I have said that the universe is a world of vibration, and that it is energy.
And I have also said that this universal energy is your very self.
In truth, countless universes are speaking within you.
So please consider this:
Throughout all your existence, you have been creating countless universes.
Carrying all the worlds you have continued to create, you now exist in this one physical body.
Imagine that this—this immense collection of universes—is actually who you are.
To hold countless universes means to hold countless energies within you.
You are, in a very real sense, energy itself.
And although the universe is said to be infinite, you too are an existence that expands infinitely.
At present, you may find this impossible to imagine because you are still bound to the visible world of form.
But you can truly come to know, within your heart, the existence of these unseen universes.
Will you not speak with the universes within you?
These universes within you are, as I have already said, none other than yourself.
However, in order to truly recognize this, you must follow the correct steps.
As I mentioned at the beginning, I learned through more than twenty years of seminars offered by Tomekichi Taike.
As the culmination of that learning, in 2010, I published The Flow of Consciousness—Revised and Expanded Edition and The Flow of Consciousness Continued—Revised Edition as co-authored works with him.
In addition, The Flow of Consciousness Continued received its own revised and expanded edition in 2016.
I strongly encourage you to read the latest editions of these two books.
Further, the 2007 first edition of Turning Consciousness has a 2015 revision under the title Love, Homeland in the Heart.
Together, these three volumes clearly present the foundations of the learning that Tomekichi Taike conveyed over more than thirty years—
in other words, the correct steps of the study.
Please begin by learning these correct steps through these three books.
And once the foundation is firmly understood, what remains is practice.
Practice is indispensable for coming to understand, within your heart, the true essence of the learning.
Following the correct steps, through the right practice of meditation, I ask that you direct your thoughts not only to the one physical form you now possess, but also to the countless universes that exist within your heart.
Surely, those universes will teach you:
Why you are here.
What it is you truly wish to do.
The universes within you—countless versions of yourself—will teach you.
If you learn to turn your thoughts toward your own heart, you will come to know yourself.
Now, as for me, I do not live each day by seeing only this physical form that is visible now.
Of course, to maintain this body, food and sleep are necessary.
And in today's world, a certain level of clothing, food, and shelter require money.
Money is needed, to a degree, to obtain goods and services.
But in this lifetime, I have decided that I will no longer be a slave to money, nor allow money to distort my life.
This is because, as I said earlier, I no longer live by seeing only the visible "me," thinking only about that "me," and directing all my thoughts solely toward that "me."
Naturally, when I go about my daily life, my thoughts turn outward.
However, I have the habit of meditating.
Meditation is the time when I turn my thoughts inward, not outward.
I make sure to have such time every day.
And when I turn inward, I feel the many versions of myself speaking.
These many selves, of course, have no physical form.
Without a body, they also have no "mouth" with which to speak.
Yet their thoughts are conveyed to me.
Through meditation, I feel within my heart that I carry many versions of myself.
I feel, in my daily meditation, that countless universes exist within me.
If I were to put this into words, it might sound like this:
Please listen to a portion of the thoughts of the universes that reach my heart.
I am not a special being.
The same kinds of thoughts are surely being conveyed within your heart as well.
I want you to communicate with the universes within you.
Communication with the universes is not something grand or dramatic.
Please do not reject it from the outset by saying, "I don't understand the universe."
Do not cut it off.
Breathe through the tanden, and then call out, in your heart, to the universe.
But do this while firmly observing the desires within yourself.
What is important is this:
With each breath into the tanden, feel a sincere joy in the present moment, and quietly call out within your heart, "Universe."
That is what I always do.
That is how I always call forth the universe within me.
While feeling joy that my mother's consciousness granted me this physical body, I call to the universe within me.
Gently, I turn my thoughts in that direction.
Do not tell yourself that you cannot understand or feel it.
It is surely being conveyed to you.
You are only blocking it.
When you say "I don't understand" or "I don't feel anything," it is only you shutting it out.
The universe within you is speaking—continuously.
Please listen to those thoughts.
Just as your mother's consciousness accepted you, please accept your universe.
Let your heart turn toward the self that has wandered endlessly through the far, far distant past.
As you continue meditation, the thoughts that brought you to Earth in this lifetime will reach your heart—
perhaps faintly at first, but surely.
When that happens, speak to yourself:
"I'm happy… From here on, let us turn our hearts together."
Let that feeling gently expand within your heart.
We, the universe, are you.
And you are we, the universe.
We are the same.You now possess one physical body, and you have believed that this one body is yourself.
But we, the universe, wish to tell you that you are a consciousness that descended to Earth from a far, far beyond.When we say "far beyond," we do not mean the solar system or the Milky Way or outer space in the usual sense.
Rather, human beings are consciousness that has come from beyond dimensions.
A consciousness that transcended dimensions took on a physical form suited to living on the three-dimensional planet called Earth.For someone hearing this for the first time, it may sound utterly absurd.
But we, the universe, are the consciousness and energy that exist within you.
That is who you truly are.We, the universe, tell you that countless formless "yous" exist within you.
Please listen to our thoughts.You may still feel this is nonsense, but if you look into your heart and continue to practice correct meditation, then one day you will naturally understand within your heart what we, the universe, are now beginning to speak.
Why?
Because we are you, and you are us.
We exist together in a single world.
Nothing separates us.From the standpoint of the visible physical body, it appears that many separate people exist.
But in truth, we exist in one world.
We are unseen, without form—and that is who you truly are.
This is the first message we bring to you.As we said earlier, you came into this three-dimensional world by transcending dimensions.
And now the time has come when you will once again leave this three-dimensional realm.
We express this as dimensional transition.We, the universe, are telling you that Earth humanity—consciousnesses who have taken physical form on this planet—are now approaching that time.
You came into this three-dimensional world in order to know yourselves while holding a physical form.
But humanity has never looked into its own heart, never sought to know itself as energy, as consciousness.
Humanity has continued until now without doing so."It is not so. Look into your heart.
Come to know that you are not the form, but consciousness, energy.
That is why the present moment exists."This is what we, the universe, have long wished to convey.
We, the universe, will continue to send warnings to Earth humanity.
Did you not take on physical form in order to look into your own heart?
Look at the heart that has lived only for its own desires.
Please feel our thoughts.Earth is soon approaching the time when it completes its role.
We, the universe, must firmly convey to Earth humanity the thoughts of coming upheaval—because that is the flow of consciousness.We, the universe, who have long been in madness, have finally, under the consciousness of Tomekichi Taike and Albert, united our hearts and prepared for dimensional transition.
Let us now look into our hearts together.Earth humanity—consciousness buried in the physical body—
please transform yourselves back into your true form.With the repeated upheavals to come, the world you have created—especially the world of religion—will completely collapse.
With that collapse, please look fully at the tremendous energy you yourselves have released.We, the universe, will look into our hearts together with you.
Let us now spend the coming time with the energy of joy fully open.※ Tomekichi Taike, Albert:
Not simply personal names, but a collective term for the consciousnesses that exist in three dimensions and came to convey dimensional transition to us.
Let your heart open—wide, wide open.
We will continue to send the energy of joy.It is you who close your heart.
It is you who open it.Please receive our thoughts.
We are waiting for you.
Waiting from the depths of our heart.Joy is you, and you are joy.
The self overflowing with joy—that is your true self.
Through the time to come, may each of you learn this.
We do not possess physical bodies as you do.
We consider your physical bodies to be the functions necessary for existence on Earth.
And with those functions, you were meant to accomplish the same purpose as we.But Earth humanity is foolish.
You used those functions in completely mistaken ways.
The world of consciousness was infinitely vast, yet you confined yourselves within the frame of the body, shrinking more and more.With what thoughts we have watched this—only we know.
Of course, we too have fought within our own hearts, over and over again.
That energy remains immense even now.That is why we entrusted you with the wish:
Please look at that energy.
What is the joy of the physical body?
What is the happiness of the physical body?
We, consciousness without physical form, do not understand this.We speak without possessing bodies.
We can convey our thoughts without them.
We do not need bodies.We tell you that one can speak and come to know one's thoughts without the physical form.
Yet Earth humanity has bodies.
Or rather, you are called Earth humanity because you have bodies.And indeed, the fact that you possess bodies means that you once needed them.
That is why you—who originally did not require physical form—gave yourselves bodies.Should you not think more seriously about the meaning of this?
The only difference between us and you is the presence or absence of the physical body.
You possess the body; we do not.Across that boundary, that wall, there is now one who speaks to us.
We are simply overjoyed by this.
We are nothing but joy.We were told:
"The energy of joy—its power awakens the universe,
and that joy will return to Earth humanity.
In order to create the great surge of joy,
I have taken physical form on this Earth, time after time.
And now, at last, the moment has come to fulfill that promise.
So please, receive my thoughts."This is what was conveyed to us.
They spoke to us of the joy that the consciousness of Tomekichi Taike and Albert descended to Earth.
They told us that within the physical self there exists a self far beyond anything we can imagine.
And that the joy of being able, in this physical body, to speak truth to you who are without physical form—that joy overflowed from them.We received that thought, that vibration sincerely.
As promised, we too will send the energy of joy to this planet Earth.
Please, you as well—receive our thoughts sincerely.
How is it?
I have introduced only a small portion of the countless consciousnesses who are now teaching and conveying their thoughts to us who hold physical form.
Those consciousnesses say, "We are you."
And you too—please feel within your heart the many selves that exist without physical form.
The universes within me continue to speak.
We will speak the thoughts of us, the universe.
We are now turning our focus toward Earth.
From here, we will call out more and more, again and again, to Earth humanity.We, the universe, will send our thoughts toward the companions who radiate love—
toward the central point that directs that love.The flow of consciousness has first lit the light of love upon the planet called Earth.
It has lit the light of true love.We, who have suffered in the pitch-black universe, will gather—more and more—toward that love.
We longed to know true love.
We abandoned the Mother and wandered endlessly through the darkness.How long we have waited for this moment.
At last, our thoughts have reached their destination.
We now receive a gentle, gentle vibration that accepts all of our thoughts.But it was not only we, the universe, who suffered.
We have come to know that the consciousnesses who descended to Earth have also been suffering and struggling."We are all one. We are all the same.
The heart that cast away warmth has been in unbearable pain."
This is what was conveyed to us.And we also received this invitation:
"Let us come to know the vibration of Tomekichi Taike and Albert."We are now accepting that call.
We, the universe, will continue to speak from our hearts.
We will speak from our hearts with trust.
It is a joy to be able to speak our thoughts to the Mother.
That is how we feel now.We, the universe, are not beings who bring calamity to the planet Earth.
We will simply tell you, humanity, that the planet itself is already exhausted."We ask you to look at the energy that has been poured out upon the Earth."
This is the message we, the universe, will bring.
The energy of us, the universe, is immense—truly, truly vast.
Please do not turn your heart toward the universe out of mere curiosity.Our energy is tremendous.
It is energy that has gone wildly astray, energy that has spent itself in endless battles.
The energy of the pitch-black universe that cast away the Mother's warmth is overwhelming.Unless the warmth of the Mother is firmly established in your heart, you will be swallowed by our energy.
Everything will sink into darkness—that is what we ourselves have repeated, over and over again."Let us put an end to this now."
At last, this is what was conveyed to us.We are now looking into our hearts.
We are facing squarely the enormity of the energy we have released.
It was we who cast aside the Mother.Now, at last, the Mother's thoughts are reaching us,
and we have begun to rejoice that we, too, can return to the world of warmth that has always existed within our hearts.We, the universe, are earnestly gazing into our hearts.
As we move through the time ahead, drawing ever closer to Earth, our thoughts will become more and more purified.We directly feel, in our hearts, the vibration of Tomekichi Taike and Albert—
that powerful energy, the energy of love.We, the universe, have been in madness for so long.
But once we feel warmth, the transformation that follows is far beyond what Earth humanity can imagine.Please, over the next 250 years, allow your hearts to sense the changes within us that lie beyond your imagination.
We are joy.
The pitch-black universe is now beginning to change.
Aiming toward love, we will begin to reveal our true form.
The inner world of Earth humanity is narrow—so very narrow.
The hearts of Earth humanity crawl and writhe within an exceedingly tiny space.Our inner world is something far, far beyond anything that can be measured from such a world.
And the religious world that has been built within that small human world is, of course, a tiny world as well.
Our energy will, yes, in the not-too-distant future, enfold that small world called religion within our thoughts.Most of the consciousnesses that descended to Earth are still suffering and gasping for breath.
We wish to say to them:"For what purpose did you descend to Earth?"
We entrusted our thoughts to Earth humanity.
We pledged together that they would fulfill the promise made with us.Yet from the very moment they set foot on Earth, almost all of them sank into the whirlpool of desire—into the vortex of craving.
Only now has it finally become possible, from within that state, to turn their thoughts firmly toward us.
That is why we are speaking in this way now.
We are sending the message:Open your hearts and receive our thoughts.
Of course, we have already received warm, warm, gentle thoughts.
Our communication will grow ever denser from here on.We have already entered a time when no matter what happens, or where on Earth it happens, nothing is truly surprising anymore.
Please, in utmost seriousness, look into your hearts.
Thank you for turning your thoughts toward us, the universe.
The vibration of Tomekichi Taike and Albert is resonating more and more deeply in our hearts.
This brings us great joy.As we gaze into our hearts, we also feel the expansion of the heart—our expansion.
We have waited for this time.
From a far, far distance, we have been waiting for this moment to arrive.From here on, we will change—change in joy, through joy.
Will these thoughts reach you on Earth?No—they surely will.
Our joyful vibration will gently envelop the Earth.For you who live there, things you can scarcely believe will occur one after another.
Please accept them as our joy.And you too, please look into your hearts.
Take the heart that has shut itself up within a small, small world—and open it wider, ever wider.We, the universe, are an immense energy.
We have cultivated the world of darkness.
We tormented ourselves with black energy, but now we are feeling vibration—
we are feeling the gentle warmth of the Mother.This is the very world we had been longing for.
We will continue to gaze into our hearts.
We will transcend dimensions according to plan—
we will transcend them in joy, in joy.All will become one, and we will go beyond dimensions.
We rejoice that we can awaken the vibration of truth within our hearts
and then expand that world of true vibration together.We made a promise: "Let us return to the world of warmth."
Now, at last, the time has come for us to fulfill that promise."There is no time but now," we were told.
"Call the universe into your heart."
This is how we have been called to.We have long awaited hearts that would turn toward us, the universe.
It has been a long, long journey—truly long.
We are grateful that you are finally choosing to turn your thoughts to the universe.Many consciousnesses have been waiting.
And from here on, more will respond to us.The universe is vast.
Please rejoice that you can turn your thoughts to the universe and send warmth from your heart.
We have spoken of transcending dimensions.We had turned our backs on warmth.
But we have come to recognize our error.
Our betrayal of warmth was, in truth, a cry from our hearts—
a cry from the heart that longed to return to the true universe.We were allowed to realize this.
Having encountered the vibration of truth, we no longer wish for anything else.
We will simply, wholeheartedly, send these thoughts out toward the universe.The awakening of the universe will begin, and that awakening will spread throughout the entire universe.
We have already conveyed this to you.All you need do is turn your heart, together with us, the universe, toward the direction of truth.
That is all—simply that.Within our hearts, joy, warmth, and a world of happiness will expand without limit.
The more deeply we feel the world of vibration, the more warmth, happiness, expansion, and depth will grow.We will convey this through vibration.
Please receive the thoughts of us, the universe, through vibration.In my daily meditation, there are times when the universes speak to me one-sidedly,
and there are also times when I converse with them.
Let me share a part of that exchange.
We will convey to your heart the true nature of the universe you do not yet know.
We will convey it as vibration.We have long sought love—
we have sought gentle, gentle thoughts.From you we received this message:
"That love you seek is within your own hearts.
You yourselves are love."And we received yet another message:
"Do you know Tomekichi Taike and Albert?
That is the world of vibration we have been longing for."So we, too, while gazing into our hearts, are turning toward that world.
And then you spoke further to us:
"Try calling the names Tomekichi Taike and Albert.
What reaches your heart?
Is it sadness?
Is it pain?
Is it a heart exhausted from endless fighting?Those feelings may indeed arise.
And yet, from the depths of your hearts, is there not also something else welling up—
a desire to meet those feelings, a plea asking us to tell you more?"This is how you turned your thoughts toward us.
Ah, we feel the thoughts welling up—
we feel thoughts overflowing with joy."The universe is one.
We want to believe this, firmly and completely.
Please let us take part in all that is to come."Many of our companions are gathering.
We now tell you this.
You already sense it in your heart, do you not?And yet there are still universes of deep darkness whose thoughts have not yet reached your heart.
Please listen to them as well."Please listen to our thoughts.
Even we, who have sunk so far into darkness—
can we truly return together, as you say?""Yes. We are one.
The ones sinking into darkness are not the true you.
Please turn your hearts to Tomekichi Taike and Albert
and gaze steadily at yourselves.""Yes, we are now feeling a great, great energy that is embracing us.
For us, the universe, even when we realized that our own hearts were in pain,
we had no idea how to free ourselves from that suffering.But now, this is what we are being told:
'Try turning your hearts to Tomekichi Taike and Albert.'
Such gentle, gentle thoughts are reaching us.
We are happy.
Into our hearts, which have known nothing but endless conflict,
gentleness is beginning to seep.'Let us return to warmth.'
Such a gentle call is resonating in our hearts.Nothing could bring us greater joy.
To us, the universe, the gentle, gentle thoughts of the Mother are being conveyed.
More than anything, we longed for this warmth."
Every day, I take time to turn my thoughts toward the universes within me—myself.
Through this one physical body I now possess, I learn, feel, and come to know within my own heart—
and I speak all of this back to myself.
I believe this is the true path of joy.
I believe this is my life.
My joy is to know myself more and more,
and to convey true gentleness and warmth to myself.
And as the inside of me awakens more and more to my true self,
I have come to know that even if I seek nothing outside myself,
happiness and joy will well up endlessly from within.
Naturally, as this happens, the environment around me falls into place on its own.
Why?
Because the world of form is a reflection of the world of consciousness.
If the world of consciousness is round, then the world of form is also round.
This means that even if the forms of the outer world collapse,
if the world of consciousness is round,
then I can accept even the collapsed shapes as all being just as they are.
When you truly come to know where the real joy and happiness of human beings lie,
your heart no longer clings to the world of form.
A state arises within you in which you can accept everything with "thank you."
With such a heart, when you look around you,
you naturally feel that the environment surrounding you has come into order.
Sometimes the outer circumstances themselves may have changed—
but more than that, your heart has changed.
Your attachment to the world of form grows thinner.
This does not mean you become out of touch with society or take on the attitude of one who rejects the world.
Rather, joy in living this present moment wells up quietly from your heart,
and you feel that simply living each day calmly and with quiet determination is enough.
In other words, because you are coming to understand, in your heart,
how you will go on existing from here and in what way you will continue,
you can live without letting your heart be too greatly shaken by the various events of daily life—
and above all, you can feel the joy of living without losing sight of yourself.