② 「初心者」は、「人間神の子の思想は“時代と共に変化するもの”即ち、“永遠不滅の真理ではない”」と生長の家の根本教義を全面的に否定した。
③ 「初心者」は、「無の関門」を越えるという絶対的な宗教体験がないから、本当の真理が判らず、宗教上の形而上的“悟り”を肉体頭脳の「超越項」という言葉を使って理解しているに過ぎない。従って、彼は「人間神の子」に代わる新しい真理は、「無の関門」を越えた絶対的悟り“生命の實相の悟り”がなくても編み出せると思っているのである。増上慢としか言いようがないのである。
Excerpt from the March/April 2008 issue of Unity Magazine （ユニティマガジン２００８年３、４月 号の記事からの抜粋）
My father once told me, “When you’re old, you don’t feel old.” I can appreciate what he meant when he said that, as I ponder the fact that the essential being I am inside myse lf is the same in my 50s as when I was only 15. So who am I really? Am I the woman who has changed with age, or am I the changeless self within? Am I the woman who is encased in time or the being who dwells apart from it?
Sometimes when referring to things that happened long ago, we say things like “I remember it like it was yes terday.” And that’s because in a way it was. If time, as Einstein declar ed, is merely an illusion of consciousness, then linear time itself is a metaphysical fiction; everything that has happened, is happening, or will happen, is happening now. There, in that realm of the eternal now, is the tr ue “I am.”
The eternal self dwells in eternity, and et ernity intersects linear time at only one point: the present. Who you are in this moment, therefore, is who you truly are. And from that esse ntial point of perfect being―created anew by God in every instant―m iracles flow naturally. Thoughts of love interrupt the past and open the f uture to new probabilities. No matter who you are, no matter how o ld you are, in the present, all things are possible.
