御教え『擬健康と真健康』

「文明の創造、科学篇」昭和27(1952)年

今迄詳しくかいた如く、病気は浄化作用であり、医学は浄化作用停止を、治る方法と錯覚して来た意味は判ったであろう。之に就て今一層徹底的にかいてみるが、世間一般の人が健康そうに見えて、兎も角働いている人の其殆んどは毒素を保有していながら、強く固結している為、浄化作用が起らない迄である。従って何時突発的に浄化が発生するか判らない状態におかれているので、何となく常に不安があるのは此為で、恰度爆弾を抱いているようなものである。

少し寒い思いをすると、風邪を引きはしないかと心配し、伝染病が流行すると自分も罹りはしないかと案じ、一寸咳が出たり、身体が懈かつたり、疲れ易いと結核の初期ではなかろうかと神経を悩まし、腹が痛いと盲腸炎か腹膜炎の始まりではないかと恐怖する。風邪が拗れると結核を心配し熱が高くてゼイゼイいうと、 肺炎を連想する。一寸息が切れたり、動悸がしたりすると心臓病を懸念し、足が重いと脚気じゃないかと想う。眼が腫れボッタイとか、腰が重いと腎臓ではないかと疑う。

女などは腰や下腹などが痛かったり、冷えたり、白帯下が下りたりすると、子宮が悪いのではないかと苦労し、子供が元気がないと大病が発る前兆ではないかと心配する。というようにザットかいただけでも此位だから、今日の人間が如何に病気を恐れ、怯えているかは想像に余りある。

そうして一度病気に罹れば医者に行き、薬を服むという事は、常識となっているが、よくも之程迄に医学を信じさせられたものと感心せざるを得ないのである。とはいうものの私としても昔の自分を考えたら、人の事など言えた義理ではない。斯ういう事があった。確か三十歳前後の頃だと思うが、信州の山奥の或温泉場へ行った時の事だった。旅館に着くや否やイキナリ女中に向って「此温泉場にはお医者が居るか」と訊くと、女中は「ハイ、一人居ります」。私「普通の医者かそれとも学士か」。女中「何でも此春大学を出たとかいう話です」。それを聞いた私は、之なら二、三日位安心して滞在出来ると、腰を落着けたのである。

処が其後世間には私と同じような人もあると聞き私は変っていない事を知った訳である。又斯ういう事もあった。人間はいつ何時病気に罹るか分らないから、そういう場合夜が夜中でも電話一本で飛んで来て呉れるような親切なお医者さんを得たいと思っていた処、恰度そういうお医者さんが見付かったので、出来るだけ懇意にし、遂に親類同様となって了つた。現在の私の妻の仲人は、其お医者さんであった位だから、如何に当時の私は、医学を信頼していたかが判るであろう。

従って、今日一般人が医学を絶対のものと信じているのもよく判るのである。処が其医学なるものは、実は病気を治す処か、其反対である事を知った時の私は、如何に驚いた事であろう。然し之が真理であってみれば、信ずる外はないが、そんな訳で現代人が医学迷信に陥っているのも無理はないと思えるのである。忌憚なく言えば自分自身の体を弱らせ寿命を縮められ乍ら、医学は有難いものと思い込み、それに気がつかないのであるから何と情ない話ではないか。従って此迷信を打破する事こそ、救世の第一義であらねばならない。といっても之を一般人に分らせる事は実に容易ならぬ問題である。

前述の如く医学迷信のコチコチになり切っている現代人であるから、実際を見聞しても、自分自身や近親者の難病が浄霊によって治ったとしても、直に信じ得る人と、容易に信じられない人とがある。だが大抵な人は医学でも凡ゆる療法でも治らず、金は費うし、病気は益々悪化する一方で、遂に生命さえも危い結果、中には自殺を計る者でさえ、偶々浄霊の話を聞いても、容易に受入れられない程、医学迷信に陥っている現在である。然し絶体絶命の断末魔とて、茲に意を決し、疑い疑い浄霊を受けるが、其時の心理状態は最後に載せる報告にも沢山あるから、読めば分るであろう。

以上は、現代人が如何に病気を恐れているかという事と、医学を如何に信頼しているかという事で、前者は全く医学では治らないからでよくある事だが、一寸風邪を引き、熱でも高いと之は大病の始まりこれではないかと案じるが、其半面之しきの風邪位が何だと打消そうとするが、肚の底では万一の心配も頭を擡げて来る、というのは誰しも経験する処であろう。之は全く医学そのものに、全服的信頼を措けないからである。

処が、本当に治る医学としたら、風邪や腹痛などは簡単に治るし、名の附くような病でも適確に診断がつき、其通りになるべきで、如何なる病気でも、之は何が原因で今迄の療法のどの点が間違っているか、どうすれば治るか、予後はどういう風になるか、命には別状ないかあるかも手に取るように判り、病人に告げると其言葉通りになるとしたら、誰しも医学に絶対の信頼を払い、病気の心配などは皆無となるのは勿論、病気は浄化作用で、体内の汚物が一掃され、より健康になる事が分る、としたら寧ろ楽しみになる位である。というのが真の医学である。

では此様な夢にも等しい治病法がありやという事である。処が驚くべし之が己に実現して偉大なる効果を挙げつつある現在である。そうして吾々の方では病気とは言わない、浄化という、何と気持のいい言葉ではあるまいか。然し事実もそうであるから言うのである。茲で標題の真健康と擬健康に就てかいてみるが、擬健康とは前述の如く、固結毒素があっても浄化が発生していない状態であり、真健康とは毒素が全くない為、発病しない状態である。然し後者のような人は恐らく一人もないであろうし、健康保険制度も其不安の為に出来たものであろう。

右の如く現代人の殆んどは擬似健康者であるから、大抵の人は何等かの持病を持っている。少し仕事をすると、直に頭痛や首肩が凝ったり、一寸運動が強いと息が切れたり、微熱が出たりする。又風邪を引き易く、一寸した食物でも中毒したり、腹が痛んだり下痢したりする。年に数回以上は病臥し、勤めを休み、何年に一度は入院するというような訳で自分自身の健康に確信が持てず、常にビクビクしている。

酷いのになると矢鱈に手術をする。少し金持の中年の婦人などは、盲腸を除り、乳癌の手術をし、卵巣も除り、廃人同様な人も少なくない。又一般人でも瘭疽や脱疽で指を切ったり、片方の腎臓を剔出したり、喘息で横隔膜の筋を切ったり、脳の切開、手足の切断や、近頃は結核の手術も流行している。というように虐い事を平気でやっている。処が医学は斯うするより外に方法がないから致し方ないが、今日の人間程哀れな者はあるまい。従って之程の文化の進歩発達も、其恩恵に浴する事が出来ず、病床に悩んでいる人も少なくないのである。右の如く病気の種を有っている擬健康を無毒者となし、真の健康者を作り得るとしたら、之こそ真の医術であって、人類にとって空前の一大福音であろう。


False Health and True Health

Creation of Civilization written by Mokichi Okada in 1952

As I described in detail so far, you would comprehend that disease is the condition that purification action occurs and medical science has misunderstood the disease is cured by stopping this action. I furthermore thoroughly describe this. Even if the general public seems to be healthy, most of them, who work, have toxins in the body at any rate. Because of the toxins which are hardened very much in the body, the purification action just has not occurred yet. It means they are in the situation that they never know when the purification suddenly occurs. For this reason, they always feel anxious. It is as if they are holding a bomb. When feeling a little cold, they are worried if they might catch a cold. When an infectious disease is going around, they are anxious if they might suffer from it. When coughing a little, feeling dull and easily becoming tired, they get troubled if they might suffer from tuberculosis in the first stage. When having abdominal pain, they fear that it might be a sign of appendicitis or peritonitis. When a cold gets complicated, they concern that it might develop into tuberculosis. When having a high fever and breathing with difficulty, they think the symptoms are associated with pneumonia. When they get out of breath a little or the heart is throbbing, they are concerned about the heart disease. When legs feel heavy, they are worried if they might suffer from beriberi. When eyes become swollen or a lower back feels heavy, they suspect that the kidney is something wrong. As for women, when they have pain or feel cold in the lower back or abdomen, or they have virginal discharge going down, they struggle that the uterus might go wrong. When their children look down, they worry that is the sign of major disease. I roughly described as above but there are so many cases. I can just imagine how people today are afraid of and scared of diseases.

Then, this is common to visit a doctor and take medicine once suffering from a disease. I cannot help but be impressed with people who have been led to believe in medical science so much. Having said that, I have no right to say so when I remember my old self. I tell you my story. When I was about thirty years old, I went to a certain hot-spring resort in the deep mountain area of Shinshu. Soon after I arrived at an inn, I just ask a maid, “Is there a doctor in this resort?” She replied, “Yes, we have one.” Then I asked again, “Is he is an ordinary doctor or a bachelor?” She said, “I heard he was just graduated from a university in this spring.” I was convinced to hear that I could stay here for a few days with no worry and then I settled down. After that, I heard there were also some people like me in our society. Then I knew nothing was wrong with me. Here is another story. I always thought I wanted for a kind doctor who came to see me soon after giving him a call even in the middle of the night because we didn’t know when we suffered from the disease. I occasionally found that doctor. I tried to get acquainted with him as much as possible and finally became like relatives. He became a go-between of my present wife. From this story, you can imagine how much I trusted medical science at that time.

Therefore, I do understand general people believe medical science as an absolute thing at present. However, I realised medical science cannot cure a disease but it contrarily worsens it. Can you imagine how I was surprised to get known that? Since it is the truth, I cannot but believe it. Frankly speaking, people are convinced that medical science is grateful while it makes their bodies weak and shortens their lives. Nevertheless, they have not realised it yet. This is such a sad story. Therefore, the first principle of saving the world is to break through this superstition. Having said that, it is quite a problem to let general people know this truth. As I previously described, modern people are so obsessed with the superstition of medical science. Even if they saw and heard it, or they or their relatives were recovered from incurable diseases by Johrei, some of them would immediately believe it but some wouldn’t. Those who are not yet cured with any medical treatment get their disease worse while spending money for them. In the meantime, those who become a critical condition and think about suicide in the end. Even in such a condition, most of them can hardly accept Johrei when hearing about it by chance. In this way, they still do believe the superstition of medical science. When they get into a desperate situation, however, they confirm their determination and receive Johrei with suspicion. You would understand how they felt at that time from many reports scheduled to be posted in the final chapter.

As mentioned above, it shows how modern people fear diseases and rely on medical science. However, the former shows the diseases cannot be cured by medical science. That often happens. When a person catches a slight cold and have a high fever, one is worried if it might develop to major disease, and on the other hand, one tries to think it is no big deal and get rid of the anxiety. Even so, one worries over the worst case in one’s head. Everyone would have such an experience. It is because one cannot completely trust medical science itself.

If medical science truly cured diseases, cold and abdominal pain would be easily cured. In the case of the already known diseases, they should be accurately diagnosed and exactly become what to be. No matter what kinds of diseases, things should be perfectly understood such as the cause of the disease, the wrong point of provided therapy, how to cure the disease, what happens when the disease progresses, whether to be life-threatening disease or not. Everything would come exactly what a patient is informed. If medical science became so, everyone would trust it completely and never worry about diseases. They also would comprehend that disease means purification action, which cleans up all filth in the body and consequently makes them healthier. If so, everyone would rather have pleasure. This is the true medical science. Then, is there such a dream-like treatment existing? It surprisingly exists and is now greatly increasing its effect. Then we don’t say “disease”, but “purification.” It sounds very pleasant. Besides, we say so as it is actually so. Here I describe false health and true health that is the title of this chapter. As I previously explained, false health means the condition that a person has toxic substances in the body but purification has not yet occurred, whereas true health means the condition that a person has no toxic substances and therefore one doesn’t develop any diseases. I don’t think there would be no person who is in the latter condition. I think that would be why the health insurance system started.

As mentioned above, as most of the modern people would be in false health, most of them have a kind of chronic disease. When some of them do a little work, they immediately have a headache or neck and shoulder ache. When some do a little hard exercise, they become out of breath or have a slight fever. Some also easily catch a cold, become food poisoning for a little thing, or have abdomen ache or diarrhoea. Some are ill in bed more than a few times a year, take off work and go into a hospital once a year and so on. For this reason, they don’t have confidence in their health so that they are always afraid. In some worse cases, some of them blindly have operations. For example, there are quite a few wealthy middle-aged women who have the appendix or ovary removed, or have breast cancer surgery. Quite a few of them are like crocks. Even general people have their finger cut due to a whitlow or gangrene, a kidney removed, diaphragm cut because of asthma, brain surgery, or arms or legs removed. Nowadays, surgery for tuberculosis is often conducted. Such terrible things are done without hesitation. It couldn’t be helped as medical science have no choice but does so. Nothing would be miserable than people today. Present culture has progressed very much, but many people cannot receive its benefit. They are just anxious in bed. Therefore, if getting rid of all seeds of diseases from people in false health and making them truly heathy without toxins, it is true medical treatment. When it becomes true, that would be an unprecedented great gospel.

 

Translated by N.H.

 

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