Goi Sensei, Masahisa Goi, was born on November the 22nd, 1916, in Asakusa, Tokyo as the fourth son of eight siblings.
When he was seven years old, his house was burned down in the Great Kanto Earthquake, and he moved temporarily to his father’s home in Niigata Prefecture, where he experienced listening to Buddhist sutras and practicing Zen meditation at a nearby temple.
After finishing the first year of higher elementary school, he became a clerk at a small textile wholesaler in Nihonbashi at the age of thirteen. A few years later, he quit the store and opened his own business, Goi Shōten, and began to study music with the aim of becoming a musician, while working hard. He also studied poetry and was taught by Kōtaro Takamura, a noted poet at the time.
In 1940, he joined the Kameari Factory of Hitachi, where he tried, as a leader of cultural activities, to heal the hearts of young people who worked there through chorus singing.
After World War II, he developed a desire to dedicate his life for the sake of Japan and humanity and became religious. He once belonged to Seichō no Ie as a lecturer.
In 1949, at the age of 33, after a period of rigorous spiritual training with his guardian divinities and spirits, he attained oneness with his Divine Self.
From then on, he advocated the movement of praying the Prayer for World Peace with Kieteyuku Sugata* and gratitude to Guardian Divinities and Guardian Spirits.
In 1951, a religious association, Goi Sensei Sangō-kai was formed in Ichikawa, Chiba, by those who worshiped him, which became an official religious corporation in 1955 and was renamed Byakko Shinko Kai the next year.
He left his physical body on August the 17th, 1980. The movement was succeeded by his adopted daughter, Masami Saionji.
Note:
Kieteyuku Sugata: The process of fading away, literally translated, which is the essential view and practice of the ‘Fading Away’ Principle of Goi Sensei. Please refer to “the Goi Sensei’s Prayer for World Peace with Kieteyuku Sugata” below.
Goi Sensei’s Prayer for World Peace with Kieteyuku Sugata
Everything that takes shape in the form of sickness, poverty, flash of worry or anger, and so on, is a manifestation of karma (thoughts, words, and actions from a past consciousness), appearing at the moment when it is supposed to vanish away.
Therefore, when they arise in your life, Goi Sensei does not recommend searching for the hidden causes behind them by digging up the mistaken attitudes that you may have held in the past. Instead, he recommends thinking that all these suffering and wrong thoughts are occurring in the process of fading away, Kieteyuku Sugata, and that they will absolutely vanish into nothingness if you throw them into the Prayer for World Peace with gratitude to your Shugo-rei and Shugo-jin*. You keep practicing this simple-mindedly at any moment, day and night.
Then, once your Gō-sōnen* has entirely disappeared, you will know that you are one with your Shugo-rei and Shugo-jin, and your Hon-shin* will shine through and a truly wonderful world will take shape around you.
Notes:
Shugo-rei and Shugo-jin: The guardian spirits and guardian divinity who always protect and guide a person for his or her salvation. Goi Sensei teaches us that your main Shugo-rei, or guardian spirit, is your spiritual parent and an awakened spirit of your ancestor and that Shugo-jin are guardian divinities, branched out from Choku-rei, or the Direct Spirit, to cooperate with Shugo-rei to develop the person’s Hon-shin.
Gō-sōnen: Karmic thoughts which came to exist when we defined ourselves as physical entities. They have been accumulated in the subconscious realm of humans from the past lives up to the present.
Hon-shin: The true mind, literally translated, is the divine self of a person, or real you, that comes from the Divine world.
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