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Individuals Do Not Blame Other Individuals

     Occasionally I am asked about the right or wrong of blaming others, so I will address the issue here. The truth is that the authority to blame an individual human being resides with God alone, and that for individual human beings to blame other individual human beings is indeed an invasion of the position and status of God. Even when viewed from another aspect, there is no way that the result of blaming another individual human being will be good. In most instances, blaming others causes reverse effects.
     To speak about what I do, when I see someone doing something that is mistaken, I pretend not to see it and leave the situation alone. Sooner or later, the time will come when the person comes head on with the mistake, and at this point the individual’s eyes are opened and the person repents from the heart. It is a analogous to a large boulder rolling down a hill. If you try to stop it, the rock will still not stop. Only a hopeless simpleton would get injured trying to stop a boulder from rolling further. Therefore, wait for the rock to roll completely down the hill, and after it has stopped, you can slowly begin to push it up the hill. Still, in these cases, though, it is a good idea to tell the persons involved in such situations that if they do a certain thing, they will ultimately fail. So, when they do knock their heads against the wall, they can quickly realize that what has happened to them was what they had been warned about. Thus, when individuals blame other individuals, using authority or some such device to control and threaten or else binding with commandments, the results are only temporary. At some time there will invariably be a reaction, and the results will not be pleasant. Unless human beings themselves realize on their own their mistakes and repent them heartfully, any change of attitude or behavior is not genuine.
     What I have said about blame applies to medical science as well. Contemporary medical treatment uses varieties of material instruments of torture to stop and prevent disease and sickness, but these instruments only succeed in stopping disease temporarily, with reaction and recurrence a certainty. The reaction will be more acute than the first case of the disease.
     Therefore, in our divine therapy, instruments of torture are not used at all. Healing is caused to occur naturally using the natural ability that afflicted human beings themselves possess. The very method that increases the natural ability of the physical body of the afflicted is the true healing art.

Kyûsei, Issue 55, March 25, 1950 
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