Johrei Fellowship

How big and beautiful
Are the hearts of those
Who put first,
The welfare of others -
Yes, even before their own.

I am doing my best
In my desire to fulfill
The needs and wants
Of all of humanity,
And to make others happy.

Know that the happiness
Which we feel when we bri...

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We are all disciples of Meishu-sama.  For some of you it must be hard to think of Meishu-sama when you have only pictures, yet we are all his followers.  As for me, I think of Meishu-sama every day, particularly every morning when I pray at my home altar.  I feel he is...

When we carefully observe the world of today, we see too many unfortunate individuals. For this reason, although I have already written about good fortune, I am going to write on this subject again, this time more thoroughly.

There has been nothing in the world since an...

Perfect harmony combined with its correlative, infinity flexibility, will characterize the new global civilization.  Together they will allow limitless freedom to develop the human culture in either direction.  The principle of a free and flexible fusion of the spiritu...

Contentment and Discontent

Everyone wants to live happily, but experience tells us that things do not always go the way we wish them to go.  This is a part of life, and, in a sense, it makes living more interesting.  When we consider the matter more carefully, we find t...

An excerpt from - The Light from the East:

On August 15, 1945, about fifty followers had gathered in Hakone from all over the country for their regular meeting with Okada.* That morning the radio repeatedly broadcast word that there would be an important announcement at...

Let us live our faith in all our daily activities. Most of the world today seems to be covered in darkness, and people are filled with despair.

Only when there is an increase in the number of people who project love from the heart can the darkness be dispelled and the...

Meishu-sama wrote in a poem:

A freedom of choice
Is given to every...

CONSTRUCTIVE LIVING

Some years ago in Japan I saw in the "readers...