9th International Conference on Peace and Nonviolent Action
Dec. 2017 in JAIPUR
Mayumi Mezaki
19.12.2017
The Origin of Religion is the One
I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation for ANUVIBHA to host 9th ICPNA under auspicious of His Holiness Archarya Maha Shraman.
And I also say thanks Anuvibha for constant effort for nonviolent activities.
I sincerely hope this activity will be spread more and more like as a ripple by thrown stone into water. There are many various religions in this world. The waves of globalization rush around and the gap of the rich and the poor are increasing more and more. I think this kind of gap is really problem for toward a peaceful world. The problem such as terrorism is accumulated by this gap sadly. Now we are facing to difficulties to live in safety happily.
Now we must deepen our mutual understanding and work together to toward peaceful world by nonviolent way.
A view point of Holy Master Onisaburo Deguchi about religion
The Holy Master Onisaburo refers to Buddha and Mahavira in his book named gSankagamih as follows. It is outline of the chapter.
// ccThe era of Buddha and Mahavira was dark when the philosophers of the 96 factions were fighting each other due to the division of UPANISHAD philosophy.
A revolutionary person who illuminated the darkness of humanity by a new faith light in that era has been born.
One is Buddha and one another is Mahavira. Mahavira was extremely self-awakened person who woke up to the reason and had the fine finished of budding religion.
To the extent that humanity is not lost, Buddha pursued improvement of mind and physical development. And he also tried to make people carry out. Both Buddha and Mahavira were keep out the Brahman's dead ceremony which lost the fundamental spirit of Vedacc // These chapter about Mahavira and Buddha were written in 1927.
The Holy Master Onisaburo told Mahavira was superhuman, who is sustaining by oneself and academic. I think it is important to knowing background about two of important religions in the beginning period.
The salvation for people was needed at that era.
Now we really need salvation what we should do in this world.
Stop the war and terrorism.
I pray to God for peace and happiness every morning as same as you are doing.
May I say what is peace? I would like to try to explain the word "peace".
It means " everybody can eat food impartially" according to Chinese character. I really agree to this idea of ancient Chinese.
But hunger peoples are many against our hope on this earth. We must get peaceful and nonviolent spirit.
For getting a peaceful world
The Holy Master Onisaburo gave prediction and warning in his books " The Story of Spiritual Worldh volume 32nd. The sketch is as follows:
//The Story was started at Amazon in south America. There is very wide and long river with strong stream named Amazon. An amphibian monster called Mall Band what is a king of all the beast of prey lived in at there. Mall Band is fifteenth the size of large as elephant. The four his legs have webs with sharp nails about 2 meters and half longer each. The nail shines like as a sword. Mall Band`s head looks like crocodile and has antler. The eyes look like blood red. The tail is like as lizard which can stretch out longer than 80 meters. There is a sharp knife on top of the tail.
In this cause all beast of prey is afraid of the Mall Band. So even big snakes and beast of preys escaped to deep in the forest of Amazon for protect themselves to Mall Band.
There is one more terrible monster called El Band. This monster is scaly by hard scales like as iron and has four legs. The round head is soft and can change freely so longer and thin like a tube. El band lives by sucking blood of animals by his round head. These two monsters often eat rabbits in Amazon. The rabbits were killed every day. The rabbit leader finally wanted to salvation to the God.
Then God accepted request of rabbitfs leader and let missionary go to Amazon. Finally rabbit tribe was saved by the way of nonviolence. Salvation by Godfs missionary have got victory with together to cooperation of rabbit to other animals. They could let two monsters run away from Amazon. After that rabbit tribe and others got peace forever. //
This part was told in 22, Aug, 1922 by Onisaburo.
I tried to consider what means two monsterfs arrival in this Story.
I think Mall Band means big army including weapon business, capitalism and nuclear issues. El Band means power of business including globalization and TPP action.
Holy Master Onisaburo is giving predictive story and warning to human being in his books.
The teaching is told by symbolic expression frequently.
What is the God?
Holy Master Onisaburo taught God is a spirit what is universal to all things. God exercises his infinite power when spirit and body consistent with himself.
God is the Origin of all things in the universe. And it is also great nature itself.
God became invisible after creation all of things in this universe and always together to us.
A major earthquake, great tsunami and so on, the huge energy is never artificial.
Life including mankind never alive away from nature.
Onisaburo taught gHuman being is a child as brothers and sisters under a Godh.
If people could understand this teaching, God bless us in all religions and we can take hand to hand toward to peaceful world. Because God is a parent of all things in the universe.
Although there are differences in language and expression depending on the area and epoch, we can say that Origin of religion is the One.
We can understand each other beyond words, races and borders.
How to work for peace under Onisaburo teaching?
I worked through Ikebana floral art activity as Ikebana teacher toward to peaceful world during for 15 years or more. I teach Ikebana in Italy and Slovenia. We can meditate by ourselves through ikebana working and enjoy it together to people.
No landmine, no weapon, no more atomic bomb.
Let put flowers and green in this world together.
I am glad to have wonderful and peaceful occasion with you all at here.
I would like to say thanks to all of you at here.
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Upanishad : Philosophy system based on one of Veda
Veda : Scriptures of Brahmanism in ancient India. The oldest literature in India.
Sankagami: The book name by Onisaburo Deguchi. The meaning of the title was three mirrors. They are Mirror of Moon, Water and Gem. These three books were published and issued respectively. These three books are called "Three Mirrors". The main work of Onisaburo is "The Story of Spiritual World", which has 81 volumes.@gSankagamih is cared by Ms. Haruko Kato who was one of secretary of Onisaburo. She noted and written down a fragment of Onisaburo' s narrative. The narrative was published as books.