OUR SACRED MISSION

By Founder Masaharu Taniguchi Ph.D.

Man is indeed a child of God. In the depths of everyone's life there

resides the eternal, ageless Life of God. For this reason, man is, in his

true Nature, an ageless, eternal and immortal existence who does not know

old age, illness or death. Nevertheless, usually we see our existence

through the perception of the live senses, and imagine that our true nature

is flesh, a group of molecules, a transient being who is governed by

material laws and must soon perish. However, human flesh, which is a

material existence, is far from man's true self. When man's true self, a

child of God, arranges the molecules into the pattern of his spiritual

ideal by exerting spiritual vibrations, the result becomes a garment for

his inner self. Clothed in this garment called flesh, he appears on this

earth. The reason we thus appear on earth is that, at this, particular

stage of development, only this particular celestial body can furnish the

best and most optimum place and instruments for the training of our soul.

Our earthly life is nothing else than a school where our soul, which is our

true entity, is to be trained and polished and to unfold the brilliant and

perfect Nature which is within. As earth is the place for this unfoldment

of our inner true Nature, so our flesh is a garment or an instrument for

that purpose. It goes without saying that our garment or instrument should

always be kept in the best and most perfect condition. Therefore, we should

respect our flesh. Prior to the modern era in Japan, there was the military

class of warriors called Buhi or Samurai. As part of the Samurai spirit,

they were so disciplined that they polished and shined their swords and

kept them immaculate and bright so that their swords were ready in an

emergency. In the same way, our flesh should always be polished,

disciplined and prepared so that it can carry out its mission in response

to the dictates of our inner soul, any time and any place, perfectly to

conform with the time, place and circumstance. We shooed not mistake it for

"freedom of man" to allow our flesh to pursue its own course. If a sword is

neglected, it will become rusty and useless, If it is then useless, can we

say that the sword has acquired freedom? Suppose a sword has life within,

what is the way to give it freedom? Leaving a sword to become rusty and

dull is not the way. To give freedom to the sword is to polish it to

prevent it from becoming rusty, and maintain its usefulness so that,

whenever it is asked to serve, it can execute its mission perfectly. It is

the same with our flesh. Freedom of man does not mean to neglect the

instinct or desire of the flesh and allow it become deteriorated, ugly or

impure. The instinct of the flesh should be guided, trained and

disciplined. The soul should be prevented from becoming rusty or impure so

that whenever the time comes the flesh can execute the soul's mission

perfectly and freely. When this is done, we can truly say that man is free.

Of course, we should respect the flesh. But we should know that there is

something higher and more important than to merely respect man's flesh-and

that is to respect the life of the inner soul-the spirituality. O God! I am

deeply thankful to you for giving me this profound Truth! I am grateful.

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