1. Law of Soul
★ The human being is spiritual being
All the people are spiritual being. This is The Law of Soul. We human being
isn't existence only for the simple body. We never are the empty existence
that is the entire end if we die. We live in this physical world in the
state that body and soul overlap each other. The soul is our essence, and
the body is only something like vehicle which we borrow while we live in
this world. Our soul who lived in the body with birth leaves the body with
physical death again and continues living as the spiritual being forever.
It is essential that we know and understand this truth to brighten the
life truely. On the contrary, if we don't know this truth and deny it,
we will send the life when there are many uneasiness and fear with a meaning
to live for being uncertain. It becomes difficult to escape from three
big pains that anyone will experience in the life. Three are to know a
sense of fear for death, sorrow of the bereavement and your life to be
unhappy.
★ You don't have to be afraid of death
One
of three pains in the life is a sense of fear for the death. Is there
the experience that wasn't able to sleep to you at night while thinking
that what will happen if oneself has died in the childhood? When my
father died at the age of 4 years old, I (Mr.Ehara) thought whether
death was to come to nothing, I haven't been able to sleep for one week
either. There are a lot of patient of terminal cancer and HIV infected
people having fear to death in a consultant visiting me. They go down in
grief and regret the life until now, and there is the person falling
into a confused state because of too much fear among them. On the other
hand, there is person who is going to kill its own life to escape from a
disease, sorrow and all pains of the life including the poverty. It is a
thought that one comes to nothing by death to be common to both. But it
is a big mistake. Because the human essence is a soul, it never occurs
that we are dead and come to nothing. According to the story of the
people of the spiritual world, that world (the spiritual world) is the
true world, and the physical world which we live in is the temporary
world. If that place is light, they say that this is a shadow. The life
that we think to be long seems to be an instant thing it we look with
the standard of the everlasting soul. That's why we don't need to be
afraid of death. Because the human being throws off the body with death
and returns to the hometown where got used to called the spiritual world
as if a cicade leaves the cast-off shell and flies. The trip of the
soul continues again from there.
★ The death isn't the everylasting parting
The second pains are sorrow of the bereavement. It is really sad to lose
a beloved person. I think that we don't know the depth of the feeling of
loss and the sorrow that lost the people who thought of being close
routinely such as a family or the friend suddenly if we don't really experience
it. People with such a sorrow come to me for consultation well. People
who regret that I should have done it like that and should have done it
this way while thinking the late family for years forever. People who are
at a loss about how I should live after this by having lost an important
companion. There is the person thinking until following someone's example,
and committing suicide by having brooded about it. However, these are sorrow
to occur from the misunderstanding that the person has thought physical
bereavement to be everlasting separation because the person has thought
the death to be nothing, too. It is surely lonely that you can't meet the
late family and friend. It is me who write this book in this way now, but
I felt awfully lonely when I lost parents at the age of a child. But, please
think in this way. Haven't you lived far away from a close friend and a
family? Haven't you ever been in a long distance relationship with the
beloved lover? Those things and the bereavement are similar things. One
is in this world now by chance, and another is only in that world. It is
only that one is in this world by chance now, and another is in that world.
It never occurs that physical death separates the deep bond of a soul even
if we leave the body because the human being is spiritual being who continues
living forever. The strength of the bond of the soul isn't influenced by
the presence or absence of the body. Present I don't have the sorrow like
the time when I lost my parents. Rather I feel joy in the bond that isn't
lost. The loved one whom you lost continues living forever and watches
you after all. Therefore, please part with the sorrow. You understand The
Law of Soul truly, and, please get away from the deep tunnel of the loneliness.
Because it becomes the big joy for the dead person that you wipe tears
and that you realize the bond with the dead person.
★ The life doesn't have the unhappiness
The third pains that we are apt to fall into in the life are to think the
life to be unhappy. Please remember your everyday life. Do you think yourself
to be happy now? Or will you feel unhappiness? Please think of the reason
carefully in either case. Why are you happy? I'm happy because I get along
well with a lover. I'm happy because my work is going well. I'm happy because
my family is all in good health. I'm happy because I have money a lot.
I'm happy because I live in the wonderful house. Why are you unhappy? I'm
unhappy because I can't readily get a lover. I'm unhappy because I have
anxiety when I can marry. I'm unhappy because the human relations of the
workplace are hard. I'm unhappy because there isn't enough money. I'm unhappy
because I have some troubles in health and a figure. These all is only
happiness or misery that we judged from a carnal viewpoint, namely, a material
viewpoint. The carnal happiness is only the temporary thing which doesn't
know when anything collapses with instability. It is an end there if the
body reaches death even if it continued throughout the life. The stuff
to be able to bring in the hometown of the soul that we return after physical
death has nothing. The thing that your soul can take to the spiritual world
is only the experience that you gained in this world and the impression
that you got from the experience, namely, various feelings. Only experience
and impression polish and purify and improve our soul. Happiness judging
from a spiritual viewpoint is to have been able to get how many impressions.
Carnal unhappiness is only what is limited to while we live in this world.
Carnal unhappiness is the trouble that produces to have been convinced
that we are existence of the body only because we forget that human essence
is spiritual being to live forever because our soul are confined in a husk
called the body. You should be able to understand that it is a trial for
even carnal unhappiness to improve your soul if you take a spiritual viewpoint.
I can say to everybody from my own experience and the experience that had
many consultations clearly. "The life doesn't have the unhappiness."
The unhappiness that a human being thinks about is only the state that
is in convenient for ourselves at that time. If we take a long view and
if we look in a spiritual viewpoint, the state gives learning in the soul
of the person and promotes growth. Furthermore, in fact, it is hardship
for big happiness prepared for later to think to be unhappiness. There
are so many such things. Please imagine how on earth the world turns out
if a human being isn't spiritual being, and all becomes extinct with a
physical end. Even if we repeat an effort and live hard so much, our effort
is wasted. And it is expected that we should do only that our body feels
joy before coming to nothing. Such life that we eat steadily and obtain
money and a thing steadily and have sex steadily and we are greedy and
want to meet an appetite, worldly desires, sexual desire, and meet it is
happiness without minding the nuisances of the person. It is advantageous
we thing about only our thing, and live. Because a thing in this world
is limited, ourselves suffers a loss if we give a person it. Then it may
be happiness that we take it away from a person and can get ourselves.
It may be said that living is absolutely happy even if we murder another
person even if we deceive another person even if we compete against another
person even if we injure another person as much as we want to do the limited
life. And it is expected that ourselves finish the life with being unhappy
if it doesn't come true. Of course a person doing it to violating the law
to murder a person, and steal a thing will be rare. Even if it is extreme,
may it be said that the present example is a thing different at all for
the reason that we remembered it some time ago that we think to be happy
and a reason to think to be unhappy? Because we can't part with sense of
values of such a material happiness, doesn't it get up that we are troubled
when we repeat competition in the life, and the person is deceived and
is envied and is injured? As the result, can't it be said that we fall
into thought to be unhappiness? We shouldn't be felt with the happiness
from the heart even if we realize the happiness that we pursued from the
sense of values of such a wrong happiness because it is a thing which we
take after the fight with the person. If people around us are unhappy even
if we are happy, we shouldn't realize true happiness. This is because the
beautiful part of the soul that is your essence doesn't accept it. We know
that both most happiness of the life and unhappiness were the illusions
that ourselves built up in a material viewpoint if we put ourselves in
the spiritual viewpoint truly. Neither the thing nor the money nor the
position nor even the present body is essential for the happiness that
your soul really demands. What is the true happiness? Please read seven
remaining laws while thinking about it. I'd like to write the answer in
The Law of Improvement that is the last of eight laws.