Compass of the Times 270

Searching for a Blueprint

Keiko Takahashi

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Spend Days Searching for a Blueprint

Two-thirds of 2026 have already passed, leaving just four months remaining.

Take a moment here to recall the wishes and resolutions you made at the start of the year.

Some of you may be making steady progress toward those wishes, while others may have set resolutions but are finding it difficult to advance as planned.

Whether you have been enjoying smooth sailing or facing days that do not go as planned, you must continue to seek out a Blueprint for each moment, day by day, if you wish to cherish the wishes and resolutions you held at the start of the year.

What exactly does that mean?

Every encounter, every task, and every situation holds a Blueprint meant to be realized. There is a design intended to be brought to life in each moment. This is the worldview and perspective based on the Study of the Soul¹.

Even in a reality fraught with limitations, even in situations where you might think, “There’s no other way but to do this,” there still exists an “ideal state” = the Blueprint.

Believing that a Blueprint is always entrusted to the reality before us, we face each encounter and event, moment by moment, day by day. That is what leads to the fulfillment of our wishes and resolutions.　

Live Between Coincidence and Necessity

Living each day with the Study of the Soul in mind brings about a profound shift in our worldview.

The most significant change in that worldview is the shift from a “worldview of coincidence” to a “worldview of necessity.”

Having been born and raised in modern society, most people are steeped in a materialistic worldview. This could also be called a scientific worldview. The world is made of matter. Even the workings of the mind are the result of activity generated by the brain as a material substance. Ultimately, they are nothing more than phenomena produced by matter.

It could be said that what governs the world of matter is the “law of coincidence.”

If something that happens was not planned by oneself or someone, it is “coincidence.”

For example, going on a business trip, you may run into an old friend from school. If it was not an intentional encounter, it could be viewed as nothing other than a “coincidence.”

Another example is one in which the negotiations with a client went smoothly, which almost always leads to delivery without a hitch, but this time, a delivery mishap causes the shipment to be delayed. You may not identify a clear reason for how your involvement led to this situation and think that it was nothing more than a “coincidence,” even if something out of the ordinary had happened.

In the worldview of the Study of the Soul, however, we perceive the incident as potentially containing a “calling” that transcends mere “coincidence,” even if it appears to be a “coincidence” at first glance. 

Running into an old friend on a business trip may be a “coincidence,” but we ask ourselves, “Why did I run into this friend?” and try to grasp its meaning. Thus, we move back and forth between “coincidence” and “necessity.”

A business mishap could merely be a “coincidence,” or it might actually be an event signaling that something is preventing us from moving closer to the Blueprint that was originally meant to be realized. We may sometimes be urged to interpret it in this way.

By consciously bridging the gap between “coincidence” and “necessity” and bringing external events into our inner world, we become able to live through them as inner experiences.

Toward Realizing the Grand Blueprint in Life

If every single event is “necessity,” then there is surely a reason why we encounter it. This means that these events hold fragments of the Grand Blueprint we are striving to realize through our entire life.

By seeking out the Blueprint within the many encounters and events we experience every day and realizing them, we can move forward on the path toward the embodiment of the Grand Blueprint entrusted to us in our life.

Excerpt Translation of G. Monthly Magazine September 2026 issue
Preliminary translation by GLA member-volunteers
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