rel="nofollow" href="#u553da66b-41be-5bf7-b828-33352c76daf8">What is spiritual identity?
How do different spiritual practices affect our spiritual bodies?
What is Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism?
Three Types of Humans: Naive, Radical, Enlightened
Can you explain your classification of people into naïve, radical, and enlightened?
Why do you compare naïve people to the lake?
Can you explain the three categories of naïve people?
Why do you represent radical people as the river?
What are the three categories of radical people?
Who are enlightened people?
Why do you represent enlightened people as the ocean?
What are the three categories of enlightened people?
What is the main take-away from this book?
Which topics would you like to address next?
What is your final advice to the readers?
Table of Illustrations
Illustration 1. The Cycle of Water
Illustration 2. Science and Spirituality
Illustration 3. Three Human Bodies
Illustration 4. Smartphone Analogy
Illustration 5. Position of the Three Bodies while Meditating
Illustration 6. Three Bodies of an Enlightened Person
Illustration 7. Ten Chakras of the Soul
Illustration 8. Three Positions of the Soul
Illustration 9. Soul Transformation: Animal
Illustration 10. Soul Transformation: Tree
Illustration 11. Soul Transformation: Reptile
Illustration 12. Demon in the Soul
Illustration 13. Demon Manifestation: Bull
Illustration 14. Demon Manifestation: Snake
Illustration 15. Demon Manifestation: Leopard
Illustration 16. Demon Manifestation: Bear
Illustration 17. Evolution of the Telephone
Illustration 18. Cause and Positive Effect of Meditation
Illustration 19. Five Elements in the Human Body
Illustration 20. Mango Tree
Illustration 21. Spiritual Identity
Illustration 22. Muslim Prayer
Illustration 23. Christian Prayer
Illustration 24. Yoga Practice
Illustration 25. Human Classification
Illustration 26. Lake
Illustration 27. Three Types of Naïve People
Illustration 28. River
Illustration 29. Three Types of Radical People
Illustration 30. Ocean
Illustration 31. Three Types of Enlightened People
Chapter One
Introduction
Can you introduce yourself and explain what compelled you to write this book?
I am a visual artist and my goal is to create artworks that convey happiness, positive energy, and love to combat all the negative occurrences in the world today. Since I became Buddhist, a lot of miracles started happening in my life in a positive way, and I cannot stay silent without sharing my experiences and my knowledge with others who need help. Knowing something positive and hiding it from others is not all that different from shutting down a school or a university and preventing people from having access to education so that they can improve their living situation and grow in a positive way.
What is your motivation for describing the spiritual world to people?
My motivation to describe the spiritual world to people is the fact that, nowadays, there is much misunderstanding around the idea of being a healthy person or a sick person. What does it mean to be a healthy person, and what does it mean to be a sick person? Being a healthy person has two sides: being healthy physically and being healthy spiritually. Being a sick person also has two sides: being sick physically and being sick spiritually.
I want to go through the second side, which is that of spiritual sickness. Nowadays, it is like 90% of people on Earth are sick spiritually. This is making us live lives that will destroy us in the future, destroy our future generations, and destroy the world we are living in. I break the silence now to come out and to make people aware that being healthy is not just about the physical side of health. There is the spiritual side of health, too.
Being healthy spiritually is knowing who you are through being connected with yourself. That means being connected with your physical body and with your spiritual bodies (the soul and the spirit) and being able to transform a negative situation that is going to come to you from the spiritual world into a positive situation before it arrives in the physical world. What does that mean? It means to know how tomorrow will be for you and how to shape it in a positive way. When you are planning something, you often don’t know whether you will get the result you are expecting or a totally different one. Spirituality will help you know exactly what will happen and whether it will be positive or negative. So, physically, you can go to the positive side to make it better.
This book is a book of life, of reality, of the positive side of everything. A book to help people understand how tomorrow will be and how to shape it in a positive way, to have a positive result physically and spiritually.
There are also many statistics and a lot of research that predicts how tomorrow will be. But if you understand and absorb the message of this book, you will know how tomorrow will be and you will take every precaution. You will not wait for social media or for someone else to inform you and to educate you. You will start behaving in a healthy way, in a positive way.
Because, spiritually, most people are sick. They are not connected with themselves. People pretend to know about spirituality, and they attribute a lot of things to themselves. But there is a big lack of spiritual knowledge. A lot of negative developments can be observed in the world nowadays. So many mental sicknesses are spreading: depression, anxiety, stress, etc. These kinds of sickness are the beginning of a lot of problems. Because of these sicknesses, people can get physical diseases, become addicted to alcohol or drugs, or even take their own lives. These sicknesses do not know your age or who you are. Depression, anxiety, stress, etc. are not physical sicknesses. They are the sicknesses of spiritual bodies.
In short, what motivates me to describe the spiritual world to people is to make our world and our lives today better and happier and to protect our world for future generations through understanding how the world we live in really is. What are humans and other creatures