True Education

 True education is giving enlightenment that enables people to see and understand what is in existence.

Ignorance

 When humans do not know, human thinking can cause them to do anything. That is, when humans do not know, it causes wrong thinking. The thought is like that of an animal, except that through consciousness it is possible to transform thinking into action.

Resolution and Reality

 People think easily. 'I'm going to live right from today.' The moment they think so, they really believe they can. But that doesn't really happen.

 For example, just because those who don't know mathematics decide to solve math problems from today doesn't mean that they can. Just because farmers who don't know farming very well decide to start farming well from this year doesn't mean they can. If you want to do something, you have to be someone who can do it.

 Evil comes from ignorance. People don't know that if they do bad things, they end up with bad results. They want to do good things, but they don't know what is good and how to do it. To do right things, they must learn ways to do them and practice them with will and effort.

Wrong Criteria for Judgment of Value

 What are the criteria for judging whether something is right or wrong?
 One of the most popular criteria in reality is statistics. It is the judgment that more people are right. Another criterion is a judgment of a group of people in power or of one person, such as a dictator. Another criterion is the blind belief in transcendental existence or idealism.
 The above criteria are subjective and relative. The problem is that people believe their standards are absolutely right. When cases occur where their their criteria do not match reality, they distort or ignore reality. Naturally, they do not know whether such distortion or disregard are problematic. In this way, absurdity continues to accumulate in the world.

Society and Justice

 Human society can thrive through right human activities. And through justice, the right human activities can be more active.

What is love

 Not being able to answer what love is means not knowing love.

Justice and Society

 What is essential to the survival of human society is justice. Justice can be compared to the source of power which drives a car.

Justice is the light in a society

 The difference between acting in the dark of night and acting in the light of day is the same as the difference between living in a society without justice and living in a society where justice exists.

Relatioship between Justice and Law

 Making many laws in a society without justice rather makes life hard for people in that society.

Effects of Words and Behavior

We must know how our words and behavior affect ourselves, our future, and our society.

Consciousness

Before a society collapses, people's consciousness in the society gets deteriorated first.

Ignorance

 The cause of evil is ignorance. Your ignorance makes you deceived and deceive others.

How enlightenment is attained

 No matter how much you want to enlighten yourself, if you cannot understand and accept truths, you cannot attain enlightenment.
 For example, no matter how much you want to solve a math problem, it is not easy to solve the problem unless you understand and accept the formula and solution involved through teaching and practice.

Be enlightened!

The phrase, 'be enlightened' means ‘do things, knowing what exists in you.’

Knowing or Not knowing

 The difference between the life where you live knowing and the life where you live not knowing is enormous. The difference between knowing properly and the illusion of believing that you know properly is even greater.

Activity and Karma

 Everything in the world comes to in existence through activity. Even karma cannot exist unless it is active. The way out of the control of karma is to restrain its activity.

Good Things and Karma

 People have been educated to do good things, but they can't do good things because karma.

Whose fault?

 When deer eat dew on grass leaves, they make antlers, and if poisonous snakes eat the dew, they make poison. Is it the fault of the serpent, or of dew?
 If a right person learns good teaching, the person makes good progress, but if a wrong person learns, the person commits hypocrisy. Is it the fault of teaching or the fault of the wrong person?

Mistake and Karma

 No matter how much you want to do well, if you make a mistake because of your big karma, you will build even bigger karma.

Karma and Enlightenment

 The way to be free from karma is to cause good things to come into being in you by making good karma for other people. Meanwhile it is nearly impossible to build up good karma without enlightenment.

Conscience and Justice

 'Conscience is the light that brightens oneself, and justice is the light that brightens society.'

 People with great consciences can see their words and actions for themselves, because the light shines on them. They can see what they say and do, so they can refrain from saying bad things and do good things. People with small consciences cannot see their words and actions because the light that shines on them is very weak. Because they cannot identify their words and actions, they act on their own desires and feelings. 

 A society with great justice has a bright light that illuminates it, so members can see what's going on in it. What's happening in society is revealed as it is, so bad things don't happen easily, and they can be identified easily. In a society of small justice, the light that illuminates the society is so weak that what happens is not confirmed. It is dark and invisible so bad things happen easily. Identifying bad things that have happened is also very difficult.

Right Life

 Just because those who have not lived right lives decide to live right does not mean that they can live right. It's as if a man who is 172 centimeters tall cannot live that way because he decides to live 180 centimeters.

 The difference between above two is that they cannot change their heights, but they can change their life. The problem is that most people are indifferent to life. Even if they are interested, it's too hard to find a way to change life. And even if they learn the way to change life, it is too difficult to actually do it.

Karma

 If those with big karma hear truths, they come to have repulsion. Those who don’t have big karma become dubious. Those with small karma become delighted. -Lao-tzu

How karma is made

 When someone who doesn't know what they're doing wants to teach others or solve others’ problems, that's what creates karma.

Cause and Effect

 You must not forget that what you do is the causes of all the results which you obtain.