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Chapter 26 Continuation I wrote that to live regularly and continuance every day was essential to wind up the spring of God, the biological clock who dwells in each human being. Here, I want to attempt to talk about the continuation. How much the event continuing every day occupied the judgment whether the human being lives really out of the 24 hours a day. It may be said, "It is excellent continuation that we are doing work to get bread in every day", but it doesn't apply to the act of continuing if saying the activity to get bread in every day strictly. If you say "To live itself is honorable act of continuing", the act to work is excellent act of continuing, but I refer here to only enter the layer of the consciousness how to be familiarized with the state of "meeting his God and God is always within him" something like ultimate relief. From the view point of this, the state of mind with just live can not make us ultimate relief as we do not ever see ultimate relief every day. The consciousness of the human being is like the onion and the skin of one sheet of onion is the layer of the consciousness. The most outside skin is the layer which is conscious only of the pose which is in the expression "That person is a wolf who covered the skin of the sheep". This consciousness is input in a variety of poses by his mother from the time he was born and passed for several months. He cries in the moment that the first greeting was born-actually he isn't crying but breathing, sending his signal to be able to breath to his mother-this can be trained the rule of various human society from the mother. It is in the layer of the first sheet skin. Then, when mastering the technology of the pose when living smoothly in the human society, it is input to the consciousness in the following layer, i.e. the second layer of the consciousness. It is the layer where consciousness about "the work to get living bread" If you are questioned "your occupation?" first, you are answering "I am working for the company and so on " if being Japanese. If being the person of the European and American society, he answers such as "I am the salesman who sells something like this or that, I am the engineer of the computer something like that" These reactions are output from the second layer of the consciousness. Most human being lives in the second layer of the consciousness. Therefore, he thinks that "the work to get living bread" is excellent act. Why will he live always in anxious feelings? He is always seized with the menace concept with which will be how if it becomes not possible to do work, becoming sick will be how if the situation of such unexpectedness occurs." and most human being will live like this. All our psychology to depend on the religion for comes from this menace concept. The starting point of this menace concept was the death fear. The consciousness to the death fear, for example, when stripping the first and second sheet of skin of the onion, there is a part of double layer inside the third sheet of thin skin, and this skin outside is the layer of the consciousness to the death fear. There is a skin inside in the layer of the consciousness to the life. They are both aspects of the same coin. When peeling this skin, there gets not to be a skin of the onion, no consciousness which is exists and connects with the consciousness in the four dimensional world of Time and Space. Should you enter the world, you become the state of ultimate relief. It is the world which is being called the state of ultimate relief where I am in "Man is Space and God is Time" Therefore, I refer how to reach the state of ultimate relief which is to peel up to the second sheet of the skin and both aspects of the third skin of the onion where there are death and life. In the layer of the consciousness, "The work to get living bread is excellent act of continuing" we can not reach the state of ultimate relief. To understand a life and death is to peel this last skin, but I said that there is a thin skin between the second skin and the last skin which is made a double structure by one sheet. Actually, to peel this thin skin is the most troublesome work. If living in the first layer of the skin, a role is decided and it should live just as it is without thinking of anything at all. All other animals live in the consciousness in this layer. However, because only the human being having the ability to think was given, we must be forced to conflict. It is the thin layer existing among the last layers where we must conflict. It is called a neo-cortex in the cerebral cortex in terms of physiology. It is the human being that is indeed coming and going between the layer of this first sheet and second one. It will be permitted to say that all cause of the distress, the anxiety, the fear and so on has occurred from this conflict. To get out of the conflict which occurs by coming and going between, to worry and to understand the life which is the foundation cause of the anxiety, the fear and death, we pass this thin skin boldly and daringly and it is necessary to go. The only way is to continue the work which strips a thin skin ceaselessly little by little. Continuation which I am leading is this work. "The work to get living bread" is to be consequential, but it improves its own essence to work. I think that to be continuation 24 hours a day make decision on the life of the person, and that it is the most important to continue for the purpose. |