Invincible Thinking - Ryuho Okawa

 12th of 2022, Invincible Thinking by Ryuho Okawa is a guide to becoming outstanding leaders, capable of showing others the right path. It is a philosophy that allows people to succeed in any situation. Ryuho Okawa, is the founder and spiritual leader of the Institute of Happy Science, who has devoted his life to the exploration of the spirit world and ways to human happiness. This books is based on four weekday seminars held from June to July in 1989 for  members of his institute. 

Divided into four parts it covers:

Part One: The Source of Invincibility:

1. Qualities required of a Leader 
1. Able to point others in the right direction, Able to see the future, 
2. Make others feel that there is a bright future, begin with you, something good can happen
3. Have past achievements to convince.
2. Self-Reflection - Ups and down help learn, and look deep into the inner self. 
3. Trials needed - It's an experience to develop greater
4. Learn from Ordeal - be a giver of love, and not just taker; difficulties don't last long. 
5. Do not live a life of excuses - 
1. Do not blame fate or other people for any personal hardship
2. Accept what fate has given
3. Find lessons in adversities - Let go
4. Don't give into the temptation to wallow, accept bravely what is thrown at you, overcome it
6. Determination and willpower open up a path - More privileged your circumstances, the greater the opportunity you have to be of service to others. 
7. Device ways of becoming invincible - Use wisdom - Take help, simplify, 
8. Transcend Individual Limitation - There is always a place where the path divides, and the outcome will depend on whether you can spot an opportunity and devise ingenious method. Apply creative thinking
9. Two Secrets of Achieving Success - 
1. Find a Demand
2. Think about Future development
10. Financial strengths help overcome difficulties - Try to accept adversities and use it as a springboard to find ways of moving forward and making future progress.
11. Discover the Invincible Self - You are what you think. 

Part Two: Revolutionizing your perspective:

1. The importance of creating New Ideas - important to practice devising new ways of improving a situation. 
2. Find a Third Alternative - Find new ways to do things. 
3. Think in the Opposite Way to create Positiveness
4. Use Failure as a Springboard - The lessons you learn from studying others become your personal savings. 
5. There is no waste in the world created by God - It was created with the best of intentions.
6. Confront Your Karma with a Positive Attitude - Life is like a workbook of problems to be solved. What your are fighting in the ring is not another person; it is a battle between you and your karma, and you have to win this match at all cost. Once you are in the ring, you have to hide your weaknesses and give it your best shot. 
7. People Assess you differently - Make effort to see positive side in things that you worry. 
8. Plan to live to 120 years 
9. Life can be extended through effort - Keep learning, and it will be of great help. 

Part Three: Life and Victory: - Health, Wealth and spiritual life (Integrity)

1. When a philosophy Radiates Light - achieve continuous victory in life in all areas as below:
2. How to Live a Healthy Life  - Health is most important, 
1. Physical Conditions restrict the Mind, -
2. Control your physical body, - Balancing is very important - like cycling. Any damaged part need repair. 
3. Care is up to Individual, 
4. Body and Mind - When feeling good, do positive thinking and when feeling bad, do self-reflection. 
3. The creation of Wealth - 3 basic principles; (i) Thrift - cut out waste, (ii)Know how to use it - money appears to them who know (iii) People who give, receive. Tap water philosophy - Konosuke Matsushita. We need wealth, and having it is good, it should be created in the right way. People all have different ways of living and different ways of thinking. When you elect to live in poverty, do not try to force others to do the same. Never express jealousy or envy - this is very important.  There are numerous variations of methods of attaining wealth, but the basic is the three mentioned above. First, use your money with moderation; second have a clear idea of how to use wealth and third be prepared to use what you have accumulated for the sake of others. 
4. Spouse and Home - (i)Start by making yourself into your own ideal. If we chase, the object will flee. (ii) Understand your partner. (iii) You need to work to make a perfect match.
5. Encounters that will change your destiny  - (i)Noble person, (ii)listening humbly, (iii)having a grateful heart. Have earnest desire for these. 
6. Spiritual Legacy - Integrity. Ability is something you are born with, you have the seeds within you; integrity is acquired in two ways - through success and failure. Search for the diving intervention, seeds in experiences. For success, you supply water and feartilizer, but without the divine will, it will not bear fruit. 

Part Four: The Power of Invincible Thinking:

1. Self-Reflection and Progress are linked - Principles of happiness : love, wisdom, self-reflection and progress. Positive thinking is forward-looking, this should go hand in hand with self-reflection. 
2. Power of Invincible Thinking in the Phenomenal World - No one can live without making mistake, and invincible thinking is a personal philosophy unique to each and every individual. 
3. Transform Difficulties into Strength for your soul - solve your problems, guide others and work to establish some large, positive undertaking. 
4. Be Master of your own time - Keep growing taller both in good times and bad.  
5. The energy of Bamboo that Creates joints - Flexibility and strength exist together in harmony, and this is needed for growth through good and bad times. Fate and luck run in cycles, times of adversity are the joints in life, after you have created a joint you can advance to the next step. 
6. Creating Annual Rings in a Harsh Environment - When your body and soul are faced with the buffeting winds of misfortune, and the heat and snow of tribulation, your soul develops the power to resist any misfortune, and it is like an immunity. Every experience accumulated is a lesson, converted into a powerful energy for soul. 
7. Think Like a long distance runner - both short term and long term, as per needs of each season. Pacing is important. 
8. The cumulative effect - Will power - Some study page to page, some learn important things only. The former will need more time, but should not give up. Picking up gist of the subject might give you short term success but not long term true victory. 
9. Prepare for the next step, instead of waiting on luck - No matter whether the environment is good or bad, the economy buoyant or depressed, as the base you need to have an attitude of trying to offer a good product or service which will allow you to maintain a steady batting average. 
10. When conditions are favourable, sow the seeds of love - Hardships are times of training, good times give love. Keep aside thoughts of bad luck, misfortune, pride etc. 
11. Aim for a goal one step higher - When you have achieved something, set your next goal to brace yourself, and consider how to go about steadily attaining it. 
12. Think flexibly and turn difficulty to your advantage - Always be ready to make your next move. Ask yourself what the problem that you are now facing is and once you have identified it, work out how to get around it. If you stay several steps ahead, you will find that the outcome will always be positive. 
13. Toward a life of daily success - Snowball effect. Whatever happens, use it to build up your store of experience, like a snowball. When you practice invincible thinking, it is as if you are looking around, ready to face any troubles or difficulties, and as soon as something happens you absorb it and convert it into strength. This philosophy is very powerful and it is the manifestation of unshakable mind. When someone complements you say, it is because you had the help of numerous people. Think of hardships as nourishment to help you grow and bear fruit. You should make use of both the philosophy of self reflection of the Buddha and the philosophy of positivity of Hermes. Absorb all of what you have experienced while confronting difficulties and transform it into energy within you. using both philosophies make yourself invincible.