There are people in the world that will not listen to our teachings because their minds contain mistaken concepts and ideas that make it difficult to accept new information. There is a verse in the Ofudesaki that tells us.
What kind of tree also, many gathered, to exist but,
like distorted mirror are, these people will not be realized. 3-50
God is telling us because their minds do not let them understand new concepts, they will not become youboku or will not be able to purify their minds presently. We find many people who are like this in the world. But what can we do as Tenrikyo missionaries to help to save them?
God tells us to spread the truth of the soul to others. This is most important, as God in the first verse of the Ofudesaki tells us that we do not understand the soul. It is the soul God wants us to understand. When one understands the soul, one will understand why suffering and joy appear in the world. One will understand how to attain joy and health in our lives. This is what we must spread to everyone. Like any new information, would people especially those who God describes as distorted mirrors accept what the soul does in our physical bodies? Probably not. This is why God has granted us two special prayers to help us spread the teachings to others to help them understand their own soul. These two prayers are the Youki-tsutome and Osazuke.
What do these two prayers do?
First this prayer, the Youki-tsutome, brings upon God’s guidance of illness to the people we have instructed on the soul. You may think that this is cruel of God to place illness? But what God does is to place illness depending on the amount and kind of negative thoughts one has in the mind. It is these negative thoughts that they will likely act upon, resulting in negative energy their own soul collects, stores, and eventually manifest as suffering (karma). God by these illness is showing these people their future if they do not remove their negative thoughts. God calls these illness blessings!
Some people will understand the illness that appears to them, and come to our places of worship to heal their illness given by God. God has granted us the Osazuke to heal them. They are healed and given further instructions to purify their minds by themselves by understanding the soul. This is how these two prayers help us spread the teachings.
But unfortunately some will not understand God’s guidance or refuse to. They will continue to act upon their negative thoughts resulting in suffering from their own souls. These are the people we must continue to teach, even though they may refuse God’s teachings initially.
In summary, it is the soul we as missionaries must spread to the world. The performace of the Youki-tsutome and the Osazuke will help us convince others of the soul. Again when the mind is pure of negative thoughts, one is saved. Only joy and health will appear from the soul.
世界には、kokoroに誤った概念や考えがあるために私たちの教えを受け入れられない人々がいます。『おふでさき』の中に、こう語られている一節があります。
ikana ki mo ooku yosete wa aru kredo
igami kagami wa kore wa kanawan 3-50
