Byakko Magazine Issue 150

By Byakko Press

Our 150th issue! In an excerpt from the first chapter of her book "Life and Choices", Masami Saionji uses her own early life as an example for the way our daily choices and decisions give shape to our future. Two articles report on Masami and Hiroo Saionji's reception of the Luxembourg Peace Prize and Masami's representation at the 2019 Great Gathering to Help Mother Earth in Bad Blumau, Austria. Also featuring: part 2 of "Upside-down Thinking" by Masahisa Goi, "Everyone's Wish" by Masami Saionji, a report on the Global Prayers offered at Fuji Sanctuary in September 2019, and a continuation of "The Angel and the Mystery of the Red Tulip" by Masao Murata.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Byakko Press
• Release date: Nov 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463633793

Byakko Press

Byakko Press is the publishing wing of Japanese peace organization Byakko Shinko Kai.For a complete list of our books and other publications, please visit the Byakko Press website: www.byakkopress.ne.jp.May peace prevail on Earth!

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Issue 150

Volume 26, No. 4, Issue 150

E-book edition © 2019 Byakko Shinko Kai

All rights reserved.

Published by Byakko Shinko Kai

Founder: Masahisa Goi (1916-1980)

Chairperson: Masami Saionji

Publisher: Yuzuru Kikkawa

Senior Editor: Mary McQuaid

Cooperating Editor and Designer: David W. Edelstein

Translated by: Mary McQuaid, David W. Edelstein, Kinuko Hamaya, and Stanislav Ujhazi. Volunteer staff: Hiroko U. Kawasaki.

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IN THIS ISSUE

Daily Reflections by Masami Saionji

Life and Choices (part 1) by Masami Saionji

Everyone’s Wish by Masami Saionji

Masami and Hiroo Saionji Receive Luxembourg Peace Prize

Masami Saionji Represented at Great Gathering to Help Mother Earth by Dagmar Berkenberg

Upside-down Thinking (part 2) by Masahisa Goi

Global Prayers Offered at September Ceremony

The Angel and the Mystery of the Red Tulip (excerpt from Children Who Went to the Spiritual World) by Masao Murata

Editor’s Corner

Thoughts of Masahisa Goi

Prayer for World Peace

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Byakko (白光) is a Japanese word meaning ‘white light.’ It is the clear and free-flowing light emitting from the deepest and highest condition of a human being. This publication is for people who wish to call forth this pure light in their daily lives, letting it create a bright future for humanity and the planet Earth.

Daily Reflections

by Masami Saionji

Your body, heart, and soul are divine sanctity itself.

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The world of re-enlivened divine consciousness that is about to be born will be built and supported by the love, harmony, and devotion of each and every human being.

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As we continue to form the Divine Spark IN, our mindset of constantly depending on others will vanish away, and we will recover our innate self-trust—the confidence that tells us Yes, you can! and You’ll be absolutely all right.

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The rebirth of our divine consciousness is a process of rediscovering a sense of mystery and reverence for our own divinity, being filled with joy and emotion. It is a process we trace by ceasing to chase after convenience, material affluence and satiation, by bidding farewell to the age of poverty, famine, segregation and environmental pollution, and by offering gratitude and a sense of happiness to great nature.

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However flawlessly earthly materialistic science may progress and develop, it can never even scratch the surface of humanity’s divine consciousness.

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By learning the Divine Spark IN, sacred divine light is engraved into a person’s soul. And the divine sanctity of those who are illuminated by that person’s light will also come to life one after another in a domino effect, until it is inherited by all the people in the world.

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No one in this world has the same life story as yours, and no one has walked the same path. And so, each and every human being must use their own consciousness to create and carve out a unique way of life for themselves.

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You, yourself, are the one who is going to walk along your own path in life and reach its summit.

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When the self finds its way into the whole, it becomes a part of the whole, and for the first time we attain infinite freedom, life, health, and supreme bliss.

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Just as a compass points north, all of humanity is beginning to turn toward one point and in one direction—the re-kindling of our divine nature.

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Re-enlivening our divine sanctity does not mean that we do away with the self. Rather, we limitlessly expand the self until at last the