Suffering is only temporary

Posted on May 4, 2014 by heaventruth

What is the purpose of suffering if there is one? Causality proponents state that suffering is the result of our past sins or evils (greed, arrogance, and self love). We sow what we plant. The fruit or thorn appears in the future, often appearing in the next lifetime. This is why it is so difficult to understand why we suffer.

Suffering is not a stigma. It does not make one an evil person. Some would look at suffering and believe that it is justified and deserved. But they are totally in error. We all have sinned since we are all selfish creatures; we all will suffer to some extent. Suffering serves to remind us that we can plant good seeds today that we can harvest as joy in the future. When suffering or inconveniences occur, it is certainly difficult to accept what is unacceptable; but accept it joyously, and with good thoughts. This will bring forth joy in the future. Realize that our sufferings are temporary; joy can be everlasting if we can eliminate the evils in our minds.

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Jesus died for our sins?

Posted on May 4, 2014 by heaventruth

In religious doctrines, we have to admit that we have sinned to be saved. What about the infants that die, have they sinned? How about the devoted religious person, can they have sinned? In the Christian religion, Christians believe that Jesus died for our sins. I imagine it is for the sins we have committed in the past, and also for the sins we are to commit in the future. But does this make sense?

All of the religious figures in the past have one thing in common. They all suffered to a degree. Many were imprisoned for their beliefs. Jesus sacrificed his life for his beliefs. But surprisingly, they all predicted their sufferings, and did not complain when it occurred. What belief or truth gave them courage to continue on, even in the torment of their bodies? I believe it is their belief that their suffering is the result of their past sins; but more important, it is the belief that they have control of their future by their actions of today. They accept their dilemma of today, but they also see the joy of the future.

The truth of causality states that good thoughts and actions result in joy in the future; evil (greed, and selfish) thoughts and actions portend sufferings. It is with this belief that we can eliminate evil, and plant seeds for a joyous future. The occurrence of suffering is expected as we have all sinned; but with these sufferings, we can plant new seeds of joy in the future.

How many converts to Christianity would have occurred if Jesus had asked God to take him off the cross and save him physically. But Jesus suffered to show the world that there is no exception to the law of causality. Even God’s chosen few have to abide by the law of cause and effect. Yes one can say that Jesus died for our sins; more specifically his suffering on the cross, reminds us that we have all sinned; but more important it emphasizes the importance of understanding causality. Jesus suffered so we can understand why there is suffering in the world. Jesus died so we may find the truth of causality. Remove evil from your minds!

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The Soul Revisited

Posted on May 3, 2014 by heaventruth

There are over 7 billion people on earth. What makes each of us so different? Science will say that we are all identical in the components that make each of us. But what makes each of us different? Is there something in the body that distinguishes each individual?

The human body generates energy from the foods we consume. This energy can be converted to many forms of energy that sustain our bodies. The mind benefits from this source of energy, forming our thoughts, which can also be considered, composed of energy. Our positive thoughts release positive energy, while our negative thoughts release negative energy. Positive thoughts are good thoughts of helping others, while negative thoughts include greed, arrogance and self-love. Positive energies are said to help the body grow and develop, while negative energy harms the body in the form of illness and depression.

Suppose each of us has within the body a positive energy force that is everlasting. Some will say this energy force originates from God. This energy force in our body has the capability to continually attract the negative energy produced by the mind. Like the sand in the sewage systems that purifies our water supply, the energy force captures our negative energies (evil thoughts), and eliminates them from our bodies.

These negative energies trapped by the energy force are released into the environment. These negative energies can be converted to intense weather conditions, and seismic movements. These negative energies released from our bodies also boomerang back to us as sufferings or inconveniences in our lives. Remember that energy is never created or destroyed. We create our own suffering by the amount of evil created by our minds.

Like the DNA (genes), the energy force stores important information of each individual. They store and eliminate the negative energies created by our past evil thoughts. It is this energy force that continues beyond the termination of our bodies. Like our report cards, we carry this to the next level. For the proponents of reincarnation, the energy force transfers to a developing fetus, continuing the process of eliminating the evils that have accumulated in the previous lives. For those who believe in heaven that is separate from earth, the energy force is ready to be judged.

What is this energy force? In some religious textbooks, they call it the innermost heart. Others will call it the soul. Whether scientist would ever be able to locate it in our bodies is unknown. But it is something to think about whether we believe in God or not.

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Finding the Soul

Posted on May 3, 2014 by heaventruth

There are over 7 billion people on earth. What makes each of us so different? Science will say that we are all identical in the components that make each of us. But is there a spark, an identifiable entity that separates one from the other 7 billion that walk the earth today?

It is accepted that the human body generates energy from the food we consume. This energy can be converted to many forms of energy that sustain our bodies. Our thoughts are composed of energy also. Our positive thoughts release positive energy, while our negative thoughts release negative energy. Positive thoughts are good thoughts of helping others, while negative thoughts include greed, arrogance and self-love. Positive energies are said to help the body grow and develop, while negative energy harms the body in the form of illness and depression.

Suppose each of us has within a positive energy source that continues forever. Some will say this energy source originates from God. This energy source has the capability to continually absorb and release the negative energy produced by the mind while residing in our bodies. Like the sand in the sewage systems that purifies our water supply, the source captures our negative energies (evil thoughts), and continues to eliminate them from our bodies.

Suppose these negative energies trapped by the energy source is released into the environment. These negative energies can be converted to intense weather conditions, and seismic movements. These negative energies also boomerang back to us as sufferings or inconveniences in our lives. Remember that energy is never created or destroyed. What our reactions are when confronted with these inconveniences determine if we continue to accumulate negative energy or create positive energy.

So each of us have an individualized entity that stores our disposition in the form of negative energy. Like the DNA (genes), they store important information. They store the negative energies created by our past evil thoughts. It is this entity of energy that continues beyond the termination of our bodies. Like our report cards, we carry this to the next level. For the proponents of reincarnation, the energy source transfers to a developing fetus, continuing the process of eliminating the evils that have accumulated in the previous lives. For those who believe in heaven that is separate from earth, the energy source is ready to be judged.

What is this energy source? In some religious textbooks, they call it the innermost heart. Others will call it the soul. Whether scientist would ever be able to locate it in our bodies is unknown. But it is something to think about whether we believe in God or not.

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The mind reveals our future

Posted on May 3, 2014 by heaventruth

In our religion, we are told that our minds are ours to use as we please, but God loans our bodies to us. But are there any consequences to how we use our minds, in relationship to our bodies that are borrowed from God? Does our thoughts affect our future?

What function does the mind have? The mind can produce both evil and good thoughts, and initiate to carry them out. But more important, the mind has an ability to reason and understand the information that comes into the mind. Why has God given us this capability to reason?

It is said that this world is constructed on reason. This means that the world operates by way of systemic orderly cycles and laws. Everything can be explained. Our minds are our instruments to understand how the world operates. The mind allows us to reason. 2 + 2 will always equal 4  to the lucid mind. But when the mind is like a distorted mirror, the reflection may not reveal the true image. We must always have an open mind. Faith is good, but it must always be faith based upon the truths of the world.

There are instruments that allow the mind to discover the truths of the world, like the microscope. There are nature’s laws that allow the mind to understand why an apple drops from a tree; or the cycle, which explains how energy is produced from food. The law of causality explains the relationship between the mind, which is ours, and the body that is borrowed from God?

God has created a world that we can understand with our minds. We must see the truths that appear before us. We see suffering and joy. We see evil and good. Is there a relationship? Understanding causality gives us the starting point to eliminate the evils that are produced by our selfish minds. When this happens, there will only be joy in our future.

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Verse of the Week

Posted on April 28, 2014 by heaventruth

WHY DO SOME SUFFER WHILE OTHERS HAVE JOY? HOW DO WE FIND JOY?

GOD CREATED ALL MANKIND TO LIVE A JOYOUS LIFE WITH EVERYONE HELPING EACH OTHER. BUT HOW DO WE LIVE THIS JOYOUS LIFE?  WE MUST FIRST BELIEVE IN CAUSALITY.

UNDERSTANDING CAUSALITY OPENS THE PATH TO JOY. CAUSALITY EXPLAINS WHY WE SUFFER OR HAVE JOY. NO MATTER HOW DESPERATE OUR SITUATION MAY APPEAR, WE CAN PLANT GOOD SEEDS NOW THAT WILL BLOSSOM INTO JOY.

GOD WILL BEGIN TO HELP THE WORLD UNDERSTAND CAUSALITY. WE HAVE A SPECIAL PRAYER  ASKING GOD TO HELP OTHERS UNDERSTAND CAUSALITY.

INTRODUCTION:

God has created mankind to live a joyous life with everyone helping each other (the original causality).

The reason God began human beings was the desire to see you lead a joyous life. (Tip of the Writing Brush 14-26)

OUR BELIEFS:

We believe in the Law of  causality. Good thoughts and actions result in joy.  Evil (greed, arrogance, and self love) thoughts and actions result in suffering and inconveniences in the future.

God will begin to shorten the time lapse between the cause and effect, making the relationship easier to understand. God has given us a  special prayer that will make this possible.

OUR MISSION:

To pray daily with our special prayer (Joyous Service), asking God to help  people realize the law of causality. When this happens. people will begin to eliminate evil (greed and arrogance) from their minds.

To eliminate greed, arrogance, and self-love from our minds, thus making our special prayer more receptive to God.

To tell the world what God is going to do when he accepts  our special prayer (shortens the time lapse between cause and effect, making this relationship easier to understand). Ponder over any illnesses. They may be God’s guidance in teaching you causality.

To heal the illnesses brought upon by God’s guidance by performing our healing prayer (Sazuke).

OUR GOAL:

TO HAVE ALL MANKIND UNDERSTAND CAUSALITY; AND TO HAVE ALL MANKIND LIVE A JOYOUS LIFE BY HELPING EACH OTHER.

VERSE OF THE WEEK:

CALM THE MIND, AND SETTLE IT IN THE HEART.

Interpretation of verse: WHEN STRESS OR ANGER APPEARS, DO NOT CREATE MORE STRESS AND ANGER BY REACTING NEGATIVELY. CHANGE THE NEGATIVE INTO POSITIVE.

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We are all on the same side

Posted on April 28, 2014 by heaventruth

Have you noticed that religions appear to compete with each other, and sometimes takes offense to some of the teachings of other religions? We can agree that the purpose of religion is to make people good, and most religions have commandments or laws that guide their congregation. So we are all on the same side, or you can say on God’s side.

The main question is what religion can make it easy for masses to become good. Is there a teaching that is accessible, and easy to put in use? What teachings will convert a murderer into a loving person, a gang member into a community advocate, an angry person into a pacifist, and a depressed person into a spirited person?

Is there a religion or teaching today that will affect all these poor souls? Most religions want to deal with the afterlife, and not with the present life, like promises of an everlasting afterlife if we jump through the hoops and requirements of a church. The believers are said to be set, while the nonbelievers are left to damnation. But many of the dammed are our love ones. It makes it truly difficult to believe.

My blogs on causality is not to annoy or anger the believers of other religions. We have the same goals. We want to make people good. I believe that causality is the truth of God. I believe that understanding causality will make the evil good. When people understand that their actions of today will affect their future, only good thoughts and behavior will occur.

It is with the hope of peace on earth that I continue to spread the truth of causality. But whatever religion you may be affiliated with, we are all on the same side. We all want greed, arrogance, and self love eliminated from our minds. We are all brothers and sisters.

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The Heart Purifies the Mind

Posted on April 27, 2014 by heaventruth

Every day, we create good and bad thoughts. We have control of our thoughts. We can make them disappear, or they can take over, resulting in negative energy in our bodies. What happens to this negative energy generated by the mind? The heart (soul) is said to be the filter. Some would say that the heart is like the sand in the purification system of our sewage system. Like the sand, it attracts the impurities and binds them so that they can be eventually eliminated from the body. But where does this negative energy that is entrapped in the heart go?

Some say that these impurities trapped in the heart are slowly released as negative energy, and affects the body, as illness like cancer. The rest of the negative energy may be released into the environment, and converted to energy that will eventually boomerang back to us as suffering or inconvenience. The heart continues to dispose of the negative energy released from our minds; but also serves to continually remind us of our mental state, by the negative energies that are reflected back to us in the form of suffering or inconveniences in our daily lives.

But what do we do when confronted with these sufferings or inconveniences? We must be spirited, and accept these occurrences joyfully, in order not to produce any more negative energy by our minds. When we do this, we can eventually purify our mind, and purify our hearts to their original state. When this happen, there will be no sufferings or inconveniences. The heart (soul) serves to purify our minds.

The soul (heart) is said to be the essence of an individual that is said to survive the demise of our bodies. Where the soul travels is unknown. Some say that heaven is the final destination, while others say that the soul with its baggage (negative energy) continue the birth and death cycles on earth, with the purpose of the purification of the mind and eventually the soul (heart). The soul continues forever, eventually reaching a state of purification of the mind.

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The Universe is the Body of God

Posted on April 24, 2014 by heaventruth

Suppose the Universe is the Body of God. The universe is composed of earth and heaven. Heaven is composed of our solar system and the million of other galaxies. The earth is home to trillions of life, including 7 billion human beings. We human beings are part of God as we are part of the universe.

Suppose a healthy God made man so he could share in man’s happiness. But suppose evil attached to the hearts of mankind causing suffering in the world. Inhumanity caused by greed, arrogance, and self love is prevalent in this world. Humans continue to suffer. Since we are part of God, God is said to be ill and not whole.

How do we make God whole and spirited again? The religious would say that when all mankind is purified from their hearts, there would be no more suffering. As we are part of God, then God will finally be whole and spirited. Remove evil (greed, arrogance, and self love) from your minds! When God becomes whole and spirited, then there will be joy that the world has never experienced before; a heaven on earth?

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Houston Rockets will never win a championship

Posted on April 23, 2014 by heaventruth

One of the evils of our minds is said to be of selfishness, or greed. It is said that when we eliminate greed and self love; and think of saving others, we are saved. When I become we, anything becomes possible. Let me relate this philosophy of unselfishness to a basketball team. Championship teams arise not from super stars, but from teamwork. This is why there are coaches that continue to win playoff games. They continue to teach teamwork even among the stars.

This is why the Houston Rockets will never win a championship under their present system. When there is one player takes it upon himself to score, the other players become complacent. Yes, the superstar will win some regular season games by his own talents; but when playoff time comes around, the team that shares the ball will often come out on top. This is why the Houston Rockets and their coach will never win a championship.

In the Tip of the Writing Brush is a verse:

Ponder from your innermost heart to understand.

Through saving others, you are saved. 3-48

Remove Selfishness from your hearts!

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