Great Construction

On Love

     Roughly speaking, there are two kinds of love, love of Shojo and universal love. Among the former in extreme cases is self-love, next comes love for family, for friends, and so forth. However deep such love might be, it eventually belongs to Aku, because the intenser such love is, the more it is apt to become a cause of conflict.
     Universal love is love for mankind, for the world or a divine love. Therefore, even the finest principle can not be trusted, should it be based on love of Shojo, which is limited.
     Universal love should pervade all over the world and become the common idea of the people of the world in order that strife may be eliminated.
     One should know that every kind of strife is caused by love of Shojo.
     In the history of religions which even advocated universal love, there have been conflicts. We read of wars between religious sects or wars for the cause of religion. Our idea is that a religion should practice as well as advocate universal love. We should pray that the time may come when all religions in the world respect each other and work hand in hand for the world peace.

Teachings of Meishu and Kyoshu, page 26, no date [1959?]