Teaches of Master Okawa
What is the Meaning of life?
Unveiling the wonders and mysteries ….
How can I be truly happy in my life?
Introducing to forth fold path.
What is the true about spiritual world?
Welcome to the “REAL WORLD”
The Meaning of life:
Who Am I?
Even though we are born with a physical body, in reality, we are spiritual beings. The body is just a vehicle for the purpose of soul training. We are eternal beings and travelers in life with a divine-nature.
What is the purpose of life?
This material world that we all live in is only a temporary place for us to learn and evolve. Life is a workbook where each page and chapter has various precious lessons for us to learn from and experience. Through this great journey we can raise our awareness, evolve and discover genuine happiness. Then we can share what we have attained; help others, our society and the world.
Where do I come from?
Before we were born, we lived in the heavenly world full of happiness, harmony and freedom. We all make a life plan suited to our soul training and choose appropriate parents on earth to be born. Then we forget our soul’s Memories to begin life a fresh in this world.The Principles of Happiness
I introduced the Principles of Happiness as concrete practices for the exploration of Right Mind. In answer to the question What does the exploration of Right Mind mean? I would reply, It is an exploration of the Principles of Happiness. By the Principles of Happiness, I mean the principles that assure your happiness if you focus on exploring them and you endeavor to practice them. The Principles of Happiness include different principles, the first of which is the Principle of Love, the second the Principle of Wisdom, the third the Principle of elf-Reflection, and the fourth the Principle of Progress. Of course I have talked about various other principles; there are an abundance of ways to bring people happiness.
I have taught the importance of following these four tenets, explaining that if in your explorations of Right Mind you constantly keep these principles to the fore, you will not wander from the path and will be able to return to the heavenly world after death. In these explorations, you will even be able to endeavor to become an angel of light. This is why I tell the members of our Institute to endeavor to explore Right Mind, to find their Buddha-nature, the divine nature within, and to practice the four principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection and progress as concrete goals in their daily lives.
Firstly, I would like to offer the following words to open your eyes to enlightenment: Are you sure you are not taking love when you think of loving someone? Are you sure that you do not consider love to be something you receive from others, or something you crave from others? That is not true love. It is because you think about receiving or taking that you are suffering.
In ancient Buddhism, this was what was called love, love as an attachment. In the early days of Buddhism, attachment was referred to as love, whereas the true love, the giving love that I teach, was known as compassion. The love I teach is not attachment; it is compassion. Compassion means giving without looking for anything in return; compassion is the heart that only gives.
I refer to this as giving love because it is easier to understand in worldly terms. I could simply have called it compassion, but this is rather an old-fashioned word that modern people might find difficult to understand. So I translated it into the modern vernacular as giving love, something that even an elementary or junior high school student has no trouble comprehending.
When people think of love, in most cases they think of being loved by a man or a woman they like, or by their parents or children. In other words, they think of receiving love. When they do not receive sufficient love, they suffer. This kind of thinking is something that they have to change. If everyone wants to receive love and no one is left to give it, this will lead to a worldwide shortage of love. It is important first to supply love. If everyone supplies love, then the world will be filled with love.
Never before in the course of the reincarnations of a soul has there been such an opportunity to study as there is today, living as we do in this great information age.
I would like everyone living in these times to make a thorough study of the Truth and this is why I am presenting the Principle of Wisdom. Naturally the Principle of Wisdom begins from a study of the Truth but it does not simply mean storing this as knowledge. I would also like you to use this knowledge in your daily life, to put it into practice in missionary activities or in the workplace, and experience it as your own enlightenment, thereby converting it into wisdom.
It is possible to obtain any amount of knowledge of the Truth. I have introduced many different forms of the Truth so that anyone can apply it to their own life. However, when it comes to solving problems, people are biased in a certain direction. Some people have particular difficulty with love, while others have problems in some other area. When solving problems in life, there is a particular direction people need to head in; the foundation essential for this is a knowledge of the Truth.
It is important to put this knowledge into practice, and master it so that you are able to say, I see, this is how it should be done. This dispels my delusions, it solves my problems and will allow me to achieve liberation. You need to make these small discoveries of enlightenment. There is no end to them. You will probably experience some sort of enlightenment every day, every week or every month, and the accumulation of these is most important.
It is important to know that self-reflection is closely connected to your view of the world. I would like you to be aware that in the world that links this world to the spirit world, self-reflection works according to the same principles as the laws of physics, in the context of the Truth. I would also like you to be aware that self-reflection is what determines your path.
While people live in this world, they are blind, and because there is much they do not understand, they make many mistakes. However, God and the angels, Buddha and the Bodhisattva in heaven, understand this. They know only too well that when they themselves are reborn into this world, they like everyone else must grope to find their way, so they have a deep compassion for those who live on Earth.
Human beings all make mistakes; they have been blessed with the freedom to do so. This is allowed because they have the ability to correct these mistakes. Even if you have made a mistake you can reflect on it; it is because you can reflect on and repent your actions that you are able to undo mistakes.
Once something has been done and has become a fact in this world, or has become a physical reality, it may be impossible to undo. However, what concerns the mind, or what happens in the mind can be undone because the inner world encompasses past, present and future. If it were impossible to undo mistakes, there would be no point in practicing self-reflection.
This is the reason you have been given self-reflection. Through self-reflection you can undo past deeds. If you reflect on your past with a pure heart, you will be able to wipe out all the records that have been written as losses, in the same way as you erase with an ink eraser what you have written. This is a great power with which you have been endowed. So if you have committed many wrong deeds and think, I am hopeless, there is no saving me, you should make a new start this very moment. You can start with the spiritual refinement of self-reflection, and alter yourself. When you have achieved a certain level through doing this, you will find that your past sins have been entirely erased.
A teaching ideally suited to modern society. In Buddhist terms, this teaching is about building a Buddha Land, a utopia on Earth. In worldly terms, it is to encourage the people who study the Truth to be successful in this world, because the more successful a person is, the greater their influence. I want people to achieve true success and increase their influence on others, without ever becoming slaves to money, becoming absorbed solely in getting promotions, or increasing their attachment by remaining stuck fast to their position.
I would also like people to seize hold of the happiness that can be carried from this world to the next. The Institute for Research in Human Happiness provides clear teachings about the other world so it is unlikely that any of our members would search for the kind of happiness that is limited to this world alone.
It is my hope that everyone will achieve the greatest possible happiness in this world as well as the next. As long as this is not achieved at the cost of the happiness of others, happiness in this world will lead to happiness in the next.
“Real world”
The ‘Real World’ is multi-dimensional. Human spirits exist from the 4th dimension to the 9th, with each having different qualities. There is a realm for the good, for leaders, for angels, for masters and even for saviours. To increase our soul’s evolution further, we need to experience life on earth again through the cycle of reincarnation.
