Re: Shinto

We bow to one another to acknowledge our own higher self. Shinto
teaches (I think) that we are all deities, realized or no. The emperor
was required to attain realization and was required to help govern the
country with the intelligence gained from absolute enlightenment. My
understanding is that the emperor is the descendent of the avatar who
established the Shinto teaching. He's not holy, just has the
potential to be. (Too bad about the moneyed interests and warmongers
that got power and took control of him. Proof that he was just human
after all.) With recognition of the absolute (Shinto) in support of
action, "right action" (karmic authority) is made possible.

Suffice it to say that any belief system that is not centrally
governed, (Shinto is not an organized religion, right?) is subject to
false priests. False priests died alongside their disciples in the
firebombs.

Buddhism is an organized religion in Japan... hence it has its own
political party. Strange that the Buddhists in Japan and China would
seemingly love to have at each other with knives and swords.

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