The article #4. To live better only one life (2) ~How you see the world~

This is Kohanbito as Lake Man.

In the previous article#3, in order to let you live your life without regret, I recommended you to face yourself alone first and then I also recommended you to set your goal in the rest of your life. And I said that it will enrich your life. And I also mentioned that goal you set should be reviewed and amended often to make them appropriate to your ability.
And also I revealed my 7 objects in the article #3. And there I also said that the most important object among my 7 objects is “Object (1): Always try to have and keep the right mental attitude and live with them intentionally.”
This time, I would like to explain you the reason why I think “Object (1): Always try to have and keep the right mental attitude and live with them intentionally” is the most important object to me.

(1) Why “Object (1): Always try to have and keep the right mental attitude and live with them intentionally” is the most important object?

Actually, if I put it simple, even if you try hard to achieve some specific objects in your life, sometime, suddenly your death comes and then you will leave this world. Such a tragedy could happen to anyone anytime. And if you have to leave this world without accomplishment of such specific goals, then there will be some sense of dissatisfaction remains, and it may bother your sprit to go back to the spiritual world smooth. If your spirit is keep hanging around your house and hanging around your family or this world and if your spirit keeps blaming that you did not want to die without accomplishment of your dream, then your spirit may look like what we call “Ghost”. That is not healthy condition. It is not good for your family and it is not good for yourself if you keep hanging around and blaming in this world. You should go straight to the heaven (or hell) instead.
So, from that point of view, I think it is better for you to set your goal to be more like how to manage your thought or your mind or your mental attitude in your daily life rather than achieving specific goals. By that, you may be able to avoid to become unhappy ghost who is always complaining and hanging around in the world.
The most important thing in the object setting process is to let you satisfy with your life, so, from that point of view, setting your goal as how to manage your mental attitude in your daily life is more suitable rather than achieving specific goal.

Even though I say your goal should be more about management of your mental attitude rather than achieving specific goals, but I may say, it is OK to let you have specific smaller goals as second priority. And if you could achieve such smaller goals in the process, then that is simply wonderful thing, and you should be pleased with it. That is fine you should enjoy achieving such smaller goals but I would say, the first priority in your goal setting should be more about management of mental attitude rather than specific ones.

Like Ryouma Sakamoto who was the hero of Meiji revolution who said that “I was born to achieve important things”, I know there are some special guys who were sent from HQ of heavenly world above as a missionary of god, and I know we have been calling them “Angels” We know that.
Those guys are supposed to achieve their specific missions to change the direction of this world, so that their missions have to be achieved without failures because it is the order from God. Failure for them are not accepted by HQ of heaven. For those guys, specific mission means everything and requirement but for ordinary people like me, trying to be a good man by controlling your mind in the ordinary life, and if we try our best in that way, then, I think we should consider those lives “good enough”.

(2) It depends on how you see the world (1) – Spiritual way of thinking, world tree (life tree of God)-
Even I say “how to manage your mental attitude in your daily life is important”, you may wonder why I can clearly say such a way of living is important. Why? It is simply I am one of many people who believes that mankind are infinite existence as spirits and we were born in this world many times through reincarnation program in order to brush up our minds in order to become much higher and closer existence to God by gaining deeper understanding about yourself and about mankind and about this world throughout many life experiences in reincarnation. From that point of view, we can say that paying attention to what you think in your dairy life means everything for us. We can say gaining the ability to control you mind itself is the purpose to life in this world. That is why I can conclude that “Object (1): Always try to have and keep the right mental attitude and live with them intentionally” is the most important object among others.
In this world, you gain experience, and brush up your minds, and strengthen your spirits, and when you face your death, you throw out your physical bodies and you just bring such brushed up spirits (or soul) only back to the spiritual world. Your brushed up spirits are only things that you can carry over throughout many life experiences throughout the reincarnation. That is why we can say that “Object (1): Always try to have and keep the right mental attitude and live with them intentionally” is the most important object among others.
By the way, there are “common truth” that I can find out in many different teaching or many different thoughts or religions which I have learned through many books that I read. And according to that, common truth we found are, “we are born in this world many times in order to gain experiences and to learn more about yourself and more about this world to get closer to higher being, God. And then we die and we go back to spiritual world which matches to your state of mind. So, you may go back to the spiritual world called “hell” or you may go back to the spiritual world called “heaven” or you may go back to grey area somewhere in between those two worlds. You may go back to the world based on your tendency of your mind and you will go to where you see many of similar type of spirits like you. And there, you will face yourself by seeing someone like you and you will learn what was wrong with you by seeing similar kind of people and you will feel like to change yourself. Then you can graduate such a world (hell) and you can go back to where you originally belongs to (heaven). After you finish correcting your spirit and after you finish clearing up your mind, then you will finish reset of your karmas and you can again come back to this world based on your spiritual growth plan again.
And here in this world again, you can strengthen your weaker parts, and you can align your twisted part in this world, and you can get very balanced round heart which is close to original shape of soul when your soul were originally given by God. And there are actually much higher being exists in this world besides us. There are not many but we sometimes witness special existences called “angels”. They come to this world in order to change the direction of the world or save people’s spirits. Especially many of them come to this world in the time of change of civilization or change of era. They come to this earth with mission and as soon as they finish their missions, they come back to heaven.
That is the truth of this world. And that truth is common truth that I can see among many different kinds of thoughts or religions or teachings.
Furthermore, from common truth I learned, if we see the life tree of God (world tree), then we human beings must be like leaves of that life tree of the ultimate God. Or we may be cells of huge body of God. We are all part of God and we were all children of God. We can say we are not God himself but we are a part of him, we are children of God for sure. And mankind is all connected and we are all brothers and sisters.
+ And that must be the reason why all of us has pride. (It is natural that you have pride if you are a part of God),
+ And that might be the reason why all of our lives are precious (It is natural to think that our lives are precious if our lives are parts of God),
+ And that is why human lights are precious (of course it is precious because it is not just human light but it is also the light of children of God,
+ And that is why we cannot kill someone (of course you cannot kill part of God, you cannot kill children of God),
+ And that is why suicide is not allowed (of course you cannot kill yourself because you are part of God, you are children of God, if you kill yourself, it is same as killing God, you cannot do that),
+ And that is why you cannot lie and hurt and insult others (because they are all parts of God, they are children of God, that is why you cannot lie or hurt or insult others, if you do those, then it is same as you are telling lie to God and it is same as you are hurting God and it is same as you are insulting God, you cannot do that),

So, from such a point of view, if you look at people around you, what you are supposed to see there is, there are a lots of people who has divine inside and they are all children of God, and each of them has different personalities and they are all unique and precious, and they are all blessed existence. That is the truth of this world. And that is what we are supposed see in this world. But but, however, majority of us do not see the world in such a way, and majority of us do not know such a simple fact, and so that they keep doing something oppose to his divinity, and keep creating bad karmas. It is very sad and disappointing fact. Therefore, I wish many of us soon recognize this fact that they are all children of God and parts of God, and I hope that they live their lives more politely with respects to their lives.
So I think we better see the people around us in that way. No, we “must” see the people in that way. It is the requirement.
So, I pray strongly many people to find out the fact that they are all parts of God and they are all children of God soon and I hope they live in the way they are supposed to. I live with such a strong wish in everyday life.

(3) How you see the world (2)　–future can be changed by your thought-
But even I say so, for those who do not believe in God or those who do not believe in human as spiritual existence, what I have said means probably nothing to them. They may think that after they die, that is it, nothing left, no spirit left but just become nothing and void. Therefore, they may think they should enjoy as much as they can while they are alive. For such people, how to live with certain mental attitude based on the idea (we humans are all children of God and we reincarnate many many times to gain more experiences and brush up our minds and get closer to God by gaining understanding about yourself, humans, this world and God through such many life experiences in reincarnation.) may mean nothing.
For those people do not believe in God or those who do not believe in human as spiritual existence may just seek for just fun and live with less pain and live longer may be all they wish because death means the end of everything for them.
And among them, since they do not scare of God, some of they may become like beasts or scum of human who feel joy in threatening others or trapping others or giving pains to others. For me, those are almost like devils. The worst status of human beings.

So, as we see it, the “thought” you have can change the way you see the world and it will change the way of your living and it will change your definition of this world. And this world, we, mankind is made of people who has different “thoughts” and different philosophies with different way of seeing this world. The future of our planet is depending upon what kind of thoughts majority of mankind will have. So“Thought” is very important thing for us.

For materialists or atheists, there is no God or no Spirits who always watch us
from other dimensions, so that they do not have idea of invisible existences are
watching and checking their mind status so what they say and what they think are
often different. Because they think no one can find out their lies. So they have no
hesitation in telling you untruth. And they can do any bad things if no one is
watching it because they do not believe in invisible existences watching what they are doing. And for those people, their death mean the end of everything. They do not believe in after life, they do not believe in Karma so that they do not think that they need to carry all the things they have done through reincarnation forever. They think they can “reset” their lives by their death, so that they think all the bad things they did disappears with their deaths. So they can do anything without hesitation, even they can commit suicide for the same reason. Even they hurt someone, they think it does not matter for them because they think all the bad things can be deleted when they die and since they think they will become nothing after their death, they think they do not need to suffer for keep blamed by others after their death. What they care is only how to avoid fear of pain in body and spirit, and how to gain the pleasures in body and in spirit. So, they tend to obey to the power that may hurt them in body or in spirit even it is the bad power. So it is not just good or bad but it is matter of fear. No policy and no philosophy behind it. And where they become to be in the position to hurt someone with power they do it the same to the much weaker existences. So there is a chain of harassment never ends. It is close to nature but in case of nature, animals act with their instinct but we human do the harassment more intentionally. Animals can be better than human in that sense. It is not beautiful way of life and I think we can live in better way. They also care about what other people say about them, because it psychologically hurts. So, in order to avoid it, they try to be nice in front but their thinking is actually different. But again since they do not believe in invisible existence watching their mind or since they do not believe in Karma, they can become hypocrites easily.
And those people tend to seek for enjoyment mainly for their bodies. It is OK to enjoy foods or music or sports or any activities as leisure but that should not be the main goal for your life, right? It is a matter of balance and it is a matter of which subject is main and which subject is sub in your life. When seeking enjoyment for their bodies become their main goal in their lives, such idea tends to make those people antisocial existence. They will become like beasts. Especially people who seek for sexual pleasure tends to make their lives in wrong direction and such idea tends to lead them into tragedy. Because they tends to be possessed by the desire and they tend to put important mental attitudes (care to family or children or weak existence who need your help) aside. Joy wins over humanity. That is not a good condition. We got to be careful to handle such desire. And there are some people who were failed to be almost like devils who enjoys entrapping people in bad conditions, those looks like almost none human being. They are sad existence.

So, if the world is full of materialists or atheists, since they do not believe in God or Spirits who always watch our mind and our actions, they will not hesitate to lie to you or hurt you and your kids, they will only care about how to avoid fear to pain and they put priority in chasing enjoyment rather than caring people around you with humanity. Such a world is close to hell. It is close to our reality but it is not wonderful world.

On the other hand, if the majority of people who live in this world believe in
God and believing that invisible spirits are watching their minds and their actions and so that they should behave right in mind and in actions and they cannot tell lie and they cannot do bad things even no one is watching it. That is wonderful isn’t it?
If the majority of people who live in this world believe in Karma and reincarnation, then people’s actions and thoughts becomes more careful with care to others, and they can satisfy with their current life because they can believe that this life is result of their past lives and if they live good in this life, their lives in future could be wonderful so that they should live good and be nice to others and create good Karma in this life.
That is wonderful isn’t it?
If the majority of people who live in this world believe in this world is created by God so that they should keep this world better and clean place with care, and if those people believe in all the man were a part of God and all children of God and we are all brothers and sisters in spirit, so that we should respect and care and love each other, and if we live that way, then that is wonderful isn’t it?

If you compare above two (the world of atheist & the world of God believer), which world is safer place for your children to live?
I think if the world is full of people who believe in God and who believes that invisible spirits are watching their mind and their actions and believing in Karma and reincarnation, then the world becomes much safer and brighter and trustworthy place to live.

Anyway, what kind of “thought” mankind have can change this world. Thought is such a powerful and an important aspect for us for sure.

(4) How you see the world (3)　–Karma -

Again, I live my daily life with a thought which is believing in God and believing that we are all children of God and in the process of reincarnation, we brush up our minds and gaining experience and trying to get closer to God. That is how I see the world. And I also believe that whatever we acted or thought were all recorded as Karma, and we need to carry the results throughout the reincarnation. And Karma means cause and effect. We receive reaction to what we have done, so that if you do nice to others, in future, we will receive those good things from others. If you hurt someone, you will be hurt in future. That is Karma. So we better do good things as much as you can if you wish your good future. Effect in Karma can be appeared in next or next next life or even more later future, so it is hard to know what you are facing is the result of which Karma from which life but if you face very lucky thing, then it may be result of something you did something kind and good to others in your past lives, and if something unlucky thing happens then it might be the result of your bad attitude in the past lives. It is really hard for us to know which incident is result of which Karma in which lives but the important point here is, we better do good and kind things to others. And you should know that doing good thing now is equals to you are creating your lives in futures reincarnation brighter and better for sure.

And it is simply wonderful thing if many people start to believe in Karma and if they start to try to be cautious about what they do or what they say to others and try to be good person. So we should recommend more people to believe in Karma and we all try to be kind and nice each other. Then this would will become much nicer place to live.

(5)　the contents of object(1) and (7)

In the article #3, I explained what my 7 objects are.
In there, I explained “Object (1): Always try to have and keep the right mental attitude and live with them intentionally.” is most important objects among 7.
But I did not reveal the contents of it in detail. So, since I do not have to reveal my real name here, even it is bit embarrassing, I decided to explain it in detail below.
Based on the view of the world I see as I explained above, I am requiring to myself to do below things.

（A) We human beings are children of God, so that we are supposed to respect each other, and care each other, and we should not despise each other, or hurt each other, but on the other hand, most of people do not realize the fact and many of them live daily life without paying attention to such a fact, and from self- instinct of self‐preservation, they tend to attach people around them to put them in the much safer place, but all those negative actions are wrong from the spiritual point of view. And all those negative actions are creating bad Karma for them without any conscious. We those who are already aware of this fact should try to stop those people to keep creating bad Karma as much as we can, and we should try to tell and teach them that they are not supposed to do such wrong things because all of us are children of God so that we should respect and care and love each other and it is creating good Karma so that it is good for your future. I am requesting myself to keep such a mental attitude all the time.
（B) Regarding job, I have been trying to match the profit of my company and the profit of society, I mean I am hoping and paying attention what my company sells benefits society and my company contributes to the society. And also I am trying hard to be knowledgeable about my job and try to be in the position to make the appropriate right decisions in job. And paying attention to all workers to be happy through the jobs and all of them achieve appropriate self-realization and realize win & win situation between the workers and the organization. And I try to focus and work hard bright, that is the mental attitude that I request myself in my job.
（C) Finally, I request myself to meditate shortly to be one with God and live with the God and Pray and ask guardian angels to protect me from any evils and appreciating them to let me learn many things through my life and asking them to assist me to do above two things right. That is the 3rd mental attitude I request myself.

I ask myself to have above three things in my mind all the time and live with them.
And it is almost same as above (C) but,
among my 7 objects, “object (7): And praying to the higher beings such as gods and Buddha and ask them for help to do all those above things right and live with their supports and live together with holy spirits throughout my life.” is one of my object to achieve in my daily life.
It is about Pray. I pray to guardian angels and above Gods to support me to achieve all those 7 objects in my life and I appreciate to them and having an image to live together with them.

And also I pray some words of prayers which were given by a famous and the great religious leader in Japan as well. I pray those words of prayers every day.
By praying them, I have been receiving power and protect. I am appreciating it very much.
That was the contents of my object (1) and (7).
I hope this story become good reference for you.

Kohanbito as Lake man.

The article #3. To live better only one life (1) Setting your object or goal

Hi this is Kohanbito as Lake Man.

This time, I would like to explain you about how beneficial for you to set your objects or your goals or your slogans or your mottos of your life because it will give you the sense of responsibility to your life and it will help you to understand how you want to live rest of your life and it will help you to accept your life with understanding and satisfaction.

(1) Only one life
I am one of many people who believe in reincarnation. So I believe that we repeat lives and born again and again many times in this world. But even so, this life is only one chance for me to live with my name and with this family members and with my friends, and with this world environments in this era. This life is only one chance. So, this life in this time is unreplaceable. And it is so precious and so important life we live. If it is so, our life should be the result of our best efforts.
So, we should not live without having aim or we should not live without understanding what you have done in your life and we should not live without understanding how you want to live rest of your life. And you should make your life good enough that you can tell yourself “I did my best” when your life ends. And your life should be good enough that you can accept it and you can consider your life was the result of your best efforts without regret.

(2) Asking yourself what you want to achieve in the rest of your life
To spend your life without regret, first thing you need to do to yourself is, you need to ask yourself and find out what you want to achieve in the rest of your life and you need to find out what would be the things that may cause you to regret later if you fail to do them in the rest of your life.
You better have your answers to those questions first.
And I recommend you to do such actions alone, just by yourself, without having helps from others. By putting yourself in the quiet environment, you need to ask yourself above questions and you better summarized your thought. Doing it by yourself alone is very important point. Since it is decision of your life, you should do it by yourself. It should “not” be done by your parents, not by your kids, not by your friends, but by yourself. Imagine the situation when you face the end of your life, imagine the situation that you are leaving this world. And you imagine what you would regret if you die now. Then you can list up what you need to achieve before you die, and you also find out what kind of way of living can make you to avoid regreting at the end of your life. And you will find out what makes you feel to say “I did my best in my whole life, there is no regret in my whole life.” Again, it is important for you to do it by yourself alone. If we do not do this alone, since we are weak existence, we tend to think that the causes of problems are coming from surroundings, not by yourself. We tend to think that my life wasn’t good because my friends made mistakes or because my parents made mistakes or because my society was bad or such. We tend to think to seek cause of problems are coming from outside of yourself.
So, in order to avoid let you have such negative way of thinking at the end of your life, how to live in the rest of your life has to be decided by yourself. But as you are aware of, how you feel about what happened to your life depends on purely your personal feeling. It just depends on your feeling, yourself. Even when the birds are singing, it may be just noise for some people, but for other people, it is just a beautiful sound and sound of healing. So, it depends on your feeling.
From this simple fact, your evaluation to any events happened in your life are not absolute value but they are just very objective and they are very personal, not absolute, so those evaluation can be changed. So how you evaluate to what happened to your life is purely up to your feeling. So since the evaluation of any events happened in your life depend on how you feel and you can evaluate them and define them all by yourself freely, so we can say that your happiness is all up to yourself. This means, you are the only one person who can make your life was happy or unhappy. So, we should be aware that your life is all up to you and it is under your responsibility.
So to make that point clear, and in order to let you understand what your life was like and in order to let you understand what you want to achieve in the rest of your life, and in order to let understand what will make you regret if you do not do certain things in the rest of your life, you better ask yourself alone and you summarized your answers to those questions and you better set your objects or your slogans or your mottos with clear written words.
This process may sounds very tough and lonely but we should remember that we are basically all lonely existence. When we were born, we were all alone, and when we die, we all die alone, so, we better accept the fact that we are such lonely existence as a bases. And we better do those procedures alone and think deeply about what will make your life satisfied when you die. This action is like a preparation for your death. But this is an essential process to enrich the rest of your life. And after you sort out what you want to achieve in the rest of your life or how you want to live in the rest of your life, you just work hard to achieve such goals or slogans or mottos you set.

(3) From Any age, any times
Of course, it is better you to start this kind of process while you are young. If you start doing this kind of analysis and settlement of goals while you are young, that means that you can face yourself and your life more seriously at early stage of your life, and it means that you will have much longer period that you lived your life more serious with your best efforts. And that means that you could spend more valuable time in your life than just live without doing these process, without facing yourself more seriously.
But on the other hand, I can say that it is also OK that you start this kind of process of analysis and settlement of goals even after you gets older. No problem at all. Because, as matter of fact, if you repeat this kind of process of analysis and settlement of goals many many times, you will find out that your goal tends to be amended in time and tends to become much smaller and smaller in time, gradually. As you start to notice and understand the limitation of your ability and limitation in your power and limitation in your talent and so on, gradually you feel like to modify your goals to make them more realistic and suitable to your abilities. That is very natural process. Especially when you are young, you tend to set your goal very high, and sometime it does not match to your ability, but if you set your goal when you gets older, your goal may be much smaller but more realistic and it may fit to your ability and so it tends to become more constructive object. So it is hard to say which is better whether you start this process while you were young or after you gets older.
And if you start this process of analysis and settlement of goals while you were young, later, after you gets older, you can compare the goal you set when you were young and the goals you set after you get older, then you will be surprised to see the big difference between those goals you set when you were young and goals you set after you get older.
At the same time, you will be surprised to see how difficult for younger people to evaluate themselves correctly. And you will be surprised that goals you set when you were young tends to become inappropriately too big for your ability and talent. It is always privilege of young people to dream big but it is also true that the disappointment is bigger when there is a huge gap between what you dreamed and your ability. So, more gap can cause more disappointments. So, I recommend you to set the goal little higher than what you are or what you have. The goal has to be realistic and achievable. That is good enough. You do not need to put yourself too much pressure by setting your goal too high. And if you succeed to achieve the goal you set in the past, then you may amend the goal again and set it a little higher, then you try again to reach the new goal you set. I think that is enough for most of us. Important thing here is to let you accept and understand and satisfy with your life. So, you do not need to set your goal too high and too aggressive. I believe so. I want to advise it so to younger people. If you are already not young but old, then I do not need to concern much about this kind of things. Because they know who they are well. They know more about what they can do, what they are good at, and limitation in their ability and talent, limitation of their physics and finance. So, they can set the goal more realistic and achievable than younger people. I do not worry about elder people. So, again, starting this kind of process of analysis and settlement of goals after you gets older is fine.
More realistic goal can cause you less disappointment. So, again, starting this process after you gets older is not bad at all. I wish elder people can enrich the rest of their lives through this process.
And also, I need to point out to you is that, it is OK to “repeat” this process many many times in order to make your goals more appropriate and realistic to your capacity in time. And I recommend you to start to list up any actions that may cause you regret at the end of your life if you miss them to do. In other words, you better list up any actions that you may feel to say “I cannot die if I miss to achieve these.”
And the other point that I want you to know is,
if your goal is very big and if it takes some time to achieve, then I recommend you to break them down into smaller objects in order to make them more achievable with less pressure. If the goals are smaller, and if you can achieve such smaller objects step by step in time, then it may be easier for you to achieve goals in time and it will help you to have sense of accomplishments more and the sense of confidence. And simply it will help you to enjoy this process. Since the most important purpose of this process is to let you satisfy with your life, enjoyment is also important aspect in this process. So I hope you enjoy the process of achieving goal more and more. This process does not need be bitter or tougher all the time for you. I recommend you to enjoy this challenge more. So, we recommend you to set your goals achievable and not too tough. And I hope you gain the sense of accomplishments and confidence and joy through this process.
Now let me explain two important points when you set the goal.

(4) 1st Point : appropriate for your ability
As I explained you before, it is common that your goals changes in time, in many cases, it tends to get smaller and smaller in time. If it is so, I recommend you to do this process of analysis and setting goals more frequently and I recommend you to modify your goal very often. May be once per year, or once per month, or even once per week, if it is possible. And I recommend you to set your goal appropriate enough that you can achieve with some reasonable hard works. Because if you set the goal too high, then some of you may suffer for the gap between your goal and your ability. And you will be stressed out and your body and your mind will be damaged and gradually you will start to deny and blame environments and starts to say that “I am in such tough situation and being miserable because this environment is horrible and my parents are not talented and my friends are mean and they do not help me”. You may be possessed by such a negative thoughts. But again, the purpose of this process is let you accept and satisfy with your life. So I should say that having such negative attitude is almost opposite direction from original intention. So, we should always look back your goal is appropriate contests for you or not, and if you find out it is too high then we should modify it and make it achievable by your reasonable hard works. That is the 1st check point I want you to check when you set the goal.

(5) 2nd Point : Good for you and good for the society
Your goal in your life does not need to be gigantic or monumental. It can be simple as “live your life cheerfully and brightly” Or “live healthy” or “be kind” or such. No problem at all. As long as it is positive and it does not damage others, no problem. The important point here is, let you decide your goal or motto by yourself and let you be responsible to your life and let you understand and accept your life in the past, and let live the rest of your life with your goal and let you do your best to achieve such a goal you set. And let you satisfy with your life. That is the purpose of this process. So, simple object is fine at all as long as it is positive. But one thing we need to care is, if your goal is good for you but if it is bad for others and if it damages others and society, then you need to avoid to have such wrong goal. That is the 2nd point I ask you to care.
Even if you succeed to earn money by achieving your goal, if your goal results to pollute environment and damages the nature and suffer other people, then people around you will start to blame and complain you and they will not welcome your success and they will not admit the wealth you made. And the hate from people will remains throughout some generations, then your families or your ancestors will be blamed and will be hated even though they did nothing wrong but you. It will be expansion of unhappiness throughout some generations. We would like to avoid such a thing to happen. So, you need to check whether your goal is good for both you and society or not.
And if you goal can make you satisfy, and at the same time, if it becomes beneficial for society and others, and if it will make people smile and happy and if it will create some wealth and good reputation, and if those are succeeded to your ancestors, than that will be like chain reaction of happiness has happened throughout some generations. That is what we want to see, that is ideal self-realization we should look for. We should seek for such win & win type of goal. In order to do it, we better repeat the process of analysis and setting goals more frequently.
If I tell you my case, my goal and my motto are actually embarrassingly small goal. But since I used my hand name here in this blog, it may be OK to reveal my goal as an example here.
My objects or my mottos in the rest of my life are below 7 things.
Object (1): Always try to have and keep the right mental attitude and live with them intentionally. That is the 1st thing.
Object (2): Trying to attend town events, especially cleaning event as much as I can. And trying to keep my town and around my house clean in order to realize nice atmosphere in my town.
Object (3): Always trying hard to match the success of my company and benefits to society. And trying hard to be the most knowledgeable person in my company to make any judgment always right and appropriate to lead the company in right direction.
Object (4): raise my children until they become independent (it is normal as a parent but)
Object (5): Trying to finish paying off my housing loan. And pass my house free to my wife and kids (This might be a long way to go but I want to finish it before I die)
Object (6): Explaining my honest feeling and thoughts to the world through this blog and share opinions with people who has similar kinds of idea or way of thinking and encourage each other and influence each other. (I am doing it now)
Object (7): And praying to the higher beings such as gods and Buddha and ask them for help to do all those above things right and live with their supports and live together with holy spirits throughout my life.

Above 7 objects are my goals that I set to myself.

As I see them here again, I am so surprised and embarrassed to know how normal and how small those my goals are. But it is true myself, so, I need to accept it.
So, revealing my thought through this blog itself is like achieving one of my goals. So, honestly speaking, I am so glad and happy and being satisfied about this blog. But doing blog is nothing special and anyone can start anytime, but it fits to me and I like it very much.
Like my case, setting up goals can helps you to enrich your life more.

And there is one more thing I want to say in this article.
If I have to select the most important object among my 7 objects, then I would say, it is “Object (1): Always try to have and keep the right mental attitude and live with them intentionally”.
I will explain the reason why I think so in other article later.
I hope this article was beneficial for you.

Kohanbito as Lake Man.

(Revised version 1:2016.12.04)

The article #10. The most important thing = Trying to please the ultimate God, God the parent

This is Kohanbito as Lake Man.

In this article, I would like to talk about the most important mental attitude we should have as children of God. That is, as children of God, we should always try to make him pleased, and we should always try not to put him in sorrow.
We should keep this in mind all the time. And our action and our thought always start from this point of view.
That is very simple thing but this is the most important thing for us.
I would like to talk about such a theme today.

Since future is uncertain, and since we do not know when we need to leave this world, I decided to reveal what I really wanted to say through this blog first.
So, this article is the strongest message I wanted to express through this blog.

In the article #3 to # 5, I mentioned about my image of character of the ultimate God among thousands of Gods. And there, I said that the ultimate one who may be called “the creator” might see us as his children and see us as leaves of the life tree of God with his affection. And this God with mercy might provide us unlimited chances of growth and amendments in karma through reincarnation which comes from the idea of fairness and equality in chances. That was what I assume about the stance that the ultimate God may take. And today, from that point of view, I would like to confirm with you about what is the most important basic way of thinking we should take as children of God.

That is, the ultimate God who is the top class among thousands of Gods might be considered as the creator. If he is the creator, then he is our parent God. And if he is God the parent, then we should care more about how he see the world and how he feels about the current status of this world.

And we should live well in the world he created and we should do our best in his educational system (Karma, reincarnation or such) that he provided in order to lead us into much higher status in divinity.
And we should appreciate the stage that he provided for us, and we should try hard to meet his expectation. And we should try to please him. That is the mental attitude we (as children of God) always should take.

If I try to say this in much simpler way, then, I should say, we (as a mankind, as loving creatures of the creator) should try to meet the expectation of God the parent. And we should always try to please the God the parent and we should always try to make him smile. And we should “not” put him sorrow.

We should always come back to this point and remember and all our actions and all our thoughts should come from this point of view. That is what we need to do as children of God. This is the strongest message I want to express in this life.

From that point of view, we can easily imagine that such God the parent always expects us to love each other, respect each other, care each other, because he created all of us with love and he loves all of us one by one.
And we can easily imagine that he has sent many his angels with his orders and missions to this world many many times in the past, and he has created many different religions and different civilizations. And it is obvious that he hopes all those religions or civilizations get along with each other by accepting the differences and uniqueness and diversity.
In other words, it is obvious that he sees the current world with sorrow because he sees his loving children doubts each other and hate each other and kill each other.

Therefore, we (as human being, as children of the creator) should care more about how our God the parent expects us and we should not let our God the parent to be in sorrow, and we should try to make him happy by showing him that we are trying to overcome the misunderstanding and overcoming the hate and the fear which comes from the lack of understanding due to differences in religion and languages and culture and countries and colors of skin.

So, again, we should try to please our common God as parent, and we should try “not” to make him sad, and we should put this kind of idea as basis for any of our thoughts and any of our actions. And we should imagine that there is a high possibility that the God we were talking about are the same ultimate one, especially God that we see in world religions are very likely to be the same one. We thought they were different gods but the truth was not, they were seeing the same one. The misunderstanding was caused by the places you stood to see him were different from others, the angles that you saw him were different from others, and how you called him, the name were different. Those were the reasons why we misunderstood, but the truth was, we were talking about the same almighty God, the creator, the ultimate one. And we should see that he is the one who enjoys his creativity and he loves diversity in his creation.
And if we could find out something in common in different religions, then we should simply be pleased with it, and if we find out the differences in different religions, then we should simply wonder about the diversity in his creation. And if we find out some religious rules do not fit to this modern society, and if they were causing difficulties to let those believers adapt themselves into modern society, then we should always try to see not the surface of rules but we should try to think about what was the reasons behind the rules, what was God’s intention to set up such rules, and once if we could understand what was his intention, then we should succeed his spirits, and we should try to modify those rules to make them suitable for modern society while we keep his original intentions in them. We should keep doing it to make every religions acceptable and understandable each other in this modern society. And we should imagine that God the parent will appreciate such modifications and we should imagine that he will smile on you.
That is what we need to do as children of God, and that will become our devotion to God the Parent.

Now we should put the pride and ego of each religions aside.
Instead, we should think how our God as parent see us first.
We should imagine first that he would be so happy if his children in different religions love and understand each other. And we should imagine that how sadly he see this current world with full of fears and full of haters and full of tears.
And we should come back to this basic point. That is, it is our mission to make him happy by showing we are trying hard to be united, we are trying hard to love each other, and we are trying hard to accept the differences by feeling the fact that our God the parent is common God in all major religions.

I hope at the end of this century, this world becomes much better place to live and I hope at the time, we can have the situation allows us to speak frankly about differences in religions without terrorism.
As you can imagine, the key might be the world of Islam. I assume the Islamic nations in south East Asia such as Indonesia or Malaysia will be the key players to make some difference in Islamic world. They have great population, and they are close to Japan, so, with some helps from Japan, they can be more competitive in economy and more competitive in education and culture and sports in the world. If they become competitive enough to compete against western world with slogan “Allah does not want violence but he wants Islamic people to be strong in culture. Don’t make him sad.” And gradually if they become an opinion leader in Islamic world, and if they can achieve some modifications to Islamic strict rules which seems too extreme for non-Islamic, and if they succeed and become competitive county in the world and if they could show how the successful modernized Islamic culture looks like, then it will be great. And if some radical fundamentalists find out that violence was not the answer by seeing the success of such south East Asian countries, then it will be great.
We hope Japan can take a great role in such movement by involving economically by establishing factories in those nations, or by having educational collaborations, or by the spread of new Japanese religion which was inspired by such ultimate one. But this requires some political involvement and it requires planner to draw a picture of entire vision.
Turkey is also a good candidate but now the Turkey is in chaos, so, it requires more political involvements. If Japanese government can collaborate with Mr. Putin of Russia to lead and guide Turkey to be modernized powerful Islamic nation, that will be good too but we cannot expect Japanese government to take a leadership in such a project, so it will be hard. I am sorry to say but.

Anyway, I hope all of us work hard to make this century as a century of hope, and I hope we can make the ultimate one happy and smile by realizing major world religions live in peace in this century.

I hope this blog was beneficial for you.

Kohanbito as Lake Man.