Dear Son,
I would like to tell you that living in this quickly changing world,
you will be compelled to follow it up. I think everybody, including you,
does not desire to have such changes. Changes naturally occur in all
things, all creatures and all elements. Nobody can escape from them.
What can we do about them ? Society and environment thus mold you
and press you to act out, so that it looks as if you have adjusted yourself
to the changes. But who will confess that you have adjusted your heart
along with the adjustment of your body. When it is like this, people in
society often give the importance to outside appearance, so that he looks
good in the eyes of other people, who think that he is quite free, but inside
your feeling will be destroyed by tension, worries and fear arising from
quick changes. Everybody will so hurry that he has no chance to recognize
thoroughly the emotion which arises and passes by. This is because you
don"t know your feeling. It makes you unable to reach the clear nature of
your heart. You and everybody seem to be at a distant from your beauty
of life. Great energy that you should get from yourself will be confused and
disappear.
While we were young children, we knew how we felt towards other
things. Due to the pressure from our family and friends, we were compelled
to accept narrow attitudes, ideas and expectations of others. When our
thoughts and feelings are stopped, we grow outside the realm of our
happy feeling. Then, the relationships between our mind and body are so
hindered and destroyed that we become unaware of our real feeling.
When this confinement becomes strong and stable, the chances to show
our feelings will decrease and disappear from us. We will be contented with
agreeing with others. Finally, we will become strangers to ourselves. How
could you come back and touch yourself ? What can you do to make yourself
really feel free ? Have you made questions to ask yourselves ? If you ask
yourself these questions, I could be certain that you have begun to look for
beautiful nature in your heart. You will see light or be enlightened which
gives you a well-balanced guideline that will bring you growth in the future.
A clear vision of yourself is the beginning of self-realization, which
will easily happen by observing the work of the mind and the body
consistently. Your are capable to observe your inner self at any time,
wherever you are , regardless of what you are doing. Observe attentively
what is going to happen to the changes of work and thoughts which have
occurred.
You will see that the environment, the changes of emotion have
influences on your body and mind, which is difficult for you to go against.
If you persevere a little more in examining your inner self till it becomes
clear, you will have new force and new concept, which will link your body
to your mind. Mix them and make them harmonize with living a natural
life. The work will flow. Nothing will be in its way. You will have plenty
of force to look clearly, which will lead to the use of your energy with quality.
You will enter the stream of life and perceive means to learn about yourself
with quality. It is an important factor that will push and promote your actions
to become fresh in every movement.
After having considerably observed your inner self, you will find
how you have confined yourself. How your natural inner feeling is limited.
On this occasion you will give energy and let those feelings flow. This
energy will be spent most usefully, most economically. When you become
calm and accept yourself, your confidence will arise. You could learn new
ways and beautiful guideline for knowing yourself and that which arises from
the knowledge of self. Your means of self recognition will be clear and clean
and have continuous movement. That is clean mind without any make up.
It is not wrong if other people will call it concentration. Anybody can call it
anything. To me it is what defines force, which I could use as I like. To
concentrate is not to train strictly for discipline, but it means relaxation, so
that one becomes naturally calm.
Remember also that concentration is not the training of fixed discipline.
It means relaxation and make your mind naturally calm. The concentration
that you need should be able to bind body and mind together with ease
and relaxation. This is a gentle quality, not strict. You can concentrate when
you work by doing one thing at a time with all your heart and soul. Give all
your attention to the work, be careful, pay continuous attention until that piece
of work is finished.
Do not worry about your work. Do not work with tension. When the
work is finished, do not put your heart in it. If you keep thinking of the work
when it brings good result, you will be negligent. But if the work fails, you
will be sorry. You should put all your heart and interest only while you are
doing the work. You will have clarity and deep understanding. This is working
naturally with clear mind, fresh and calm. You will then know yourself and
be delicate enough to know when ideas occur. You will catch that feeling.
This is because you are aware of yourself, the force and energy thus unite.
In your consciousness you will see clarity and cleanliness which are touchable,
even the smallest experience and all the thinking. Without consciousness,
though you give attention and perseverance in all your work, you will be like
small children who build a castle of sand on the beach without considering
that it will tumble down in a short time.
I would like to tell you once again. If you are without consciousness,
in spite of the attention and perseverance in your work with clarity and
freshness, you will be like small children who build sand castle on the beach,
without considering that it will tear down shortly. Consciousness makes you
confident in your work. You will put all your energy and ability in the work.
Thus you can develop your consciousness with clear thinking in the work you
are doing. Observe the way you work, how you begin and proceed in the
work. Are you clear in what you want ? Before you start to work, have you
analyzed and calculated the result of the work ? Are you sure that you have
done that with fine and broad attitude and that you have paid clear attention
to the steps of work.
I ask you numerous questions but they are not for you to answer for
rewards. But I ask you so that you keep the questions and find answers for
yourself. Find an answer for a question. Whoever can answer is knowledgeable.
While you are searching for the answer in order to develop consciousness, you
will see how the lack of attention greatly affect your work and the way you live.
If you work and live with conscious attention, the way you work and the
movement in your thinking will be smooth and beautiful. Your thoughts will be
clear and systematic. Thus life and work will be added with efficiency, due to
the fact that the steps of work harmonize with one another.
When you can do this you will realize the result the instant you work.
It will motivate new ideas in you so that you have new ideas, new methods
for the work. Besides, you can avoid forgetfulness and mistakes that may
happen. Besides, freshness and consciousness will make you understand all
the details in your thoughts and deeds. Clear calm and clean conscience are
what you cannot learn from classrooms, or from books. These are the core
of real nature in human beings. You can only learn from yourself. The
confidence in learning to know yourself will enable you to control the directions
and the goals of your life. After fixing the directions and goals confidently, you
will be delighted, happy and free. Your life and work will give you light
heartedness which will help you to be careful in everything you are doing. Thus
your life will become a work of art, showing relationships between body and
mind, while you are learning and gaining experiences in each moment of life.
You will be reliable and independent. You will become clear, light, clean and
very distinct. These are the factors which help you to think wisely and clearly.
When you have these feelings, you will have more self-confidence.
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