E22019

     In the present world where the rapid advance of culture knows no bounds, how many individuals have truly found happiness and well being? Probably few and far between are those who could say, I am a happy person. In spite of the fact that the final goal is that the advance of culture leads to the happiness of humanity, not only is it rather obvious that the results of progress have been contradictory, we are even forced to conclude that the results have been the opposite of what was intended. As doubts about this situation are raised, it is understood when the particulars are investigated, that the greatest cause for this problem is human disease.
     The greatest of human misfortunes in addition to disease are probably conflict and hunger. The basis for these misfortunes indeed lie in the defects in human body and mind, and I have discovered their cause.
     The old adage, a healthy body houses a healthy mind, is indeed eternal.
     The conclusion I have reached after treating many patients is that those who have some defect in the head and brain area, such as individuals with some form of psychosis, psychopaths, or persons experiencing a stage of mental breakdown or deterioration, all without exception have solidified swelling somewhere, either on the right or left side, in the neck area, lymph glands, or in lower back of the head. These are the types of patients whose mental activity is eccentric and are not able to make normal judgments. Those who are prone to anger or who prefer and enjoy conflict have solidified lumps, that is, stiffness in both shoulders. Another group with notable stiffness in the shoulders are infants who are irritable or cry easily. With the healing technique of the Japan Kannon Church, the patient’s characteristics change as these solidified lumps are dissolved. Adults take on normal speech and action, preferring peace and harmony. Children come to listen to their parents and become bright and cheerful.
     As a group of individuals forms a nation, so as each individual, the basic unit of the nation, comes to dislike conflict, it is reasonable that the nation will become peace loving.
    The cause for that such as the lack of resources and materials and of hunger often lies in conflict, but there are other causes as well. Those causes are in the decline in the intelligence of the populace, laziness, the mental poverty of leaders and administrators, and so forth.
     The healthy individual is healthy in both mind and body, and as a result, thoughts and deeds are in line with common sense, so with the full exercise of rationality, human beings can distinguish between what they ought to do and what they ought not to do, cherish virtue and abhor evil, love fellow human beings, and are joyful in the joys of others. Confucius’s teaching, “Do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you” and the concept that the greatest happiness is the happiness one can do for others are that which can only be performed after one is healthy in body and mind. As a result of the exploitation of workers and farmers by capitalists and landowners who think only of their own profit, workers and farmers have no choice but to protect themselves by forming self-defensive associations. In this case, it would not be inappropriate to state that capitalists and landowners create communism. In other words, capitalists and landowners tremble at ghosts of their making. What folly!
     Imagine a society where the majority are healthy in mind and body. In this case, capitalists are aware of the appropriate amount for profits and distribute amounts over that to the workers. Workers will surely be satisfied, have appreciation, work to protect the capitalists’ interests, and plan for the growth of projects. Cooperation of labor and capital comes about in its true sense. The disappearance of conflict between labor and capital is not a dream.
     Therefore, in such a society, the need for laws and regulations will decrease conspicuously. It is said that governance was good during the periods of the Three Laws of the emperors Yao and Shun in China and during the era of Seventeen-Article Constitution of Prince Shotoku in Japan. I do believe that such a world is possible.