December 16, 2018, the Second THE GATE Seminar Series, first seminar (Tokyo Prince Hotel)

I would like you to imagine within the context of your own reality, those things that make you think: “This is especially difficult,” “There is nothing to be done about it,” or “Things are not going to get better any time soon.”

So, everyone, what did you imagine? What kind of problem did you see in relation to yourself? What kind of circumstances do you see in relation to yourself? Perhaps, what you imagined as your relationship to an incident or to certain circumstances, was something like this.

We are talking about a problem, a reality, that you see right before you. For the little you, this is a large reality. And this reality exists separately from you, it stands before you as a separate, detached reality from yourself. How should you interact with this reality, how may you influence it? I suspect you are wringing your hands in indecision, too petrified to act. This, I think, is what you are picturing.

But I must tell you, that is not quite how it works with Study of the Soul. What is the relationship between circumstances and us? Our perspective is that we cannot cut ourselves loose from reality, from our circumstances. Our way of thinking and way of life are already deeply embedded in our circumstances, we cannot extract ourselves. This is how we view the relationship.

What do you think? The feeling we have that we are somehow removed from our own circumstances, and our inability to grasp at how we should deal with this inner feeling, arise out of our conflicting relationships, as I mentioned earlier. That is how we tend to perceive problems and events.

So then, we are one with the reality before us, we cannot cut ourselves off from that reality. As you already know, you are yourself deeply imbedded, and that means you are a part of reality. This reality you see would not have its particular shape if you were not a part of it. In other words, the reality you see is the way it is precisely because it is you that is looking at it. The shape of reality will thus be different for every person, The reality you see is the way it is because you are the one looking at it.

The key to the Practice we are about to undertake is the Chaos-Perception Approach, which is, as I have been explaining, the perception of the Study of the Soul and an approach that causes that perception to evolve.

December 16, 2018, the Second GATE Seminar Series, first seminar, Tokyo Prince Hotel