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    What Is Death? / 死とは何か?
    What Is Death? / 死とは何か?
    What Is Death? / 死とは何か?
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    What Is Death? / 死とは何か?

    By Masami Saionji

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    While we live in this world, most of us think about death with feelings of uneasiness. This is because our consciousness has become strongly attached to our physical existence, and we identify ourselves as physical beings. We also fear death as something that we will have to go through all alone, separating us from our families and loved ones. In truth, however, death is not something to be feared. Death is not the end of life, nor is it a final separation. Rather, it is the action of ‘returning.’ At the moment of death, we give back to the earth all the material elements which composed our physical body. Those material elements will be absorbed into the earth and our life will go back to its source, the source of the universe. In other words, we return to our original state as a ray of light and living energy. This act of returning is not something that our essential self fears. Rather, it is welcomed with joyful anticipation, as an event filled with sheer bliss.
    — Masami Saionji

    この世界に生きている間中、多くの人々が死に対して不安を感じています。それは、私たちの意識が肉体そのものに執着しているからであり、自分自身を肉体と同一視しているためなのです。また、自分一人だけが死ぬのだという恐怖感、家族や愛する人々との別れに対する恐れもあります。しかし実際には、死は怖いものでも何でもありません。死とは、生命の終わりでもないですし、最終的な別離でもないのです。むしろ“返還作用”なのです。死の瞬間、私たちは、肉体を構成している物質要素のすべてを地上に返します。それらの物質要素は、大地に吸収され、私たちの生命は、宇宙の源、本源へと還るのです。言い換えれば、光の一筋、生命エネルギーとして元の状態へと戻ってゆくわけです。この返還作用で、恐怖を感ずることはありません。それは、喜びと期待をもって為されてゆく至福に満ちた出来事だからです。
    — 西園寺昌美

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherByakko Press
    Release dateFeb 25, 2016
    ISBN9781311389688
    What Is Death? / 死とは何か?
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    Masami Saionji

    Masami Saionji is the chairperson of three organizations: Byakko Shinko Kai (www.byakko.org), The World Peace Prayer Society (www.worldpeace.org), and The Goi Peace Foundation (www.goipeace.or.jp). A native of Japan and a descendant of the Royal Ryukyu Family of Okinawa, she continues the work of her adoptive father, Masahisa Goi, who initiated a movement for world peace through the universal prayer May Peace Prevail on Earth. As a spiritual leader and lecturer, she has touched thousands of people’s lives through her guidance and inspiration. She travels globally on speaking tours, and has led peace ceremonies in many countries as well as at the United Nations and other international organizations. She has authored over twenty books in Japanese and eight in English and other languages. She is an honorary member of the Club of Budapest and a member of the World Wisdom Council. She was awarded the Philosopher Saint Shree Dnyaneshwara World Peace Prize of India along with her husband Hiroo in 2008. She is also the recipient of the 2010 WON Award honoring distinguished women leaders. In February 2013, Mrs. Saionji had the privilege of presenting the Symphony of Peace Prayers ceremony at the United Nations, in a special event entitled ‘United for a Culture of Peace through Interfaith Harmony’, which was hosted by the president of the UN General Assembly. Mrs. Saionji and her husband currently live in Tokyo, and have three daughters, all working for peace.

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      What Is Death? / 死とは何か? - Masami Saionji

      Cycles of Birth and Death

      転生のサイクル

      For each human being, sooner or later a time will come when we return to our ultimate source and emanate the perfect light of the universe. All of us will merge into oneness with the universal source and exist as part of it. During the 21st century, each of us will have an opportunity to deliver ourselves from our self-created miseries, and be valued according to the light that we radiate from within.

      人類はみな、やがていつの日か必ず自らの本源へと還り、宇宙の光の一筋として完璧な光を放つ時がやってきます。私たちの誰もが宇宙根源と一体となり、その一部として存在するのです。２１世紀には、自らが創った苦悩から自らを救済し、自らが発する光の輝きによって評価されるべき時がくるでしょう。

      Light is vibrations, and vibrations are the energy of our thoughts and emotions. If our hearts are always filled with love, forgiveness, and thankfulness, constantly expressing pure, gentle, innocent thoughts and emotions, our vibrations will be light and love itself. The more we learn to manifest love, the more brightly our inherent light will shine.

      光とは波動であり、波動とは私たちが発する感情想念のエネルギーです。感情想念がいつも純粋で穏やかで無邪気で、常に愛と赦しと感謝の心に満ちているならば、私たちの波動は光そのもの、愛そのものなのです。そして愛そのものであればあるほど、内在する光は輝きを増します。

      While experiencing numerous births and deaths in this phenomenal world,¹ step by step, our consciousness makes its way along our own road to wholeness. In the end, we will all be able

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