Byakko Magazine Issue 120

By Byakko Press

Issue 120 features two full articles by Masami Saionji -- "Reverberating Divine Life" and "Three Years of Large-Scale Transformation" -- as well as excerpts from two other articles. Also included is a talk given by Masahisa Goi in 1974, entitled "Becoming a Person of Serenity." The issue also features shorter articles by Yuka, Maki, and Rika Saionji, as well as a chapter from Masahisa Goi's novel "Anan."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Byakko Press
• Release date: Dec 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463398890

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 120

Volume 19, No. 2, Issue 120

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, Akiko Fujinami, Kinuko Hamaya, and Grace Roberts. Contributing Editor: Stephen La Rivière.

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IN THIS ISSUE

Daily Reflections by Masami Saionji

Reverberating Divine Life — The Role of Peace-Minded People by Masami Saionji

Becoming a Person of Serenity by Masahisa Goi

The Importance of Living with a Prayerful Heart by Maki Saionji

Walls by Yuka Saionji

Three Years of Large-Scale Transformation by Masami Saionji

Divine Prayer by Rika Saionji

Spotlight on a High-Dimensional Consciousness — Excerpts from February and March 2012, by Masami Saionji

Anan: a novel by Masahisa Goi

Chapter 8: Destiny

News from Overseas:

Peace prayer gathering in Northern Italy

Tenth annual peace gathering in Uruguay

Three-day retreat in Geelong, Australia

Interfaith peace pole dedications in Israel

Spring Mountain Gathering in Poland

Changing Ourselves and the World

Prayer for World Peace

INs

Handwritten Mandalas

Harmonious Breathing Method

Editor’s Corner

Thoughts of Masahisa Goi

Prayer for World Peace

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Byakko 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

To live a full life, it matters not what titles we earn. All that matters is what we have done for others.

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When we stop busying our minds with unnecessary things, everything moves forward on its own.

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Whatever your present situation might be, if you think, speak, and act from the standpoint that you are supplied with everything, then this will be your reality.

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Even when we reach old age, the desire to challenge ourselves and learn new things will bounce back to us as renewed energy for living.

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If you continue inflicting pain on your heart, it will eventually eat away at your physical body, too.

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A person who is loved, respected, and admired by everyone is a person who is big-hearted enough to accept responsibility for everything, never shifting the blame to anyone else.

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There is no such thing as a ‘right answer’ to life.

Originally published in Japanese, December 2011 – March 2012

Reverberating Divine Life

The Role of Peace-Minded People

by Masami Saionji

The soul is a brilliant light

Those whom I call ‘peace-minded’ or ‘spiritually independent’ people’ are those who have awakened to their existence as divine life. When human beings, no matter who they are, transfer to the next world, they leave their physical bodies in this world, and, without exception, their souls fly up to divine and spiritual realms. At that moment, all souls become light itself as they slip out of their physical garment. Even if a person has lived selfishly and accumulated a great deal of negative karma in this world, or has spent their days with anguished feelings in harsh or tragic circumstances, their soul is light itself.

Now, humanity needs a more fundamental solution. That is to say, we need a transformation in consciousness. This is because, no matter how many times we may avert wars or hold back the destruction of nature, if humanity does not make a fundamental change in its consciousness, the same conditions will surface over and over again.

The relationship between the soul and the physical body resembles that of the sun and clouds—the sun being the soul, and the clouds, the physical body. When we transfer to the next world, the many layers of thick clouds (the physical body) that surrounded the sun (the soul) are perfectly cleared away, and the brilliantly shining sun (soul) is vividly revealed.

All souls—whether they have given pain to others, committed crimes or engaged in terrorist activities, or whether they have accumulated words and actions of love, beauty, and truth—are guided at least once by their guardian spirits and guardian divinities to their place of origin, the divine and spiritual worlds. In these realms, the souls are never blamed for their wrongdoings, nor are they shown their negative karma. This is because God is all-encompassing love itself and forgiveness itself, and God never passes judgment on us. Everything is completely