Masami Saionji
Infinite happiness, infinite provision, and infinite flourishing—all these are included in your original being. Your true self can only live brightly and exuberantly. Your true self can only be happy, healthy, and alive with energy. You are originally filled with deep and abundant love, warmth and compassion. Your true self is by nature perfectly free, and knows no such word as ‘impossible.’ This is who you really are.
Up until now, nearly all of your consciousness may have been oriented toward thoughts of pain, sorrow, inadequacy, and unhappiness. But you can completely reorient your thinking so that it is entirely attuned to the infinite divine light, love, and power of the great Universe. Step by step, the preconceived, restrictive notions buried deep in the recesses of your mind will be dispelled and purified. Step by step, you will be spontaneously enlivened and guided forward by the bright, positive energy surging forth from within you. The elements that constitute a bright lifestyle will naturally be drawn toward you, and they will take shape in your future.
For many years, the words of Masami Saionji have served as a source of inspiration to people in all regions of the world. You Are the Universe is her most fundamental work, compiled from a series of essays that awaken us to the inherent divinity of human beings, and the infinite wisdom and love that lie deep within us.
Masami Saionji is descended from the Royal Ryukyu Family of Okinawa. Educated in Japan and the United States, she is known internationally as the leader of the world peace prayer movement initiated by her adoptive father, Masahisa Goi. She has authored sixteen books in Japanese and five in English and other languages. She and her husband, the descendent of a Japanese prime minister, have three daughters. They currently live in Tokyo.
In November 2001, Ms. Saionji was named an honorary member of the Club of Budapest in recognition of her exceptional efforts for world peace.
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A: The universe is constantly evolving and developing, and the universal source is constantly radiating its infinite energy everywhere. Infinite power, infinite wisdom, infinite richness, infinite brilliance, infinite capability, infinite expansiveness and infinite creativity are constantly beaming down on us from our universal source.
Yet, this universal energy cannot manifest itself on the physical plane just as it is. It must first combine with physical energy. Otherwise the universal energy, in and of itself, cannot create anything new. It only keeps radiating, never manifesting itself, never taking shape.
That is why the universal energy wants to make contact with physical vessels, or instruments, that can merge with it and give expression to it in this world of creation.
There are various kinds of ‘vessels’ or ‘instruments’ that can merge with the sublime, ultimate light and energy of the universal source. The first of these is the physical body. Another vessel is the physical voice. Still others could be land, or water, or anything else that has life.
‘Life’ actually means ‘God.’ Life is God, and God is life. Everything that has life is a divine manifestation. Land, water, air, and everything in nature are alive, and give expression to the divine. That is why we honor, respect, and feel gratitude toward everything in the world of nature.
At present, there are about six billion people in this world, and all of them are capable of connecting with the infinite energy radiating from the universal source. At this time, however, most people do not know how to make this connection. That’s why the universal energy is always searching for a connecting point which it can pass through and then spread out in the physical plane.
When I say ‘connecting point,’ I mean something that can function like a lens. Through this kind of ‘lens’ or ‘instrument,’ the universal energy can converge and then spread out widely, manifesting its principles of peace and harmony in this physical plane.
The divine, universal energy will work through any kind of instrument, any kind of vessel that is available to it. It can work through INs, or mandalas, or the voice, or the body, or prayer, or light—the possibilities are endless. Any kind of instrument can make contact with the source of the universal law. And the method for connecting with it depends on what kind of substance it is.
When I say ‘substance,’ I mean ‘resonance.’ Every vessel has its own unique resonance. Prayer has a resonance. Land has a resonance. Our physical elements also have a resonance. The universal energy can work though any substance or resonance that is capable of receiving it.
When you have a high awareness of this principle, you can create your own substance, your own instrument for connecting with the universal law. This will make it much easier for you to bring down the universal energy and let it become active in this physical plane.
