Letters 771-842 Volume 8 God's Word (2000/ 11/12 07:40~2000/ 11/30 07:15)
Mental concentration
From the 776th letter (November 13, 2000, 17:30)
When you have 10,000 thoughts in your mind, you want to act and intervene in all of them, but this is because your mind is not trained and unified. So, people who have faith and lead a life of prayer in their own way to seek enlightenment, or monks who break ties with the secular World and go deep into the mountains or caves, all of them want to get one thing. They want to focus their minds on a point smaller than a pencil point to achieve mental concentration.
A beautiful heart of love and forgiveness must come out from one single mental point concentrated in that way. If you look at the World with that kind of mind, your eyes will open to see the World, and you will realize how you should live, how you have lived, and find the true path to salvation.
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#Mental #Concentration #Thought #Mind #Trained #Unified #Faith #Prayer #Enlightenment #Path
Love your enemies!
From the 786th letter (November 16, 2000, 06:25)
The Bible says that love means even love your enemies. How do you love others? You pretend to love each other, those who gather in one church to worship and pray, but there is no true love in that feeling. Today's reality is that your hearts have been altered to only love those who help and cooperate with you on a strictly transactional basis.
'Love your enemies' is your basic attitude, but you look down on those who do not follow the same path of faith as you do, you do not consider them as human beings and call them heretics. How can you ever hope to come to Me, Jehovah, when you do not even have the heart to embrace them with love?
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#Love #Enemies #Bible #Others #Worship #Pray #Heart #Basis #Faith #Jehovah #Heretics #Hope
Who is the good one?
From the 836th letter (November 29, 2000, 05:30)
You say that ‘Is it not fine if Jehovah God separates the evil from the good, discards the evil, and allows only the good to exist in the World?’ But who is really the good one? Those among you who claim never to have sinned, pray to Me claiming that “I have not sinned and please allow only people like me to exist in the World”. If these people truly have not sinned, I will call up their bodies and souls to Heaven on the spot. I will take them without a trace of their flesh on Earth. But if one of them sinned even once, I can't consider forgiveness. So, is there any group in the World who can say that theirs is the only good group that deserves to survive? Indeed, if there is such a group, I will take the flesh and spirits of that group intact to Heaven. If there is such a group, pray to Me. If you have confidence, pray. If you are clean, pray. If there are those among you who think you have no shame when you appear before Me, pray to Me that such is the case.
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#Good #Jehovah #God #Evil #Pray #Claiming #Heaven #Forgiveness #Sinned #Flesh #Earth
Letters 771-842 Volume 8 God's Word (2000/ 11/12 07:40~2000/ 11/30 07:15)
Mental concentration
From the 776th letter (November 13, 2000, 17:30)
When you have 10,000 thoughts in your mind, you want to act and intervene in all of them, but this is because your mind is not trained and unified. So, people who have faith and lead a life of prayer in their own way to seek enlightenment, or monks who break ties with the secular World and go deep into the mountains or caves, all of them want to get one thing. They want to focus their minds on a point smaller than a pencil point to achieve mental concentration.
A beautiful heart of love and forgiveness must come out from one single mental point concentrated in that way. If you look at the World with that kind of mind, your eyes will open to see the World, and you will realize how you should live, how you have lived, and find the true path to salvation.
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#Mental #Concentration #Thought #Mind #Trained #Unified #Faith #Prayer #Enlightenment #Path
Love your enemies!
From the 786th letter (November 16, 2000, 06:25)
The Bible says that love means even love your enemies. How do you love others? You pretend to love each other, those who gather in one church to worship and pray, but there is no true love in that feeling. Today's reality is that your hearts have been altered to only love those who help and cooperate with you on a strictly transactional basis.
'Love your enemies' is your basic attitude, but you look down on those who do not follow the same path of faith as you do, you do not consider them as human beings and call them heretics. How can you ever hope to come to Me, Jehovah, when you do not even have the heart to embrace them with love?
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#Love #Enemies #Bible #Others #Worship #Pray #Heart #Basis #Faith #Jehovah #Heretics #Hope
Who is the good one?
From the 836th letter (November 29, 2000, 05:30)
You say that ‘Is it not fine if Jehovah God separates the evil from the good, discards the evil, and allows only the good to exist in the World?’ But who is really the good one? Those among you who claim never to have sinned, pray to Me claiming that “I have not sinned and please allow only people like me to exist in the World”. If these people truly have not sinned, I will call up their bodies and souls to Heaven on the spot. I will take them without a trace of their flesh on Earth. But if one of them sinned even once, I can't consider forgiveness. So, is there any group in the World who can say that theirs is the only good group that deserves to survive? Indeed, if there is such a group, I will take the flesh and spirits of that group intact to Heaven. If there is such a group, pray to Me. If you have confidence, pray. If you are clean, pray. If there are those among you who think you have no shame when you appear before Me, pray to Me that such is the case.
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#Good #Jehovah #God #Evil #Pray #Claiming #Heaven #Forgiveness #Sinned #Flesh #Earth