Goi Masahisa

Goi Masahisa ( Japanese 五 井 昌 久 ; born November 22, 1916 in Asakusa , Tokyo (today: Taitō , Tokyo ); † August 17, 1980 ) was a Japanese philosopher and peace fighter. He wrote more than 30 books on various religious subjects.

Life

As a child, Goi Masahisa was raised to be self-employed in order to earn his living largely himself, despite the support of his parents. So he began to work in numerous part-time jobs in addition to school, which was often difficult for him due to health problems and weak constitution . So he began to occupy himself with poetry and song lyrics and also took singing lessons in order to later embark on a career as a musician and poet. When Japan entered the Second World War , his project was interrupted and he took a job in a company to motivate the employees to survive the greatly increased stress. Immediately after the end of the war, he became seriously ill and, in the course of this illness, achieved what he himself called oneness with the Divine Self , and miraculously recovered. Through several meetings with important healers of his time, he learned to improve his spiritual abilities and was thus able to help other people to overcome their illnesses.

Creation of spiritual and peace organizations

Byakkō Shinkōkai

Shirokane, Minato , Tokyo Peace Stake

Recognizing peace as an important human goal, Goi founded Byakkō Shinkōkai ( 白光 真 宏 会 , "true, great society of the white light") in 1955 , after a core group had already formed in 1951 after he was due to divergences in terms of practice At the request of his post as teacher of Seicho no Ie , for which he had worked for some time, had resigned and spontaneously began to gather people who served spiritual and spiritual teaching as well as the peace movement and the raising of planetary consciousness. Byakkō was registered as "Shukyo-Hojin" (religious organization). Byakkō promoted, among other things, together with the dissemination and application of the prayer “May there be peace on earth” (世界 人類 が 平和 で あ り ま す よ う direkt, which roughly translates as “May peace be among the people of the world”) at the same time as to no religion Bound peace movement (At the entrance of the Dōjō, in which the Aikidō founder Ueshiba Morihei , a close friend of Goi Masahisa, also taught a few times, there was a sign next to the name Byakkō Shinkōkai with the inscription Inori niyoru Sekai Heiwa Undō ( 平和 り に よ る 世界 平和運動 ), "World Peace Movement through Prayer"). The prayer helps Byakkō's understanding of both his own spiritual development / peace and the peace of the world. It was not understood as limited to one's own organization, but as a prayer that every religion and every sect should pray alongside their own prayers as a common prayer of humanity.

The Byakkō Shinkōkai is run today by Masami Saionji , Gois' adopted daughter.

World Peace Prayer Society

→ Main article : World Peace Prayer Society

The understanding of the prayer for peace as a prayer intended for everyone, however, found no response in other religions. This peace movement was not very popular. Both followers of Byakkō and other religious groups held due to both Byakkō and the peace movement initiated by Goi these common prayer for one.

To remedy this problem, the World Peace Prayer Society was founded as a non-religious non-profit organization independent of Byakkō. Since then, the peace movement of the World Peace Prayer Society has spread worldwide. Since 1988, the headquarters of the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) registered in 1990 with the Department of Public Information of the UN has been in New York.

The Society has also taken up the idea of peace stakes, of which there are now more than 200,000 in 180 countries and which carry the words “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in several languages.

Goi Peace Foundation

In 1999, the Goi Peace Foundation was also founded in Tokyo with the approval or recognition of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology in order to spread Goi's thoughts on peace in various cultural areas. She works on a global peace network. It works closely with the World Peace Prayer Society and pursues activities based on the vision and principles set out in the Declaration for All Life on Earth, which was announced in 2000. In recognition of its peace efforts, the Foundation was granted special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations in 2004. An official relationship with UNESCO has existed since 2006.

The organization awards the Goi Peace Award.

Fonts (selection)

• God and man . Byakko Verlag, 1987, ISBN 4-89214-167-4
• The Spirit of Lao Tsu . Japan, 1980, ISBN 4-89214-143-7
• The Principle behind The World Peace Prayer Movement . Byakko Press, 2004, ISBN 4-89214-158-5

literature

• Masahisa Goi: One Who Unites Heaven and Earth . Autobiography. ISBN 4-89214-166-6
• Hideo Takahashi: I Heard It Like This: The Wisdom of Masahisa Goi .
• Peter Cornelius Mayer-Tasch : Philosophers of Peace: peace thinkers, peace fighters . Herbert Utz Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-8316-0708-7 google books
• Wenger, Anne: Education in a Forming World Society: A Key to Promoting Sustainable Development. Inventories and perspectives. 2008

Web links

• Byakko Shinko Kai (International Side); byakko.or.jp (Japanese site)
• World Peace Prayer Society
• The World Peace Prayer Society, Germany
• Peace stakes (The World Peace Prayer Society, Germany)
• Goi Peace Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ byakkopress.ne.jp
2. ↑ Peter Cornelius Mayer-Tasch, 2007, p. 109 ff.
3. ↑ Masahisa Goi: God and Man , p. V.
4. ↑ Masahisa Goi: Autobiography
5. ↑ ^{a b} aikidojournal.com ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ worldpeace.org ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ worldpeace.org ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Wenger, Anne: Education in a Forming World Society: A Key to Promoting Sustainable Development. Inventories and perspectives. 2008, pages 355-364
9. ↑ goipeace.or.jp ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Goi is the family name, Masahisa the first name.