Buddha taught that people have Buddha nature from the beginning. Buddha nature is a heart of love and compassion. Love is the feeling of wanting to cherish others.

However, looking at today’s society, it seems that the number of people without Buddha nature is on the rise, with a random attack in Nagano last night where a stranger was stabbed, a number of illegal part-time job cases occurring in the Kanto region, suicides due to slander, verbal abuse and violence against store clerks and station staff, and many lives lost in conflicts and wars.

The head priest calls such people without Buddha nature “material people.”

After World War II, Japan developed through science and technology and enriched our lives. During the period of high economic growth, there was an abundance of material things, and people all over the world began to live a materialistic life, believing that owning things brings happiness. As a result, people’s bodies and brains create consciousness, and when they die, their bodies and brains disappear, and so their consciousness disappears. This has led to a materialistic view of things. There is a view that there is a material body, and that the material body creates consciousness, but this is incorrect.

In fact, consciousness comes first, and the body is generated later. When a consciousness that exists in a higher dimension appears in this three-dimensional material world, it forms a material body and appears in the three-dimensional material world. The body is a temporary borrowed object from birth to death.

The information that a consciousness uses to form a material body is DNA. There is a world of a higher dimension than the three-dimensional world, and this world is the world of consciousness, a world of information that material cannot enter.

Consciousness beings originally have the Buddha nature of love and compassion, as taught by Buddha. Not only humans, but all life, animals and plants, all have Buddha nature. Life is originally endowed with Buddha nature.

However, there are an increasing number of people in the world who have lost their love and compassion, their Buddha nature. When a person as a living being loses Buddha nature, can they still be a person? I think about this. They become mere matter, not a person. They are active, but without any loving or compassionate hearts; they just eat free food and go about their daily lives. The head priest calls them “material people.”

Life has a lifespan. This is because it is a temporary borrowed body that allows a higher dimensional consciousness to appear in this three-dimensional material world. When the lifespan ends, or because it is a material body, it can lose its body due to illness. However, even if the material body is gone, the consciousness continues to exist and simply returns to the higher dimensional world of information.

Animals do not kill indiscriminately. Animals have Buddha nature. I hope that there will not be any more material people.