Masanobu Taniguchi
Masanobu Taniguchi (谷口 雅春, Taniguchi Masanobu, 24 December 1951) is a Japanese religious leader who serves as the third leader of Seicho-No-Ie.
Quotes
[edit]Song in Praise of the Bodhisattva Who Reflects the Sounds of the World
[edit]- Taniguchi, Masanobu (2015). Song in Praise of the Bodhisattva Who Reflects the Sounds of the World. Yamanashi: Seicho-No-Ie. (English translation of Kanzeon Bosatsu Sanka 観世音菩薩讃歌 (2012) by Patricia Yoko Wada)
- Law is the father of all things.
- Order is the mother of all things.
- All things obey the “father law,”
- Are embraced by the “mother order,”
- And appear before us as the material world.
- To see good or evil in these acts and,
- To question the meaning of good or evil
- Are the workings of the mind of human beings.
- The world without the human mind
- Is not good,
- Is not evil.
- It is simply a magnificent and brilliant world of automatic operation,
- That is filled with ideas,
- Laws and power.
- The freedom that God has given you
- Is indeed the greatest and best proof
- Of His love.
- God does not force you, and
- Within freedom,
- Does He guide you to the realization of the “child of God,”
- Does He give you a life worth living of the “child of God.”
- When you pray,
- You must not hold the four sufferings in your mind.
- You must not hold the unreal.
- You must pray for Reality.
- Pray for the True Image of the world that God created.
- Declare that the four sufferings are nonexistent in the world of God.
- In this way, you will be awakened to the truth that the suffering before you is delusion
- And the product of your attachment.
- The four sufferings do not exist in the world of God’s creation.
- Birth does not exist.
- Sickness does not exist.
- Aging does not exist.
- Death does not exist.
- I say to you,
- “Do not take for Reality what is not God’s creation.”
- Sin, sickness, aging and death “are merely nonexistent shadows of delusion, imagined in a bad dream.”
- Discard the tenaciousness that insists things must be a certain way.
- In the world of God’s creation,
- All good things already exist.
- Additional things that must be a certain way are unnecessary.
- In the world of God’s creation,
- All righteousness already exists.
- Additional things that must be a certain way are unnecessary.
- In the world of God’s creation,
- All beauty already exists.
- Additional things that must be a certain way are unnecessary.
- After discarding your attachments,
- If the belief,
- “My wish is in accord with the will of God,”
- Still remains,
- Envision the realization of your hopes,
- And offer your gratitude to God saying,
- “I have already received.”
- Discard that mind that insists things must be a certain way,
- And entrust the results completely to God.
- I say to you, awaken from the delusion that says your physical body is your real self.
- Do not forget the teaching,
- “Beyond the physical body there is” an ethereal “perfect being.”
- An ethereal existence
- Knows no distinctions between the self and others.
- An ethereal existence
- Does not discriminate between society and oneself.
- An ethereal existence
- Teaches you about “perfection”
- Through the harmony between people and society.
- This is the teaching of the Bodhisattva Who Reflects the Sounds of the World.
- The Bodhisattva Who Reflects the Sounds of the World does not reside in the mountains,
- He is not in the rivers.
- He does not live in shrines or temples.
- He is not an inhabitant of the towns.
- He resides within you.
- Yet,
- In the forms of the mountains and rivers,
- Statues in temples, shrines and churches,
- The wise persons of the towns,
- A husband,
- A wife,
- A child, a grandchild,
- At times as a criminal,
- A sick person,
- Animals and plants,
- Germs and viruses,
- Natural phenomena,
- The Bodhisattva Who Reflects the Sounds of the World
- Teaches you,
- The teachings of the innermost.
- You must remember the teaching,
- “Every one of the countless souls are also reflections of the one Spirit of God.”
- See that the geese and the sky cannot be separated.
- The sky and the mountains and rivers cannot be separated.
- The mountains, rivers, and seas are inseparable.
- All living things and the earth are one.
- Do not see yourself as being a single trifling physical body.
- Human beings cannot exist without the mountains and rivers.
- They do not exist apart from the lands and seas.
- They and all living things in there exist all together.
- In other words,
- All living things, mountains and rivers, and the lands and seas
- Are extensions of you.
- They are a part of you.
- They are your totality.
- See, this is the True-Image World.
- All existences are one
- And yet possess their own individuality.
- They give to one another.
- They praise one another.
- They guide one another.
- They love one another.
- The Bodhisattva Who Reflects the Sounds of the World dwells in all things.
- All things cannot help but resonate His teachings.
