Learn about 'What is a human being?''the direction to go''how to live a happy life' - Be happy with a giving love, not a taking love or a give-and-take love

June 2023
Loving love
"Every person has an innate understanding of the wonder of loving love. This is because we are born with an innate sense of well-being with regard to giving love. But the question is: ..... How do we practice it (loving love)? ..... The realization of this loving love is the first step to heaven on earth."
　　　(The Law of the Sun, Chapter 3)



We often want to be loved and feel unhappy about not getting love, don't we?

"This love of 'wanting to be loved' is not real love. This love is nothing more than 'craving for love' or 'tanha', or thirst, which the Buddha dismissed as attachment. In Buddhism, the word 'love' is used as a synonym for 'attachment'. The typical idea there is suffering related to 'male-female love'. ..... When this instinctive love goes bad and develops as 'attachment' or 'craving love', it will create a hell world there." 　(The Ten Principles from EL CANTARE (Volume One), Chapter 2, The Principle of Love)

　

The desire to be loved is not love to give, but love to take.

"The majority of people often think of love in terms of 'love to take' or 'love to receive'. This is especially true for women. I think they think of 'love' in terms of 'love to receive' or 'love to have someone do something for you'. Until we change that perspective, we will never find peace of mind in the true sense of the word."
"We don't call it love if you do it for the sake of receiving something in return. Don't think of love from that perspective. It is give and take, just like business. After all, love is only genuine if you give without asking for anything in return and feel joy in doing so."
(The Origin of Happiness, Chapter 2: On the Love of Giving - Lecture on The Origin of Happiness)

　 ”Kofuku-no-genten（The Origin of Happiness）" by Ryuho Okawa

A love that is neither a taking love nor a give-and-take love. Let us be grateful for the fact that we are given sunshine and warmth for free and that we are kept alive by various people, and give free love to others with a heart of gratitude. And let us enjoy the happiness that comes from giving love.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

About 'knowledge'
People encounter various things in their lives, and they have to make their own value judgments and choose how to deal with them.

When we hear the word 'knowledge', the first thing that comes to mind is the 'scientific knowledge' that we learned at school, but it doesn’t give us any answers to the important questions in our lives. In Happy Science, we are taught that the truth Buddha’s Dharma (divine truth, the truth of God and Buddha) is more important than anything else.

'The importance of learning the truth of Buddha’s Dharma is .... The first is to answer the question, “What is a human being?” The second is to teach '”the direction to go”. The third is to show “the grounds for happiness” or to teach “how to live a happy life”. ..... So the three words “human beings”, “improvement” and “happiness” are the keywords for learning the truth of Buddha’s Dharma.’
(“ROJIN, Buddha’s Mystical Power -its ultimate attainment in Today’s World”, chapter 5, verse 1)



First of all, you cannot know yourself unless you know what a human being is. If you do not know the direction in which human beings should be heading, you cannot judge whether you are moving in the direction of improvement or in the opposite direction of depravity. It is also very important for a utopian society to learn 'how to cooperate' - how to live in a way that does not hurt, distort or make each other suffer, and how to live in a way that makes the whole happy.

About 'human beings', 'improvement' and 'happiness'. Let's learn together from now on.

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