter with our guardian spirit, that we should go to hell for
further training. Although each soul makes its own choice, after a
soul has been in hell for a long time it forgets that it made the
initial decision to go there itself and gradually begins to feel
discontent.
However, the really vicious souls do not go through this
process of reconsideration and are cast straight to hell immediately
after their death.These are the spirits who try to lead others astray.
On Earth we are familiar with the characters of gangsters and
other violent people, and if you think of these spirits as being of
the same kind, you can understand what they are like.
human sensibility, they are able to preach the Law more effectively
and lead even more people to salvation.
In this way, the first thing that people experience after death
is the work of angels. They are bright, luminous souls and when
they come to a Christian they will appear with wings, to
Buddhists they take the garb of a Buddhist priest, while to the
believers of Shinto they appear in the robes of a Shinto priest. No
matter whether the being is an angel or a high spirit, it will appear
as a shining figure with a dazzling halo and, even if the beholder
professes no religion, they will not hesitate to put his hands
together in prayer.This is because human beings have an instinc-
tive belief in high spirits and divinities.
5. A New Departure
People who have left Earth receive instruction from the angels,
and gradually ready themselves to make a new departure. But
what is meant by “a new departure”? It is a totally new experi-
ence. Of course, when we were born here on Earth we made a
new beginning. No matter how great or how immature a spirit
may be, once it is conceived in its mother’s womb and born to this
world, its memories are erased from its conscious mind; it experi-
ences a new beginning.
In the same way, this new experience I talk of means that after
spending several decades studying on Earth, the soul graduates
from this life and moves on to a new school. In other words, the
soul makes a new departure and encounters new teachers, new
textbooks, and new lessons. First of all, these returnees to the
fourth dimension are put through an intensive course on the
meaning of spirituality.
In addition to receiving instruction from angels, new arrivals
are instructed by old friends and teachers who have arrived in the
other world ahead of them, who help them to accept and under-
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stand this new start. This provides them with important guidance
for their future life in the other world. Although many of them
will forget what they learned after they have settled down to their
new lives, it helps them over the first stage of their transition.
Among the souls that arrive in the other world, there are
those whose new departure leads them to hell. However, what I
would like to make quite clear to all of you who are living on
Earth is that hell is not a realm equal in size to heaven.The world
in which we live is in the third dimension; while the other world
stretches from the fourth to the ninth, tenth dimensions or
beyond, hell, on the other hand, occupies only a tiny section of all
this. It is just a lair of negative thought energy that lurks in a
corner of the fourth dimension and in no way is it equal to the
rest of the other world.
There are all kinds of people living in our world, but the sick
are not a separate race so we have hospitals to look after them. In
the same way, there are souls in the other world who are sick in
spirit, and hell is where they go to discipline themselves and
undergo rehabilitation. Although they may be sick in spirit and
mind, they are struggling to achieve something in their own way.
A healthy person can be taught to drive a car, ride a bicycle, to
jump, or to run in long and short distance races, but a sick person
may not be capable of any of these things. A sick person has to
learn how to use crutches, or to walk with somebody supporting
them by the arm.
When a soul arrives in the Astral Realm, which is also in the
fourth dimension, it sees various kinds of beings it had never seen
before, many of which have been mentioned in ancient tales on
Earth. Dragons and water sprites do not live in this world on
Earth, but they do live in the fourth dimension just as do small
fairy-like beings that fly around the flower gardens.There is a vast
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7. The Unknown
I talk of hell, but when people are actually faced with it, nothing
they may have read about it during their lives on Earth can
prepare them for the terrible shock that its reality will present
them with. They may have read stories about there being several
types of hell, some of them inhabited by demons and devils.
However, when they are actually faced by these creatures, their
horror will know no bounds. Some of them appear to be three to
four meters (ten to thirteen feet) tall, while others seem to be
attacking with knives in their hands.
In the Hell of Lust people writhe in a sea of blood, while in
the Hell of Hungry Spirits people of skin and bone, like the
victims of a famine, stagger around calling out for something to
eat. In the Hell of Beasts people lose their human form. The
Japanese writer, Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), wrote about
people who fell to the Hell of Beasts, describing the way in which
some would have the body of a horse, ox or pig but with the
human face; this depiction was quite accurate. There are even
those who take on the body of a snake and are forced to slither
along the floor of hell.
None of them know why they are in the state they are, but it
is because they are unaware of their spiritual nature. In the spirit
world, you become what you really are. They did not know that
their secret thoughts were already materialized in the world
within. They believed that just because their thoughts could not
be seen from the outside, they could think whatever they liked. If
their thoughts had been visible to those around them while they
were living in the flesh, they would have been ashamed to appear
in public.Therefore it is easy to imagine the shock they feel when
they return to the other world to find that their thoughts are
transparent to others, and that they change into a shape that
conforms with what they think.
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If people in this world on Earth who are filled with envy and
spite turned into snakes, they would quickly realize that they had
mistaken thoughts. But since this does not happen under the laws
of this physical world, people remain unaware of their mistakes.
However, in the other world thoughts are instantly actualized. For
instance, a person whose thoughts are only filled with desire for
the opposite sex will enter the Hell of Lust where they spend their
time in search of sexual satisfaction. Sly people who spend their
time trying to cheat others will find themselves in the shape of a
fox in the other world. People who are eaten up with resentment
and hate will awaken to find their bodies have turned into snakes.
These are only a few examples of the numerous animal forms that
can result from wrong thoughts.
These animal-like human spirits will seek temporary respite
from the agonies of hell by possessing people still living on Earth.
However, they cannot possess just anybody they like, it has to be a
person who has already created a hell within. Living people create
various worlds of thought within their minds, and those who have
chosen to create a hell are vulnerable to possession by the spirits
of hell. People who have created a hell of lust within their minds
will be visited by the denizens of the Hell of Lust. People who
have created a hell of beasts in their minds can expect to be
possessed by animal-like spirits. People who have embraced the
abysmal hell within or who are so diseased philosophically and
religiously that they try to lead others astray will be invaded by the
fallen men of religion or thinkers who now inhabit the Abysmal
Hell. It is because living people create these hells within them that
the spirits of evil are able to possess them.
8. Eternal Life
All the spirits suffering in hell repeat the same refrain, which is,“I
would rather die than continue my life like this.” They abuse
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Buddha and God in every way possible and say,“It would be better
if you had killed me straight out instead of making me live like a
snake,” or “Why don’t you kill me? Anything would be better than
trying to stay afloat in this sea of blood.” The inhabitants of the
Abysmal Hell, trapped in darkness, or in the desert, or sealed into
caves, are constantly saying, “If this is all the life that remains to
me, why didn’t you put an end to it?” Through the use of my
second sight, I have seen men who once led vast religions and
were praised by one and all suffering alone in the infinite darkness
of the deep swamps of the Abysmal Hell. Some of them are
founders of religions which are now in their second or third
generations, and the question they all ask is,“Why am I in a place
like this when once I led tens of thousands, even millions of
followers? I would rather my life were ended than to spend the
rest of it in a place like this.” This is because they do not know
their future; trapped in the pitch blackness they have no idea how
much longer they must suffer.
Souls are for ever. Souls have eternal life, and for people who
have lived in harmony, whose hearts are pure, and who have
returned to heaven after death, eternal life is the ultimate blessing,
for they can continue their life in that wonderful place. However,
for people who go to hell, eternal life is itself a punishment and
castigation. If they could only die, they would no longer have to
suffer the torments of hell, but life never ends and this very fact
serves to afflict them.
If people could understand the nature of the Real World
while they were still in this life they would realize that it did not
pay to think or do evil. However, they do not believe in eternal
life and feel that as they are only here for this life they can do as
they please. They do not care how many people they may hurt
through their actions as long as they can become rich and
powerful. If only they knew that this would win them eternal
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how the Earth was formed and how humankind has evolved since
then. All the details remain clear in their minds. In this way, it can
be seen that the ability to remember the past depends on the rank
of the spirit. It is like climbing an observation tower.
If you climb a high tower, it is possible to see vast distances,
but if the observation deck is low you can only see the nearby
scenery, and if you descend into a basement it is impossible to see
anything at all. If you are in the basement, that is to say, hell, you
will see nothing, but the higher you climb the further the vista
expands. In the same way, the higher your rank among the spirits
the further back your memory can reach. So it can be seen that
although you will remember your previous lives, the extent to
which this can be achieved depends very much on the individual.
Some people can only remember one previous life, others several,
still others may recall several dozen, while some may be able to cast
their minds back over hundreds of previous existences. It is a very
mysterious process. But if you cultivate your spiritual awareness
you will find that you are able to see the past, the present, and the
future.
10. Evolution
So far I have explained various aspects of the fourth dimension,
that is to say, what will happen to you after your death, but I am
sure that many of you will be wondering why it should be that
way.Why is there a heaven and hell? Why do we not know about
them while we are still alive? Why do we have a body and a spirit?
Why do we not live in spirit form in this world? These are just
some of the questions that people may ask.
The transition from the body to the spirit can be likened to
the metamorphosis of the cicada from the larval stage to the adult
insect.After many years living under the ground, the cicada nymph
climbs a tree, then, clinging to the trunk, its skin splits and out
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climbs the adult. It stretches its wings and then is free to fly wher-
ever it pleases. Similarly, the ugly green caterpillar crawling across
a leaf will one day hide itself in a chrysalis and later emerge as a
beautiful butterfly. The life cycle of the butterfly was created by
Buddha with the express desire to demonstrate to us the cycle of
reincarnation that we ourselves experience, and to demonstrate
that, in the same way that the insect changes its form, we also
change as we evolve.
It may seem strange that a caterpillar should turn into a
butterfly, but nobody can deny that Buddha created it in that way.
It is hard to believe, watching the grotesque creature with its
dozens of stubby legs gorging itself on leaves, that it will one day
grow wings and fly freely through the air in a blaze of color, but
it provides us with an intimation of the spiritual evolution of
humankind.
Why did Buddha make these insects in this way? It is an
example of His compassion. He could just as easily have made
butterflies free to fly from birth, but by showing us the limitations
of a ground-bound life, He enabled us to appreciate the freedom
of flight. I am sure that there are very few human beings who wish
they could have been born as butterflies, but there is a splendor in
their flight that we can never understand. Butterflies probably
know a happiness that we cannot share and this too shows us
Buddha’s compassion.
In the same way, people are forced to live limited lives while
contained within physical bodies, but eventually they are able to
cast the body aside and return to their true form as spirits.When
this happens they are able to appreciate the true splendor of their
being so much more. While living on Earth, we are unable to
achieve everything we want, which leads to impatience, exhaus-
tion, and a feeling of helplessness, but when we arrive in the Real
World, our every thought will manifest instantly. When people
Two: The World of the Fifth Dimension
realize the marvel that this represents, they feel that life in the Real
World is immeasurably better than what they had experienced on
Earth.
Spiritual evolution is part of the very structure of the world
and was prepared for us by Buddha. We need to experience this
metamorphosis, this sublimation to the next stage, to understand
the true meaning of happiness. Being spiritual means to share in
the essence of Buddha, and this is an experience that every human
being is able to undergo. This is truly wonderful, and we live in
such a marvelous world.
Even if we are obliged to experience life in hell for a hundred,
even two hundred years, in the long term we will realize that this
is not necessarily a bad thing and can be considered a whetstone
with which we polish ourselves; in the severe ordeals of hell we
have no choice but to face the greatest faults in ourselves and work
to correct them. It is possible to regard the experience of hell as a
stage in evolution.
This is not to say, however, that spirits should be left in hell
unaided.While they are there, they do experience great pain, and
in order to deliver them from this suffering they must be shown
the error of their ways and led in the correct direction. Only in
this way can Buddha’s will be truly done. People struggle to
correct their faults through the help of others. But hell exists to
provide them with an opportunity to realize where they have
gone wrong even without outside aid. It may seem like a backward
step, but if you look at it with a long-term perspective, you will
realize that it is all part of evolution.
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sion share a natural tendency toward good, and when living in this
Earthly world had made efforts to choose good, turning their
backs on evil. They have realized that goodness is the character-
istic that the Divine looks for in humans.
2. A Spiritual Awakening
When I speak of the “goodness” of the fifth dimension, I do not
merely mean goodness as contrary to evil, but as realizing one’s
nature as a child of Buddha. To put it another way, it refers to a
person’s spiritual awakening. In our lives on Earth, material and
spiritual things co-exist side by side.We live in the midst of mate-
rial things and spend our time worrying about making a living,
earning a salary, and buying, using, and discarding material objects.
If, however, a person can find the time in the evenings or at week-
ends to attain spiritual joy despite living in this materially centered
world, they must be considered blessed indeed. Of course, there
are some people who never feel any spiritual pleasure, devoting
themselves to gambling and other pleasures of the flesh, but most
of us do not find this sufficient to satisfy the soul, and feel a kind
of nostalgia toward spiritual pursuits such as reading, music, or art.
This is in fact a nostalgia for the world we originally came from.
The fifth dimension is often referred to as “the Realm of the
Good” or “the Spiritual Realm,” and this is because people who
have awakened to spirituality gather there.The inhabitants of this
realm are aware of themselves as spiritual existences to a remark-
ably high degree.
On the other hand, the people who live in the fourth dimen-
sion, which is known as the “Posthumous Realm,” are all at
different levels of personal enlightenment. Some of them still do
not recognize that they are in fact spiritual beings while others
may have a fairly good grasp of their spiritual state but still have
not succeeded in attaining a complete understanding of spiritu-
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ality. They still have not reached the stage of searching for good
within the essence of the spirit, based on the knowledge that they
are themselves spirits.
Once people reach the fifth dimension, however, they are
quite aware that the essence of human beings is spirit, they are
searching enthusiastically for good. They believe in religion,
though it may only be a vague stirring of faith, but it is something
they all share. They may believe in God or Buddha, and their
personal philosophies will reflect their religious background, but
they all share a basic belief in some form of deity. They feel that
the Divine is close at hand, and live their lives for its sake.
Many people living in the fifth dimension continue to involve
themselves in the same work they had undertaken on Earth.There
are carpenters and merchants who supply the needs of the people
and numerous other professions that belong to what we on Earth
refer to as the service industries. In this way, many of them
continue in their professions, although in the fifth dimension they
do not do it for money; rather they feel that by so doing they
please the Divine and this in itself affords them pleasure.
away and that person’s soul becomes more refined. In the fifth
dimension, the soul comes to the fore. By a soul, I refer to a spirit
that has the memory of life as a human being and it is this soul
that begins to feel joy. But what kind of joy does it feel? When
does a soul feel joys? Basically there are two ways.
First, the soul feels joy when it feels its own self-improve-
ment.You may ask when this happens, and the answer is when it
is able to identify itself with goodness.The soul realizes this when
it feels that it is helping other people and it fills it with great
happiness.The same is true for us on Earth when somebody says
to us,“I am so glad you are here,” or “It is thanks to you that things
went so well.” It makes us very happy because when we know that
we are able to help people in this way we are filled with the joy
of self-expansion, the joy of self-improvement.We realize that we
are not only living our lives for our own sake but that other
people find happiness as a result of our existence. In other words,
it is when our existence is worth more than a personal life that we
have succeeded in self-expansion and self-improvement. There-
fore, we can say that the first way in which we can feel the joy of
the soul is when we are able to bring joy to others and realize our
own goodness.
The second way in which we can experience the joy of the
soul is when we acquire new knowledge. The knowledge I am
talking about is not the kind that can be gained through the study
of worldly subjects, but the discovery of something concerning
the world that Buddha created. Every time we make such a
discovery our soul is filled with joy.
The soul embodies numerous characteristics, talents, and
powers, but the inhabitants of the fifth dimension are not aware of
them all. There are some among them who still like to eat. Of
course, they are quite aware that they do not have to eat to sustain
their lives, but they feel that eating is one of the great pleasures of
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life, whereas there are others who find delight in the preparation
of food. People who were farmers on Earth enjoy growing crops
and spend their time in the Real World working in the fields. In
this way, we find people in the fifth dimension working in all kinds
of professions. But gradually they come to realize that this is not
the true way in which they should live, that spiritual satisfaction
can be found without having to work in this way.
Even if they think they are growing potatoes, these are not
really potatoes in the three-dimensional meaning of the word, they
are “spiritual” potatoes that have been created within people’s
minds. They gradually come to realize that the richer and fuller
they become, the more beautiful are the potatoes they produce.
On Earth there are all kinds of scientific methods of watering and
fertilizing the crops, but this is not necessarily the same in the Real
World. The more care, the more love that is applied to growing
things, the more beautiful the result.
The inhabitants of the fifth dimension gradually become
aware of the structure of the spiritual world where our very
thoughts become facts. Thus, the acquisition of knowledge is
translated into the second form of joy for them.
them with life energy as much as the physical sun does on Earth.
They know that the light energy that they receive from the Spir-
itual Sun sustains their life and that they are able to live, thanks to
this energy.As a result, they never forget to demonstrate their grat-
itude toward the Spiritual Sun, and even before they develop a
simple faith in the Divine, they are extremely grateful to the Sun.
They can often be seen in the early morning and evening, praying
to the Sun with their hands together. In this way, the fifth dimen-
sion is the place where the flow of light can be perceived.
5. Love
Another characteristic of the fifth dimension is the awakening of
a new level of the feeling of love. Here on Earth, we experience
the love between man and woman, the love between parent and
child, the love between friends, and the love between master and
disciple. But the love experienced by the inhabitants of the fifth
dimension is much purer.
Love is rather difficult to express on Earth, but in the Real
World it is much more substantial. When one person loves
another, a wave of emotion is transmitted directly to the recipient.
The person who is being loved can feel it very strongly and this
results in them experiencing the joy of the soul.
On Earth, love cannot be felt so clearly, one can never be sure
if one is loved or not; this gives rise to a lot of romantic suffering.
The source of problems of relationships between the sexes often
lies in this sort of emotional tightrope we are forced to cross.You
do not know if you are loved or not, and even though your partner
may really love you, you might simply put it down to a desire to
be nice to everybody or even feel that they do not hold any special
emotion toward you. In the fifth dimension, there is a clear indi-
cator or barometer that shows whether or not you are being loved
and as a result your partner’s emotion can be felt directly. It is like
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heart and you become very happy. This proves that you are
Buddha’s children and that, essentially, you are part of Buddha’s life
form.” This is the message that high spirits patiently try to teach
the inhabitants of the fifth dimension.
This is the first step in teaching about love. It may not explain
about giving love to others, as is done in the Bosatsu Realm, but
it does instruct in the basics of what love is, what it is to be loved,
and what it is to give love.Those living in the fifth dimension learn
that it is better to be loved than not and what a wonderful thing
it is to love others. Eventually they will realize that love cannot co-
exist with a desire for self-preservation, with a feeling that one’s
own well-being is all that matters.
8. Divine Beings
I have suggested that pain and sorrow act as nourishment for the
soul, but what should we do when we are feeling buffeted by the
tribulations of the world? I wonder if you have ever heard how,
when we seem to be at the very depths of despair, and when
things could get no worse, a single ray of light can shine through
the darkness.We tend to think that light always shines from above,
but when we strike through the base of our sorrow, light can pour
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worldly point of view. The people who are faced with the heav-
iest trials are those nearest to the light. In the middle of joy, heaven
is near, but in the depths of sorrow, too, heaven is close at hand.
When we manage to break through the bottom of sorrow
and grasp the light, then heaven is manifested before us. This is a
fact that all the people of the world should know.
9. True Nobility
I would like now to discuss the nobility of the soul.When do we
feel the nobility of the soul or nobility in a spiritual sense?
Let us say there is a man who was born the only son of a rich
family living in a large mansion with a swimming pool in the
garden and possessed of lots of servants. He is brought up wanting
for nothing, he is clever, good-looking, and is loved by women.
Upon leaving school he is well-liked by all, and succeeds at every-
thing he turns his hand to. However, does a person like this
impress the people he meets with the nobility of his soul? Looking
at people like this, do we feel that they have noble souls? Do the
circumstances to which a person is born make him great? I do not
think so. I feel that one of the origins of greatness is experience
gained through adversity. It is only when a person succeeds against
all odds that he becomes recognized as great.
For instance, there is Dr. Albert Schweitzer, an Angel of Light
who struggled against the deprivations of the African jungle to
heal and to spread the word of God.There is Thomas Edison, who,
despite having only three months of formal schooling, went on to
become one of the greatest inventors the world has known.There
is Abraham Lincoln, who was born to a poor family but through
his own perseverance and hard work went on to become president
of the United States. Mohandas K. Gandhi, the father of India, was
another Angel of Light, who took on the might of the British
Empire and succeeded in winning independence for his country.
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such trials are ways to evolve and develop our souls? Even if we
were to complain or grieve for our misfortune, how would this
help our development? It is only when you advance bearing your
cross that it will nourish your soul. It is only through living that
kind of life that you will begin to shine.
Of course, this is not to say that you should go out of your
way to pursue trials and tribulations.There is no need for you to
pray to God to inflict you with hardships, but you should strive
and cultivate a tenacity of spirit that will permit you to overcome
any hardships should they befall you.There is nothing to be gained
through complaining about what you do not possess.You should
discover the splendor of what you have been given and use it as a
weapon to fight off misfortune.There are those who are blind but
who can speak most eloquently, those who cannot walk but
whose hands are nimble. Some people are not so clever but are
very fit while others are very intelligent but cursed with illness.
Before comparing yourself to others, complaining about what
you feel you lack and grudging them their good fortune, you
should look to what you have been blessed with and try your
hardest to develop it. If you do this, you will find some clue to
help you overcome your own problems. Each of our lives are filled
with mysteries and problems, but somewhere there is always a clue
to help us on our way. If you were to look at yourself through
another person’s eyes, I am sure that you would find that in some
aspect you are superior to others while in another you are infe-
rior. If you compare your character, talents, or physical features to
others, you are sure to find some areas in which you excel and
others in which you lack. This cannot be helped, but you should
look upon your abilities, or lack of them, as clues to help you face
the problems this life offers.
It is important to ask yourself why you should be confronted
by your problems, as therein lies one of the objectives of your spir-
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2. Knowing God
I have already stated that there are many people living in the
Realm of Light of the sixth dimension who are known as gods,
but what exactly do we mean by the word “god”? This is a ques-
tion that has long been debated by men of philosophy, religion,
and theology, leading some to declare that, “to know God is to
know everything,” while others counter this, saying:“man was not
made in the image of God, rather God is a figment of the imagi-
nation created in the image of man.” However, none of these wise
men were ever able to offer a definitive meaning of the word
“god.” I would like, now, to offer my own current idea as to what
god is. First, I would like to divide the beings that go under the
title of gods into two categories; on one hand we have God the
Creator and on the other, all the other gods.
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upper part of the fourth dimension and then eventually they grad-
uate to the Realm of the Good in the fifth dimension, as I
explained earlier.
The fifth dimension is known as the “Realm of the Good” or
the “Spiritual Realm” and people who have awakened to their
essence as souls, to their spirituality, to the importance of good,
live there. However, although they may be good people, they are
still not serious about attaining enlightenment. Their hearts and
minds have still not turned fully toward the Divine.
In contrast, no sign can be seen of atheists in the sixth dimen-
sion. All the inhabitants realize, to a greater or lesser extent, that
there exists some kind of great being that gives life to people and
spirits. Depending on their understanding, different individuals
may call this existence Buddha or God and they all use different
methods to advance toward the Great Being.
Many priests of all the major religions can be found living in
the sixth dimension where they struggle to answer questions of
divinity. There are also inhabitants whose main interest is not
necessarily religious matters. These are people who managed to
evolve through their professions while living on Earth. They had
not wholeheartedly pursued God or Buddha, but had attained
such a high level of development through their work that they
were able to enter the sixth dimension.
A great number of scholars reside in this realm. There are
many university professors and other first-rate teachers whose
minds are not attuned to hell. There are many doctors, lawyers,
judges and such like, from respected professions on Earth, as well
as politicians, bureaucrats, and other people with pure hearts.
When you look at them, it is obvious that they are highly evolved
in some particular field. For instance, a large number of artists and
musicians live there, having developed their artistic talents while
on Earth.
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5. Eternal Travelers
So far I have talked about the sixth dimension focusing on the
theme of evolution. I am sure that there are some among you who
realized that, basically, humans are eternal travelers. Others may
disagree, and ask why they have to exert themselves to evolve all
the time, or question what is wrong with the way they are now. I
suppose, in a rather shortsighted way, they have a point.
However, when considered from a spiritual point of view it
can be seen they are wrong. The reason we have to develop is
because human life is infinite. Our true lives last for tens of thou-
sands or tens of millions of years and, if there was no change
during this long life, our souls would stagnate. Having stagnated,
we would know no further joy. In other words, we would become
bored. It may be fine to do the same thing for one or two hundred
years, but not for eternity.
As long as we have a personality and consciousness, we feel we
have to achieve something. Take the average office worker, many
of them spend their lives dreaming of leaving their company and
becoming free, but many of them remain where they are until
retirement and then, when they are finally free to do whatever
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they like, they find that time hangs heavily on their hands. They
may be free, but they have nothing to do.This gradually becomes
unbearable, and the majority of people last less than a year before
looking for another job or immersing themselves in their hobbies.
This is due to the essential nature of our souls that are naturally
industrious and are not capable of sustained sloth. That is why,
although we may be tempted to take time off, we cannot remain
inactive for long periods. People are made to work.
In other words, the soul is industrious and creative in nature.
Many people claim that they would be happier if they did not
have to work, but if they have their jobs taken away, they are at a
loss as to what to do.The soul is a diligent and industrious worker
so it is only natural that people should strive toward advancement.
Nobody is content with doing a half-hearted job. In order for the
soul to be satisfied and know peace and happiness, we should
constantly strive to do a more complete job. In this respect, it can
be said that the true state of the soul, or a person for that matter,
is that of an eternal traveler.
6. Uncut Diamonds
In this section I would like to elaborate on the theme of the
eternal traveler. Granted that humankind is a race of eternal trav-
elers, devoted to the development and evolution of the soul, but
why should there be difference of rank between the high spirits
and the lower spirits? This is a question that many people have.
Why should there be superior and inferior people? Why should
there be Angels of Light and ordinary spirits? Buddha loves all
people equally so surely it is strange that there should be these
differences in rank. This question lies at the bottom of many
people’s minds and my answer to it is the title of this section,
“Uncut Diamonds.” People are all created like diamonds that will
shine if they are polished.When these diamonds are first dug out
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of the mountain they are still in their rough state and it is left up
to the individual to decide how they want to shine. This is a task
that nobody can escape.
People often compare the Guiding Spirits of Light with ordi-
nary spirits, saying that the Guiding Spirits of Light might shine
like diamonds but ordinary people are like pieces of coal or char-
coal, or stones that will never sparkle in the same way. While the
stones on the riverbank are very different from diamonds, it is not
accurate to describe the nature of the soul in this way. The proof
is that no matter what kind of person one may be, if the soul is
polished, it will shine.
When people on Earth hear stories about the spirits of hell or
the devil, they often wonder why such beings are allowed to exist
at all. Many think that Buddha should drive them out of this
world, out of hell, and banish them to some distant corner of the
galaxy. However, they feel like this simply because they do not
know the true nature of the soul.They think that the creatures of
hell are ugly in the extreme and work endlessly to bring about
evil, but, given the chance, even they may be saved. I have met
many people who have been possessed by bad spirits, and I have
spoken directly to the spirit that has them under its sway. Each
time, I was reminded how little these spirits know of the Truth. For
instance, they do not know they are spirits, nor do they realize that
the human body is not their true form. They do not know that
they are supposed to do good or that they are presently living in
hell.The spirits of hell are simply ignorant of their situation.
However, if they are taught the Truth they sometimes return
to themselves. They realize that they have been living a false life
and that they cannot go on in that way.They make the decision to
live a proper life. At that moment their spiritual body, which up
until that time had appeared totally soiled, suddenly begins to
shine and a halo forms around their head.
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8. Unquestionable Power
Having said that it is the people of the sixth dimension who
become the leaders, I would like now to think about why it should
be that they are able to do this. Why should one person have the
power to make others bend to his will? What gives them the right
to control or teach others? What is the origin of political or spir-
itual power? The truth is that spiritual power is something that is
bestowed upon people from above; in other words, it is the power
that originates in Buddha.
If Buddha were on the side of the denizens of hell, there
would be truth in what they say; but obviously He is not. Looking
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9. Inspiring Words
I have been talking about the source of unquestionable power, and
now I would like to think about words. There is a famous quote
from the Bible that reads:“In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1) This
quote serves to illustrate the importance of words. When the
Guiding Spirits of Light come down to Earth, it is through words
that they manage to persuade and move people. Of course, they
sometimes resort to miracles but these supernatural phenomena
alone are not sufficient to instruct the people.While miracles may
be useful expedients to attract people’s attention, they do not in
themselves lead others to true enlightenment.
I would like to ponder now on the reason why some words
have the power to move us as they do.When the Guiding Spirits
of Light preach or, to use the modern vernacular, give lectures,
why should it be that they have the power to move people’s
hearts? Why do they cause tears to come to the eyes of their audi-
ence? This is something that we all need to understand.
The reason we sometimes cry when we hear a sermon in this
world is that deep in our hearts exist memories of other occasions
when we listened to the Truth in previous lives, and this creates a
deep emotion within us. It may be memories of listening to
Shakyamuni preaching in India or of Jesus in Israel. There have
been countless previous times when we have heard the Truth
preached on Earth, not to mention the times that we heard the
Guiding Spirits of Light teaching it to us in the Real World, that
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of the Truth, then you can aim to help other people through
universal love, through the power of enlightenment. It can be said
that this is the right path to follow, considering the way it is in the
Real World.
Four: The World of the Seventh Dimension
1. Love Overflows
In this chapter I would like to talk about the seventh dimension
of the spiritual realm. Another name for the seventh dimension is
the Bosatsu Realm. Obviously, this is a Buddhist name and is not
used universally, but it is familiar term to Japanese people and so I
will continue to use the term in this book.
The seventh dimension can be summed up as being a world
of love.The word love is used every day in a variety of meanings
and appears in all kinds of literature. It is one of the most basic
desires of humankind and something that we go to almost any
lengths to attain. Everyone wants to be loved by others. And it is
the disparity between the desire to be loved and the feeling of
actually being loved that decides whether or not you are happy.
The subject of love has been discussed countless times in novels,
poems, and philosophy as well as being a major theme in music
and painting. However, there is nobody in all of history who has
been able to provide a conclusive definition of love and, for that
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its own upon which it in turn can focus its own love. Children
bask in their parents’ love and their very existence is a source of
pleasure to their grandparents. The mere act of looking at their
grandchildren’s faces or holding their hands is sufficient to fill
them with joy. Love is not only given, it is also in some way
returned. In this way, it can be seen that love moves in a cycle that
is completed every twenty to thirty years. Parents give all their
love to their children, then these same children grow and have
children of their own who they love in turn.Then the grandpar-
ents’ love is given to their new grandchild.
So far, we have been looking at love within the family. But
there is a much greater problem of love that faces us all—that is
the love between men and women. From an age of about ten,
people gradually become more interested in the opposite sex and
from their mid to late teens they become filled with thoughts of
the opposite sex. It is as if some strange force is pulling them
together. Men and women find themselves attracted to each other
and it becomes impossible for them to think of anything else. It is
a very strange emotion. Although nobody tells them, a sense of
obligation emerges between men and women. They feel that
because they love each other, they should not become close with
anybody else. It is very strange that, although there is no formal
agreement, a kind of contractual relationship emerges between
them. They seem to know instinctively that love will keep them
together. From their teens to their twenties, men and women feel
a love for each other that creates a kind of contractual relationship
that, in turn, matures into matrimonial love.
Matrimonial love is an exclusive relationship that is protected
by law and into which nobody can intrude. By observing a marital
relationship, we can understand that exclusivity is part of the
nature of love. If a husband or wife plays around and never comes
home, it will cause their partner a lot of heartache.As you can see,
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4. Eternal Love
I have said that matrimonial love includes an exclusive and
monopolistic emotion; but does this possessiveness spring from
self-preservation and does that make this kind of love wrong?
There is a school of thought that holds that it is human nature to
love all people equally, and therefore everybody should be treated
the same. However, if a woman were to treat all the men she met
in the same way she treated her husband, or a man were to treat
other women as he did his wife, where would it lead? It would
mean the destruction of their harmonious marital life.
A man and a woman live as a married couple based on a
promise that ensures a long-term plan of building a home in
which to raise their children. If people did not need to create a
home, if the only reason that both man and woman exist were that
of biological reproduction, and if it were the government’s respon-
sibility to raise children as in the ideal state Plato described, this
would reduce the purpose of living as a couple to the mere
continuation of the species. However, this is not Buddha’s will.
Buddha’s perspective is that great benefits await the man and
woman who work together for several decades to have children
and create a home in which to raise them. Matrimonial love may
appear to be exclusive and monopolistic but this appearance of
selfishness and self-satisfaction is unavoidable; it represents the
minimum evil that has to be committed in the name of domestic
love and happiness.
Although this may seem a rather narrow kind of love, it is a
necessary evil in order to create something of a higher dimension.
Therefore, this monopolistic love that exists between a man and a
woman does not have to be an evil thing. It is only when it is taken
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to extremes, when one of the partners loses their respect for the
dignity and freedom of the other, when jealousy gets the upper
hand, that it can lead to unhappiness.A certain amount of jealousy
between husband and wife is permissible as long as it is kept within
reason and is used constructively to hold the relationship together.
But should one of the partners become excessively jealous and
forever find fault with the other, it is certain to result in unhappi-
ness.
So far, we have been thinking about the love between men
and women.Through the experience of this love, we learn that the
essence of Buddha is love. The way that men and women fall in
love, marry, and experience matrimonial and then parental love is
His way of teaching us about love. However, this love that springs
up between men and women is not necessarily everlasting or
eternal. To some extent it can be said to be instinctive; and,
although the word “accidental” may not be quite appropriate in
this context, there is no denying that some relationships do begin
with a chance encounter that results in love blossoming.
Buddha has planned for men and women to marry, have
children and create a home, but is that all there is to life? Of
course not. The reason He causes us to love in this way is in
order that we can awaken to true love. No matter how egotis-
tical a person may be, they are sure to be well-disposed toward
the opposite sex and to feel love toward their children. Feelings
of love toward the opposite sex and one’s own family are planted
within us in order that we may learn of eternal love. The real
reason for Buddha to bless us with these basic forms of love is to
help us awaken to the real love of the higher dimensions.
world through the will of Buddha, and continue this work after
they return to the Real World.
There are several schools of Buddhism that place a great deal
of importance on the theme of salvation, relying on the power of
Amida (Amitabha) to help practitioners save others and be saved.
However, what exactly is meant by salvation in this context? I
mentioned earlier that when looked at through spiritual eyes, this
world resembles a desert with people staggering through the heat
haze in search of water or an oasis. But if these are the people of
this world, what is their salvation? Surely, however we think about
it, the essence of salvation must be whatever quenches their thirst.
But what is the water they crave?
Jesus Christ answered this question two thousand years ago.
One day when he was thirsty, a woman offered him water. After
he had drunk, he said:“You can quench your thirst with water, but
the thirst will return; however, whosoever drinks from my words
of life will never thirst again.” His words were true and in them
can be found the essence of salvation.
What Jesus refers to as the “words of life” are the truth that
leads human souls to eternal life. In other words, they are the Truth
of Buddha. People who live for the sake of the Truth of Buddha
have eternal life; therefore, they do not become lost, they do not
tire, they do not thirst.
Countless numbers of people have been blessed by the words
of Buddha’s Truth. It showed them the way, and they took coura-
geous steps to advance toward Him. The essence of salvation lies
in the Truth of Buddha that awakens people, the awakening that
leads them to enlightenment. The essence of the work of the
Bosatsu is to spread the word of Truth, to keep people from thirst
and to offer salvation.
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the world who pay no respect to Buddha for the infinite, free Love
of Buddha. In fact, many of them do not even appear to be
conscious of its existence.
We who are aware of this love, who realize that Buddha loves
us, should try and do something to repay Him for it. When we
become adult and have children, we offer them the same love our
own parents gave to us. Buddha is both father and mother to
humankind, and, as our parents, He offers us His boundless love.
So surely we should find some way in which we can return this
love to Him. In other words, we should live our lives conscious of
the fact that we are children of Buddha.We should not offer our
love to people in an effort to win praise or a good reputation; we
should simply offer it in the same way that Buddha offers us His
limitless love.
Looked at through spiritual eyes, people catch the love of
Buddha in much the same way that a television antenna catches
the signals from the broadcasting station; what I want to say is that
as we receive so much love from Buddha, we should try to pass
some of it on to others. We are all receiving the love of Buddha,
so we should aim to circulate it. It is our duty to let the love flow
through us and on to others in much the same way that a river
flows from its source down to the sea.
9. Differences in Souls
I would like now to think about the differences that exist between
souls. It could be said that the soul is a vessel designed to receive
the love of Buddha. If the vessel is small, it will soon overflow; but
a large vessel will be able to hold an abundance of the love of
Buddha. In the same way that a reservoir holds a lot of water that
can be released to turn a turbine and create electricity, our souls
contain a reservoir of love that can be used to generate power, the
amount of power depending on the quantity of love it can hold.
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darkness is only created when something cuts off the rays of light.
On the other hand, light is a positive existence, an active power.
No matter how strong a light may be, if something stands in
its way darkness will be created.The stronger the light, the deeper
the darkness. For instance, even if a light is ten thousand candle-
power, or a million candlepower, it will not be able to illuminate
something that is in the shadow of a rock—that is the way light
behaves. Its nature is to move straight ahead, so if something
obstructs its way, it is cut off.
The same can be said of good and evil. Good embodies a
positive existence, whereas evil is negative. However, it is not
necessarily true that only good exists and evil cannot. Although
evil is basically a passive existence, it can come into existence
through the intervention of a third party. Darkness always appears
where there is light. In the same way, although evil did not origi-
nally exist, it appears wherever there is good in order to make the
good stand out.While it is true that evil is not a positive existence
and simply represents a lack of good, a lack of goodness can act as
a medium through which evil can exist.
Imagine that you illuminate your home with an extremely
bright lamp. Regardless of the power of the light, you will not be
able to avoid shadows forming somewhere in the room. Of course,
if the room were walled with mirrors there would be no shadows;
but in a normal house shadows are sure to form no matter how
well lit it may be. Crockery or furniture will block the light and
create shade. Therefore, we can see that although shadows, dark-
ness, and evil do not exist of themselves, they come into being in
the natural course of human living.
4. Eternal Time
Time is a concept that is often compared to space, and time is the
subject I would like to contemplate in this section. It is often said
that space represents a horizontal expansion whereas time is a
vertical expansion but this gives rise to the questions “can space
exist without time?” and “what is the relationship between time
and space?”
In the last section I gave the definition of space as being the
field where the Light of Buddha can be active. Light being active
infers movement of some kind, and movement in turn requires a
certain passage of time.Therefore, if time were to stop, what would
happen to space? Would light manage to remain active if time
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it can be said that there has been passage of time centering around
the two main objectives—evolution and harmony, or develop-
ment and harmony.
7. What Is Compassion?
I would like now to think about the Law and compassion. At the
Institute for Research in Human Happiness, based on the princi-
ples of individual progress and social harmony, I teach that the
pursuit of happiness is part of human nature and that this happiness
for which we seek is twofold—private happiness and public happi-
ness. By private happiness I mean the pursuit of each individual’s
happiness, while by public happiness I refer to the spreading of the
personal utopia that is achieved through the pursuit of personal
happiness to envelop society, the world, and humankind as a whole,
thereby creating a public utopia. This is the fundamental teaching
of our movement.The question now is, why should it be necessary
for us to pursue private and public happiness in this way? Is there
some guiding principle behind this search?
As I said at the beginning of this section, it is in human nature
to search for happiness, the reason being that Buddha bestowed
this penchant on us through His compassion. He gave a purpose
to our lives, and if that purpose was to lead to unhappiness, the
world would be a wretched place indeed. However, Buddha
implanted the desire to strive for happiness in the soul of each of
us in order that we should all be as happy as possible. This incli-
nation is embedded so deeply within us that it has become part of
what makes us human.
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You may wonder why Buddha made us in this way, and the
answer is that we are all children of Light who have split off from
the Primordial Buddha Himself, and, as such, we carry within us
the same nature. So what is the nature of Buddha? It can be said
to derive great pleasure from happiness that is born of develop-
ment and harmony. The reason why Buddha is a great force that
controls and governs the universe is that He contains within His
being the energy of happiness. Therefore, we can argue that the
reason why Buddha exists as Buddha, the very purpose of His
existence, is based on happiness.
So what is it that gives Buddha happiness? What makes Him
feel joy? The answer to this is in the process of producing,
nurturing, developing, and bestowing prosperity on all of creation
in a flourishing harmony. He feels joy while experiencing this
process. If Buddha were to cease to exist as Buddha, then there
would be no more joy. However, Buddha is active as Buddha, and
His aim is to bring harmony to all creation, allowing it to develop
and prosper, and in the process, He has magnificent, beautiful
experiences that give Him joy and pleasure.
In this way, Buddha Himself undergoes a great transforma-
tion, and attains even further development of Himself. The facts
that “humanity exists to pursue happiness” and “people were
created to live in joy,” represent the true nature of Buddha and are
in themselves proof of His great compassion.
9. Talking of Buddha
Ultimately, the Nyorai’s role is to explain what Buddha is. The
Nyorai exist, as Buddha’s representatives, to instruct us in the
meaning of Buddha. Ordinary people are not in a position to talk
with authority about Buddha, but the Nyorai are much closer to
Him and therefore better able to carry out the role of teaching
what Buddha is. As Great Guiding Spirits of Light, the inhabitants
of the eighth dimension have been permitted to speak of the many
attributes of Buddha.
However, Buddha is so great that even the Nyorai are unable
to teach everything about Him.The soul of a single human being,
no matter how advanced, is incapable of grasping a subject so vast.
Therefore, the Nyorai of the eighth dimension are divided into
separate groups, each teaching the aspects of a single color of the
Light of Buddha.
The Nyorai who are connected to the yellow (or golden)
light that is controlled by Gautama Siddhartha concentrate on the
aspects of enlightenment, the Law, and compassion when
describing what Buddha is. The Nyorai who concentrate on the
white light that is controlled by Jesus Christ talk about Buddha
from the standpoint of love.Those of the red light that is governed
by Moses try to teach what Buddha is through the miracles that
He performs.The Nyorai of the other colors also work in the same
way. For instance, the Nyorai of the green light, as represented by
the Chinese philosophers Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu, teach about
the great harmony of nature.That is to say the Nyorai who receive
the green light preach that Buddha can be seen in nature and in
the harmony that exists there. Zeus is in charge of the light of art,
and the Nyorai in his charge tell us that Buddha can be seen in the
work of artists. Confucius controls the violet light, which teaches
propriety, order, and loyalty, saying that the way to Buddha requires
reverence and worship, thus trying to indicate what Buddha is.
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a level that they emit light in a godlike way but they still retain
bodies that are quite human in appearance. Sometimes, however,
they remember that they are in fact spiritual consciousnesses and
behave as such, flying wherever they want at will.The spirits who
had lived in the West while they were on Earth take on wings like
angels whereas those from the Far East may travel on small clouds,
as depicted in old stories of that region. In this respect, they can
be said to differ slightly from terrestrial beings whose perception
is governed by the five sensory organs.
In the Bosatsu Realm in the seventh dimension the inhabi-
tants still adopt human form in order to continue their training.
However, since a major part of their work concerns the education
of people in their developing phases, they do not spend all their
time comfortably in the seventh dimension, but visit the sixth,
fifth, and fourth dimensions to undertake various tasks or act as
guiding spirits for those on Earth, in order to make the world a
better place. Playing such versatile roles, these spirits of the seventh
dimension no longer follow a human lifestyle. In other words,
they have a higher degree of self-awareness and self-under-
standing. However, when they want to look at themselves objec-
tively, they tend to do so in the form that they used when they
lived on Earth as humans.
When we reach the Nyorai Realm of the eighth dimension,
things are a little different.The Nyorai sometimes appear on Earth
in their role as guiding spirits to teach religious leaders, and when
they do they will take on a godly appearance. For instance, when
the Shinto god Ame-no-Minakanushi-no-Mikoto (the Lord God
of the Heavenly Center) manifested himself as the Great God of
“Seicho-no-le” (a modern Japanese sect), he did so in the form of
an old, white-haired man. However, when they are in the other
world, the Nyorai do not assume human form in their daily lives.
They no longer feel the need for it. Sometimes they may take on
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another. But this does not necessarily mean that it will appeal to
everybody.Taste varies from person to person.
Buddhism includes the ideas of both the Lesser Vehicle and
Great Vehicle schools. Although people use these terms without
really thinking about the meaning, the word “vehicle” in both of
them really does refer to a vehicle as we understand the term.
Lesser Vehicle Buddhism can be thought of as a small car that can
only carry the driver whereas Great Vehicle Buddhism is like a bus
that can carry a large number of passengers.
Thus, it can be seen that religions, like vehicles, range from the
compact to the large, and the difference between them is basically
how many people they can carry or in what way they carry them.
For instance, nobody would want to drive a bus instead of a car for
their everyday errands. Of course, a bus can carry a large number
of people, but it is not suitable for a single individual’s use. In the
same way that there are various vehicles to suit various people’s
needs, religions also adapt themselves to people’s tastes, climates, or
environment.
A religion that sprang up in the Bible lands, where war and
destruction were commonplace, required a god of judgment who
would teach justice to the people. In the temperate climate of the
Orient a god that would teach harmony was necessary. In the
rational Western civilizations, the teachings took the form of
philosophy. Whatever form it may take, the object of religion
remains the same—that is to transport people from one place to
another.The vehicles that carry them may vary, but in all of them
we can discover joy and sense of purpose.This is how it has been
ordained.
Since this book was first published (in Japanese) in 1987, the Insti-
tute for Research in Human Happiness has experienced miracu-
lous growth and I believe the reason for its unprecedented devel-
opment lies in the scale of the Law it preaches.
This book contains only the Truth, the Absolute Truth, and
demonstrates that, as a disseminator of this, I myself am the
personification of Truth. The truth that this book is in fact “The
Laws of Eternity” will be proven in the future by how widely the
Laws of Buddha’s Truth are accepted and how far and long they
are conveyed. Those people who are spiritually aware will realize
that the knowledge I reveal in this book has its origins in the ninth
dimension.
If we were to compare the teachings of Zen Buddhism to a
decorative hill that has been constructed in a garden, then the
knowledge contained in this book is taller than Mount Everest.
This book represents the secret treasure of humankind and it is
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Ryuho Okawa
July 1997, for Japanese edition
WHAT IS IRH?
The Institute for Research in Human Happiness
(IRH) is an organization of people who aim to
cultivate their souls and deepen their wisdom. The
teachings of IRH are based on the spirit of Buddhism. The two
main pillars are the attainment of spiritual wisdom and the prac-
tice of “love that gives.”
Also available
MEDITATION RETREATS
Educational opportunities are provided to people who wish to
seek the path of Truth.The Institute organizes meditation retreats
for English speakers in Japan and other countries.
THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH
IN HUMAN HAPPINESS
Kofuku-no-Kagaku