The Divine Natural Path’s Method
May 20, 2025 – by Steve Leeper
All religions contain three elements: objects of worship, forms of worship, and teachings about how to live. In Buddhism, for example, Buddha is the primary object of worship. The method is the many rituals and forms for observing certain days or worshipping certain beings. The teachings are found in the Daizokyo (the Japanese name for the complete collection of Buddhist sutras, laws and treatises).
Christians worship the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The forms of worship are the services performed in churches, and the teachings are found in the Bible. All religions need these elements.
So what are the three elements for the Divine Natural Path? The object of worship is the supreme primal omnipotent, omniscient being that I have been calling the Divine Source. Before addressing the method of worship, let me describe the teachings. The Divine Natural Path has nothing like a Bible or Qur’an or the Buddhist sutras. Its teachings are the universe itself. Nature is its book, its text. We have to learn to read this text to see what the Divine Source is teaching us. Those with spiritual eyes and ears can read the text with greater ease and depth, but even without special spiritual powers, we all have the ability to read the world around us.
The ability to read the world around us is called “intuition.” To walk the Divine Natural Path, we have to use our intuition, and the better we get at doing that, the more accurately we can interpret what nature is telling us. And what nature is telling us is always what we need to do next to best facilitate our complete actualization as human beings. The bible of the Divine Natural Path will be with us as long as the universe lasts. Humans can do their best to alter or distort it, but they will never succeed. It’s a book that has nothing to do with human language or the times we live in. It can be used by anyone, any time, and any place. We just have to look at the world around us with the intent to read it and do what we believe it tells us to do.
So what about the form? Forms of worship change from age to age, country to country, culture to culture, and even person to person. Some religions imply that their method of worship is the only true method, but the Divine Natural Path can be followed in the way most natural to each age, country, culture or spiritual persuasion. Personally, I enjoy Shinto ceremonies, Buddhist services, Native American sweat lodges, and most forms I have experienced with those who believe in them. I have even come to enjoy certain kinds of Christian services.
But what about people who don’t like any of the religious forms around them? Are such people able to approach the Divine Source? Of course. The Divine Source is available to anyone anywhere and anytime. We each have to select the form we find most comfortable. One form is especially simple. Most of us get up in the morning, go to the bathroom, wash our faces, eat breakfast, and go to work. Each and every one of those actions can be performed as an act of worship. Any action, especially repeated actions, can be used as opportunities to recognize and worship the Divine Source.
Another excellent form is breathing. The Divine Source made us in such a way as to require breathing. We could be angry about being forced to breathe all the time. Or we can simply and purely accept the fact that the Divine Source wants us to breathe, so we breathe with the Divine Source in mind, perhaps wondering why the Divine Source considers breathing so important. Air was created by the Divine Source, of course, and, like everything else, is a part of the Divine Source. As we breathe air into our bodies, we can think, “Aaah, the Divine Source is entering my body. The Divine Source is in and all around me.”
Human beings have a certain level of free will. When we think and act in accordance with the Divine Will, we produce no impurity. But when we forget the Divine Will and act according to our own ego, we inevitably create impurities. To get back to our breathing ritual, as we exhale, we can thank the Divine Source for taking away our impurities. Again, we inhale and feel that we are taking in the completely pure energy of the Divine Source; we exhale and feel that the Divine Source is removing our sins and impurities. If we breathe in this state of mind, breathing becomes an excellent form of worship.
Breathing transcends will. When we consciously submit our will to breathing, we can feel the Divine Source working through us. The Divine Source is continually working in, for, and all around us. The Divine Source is living through us, and we are living in the Divine Source. The unconscious act of breathing can become a conscious awareness of the Omnipotent Divine Source.
The Divine Natural Path helps us become and remain aware that our life and everything we think, say and do, whether sleeping or awake, comes from the Divine Source. The expansion of this awareness of the Divine Source is the path to complete actualization. This Divine Natural Path also happens to be, in this physical world, a path to peace culture; it leads to the peaceful, sustainable way of life we need to achieve if we hope to survive the next few decades.
This text comes from an as-yet-to-be published book titled Peace Culture and the Divine Natural Path by Steve Leeper. Steve lived in Hiroshima from 1984 to 2023. From 1985 to 2015 he studied with Professor Nara and Master Sera, who were both vital to Era Martin and Rutanda.