There were 70 to 80
patients waiting for their turns in front of consultation rooms at the National
Cardiovascular Center. Some were quietly reading books; one woman, apparently
the wife, was speaking with a preoccupied look to her husband next to her;
some had fallen asleep because of the long wait; some looked nervous with
fear, waiting to hear the results of their consultations; some appeared calm
and used to their situations. Somehow, all of these patients seemed to have
the expression of being absorbed in waiting for their turns. I had an operation
to replace my cardiac valves 12 years ago in this hospital. As my name was
called, I went into the consultation room, and my doctor, referring to my
chart, asked me how many operations I had had since my valves were replaced
12 years ago. I didn't know what he meant by how many operations. He asked
me how many times I had a replacement operation in those 12 years. Still
puzzled by his questions, I said, "Once, just once, Doctor. I have heard
that artificial (animal) valves have a limited life span, but is it that
short?" He said that they generally last 5 years. He expressed disbelief
and great surprise at the fact that my valves had not been replaced for such
a long time.
I was also very surprised to
find that most patients had operations sooner or later, within 3 years, at
the earliest, and at the most, 5 years or so. At the same time, this surprise
turned suddenly to joy and emotion filled my heart, and I was so overwhelmed
that I could not help saying words of appreciation in my heart, "Thank Thee,
Vast Universe, Supreme Divine Spirit and Buddha. My calf valves, I thank
you for helping me for such a long time as part of my body. I say this from
the bottom of my heart."
When I had the first opportunity
to participate in a study meeting in Kanazawa 8 years ago, my wife, who came
with me, told Mr. Maruyama that I had had a calf cardiac valve transplant,
and asked him if I eventually had to have a replacement operation. Upon hearing
this, Mr. Maruyama promptly replied, "It is a matter of time to have problems
with them. Every cell of the physical body has consciousness. It is natural
to cause disharmony if the cells of different spirits are transplanted into
someone else's body. It is necessary to have a person with the spiritual
ability ask the consciousness of the calf cells (biological valves) and that
of your body cells to cooperate with each other. I will do it for you." He
did so right away to have the spirits of both the body cells cooperate, and
filled me with light. I still clearly remember him definitely saying to me,
"Because your heart has recovered, there is no need to concern yourself with
it after having expressed your gratitude."
In those days, I was thinking
that calf prosthetic cardiac valves were just things. I had never considered
them as having consciousness. So I was not able to understand that Mr. Maruyama
was earnestly speaking to my heart.
It is true that if I consider
these to be mere things, then I can accept that the average life span of
a living entity is about 5 years or so according to medical doctors. It was
not until I found them working for 12 years, twice as long as normally expected
that I understood the existence of consciousness in all things. Also, this
made me realize that these conscious calf valves sacrificed their lives and
worked for me.
Having written this much, I am
suddenly overwhelmed by my emotion, not able to stop my tears and runny nose
from making a mess all over my face. This incessant flow of tears makes me
realize that Mr. Maruyama blessed me with profound mercy and love from God,
incomprehensible to ordinary minds, and from Great Reverend Takahashi 8 years
ago. Moreover, to think of the fact that even a calf sacrificed its life
to teach me about love, I was filled with a feeling of much more than gratitude.
I am alive and well today thanks
to Mr. Maruyama saving and filling me with light 8 years ago. Although I
will never be able to express my gratitude enough, I must repay the kindness
bestowed on me. I would like to tell of my joy at being saved and advocate
the greatness of the Right Law to as many people as possible.
(An experience of Noboru Yamada,
printed in "The Light" Magazine, August 1996)
I had a fracture in
the neck of my right thighbone in June 1993, and left the hospital in the
middle of August. In March of the following year, I was operated on again
to have a metal reinforcement removed from the bone, and left the hospital
in April. After walking with a cane for 2 months, everything being well,
I was able to return to my normal life in the middle of June.
However, I began to feel more
and more pain everyday around summer. I gradually ended up limping, and had
intense pain, especially when rising to walk from a sitting position.
Late in fall when it became cold,
I was in so much pain that I could not roll over in bed at night, and when
I wanted to put my right foot over my left thigh while sitting in a chair,
it was too painful to lift my foot on its own and I had to raise it with my
hands to cross my legs.
I thought that the pain was caused
by the cold weather and was a passing stage, as I heard that pain like this
would persist for 3 years. However, I had very complicated feelings everyday
over why it was so painful, wondered what on earth was going on, and I even
wanted to consult Mr. Maruyama about it, but I let the days pass by.
On December 20th, late in the
year, my doctor showed me an X-ray of my femur, told me that its head portion
appeared to be broken, and suggested that it be inspected by MRI. The result
looked to him that the structure of the upper portion of the femoral head
was in a state of necrosis (no blood circulation to the bone). He stated that
his diagnosis was wrong in that the structure was alive when I left the hospital,
but in fact, it was dead, and that he would consult someone in a group specializing
in research of necrosis of the femoral head in Japan, who was an associate
professor at Faculty of Medicine, Kanazawa University and happened to be
free in the morning the following day.
That night, I reflected how this
came to happen.
Having partial necrosis in my
hip joint and being in constant pain from it, how poorly had I treated myself
since last April when I left the hospital, without seriously studying why
I was born in this world! What was I doing knowing that there was no leisure
time to spare? I had little gratitude for my own body, which brought about
partial necrosis of it. Everything was the result of my own thinking and doing.
What became of that great joy of coming into contact with the Law and being
saved? What became of my convictions with which I proclaimed at a testimony
meeting that God truly exists? Where did my serious attitude toward each
day go? Did I thank God first thing in the morning when I got up for being
alive? Did I always bear God and Buddha in my consciousness? Was I expressing
gratitude to everything around me keeping me alive? Was I always grateful
for my own body? Was I able to be my own self-expressing appreciation for
all things in nature? What a fool I was to be seized by my passions! What
a wretched being I was! While I was following the path of the Right Law.
It was diagnosed the next day
in the hospital that more than 1/3 of the femoral head was in a state of
necrosis, and the portion below was depressed, which was causing pain. I
was told that in the case of hip joint operations, a percentage of patients
would develop necrosis in their femoral heads, and the only way available
was to remove about 30 centimeters of the femur, including the dead portion,
to be replaced by a metallic, artificial joint. Nevertheless, my mind was
not disturbed by this, but rather calm, knowing:
Nothing is impossible for God
and Buddha.
Blessed are those who believe
in the Right Law.
The next day when I visited Mr.
Maruyama and reported the situation to him, he prayed to God right away, and
filled me with light. I felt something hot conducting from his hands to my
body. He poured light into me for a fairly long time, then as he said with
a pat on my shoulder that he was all done, and suggested that I take a step
or two, I stood up to walk--thank God--without any pain in spite of having
been sitting down just before. I was so amazed and moved by the magnitude
of his work; I was so happy and grateful that I fell flat before Mr. Maruyama
to express words of gratitude with a stream of tears. That is right. That
is exactly right. A miracle happened to me, someone who had been in the depths
of insecurity, suffering from pain till just then. I was given an opportunity
to experience, through my foolish body, the greatness of God and Buddha,
and the true and living God saved me.
Observing me walk, Mr. Maruyama
told me that I still had a slight limp and that I should walk properly. So
I tried to do so, and I found myself able to walk just fine in the correct
posture with no pain whatsoever; I had been dragging my foot because I was
accustomed to it from many days of compensating for my right leg.
After coming home and being able
to change my pants and socks without any pain, without any problems, I felt
warm tears welling up because I used to do so leaning on something or with
my feet on the floor. Day after day, I occupied Mr. Maruyama's precious time
by having him fill me with light for 7 times almost every night. On the 3rd
night, when I unknowingly rolled over right and left on the bed while waking
up in the morning, and when I noticed that it did not hurt at all, I had
a great surge of emotion with tears of joy and gratitude, and found myself
tearfully telling my wife lying next to me that my leg did not hurt at all
thanks to the divine light, and that I was saved by Mr. Maruyama.
He gave me his great love. What
a great love it is! I felt a burning in my bosom.
With his hand over the fractured
portion of my thigh, he deeply bowed and said words of gratitude to God and
Buddha many times from his heart:
Vast Universe, Great Divine Spirit
and Buddha, we were born in this world from heaven by relationships with our
parents and by promises with God. We vowed to each other to live hand in
hand with other people for the purpose of attaining harmony through mercy
and love. However, after being born in this earthly world, we forgot our
promises to God, trifled with by our surroundings, education, ideologies,
customs and senses; we lost our spirits of mercy and love, but lived until
today. God, please forgive our sins. Now, coming in contact with the Right
Law and looking back upon our past full of errors, we feel suffocated by our
foolishness of self-preservation and insatiable greed. We will remember our
promises to God, reflect every day to correct ourselves and go on to fulfill
our missions with the Creed of Mind as our mental nourishment. Bless our
hearts with thy light. Help us bring forth Buddha's Paradise. I truly thank
Thee for providing light for this person's disharmonious body and healing
him this way. I thank Thee from the bottom of my heart. Thank Thee. Thank
Thee. Thank Thee.
He poured light into my hip joint
cells every day like this, and persuaded the body cells,
"Consciousness of the body cells,
forgive this person for lacking care for and gratitude to you. He has vowed
to apply himself to the manifestations of the divine mind. Revive so that
he may be able to complete the rest of his life. Then assist him in his remaining
training of life. Also, all of you, unlaid spirits, who haunt this person,
part from around him. You must not disturb his training. To disturb a child
of God in his training will only make your sins more serious and you will
suffer more. Leave here in peace."
Mr. Maruyama expelled
all the spirits that were clinging to me, asked God for His forgiveness on
my behalf, filled my entire body as well as my weakened body cells with light.
He told me that he could discern the affected portions of my body although
he was not a doctor. He said, "It hurts here, does it not? How am I able
to locate your pain without your telling me? I think it is because I am given
the Lord's guidance. Do not forget to show appreciation for your body. You
must never have thoughts or actions contrary to the Law."
Then he showed me how to take
care of my body including each one of my fingers.
Several days later, he phoned
me and said, "Mr. Sakai, I just came back from a study meeting in Toyama.
How have you been?"
I felt so grateful for the warm
consideration, which he often paid me, that I could not stop shedding tears
for awhile after I hung up the phone.
Whenever I called him on the
phone to thank him, he never failed to ask me about the progress of my condition.
Once he said, "I have been telling my wife about you, that you have recovered
so fast because you, as the recipient of light, have such a fine spirit. It
is most important to firmly hold on to your belief in God and Buddha and
faith in the Law." He was as happy about the daily progress of my leg's recovery
as if it were his own.
I renewed my appreciation for
having such a fortunate opportunity to enjoy the results of extraordinary
devotions made by Mr. Maruyama, who followed the true divine way. Moreover,
I firmly swore to myself never to let my heart go astray from God and Buddha
and the Law even for an instant. I have never been as grateful as this for
his trusting, caring for and giving infinite love to someone as foolish as
I am. Trust and love between people must be matters of the world of God and
Buddha, where people come to believe in God and gain the courage to repay
for kindness. I have felt the same way in that I must devote myself and offer
the truth of love to other people.
Mr. Maruyama explained to me
that I had little appreciation for my body and that passions would draw demons.
He also asked me if we still had something at home to worship at. He said
that it would be utterly blasphemous to worship the wrong gods while praying
to God all the time, that family disputes would naturally have something to
do with this, and that our home altar had been nested by evil spirits. He
suggested that I immediately practice living properly according to the Law,
assuring me that my leg would never hurt if I observed the above three principles.
Even though I was told that our
altar did not have the right gods, I left it alone, seeing my mother clasp
her hands before it, and thought that I would not be able to put it away during
her lifetime.
"That is only what you have been
thinking about, but not what you really told your mother, is it not? Did you
not do away with it by your own imagination without explaining the right
things to her? Your mother will go to hell if you leave her alone. If you
sincerely tell her that there are no right gods in the altar, she cannot
but listen to and believe what no other person than her beloved son says."
He instructed me through his own experience.
Another time he instructed me,
saying, "You should remember that many people related to you have been waiting
to come in contact with the Right Law. Your lack of courage would mean that
those souls who had made promises in the other world might end up returning
there without being saved. I deem it a great responsibility for those who
have embraced the faith in the Law."
I sincerely felt that I must
stand up firmly for volunteering to disseminate the Right Law, otherwise,
I would not be able to repay the kindness of God and Buddha that has saved
me, and that I must have those who are lost and worried know the existence
of the world of light.
As my leg ceased to hurt, and
as directed by Mr. Maruyama to consult the doctor about it, I had a reexamination
on January 7. My doctor studied the X-ray images, compared them with those
taken 2 weeks earlier, told me my lower subcapital bones were recovering well,
checked how the leg joints moved, and told me to walk. After making sure
that these movements caused no pain, he concluded his diagnosis that an operation
was not necessary.
In no more than 2 weeks I had
experienced the difference between heaven and hell. It was truly the gospel
from God and the Lord that I was bestowed with. I have deepened my conviction
that nothing is impossible for God and that blessed are those who believe
in Him.
Mr. Maruyama advised me first
to start contributing an article to "The Light" magazine about my joy of
being saved to express appreciation for it. He explained, "It is important
to proclaim your joy a thousand times with a full heart to many people. That
is what it means to have faith in and repay the kindness of God and Buddha.
Your heart will, if you keep your joy inside it, shrink from suffering. To
proclaim, you should do so, not mumbling, but in a clear and loud voice. There,
you will even be able to make your joy grow. You have a habit of omitting
what is important when you speak, do you not? Don't include such personal
judgments as to dismiss what you think as being useless to say. You should
disclose and say all you have in your heart as it is. That would make people
in this world happy,and their guardian spirits will also appreciate what
they have heard; the more they tell these things in the heavenly world,the
healthier your heart will become. And when you hear episodes of salvation
by God and Buddha,it is important to do so with gratitude."
He also instructed, "Every time
you speak about being saved at the discretion of God and Buddha, all those
who have been saved in the same way will remember their own joyous experiences
in the past and continue to speak of them. Also, these "acts" of repayment
for kindness will also help you cultivate a deeper faith in God and Buddha,
and open up a way to happiness."
(An experience of Hiroshi Sakai,
printed in "The Light" Magazine, March and April 1995)
I have shown you here
articles published in "The Light" Magazines of joy experienced by two persons,
and I have also been given accounts of many healing experiences of the body
and consciousness. (Refer to back numbers.)
First of all, I would like all
medical doctors and scientists in the world to read, as soon as possible,
two sets of books by the great Reverend Shinji Takahashi: (i) The Discovery
of Mind (Divine Truth volume; Science volume; Evidence volume), and (ii)
Human Buddha, Parts 1 through 4.
Moreover, I hope that the worlds
of modern science as well as medicine learn well from the great teachings
of Reverend Shinji Takahashi and become the right medicine and science to
contribute to mankind.
In addition, all we children
of God must sincerely praise the great guide spirit on the higher grade who
appeared on this planet in the name of Shinji Takahashi as predicted by Gautama
Buddha 2500 years ago, and vow to faithfully and correctly keep practicing
the teachings.
It is not until then that the
earth will become as God wishes, peaceful and full of light.
With Reverend Takahashi's poem:
Searching for the light
of God and Buddha for so many years,
What enlightened me was that
Buddha was my heart.
I humbly dedicate this
article to the great Reverend, Shinji Takahashi.
March 30, 1999