私たちは誰一人例外なく、本当の自分＝愛を信じず、偽物の自分＝形ある世界を本物と信じて生きてきました。その結果、喜びや幸せを外に求め、得たとしても苦しみと背中合わせで、それは肉体の死とともに消え去るはかないものでした。本来、人生とは喜びそのもの。しかしそれを知らずに生きることが苦しみの本質です。
人生の目的は、自分の本当の姿＝愛を知ることにあります。そのための時間が人生であり、そのための実践が「母の反省」と「他力の反省」、そして「正しい瞑想」です。母の反省では、自分を産んでくれた母に向けてきた心の思いをたどることで、自分の中の凄まじいエネルギーに気づきます。感謝や美化ではなく、赤裸々な自分の思いを感じることで、本来の自分を思い出す道が開かれます。
他力の反省では、「肉体」「形あるもの」「神や仏」など、自分の外に力を求めてきた思いに気づきます。これは「我一番」「我は神なり」という強固な思いに支えられており、人類が繰り返してきた争いや堕落の根本でもあります。
そして、この二つの反省を深める実践が「正しい瞑想」です。正しい瞑想とは、目に見えない意識・愛としての自分に心を向けていくこと。教祖的存在ではなく、真実のメッセージを伝えた田池留吉に心を向け、心で愛を感じ取ることが重要です。姿形を超え、内なる田池留吉＝愛のエネルギーに触れていくとき、私たちは初めて、本当の人生＝喜びの人生に目覚めていくのです。
We humans, without exception, have made the same fundamental mistake: we have failed to trust in our true selves—love—and have instead believed in a false self rooted in form, matter, and the visible world. As a result, we have spent our lives chasing happiness and fulfillment through effort and suffering, only to find that these rewards vanish with the death of the body. True joy and meaning do not reside in fleeting accomplishments or material pleasures. Rather, our lives were meant to be lived in joy—because joy is our true nature.
The purpose of life is to awaken to our true identity as love, as energy, as consciousness. To move in this direction, we must engage in two core practices: reflection on our mothers and reflection on the reliance upon external forces—what is called "other-power."
The reflection on one's mother asks us to revisit how we have treated the woman who gave us our physical body. This process reveals the suppressed, often violent emotions we have harbored. Rather than honoring or idealizing our mothers, we are encouraged to feel our raw emotional reactions toward them, which mirror the distorted energies within us. Through this, we come to realize the deep yearning we had to be born and to rediscover love through the physical experience.
The reflection on other-power involves recognizing how deeply we've clung to external authorities—gods, religions, societal ideals—believing in the primacy of the physical and the superiority of ego. This mindset—"I am number one," "I am god"—has driven centuries of conflict and spiritual decline. Although we have reincarnated countless times to overcome this, we have instead accumulated more darkness, forgetting who we truly are.
To undo this, we must engage in right meditation. True meditation is not about posture, breath, or achieving calm; it is about where the heart is directed. Right meditation means turning inward, believing deeply that we are invisible consciousness, eternal energy, and love. It is about aligning with the truth that "we are not our physical bodies but awareness itself."
At the core of this practice lies the name Taike Tomekichi—not as a religious figure, but as one who transmitted the message of truth. The true Taike is not the man who once walked the earth, but the consciousness that exists within us all—the presence of joy and warmth already embedded in our hearts. Thus, to meditate with the heart turned toward Taike, as love, is to reconnect with the infinite self.
Even those who never met Taike in person can engage in this meditation if they have truly turned their hearts toward love and reflected honestly on the self. Conversely, even those who were close to him physically may remain far from truth if they lack that inner turn. Ultimately, this journey is not about doctrine or belief, but about feeling, remembering, and returning to the love that has always lived within.