Ethical Enlightenment
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Biospheric Rinri: Principles of the Thirteen Moon Way of Ethical Enlightenment
The Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement is nothing less than the truth force satyagraha , the imminent power of evolutionary necessity. Without the rise of the Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement,
humanity would not be aware of the cause of its destructive course and its effects on the fragile life-support system of the biosphere.As an evolutionary reform, the Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Move-ment must introduce corrective steps and measures toward ethically refocusing humanity within the cradle of the biosphere. This is what is meant by biospheric Rinri. The thirteen-tone cosmology of time, which codes the Thirteen Moon Calendar, provides the larger frame of biospheric Rinri. This thirteen-tone cosmology shows humanity that an annual planetary orbit can be focalized in service toward the end of restoring collective mind, spirit, and will as a single whole in resonance with the biosphere.
The Rinri Kenkyusho, the Institute for Ethical Enlightenment, is a wide-based spiritual movement founded 50 years ago as a profound moral response to war and atomic devastation. By learning the deep lessons of creative peace,Rinri forms the practical, everyday ethics which can be used by everyone planet wide as they walk the path of thirteen moons. The Rinri of everyday human life combined with the biospheric Rinri of the thirteen moons will establish the artistic norm of Heaven on Earth. Marching forward under the Banner of Peace and invoking its biospheric rights, humanity will bring about the Pax Cultura Pax Biospherica for seven generations to come. The thirteen-tone cosmology which codes the annual Planetary Service Wavespell of Thirteen Moons for the purpose of unifying collective mind, spirit, and will:
1. Magnetic Tone of Purpose: what is my annual purpose?
2. Lunar Tone of Challenge: what is my challenge?
3. Electric Tone of Service: how can I best serve?
4. Self-Existing Tone of Form: what is the form of action?
5. Overtone Tone of Radiance: how can I best empower myself?
6. Rhythmic Tone of Equality: how can I organize for equality?
7. Resonant Tone of Attunement: how can I attune my service to others?
8. Galactic Tone of Integrity: do I live what I believe?
9. Solar Tone of Intention: how do I attain my purpose?
10. Planetary Tone of Manifestation: how do I perfect what I do?
11. Spectral Tone of Liberation: how do I release and let go?
12. Crystal Tone of Cooperation: how can I dedicate myself to all that lives?
13. Cosmic Tone of Presence: how can I expand my joy and love?While the biospheric Rinri of the thirteen-tone cosmology is posed as a set of ethical questions determining the annual Planetary Service Wavespell, the Rinri of everyday life is a set of seventeen ethical affirmations.
1. Today is the best day. Now is the best opportunity.
2. Hardships are a gateway to happiness.
3. It is you yourself who determine your fates and create your environment.
4. Other people are the reflections of our own mind. All things in the universe are our teacher.
5. Man and wife are a pair of mirrors.
6. The child is a great actor performing as on the stage, the mind of his parents.
7. The body is a symbol of heart and spirit. Sickness is a danger signal of our life.
8. Cheerfulness is father of good health, and friendliness is mother of happiness.
9. A breach of promise will cause you to lose your happiness, and to deprive others of their happiness.
10. Work is the highest joy.
11. Material things come to those who make the best of them.
12. Give up and you will receive.
13. Do not forget the origin, nor neglect the completion.
14. Hope is the sunshine of our heart.
15. Faith leads to success; fear and doubt to failure.
16. Respect yourself, and do the same to others.
17. Life is a drama produced by God and you play a leading part.The thirteen-moon Rinri of the Banner of Peace completes the biospheric and everyday Rinri. Designed by Nicholas Roerich, the Banner of Peace symbolizes the union of art, science, and spirituality.
This symbolism applies to the Thirteen Moon Calendar in the following way:
1. The all-inclusive spirituality of the Thirteen Moons encompasses the truth of all religions.
2. The mathematical perfection of the Thirteen Moon Calendar satisfies the needs of science.
3. The harmony of the Thirteen Moon Way guarantees the artistic flowering of humanity.
4. Thirteen Moon Time synchronizes humanity in a circle of cultural unity and universal brother and sisterhood.
"And say: Truth has now
Arrived, and Falsehood perished:
For Falsehood is by its nature
Bound to perish."The Holy Qur'an, Sura 17, Verse 81