When a person is born, why does the head emerge first? What if the feet come first? The feet? When you look at the earth, do you want to see it with the soles of your feet? Would you want to see it from your head first? As man loves the earth, he keeps pace with it and is born head first, while the feet are later set down on the earth. This is to greet the earth. Greetings. As you will set your feet on the earth throughout your lifetime, you have to give greetings. (Laughing) That is true, but don't you have to greet your parents? You must greet your father and mother. Should you greet them well, or greet them poorly? [Greet them well]

When you were born, you came out upside down, but when a spirit self leaves its physical self, it leaves from the soft spot between the bones at the front part of the head. When a spirit self is born, it is born in the opposite way. That is why we speak about "leaving from the soft spot." (Laughing) A spirit self doesn't appear from the lower half of the mother's body. Where does it come out of? (Laughing) From the bottom or the top? Think about it. Where is the part that the spirit self leaves from? It is the opposite, the opposite. It is enlivened, and it rises. To rise up, it has to give a kick to the body to go up. At that time, the head must give the greetings first as well. When you are born, too. You must give greetings, first. Greetings. (1982 Jan. 22, America)