The Comedy of the “Science of Nutrition”

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The Comedy of the “Science of Nutrition”

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“The Comedy of the ‘Science of Nutrition’” must seem a rather strange title. I really would not care to use this sort of expression, but I do hope you will see why I cannot find any other.
The generally-accepted science of nutrition that is followed today is a fallacy. It is simply pitiful that in spite of the fact that this fallacious notion of nutrition does more harm than good, it uses up an enormous amount of effort and money as a popularly received facet of advanced culture today. I make this bold, audacious statement, knowing that some people may think me crazy because I cannot remain silent in the face of the situation today. This is why.
At the top of what is considered nutritive today are the vitamins called A, B, C, followed by a further classification of different, varying substances such as amino acids, carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. When ingested or injected whole into the body, these have a temporary but not a continual effect. Indeed, the effect is ultimately contrary, because as more nutritive supplements are ingested, the human body weakens as much. It should not be necessary to explain here that human beings ingest foodstuffs to maintain and manifest life, but it is the very interpretation of this point that is at odds with human learning about “nutrition” today.
Let us look at how human beings consume foodstuffs. They chew with their teeth, and the food passes through the throat. The food enters the stomach, then the intestines, and what is unnecessary is separated into excrement and eliminated. Throughout this process, at various stages, the nutritive-producing functions of the liver, the gall bladder, the kidneys, the pancreas, and so forth, produce, select and send to the appropriate parts of the body all the necessary elements for the functioning of the blood, muscles, bones, skin, hair, and teeth in a very inscrutable process that maintains life. It is a mystical creation of wonder and profundity that cannot be expressed in human terms. This is nature as it is.
The necessary elements to support human life are included within all foodstuffs. The fact that there so many different varieties of foodstuffs is because each contains different elements. Taste and amount differ for person and time, and the fact that not all the same varieties are available everywhere comes about because what is needed by physical bodies in varying places also differs. Basically, if your stomach empties, you eat. If your throat gets dry, you drink water. If you want something sweet, it is because your body is lacking in sugar content and if you want something spicier than usual, it is because your system lacks salt. The basic principles of nutrition are well illustrated by the natural desires of human beings. Human beings naturally desire food that is delicious, so it should be understandable why it is a mistake to forcibly ingest the unpalatable and bitter substance called medicine. The aphorisms and maxims around since antiquity that emphasize the benefits of bitter medicines are greatly mistaken.
The Creator made poisons bitter so that human beings would not ingest them. Thus, the more delicious something is, the more nutritious it is, and foodstuffs are delicious because they have a high spiritual content. The fresher the fish or vegetable, the higher is the level of spirituality. As time passes, the taste declines because the spirituality has dissipated.
At this point, I would like to discuss nutritional supplements. Within the human body, the nutritive-producing functions create as necessary the required amount of nutrition, that is, vitamins. The nutritive-producing functions of human bodies have the uncanny power to produce the necessary amount of vitamins even from foods that do not contain vitamins. The vitality of a human being results from the activity of the very process that generates the nutritive elements from ingested food. Simply speaking, the activity of the process that creates a perfect substance from an uncompleted one is life itself.
From what I have discussed above it should be obvious that so-called nutritive supplements, which are complete, perfected substances, if ingested, will naturally weaken the body’s nutritive-producing functions since they become unnecessary. As the nutritive-producing function weakens, other functions naturally weaken due to the collective responsibility of all the body’s functions, and finally the entire physical body gradually weakens. Let me give two or three examples of how this can happen.
The first example is Fletcherism which used to be quite touted in the United States. This approach held that chewing the food thoroughly until it was mush in the mouth was beneficial. I myself religiously followed this system for a month, but I found, rather than helping me, that I felt weaker. I was surprised to feel I just did not have the energy I thought I should have, so I stopped following that method, went back to my normal eating habits, and my strength returned. That was when I learned what a mistake it is to completely masticate one’s food. It is mistaken because when the teeth overly masticate, the stomach has no opportunity to fully function, so food really only has to be masticated by half. An old saying has that the person who eats and defecates quickly is a healthy person, and in this sense, the ancients were well advanced of our contemporary civilization.
Another weakening factor are stomach medicines. As one’s stomach weakens, one takes more medicine, and the stomach continues to weaken, so it is an unmistakable fact that the cause of stomach conditions is the use of stomach medicines. I often hear of patients long suffering from stomach diseases or conditions who do not improve as long as they continue to eat regular food that requires good digestion, but who upon eating pickled vegetables in Japanese rice gruel, that is, food that does not need full digestive action, improve.
Let me compare the energy, the vitality, within the human body that upon ingestion changes unprocessed foods into the necessary nutritional elements for the human body to a manufacturing plant. First, the raw materials are brought into the factory. The furnaces are lit, the machinery begins to move, and gradually the finished product is created. That process is the very raison d’être for the factory. If, on the other hand, finished goods were brought into the factory, there would be no need for work in the factory, coal would not be burned, machinery would not be operated, and there would be no need for workers. Shutting down the plant would be the inevitable outcome.
I have sought to explain this issue in terms easy to understand, and if my discussion is given some thought, “comedy” should be the only word available to describe the vapid, worthless substances such as nutritional supplements that squander money and do nothing but weaken the body. Hence the title of this essay.

The Toxic Mass That Is a Human Being

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The Toxic Mass That Is a Human Being

The physical body of the contemporary human being is a mass of toxins. I consistently teach this and readers may think it a terrible statement to make, but it is the unfortunate truth. As is taught to all my followers, every one in the world today is a toxic mass composed of two types of medicinal toxins, congenital toxins inherited from our ancestors and post-congenital toxins ingested after birth. Throughout the some twenty-odd years of my experience of having healed hundreds and thousands of persons, I have yet to encounter one individual who is completely free of toxins. The more apt description might be that masses of medicinal toxins are in the shape of human beings without exception. Through Johrei, of course, people can easily eliminate these toxins and reach a point where they are not anxious about disease or fear for their life, but it is probably difficult if not impossible to remove all toxins during the lifetime of a human being.
Toxic masses in the form of human beings may haughtily force their materialistic logic on everyone around them, but from our standpoint we know that their level of reason is total absurdity from which it is only natural that no decent level of insight or judgment ever appears. I teach further that it is a law of nature that toxins accumulate in the regions of the body where the nerves are utilized the most, and that since contemporary people use their heads a great deal, the shoulders and the area around the neck are especially stiff from toxins. This condition can readily be apprehended when you look at anyone today and find lumps, either large or small, under the skin in these areas.
Natural activity to purify the toxins in the area around the neck and shoulders takes the form of colds, so if left alone, the toxins will be eliminated smoothly and the cold will cure itself. But medical science, ignorant of this natural process, uses medicines and other measures to stop elimination and harden the affected region. As a result of the solidifying measures, medicinal toxins are further added to the human body, the level of hardness increases, and the human body becomes even a denser toxic mass. Purificatory activity will then generate even more readily, leading to the situation we have now with so many sick people. Because it is the brain that is affected the most, there is hardly anyone today who does not suffer from headaches, heavy headedness, low concentration, irritability, or dizziness. As a result, powers of discernment are dulled, people find it hard to tell right from wrong, they lack common sense, they have a lower level of intellect, and they are stupid and thick-headed. You all know this for yourselves when you try to settle a problem within narrow limitations you make for yourself and do not consider larger or long-term consequences. People are continually astonished by the resulting amount of unpleasantness, whether disease, crime, poverty, or conflict, they encounter in society which seems to be nothing more than an illustrated picture scroll of hell.
When speaking of discernment, one point I particularly want to make concerns the low level of the intellectual classes. To the public they merely present a clash of contradictions, without well-grounded opinions, containing no thread of logic. Words are merely arranged on a page to earn a living. Hardly anything remains after reading the editorials in newspapers these days. Let me give several instances. First, the example shown by those involved with religion. Most of the people having to do with religions these days are merely attempting to put new garments on antiquated dogmas dating from hundreds and thousands of years ago. There is no freshness or novelty, and such teachings cannot move the people today. The low level of the intelligence of politicians as well is indicated by the fact they will take several days to mull over an issue that anyone with a normal brain could summarize and reach a conclusion about in thirty minutes. Just how low the level is can be gauged by the cases where politicians take not just days, but months and years to reach a conclusion. You will probably agree with this assessment when you consider the issue of rearmament, currently a topic of political discussion. Whether Japan should rearm or not has a simple and clear answer even though the issue continues to be kicked about without any conclusion being reached. The situation is truly hopeless because there are no trustworthy leaders with foresight.
In regard to decision-making, my subordinates have standing instructions to cease consultations or discussions if the conclusion about a topic cannot be made within thirty minutes. Even so, oftentimes I have to step in and unilaterally settle matters that do not seem to be coming together, but this is the reason that business in our church can be carried out in such an expeditious manner. Those in the economic field are also dull-witted. Whether in government and financial circles, or in the commercial and industrial sectors, what all continue to suffer from is debt. There is probably no other nation in the world with as much debt and inflation as Japan. The greatest cause for this economic instability is the incompetence in handling balance between profit and interest from which being able to judge the rise and fall of enterprises, analyze world trends, and forecast national economic trends are all impossible. These deficiencies are naturally the result of stupidity, and the weight of debts spurs the stupidity forward.
The list goes on and on, and I think you understand my point, but what I want to note particularly is the great amount of unpleasant things that occur nowadays in our world from traffic accidents, fires, mining accidents, incidents of bloodshed, suicide, to child murder and parent suicide. In addition to these statutory incidents, there is the damage from wind and flooding, and insect damage on farms. These problems and misfortunes all result from the lack of intelligence and discernment in the brains of people today, and the cause of that lack is medicinal toxins. I feel acutely that people must be awakened to the relationship between our problems and the toxins in the human body. Contemporary society, frankly speaking, seems to be nothing more than the pushing and shoving, the wriggling around, of toxic lumps. Only the divine blessing of purification will help us.

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One Instance of a Spiritual Disease

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One Instance of a Spiritual Disease

There are various illnesses that result from the possession caused by the spirits of people or animals that have died, and the following example demonstrates this kind of possession quite distinctly. That medical practitioners do not understand it is not unreasonable. As can be seen here, it is obvious that a true healing method clearly explains and also must be able to heal diseases of both the spirit and of the body. Until the present, however, medical science has emphasized the physical and faith healing has relied upon the spiritual, so both approaches were impaired. Neither was able to heal all diseases. Here lies the wonderful value of World Messianity.
In this account, a spirit suffering in the spiritual world possesses a human being in the physical world in order to be saved. The peculiar symptoms of the patient are exactly the conditions of the spirit when it died, so once the relationship between the spiritual and the physical is understood, how the healing process unfolds can also be understood.

A Family Saved by the Guidance of Ancestors

Kikui Daizo, 41, Toyama Church
Toyama Prefecture

In April 1952, I was guided to join the church. Clumsily I share with you one part of my happiness.
In April 1951, a cold I happened to catch turned into pneumonia and then into tuberculosis for which I was hospitalized. As a result of receiving injections of streptomycin, taking para-aminosalicylic acid, and maintaining absolute rest as recommended by my doctor, the severe cough I suffered from lessened and my appetite gradually returned. At three months I was discharged from the hospital for which I was very happy. After that, I still continued to visit the hospital as an outpatient, but it happened in the middle of October, I believe, just as autumn had advanced. Because I had heard that the Thunberg’s geranium I could pick in my garden had beneficial medicinal effects, I chopped it up, brewed it, and drank it as tea, which my friend Mrs. Murakami once saw me doing and asked, “You seem to be so earnest about getting better. Are you really better?” We continued to talk about different topics, and then she said, “Let me show you a book,” and she handed me a volume that had been wrapped carefully in a newspaper. She said pleasantly, “It will be a good-tasting medicine. Try it instead of tea,” put the book in a large bag, and gave it to me. At the time I thought I had being doing a good thing by drinking the tea and had been rather pleased with myself. Now that I have learned how terrifying medicinal toxins are, I am more than sorry. That night, when everyone had gone to bed, I took the book (the Chijôtengoku magazine) out of the bag and started to read it. The volume referred to matters I had never heard of or seen before. This is not just a regular old book, I thought, and I found it pleasant to read a little bit from it each night. After that, a friend said there was something she wanted me to hear, invited me to the Kurokawa home, and I went along. As I was listening to the talk, suddenly I strangely felt in the world of dreams, as if I were surrounded by a group of foxes. It seemed so real I just had to look around at the whole group. When the talk was over and I thought it time to leave, some people were waving their hands over other peoples’ bodies. Everyone seemed so serious. On the way home, I learned what had been going on as my friend explained to me. I was surprised to find something so wonderful in Fukumitsu.
From that time on, I felt drawn to and visited the home of Rev. Kurokawa several times to hear more about the church. Hearing the valuable explanations, I felt I should meet Rev Takumi, the head of the church. I heard that a neighbor, Mrs. Asano, was going to dedicate a Divine Light Tathagata scroll in her home on February twenty-second and that the head minister would be there, so accompanied by my mother, we went to hear more details about the path. As if I had found a ray of bright light, I could not contain my joy.
However, on the night of March six, as always my mother and I recited a Buddhist chant together before going to sleep. The next morning, they tell me, I had lost consciousness. I could hear the voice of my husband far away waking up everyone in the household, and then I regained consciousness. I could not speak. I could not see. I could not move at all. My husband kept asking me, “Are you awake?” “Can you understand me?” But all I could do was nod. There was a big fuss in the household and someone said, “We have to call a doctor quickly!” My husband said to me, “Shall we have the usual doctor come, or since it is a different illness this time, shall we go to another doctor? I will do as you say.” I thought to myself, “This time we mustn’t call a doctor,” but since I could not speak, I just moved my head from side to side. Everyone was surprised, “What kind of sick person is this?” My mother realized what I was trying to say and said, “Her hands are wriggling. I am sure she is trying to indicate Mrs. Asano,” so I was relieved and collapsed again in exhaustion. I heard later that my husband went to fetch Mrs. Asano. She was able to channel Johrei to me right away and I was so happy that tears flowed from my eyes. My body felt better and before I realized it, I fell asleep. While I was sleeping, neighbors came to visit and worried about me, they said to my family, “What are you thinking, not having a person so sick not seen by a doctor!” This was a misplaced kindness, but my family, probably thinking of what society would say, called a doctor. After looking me over, the doctor said, “I do not really know what this sickness is, but just so it does not reach the brain….,” and gave me an injection. That evening, Mrs. Asano came with Rev. Mizokuchi. Right away, Rev. Mizokuchi channeled Johrei to me and in easy to understand terms explained about the church and Johrei to my family. He told us, “Your illness is a sign from your ancestors that they want to be saved. If your husband joins and is able to channel Johrei to you, you will soon get better. Please save your ancestors as quickly as possible.” Even though I could not say anything, within me an inexplicable feeling of bright hope welled up. As I received Johrei, I became able to hear clearly what people were saying, my headache stopped, and on the second day I was able to go by myself to the toilet. Everyone was surprised, although it is regrettable that at that time all that was eliminated was saliva. I was told if I wanted to express something, to write it down and was given a pencil and paper but I could not write even a single letter. In such a pitiful state, Mrs. Asano and Rev. Mizokuchi took turns channeling Johrei and telling me various aspects about the path. Later, on March eleventh, my husband attended the regular service of the branch church and received his sacred focal point.
How marvelous! From that day I was able to do housework and bit by bit I was able to speak again. My prayers were fulfilled. I was very thankful. It just seemed too good for me. The doctor told me, “Your illness is peculiar. Medical science has nothing on it.” I thoroughly learned that even though I was the one involved, my sickness was not the doings of human beings at all. After that, I took the introductory course and although for a while I had trouble passing food through my throat, I am now able to eat. We dedicated a Kannon screen in our family altar and everyday we receive blessings. April last year my second son had purification of an inflamed mouth and although we did worry about it, we depended on Meishu-sama, and as we gave our son Johrei, he had completely recovered within a month. We are only choked with tears of gratitude for all the blessings we receive in spite of the many sins and impurities our family has.
I still have much to learn and from now on I intend to repay even if only by a thousandth the blessings I have received. A person as unlearned as myself is not able to express thoughts well in speech or through the brush. All I can say is, “Meishu-sama, thank you very much.” I also want to express my gratitude to Rev. Mizokuchi and Mrs. Asano who, trudging through the snow with a small child on her back, visited my home many times to channel Johrei to me.

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