Masaharu Taniguchi
Masaharu Taniguchi (谷口 雅春, Taniguchi Masaharu, 22 November 1893 – 17 June 1985) was a Japanese religious leader who was the founder of Seicho-No-Ie.
Quotes
[edit]Truth of Life
[edit]- Taniguchi, Masaharu (1961). Truth of Life. Asakusa, Tokyo: Seicho-No-Ie Foundation. (selections from the Japanese original series Seimei no Jissō 生命の實相)
- Of course the pen in my hand writes the spiritual teachings in this book, but once I sit at my desk to write for it, I am no longer the ordinary “I.” Holy spirit comes over and inspires me. The strong words for my weak character pour out from my pen. I was surprised at my own words pouring down into the “Holy Song for the Seicho-No-Ie” which has appeared in the House Organ No. 2. When I was at Kameoka I was one day concentrating my mind to write on our teachings. Mr. Kato who had the faculty of clairvoyance was sitting beside me, and told me afterward that he saw a spiritual man quite different from myself writing at the desk. I do not know if we may believe his words. But if there is any founder of the spiritual teachings of “Seicho-No-Ie” it can not be this earthly I.
- p. 28
Four Holy Sutras
[edit]- O Parent God who gives life to all living beings, fill my whole being with Your Spirit and all blessings.
My life is not my own to claim, it is the life of God, who permeates the universe.
My acts are not my own to claim. They are the acts of God, who permeates the universe.
May the Lord of Seicho-No-Ie, who has appeared to teach us the Way of God, the Parent of heaven and earth, guide us and protect us.- "Invocation", in Four Holy Sutras published by Seicho-No-Ie, Inc. and translated by Dean T. Makinodan (chief translator), Paul I. Kukimoto, and Leslie Y. Iwatani
- God is all of everything, everywhere.
I'm a child of God, His spirit within me.
When in Oneness I pray, Heaven and Earth respond.
When in Oneness I move, the Universe moves.- "Song of Reality", in Four Holy Sutras published by Seicho-No-Ie, Inc. and translated by Dean T. Makinodan (chief translator), Paul I. Kukimoto, and Leslie Y. Iwatani
The Taniguchi Commentary on the Gospel According to St. John
[edit]- [And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)] What must be noted here is the plural form used in the statement, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us....” It is not only in Jesus the Christ that the Word dwelt. The Word of God—the Holy Name of the Buddha—dwells in all people and that is what is appearing as the physical body. It is stated here, “... we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” Here, St. John is saying that within us dwells the Word of God, that is, the Holy Name of the Buddha, that he saw the glory of it, that this was the glory of God’s only begotten son. This means that we are all the only begotten of God. There are a large number of only begotten sons. People who are lost because they do not realize that they are the only begotten of the Father are like the “prodigal son” who has lost his way. Christians who stick to the usual explanation on this point think that Jesus was the only begotten son of God. However, St. John tells us that we are all children of God, that the glory of God dwells in all human beings, that we are all shining forth, and that we are all the only begotten son of the Father.
- The Taniguchi Commentary on the Gospel According to St. John (1988), p. 11. (English translation by Hideo Mimoto, translated from the 1960 Japanese book Yohane-den kogi ヨハネ伝講義)
