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    Essentials of Divine Breathing
    Essentials of Divine Breathing
    Essentials of Divine Breathing
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    Essentials of Divine Breathing

    By Masami Saionji

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    'Essentials of Divine Breathing' brings together recent writings of Masami Saionji and practical explanations and exercises for using the divine breathing method in everyday life. This simple yet profound technique guides us to activate our inner life power and reconnect with our inner wisdom, so that we can make the most of our one and only precious life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherByakko Press
    Release dateJun 16, 2017
    ISBN9781370246472
    Essentials of Divine Breathing
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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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      Essentials of Divine Breathing - Masami Saionji

      ESSENTIALS OF DIVINE BREATHING

      E-book edition

      © 2017 Masami Saionji

      All rights reserved.

      Senior editor and translator: Mary L. McQuaid

      Contributing editors and translators: Kinuko Hamaya, Miyuki Ohashi, and David W. Edelstein

      Cover illustration by Starline / Freepik; cover photo by Bedneyimages / Freepik; title page illustration by Freepik

      Cover and book design by David W. Edelstein

      Contents

      Preface

      Chapter 1: How to Use Our Creative Energy

      Chapter 2: The Immense Power of the Divine Breathing Method

      Chapter 3: Questions and Answers about the Divine Breathing Method

      Chapter 4: Exercises in using Bright Words with Divine Breathing

      Exercise 1: Making silent shouts in your mind

      Exercise 2: Making silent shouts while holding your breath

      Exercise 3: Reciting poems, prayers, or verses in your mind

      Chapter 5: Creative Fields in Daily Life

      Appendix I: The Blue Earth is Alive

      Poem of Gratitude to Nature Delivered at the World Conservation Congress of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Honolulu, 2016

      Appendix II: Inspiring the World to Care

      Message to the Summit of Conscience for the Climate, Paris, 2015

      Appendix III: Introducing the Fuji Declaration

      An open letter from Masami Saionji

      Appendix IV: The Fuji Declaration

      Appendix V: Further Exercises—Nationalities and Cultural Identities

      Notes

      About the Author

      Preface

      Humanity—

      The power to make the impossible possible

      Is bestowed on human beings alone.

      The insight that enables you to discern, choose, and decide

      In accordance with truth

      Is proof that you are people of truth...

      Holding all that is infinite,

      Capable of manifesting anything you can imagine.

      As soon as possible, purify your doubtful, confused hearts,

      And awaken to eternal truth.

      (from Cries of Life by Masami Saionji)

      Today, our world is at a critical juncture, with volatile atmospheres building up all around us. Many people are lost and confused, and have no idea how to surmount the crises that face the earth and the world of nature.

      What many conscientious people do agree on is that we human beings are the ones responsible for creating these crises. This is indeed true. For many centuries and millennia, we human beings have been cutting ourselves off from great nature, and from the wellspring of perfect wisdom that resides deep within us. We have cut ourselves off from our intrinsic, sublime nature. Rather than believing in and relying on our inner source of limitless power and wisdom, we have believed in material things and relied upon others.

      Now, the moment has arrived when each and every one of us must develop our own, inner abilities without depending on others. From the moment we decide to do this, our inner life power will act upon cells that have long been dormant, enabling them to work towards this goal.

      To assist each person in guiding their own inner evolution and self-creation, I would like to share with you a method that emerged from the study of cosmic science¹—a spiritual study introduced by my mentor and adoptive father, Masahisa Goi. This method is called ‘divine breathing,’ and it enables us to better absorb the immense power of the invisible ‘cosmic essences’² that fill the air around us.

      It is my sincere hope that in reading this book, even one more person may be inspired to believe in themselves and make the most of their one and only, precious divine life.

      Masami Saionji

      May 2017

      Chapter One:

      How to Use Our Creative Energy

      At this crucial moment in the earth’s history, the world’s people seem to be dividing into two streams. On the one hand, we see people who are lost and confused because they are still caught up in a materialistic mindset. Since they do not have a clear sense of the dignity and splendor of their own precious life, they feel frustrated and uneasy. Instead of living each day with feelings of peace and gratitude, they keep struggling with enemies—whether real or imagined—in the world around them. Constantly fearful of losing what they have, they try with all their might to defeat others and gain whatever advantages they can for themselves, their own families, their own groups, or their own countries.

      At the same time, there are also people who care little for worldly wealth, and desire from the bottom of their hearts to contribute something to others. Their hearts are filled with respect for the earth and the environment, and they have very few feelings of anxiety over their own future. They have almost no fear of death, and think of it simply as a transition point in their sacred, never-ending life.

      Every month I have the honor of joining with several thousand people like this who gather from all parts of Japan and other countries to pray together for peace on earth. Regardless of the distance, regardless of the weather, they travel in cars, buses, trains, and airplanes to a sacred spot at the foot of Mt. Fuji, where they join together in sending out waves of harmonizing energy that course through the world, purifying the violent masses of energy that are pushing the earth toward destruction.

      In all countries there are people who share a similar desire to change the direction that the world is taking. These people understand that each individual on earth is responsible for the conditions that we all face today, and they know that each person’s consciousness holds the power to re-create the future. Each in their own way, these people are earnestly striving to make a difference.

      And yet, when I look at the lifestyles of these wonderful, peace-minded people in my own country and throughout the world, I find that, in a great many cases, when they leave their prayerful meetings and gatherings and go back to their everyday lives, the same old problems keep cropping up again. It seems like they cannot release themselves from those problems. And so, I keep asking myself, why can’t they let those problems go?

      We human beings are constantly stepping into the future. Whatever happened a moment ago is already part of the past. Nothing that happened in the past has the power to jump into the present moment and reappear in our lives. Yet in spite of this, many of us keep clutching at the past and drawing it back toward us. By constantly thinking about the past and reliving it in our minds, we are giving our precious life-power to it. Instead of letting

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