I have been telling people about the Ofudesaki for about ten years now. This is the most sacred scripture in the Tenrikyo religion, yet people do not understand the instruction in the Ofudesaki. Let me summarize the Ofudesaki
1. Understand your own soul. God tells us in the Ofudesaki that we do not understand the soul (mune)
2. Because of the soul we live for eternity. While in our bodies it monitors our behavior, and eventually metes out justice for our actions. Because of the soul we reap what we have sowed. If we understand the soul we can understand why joy or suffering occurs.
3. God tells us when the mind is pure of negative thoughts one is saved. Only joy and health will appear from our own soul. These thoughts to eliminate are regret (oshii), covetousness (hoshii), self-love (kawaii), greed (yoku), and arrogance (kouman).
4. The information of the soul is what God wants us to share with others.
5. God knows how people are stubborn to accept the truth of the soul, so has granted us the Youki-tsutome, a prayer to help people understand and be convinced of the soul.
6. With the acceptance of this prayer, God places illness of guidance to convince people of the soul. By these illness God is showing people the negative thoughts in their minds. It is these negative thoughts that they will act upon resulting in the fates that the soul collects, stores and eventually manifest back to them. God is showing them their future if they do not remove their negative thoughts.
7. These people who understand God’s guidance will come to our places of worship asking God to heal their illness. God has given us the Osazuke to heal God’s illness. At this time further information on the soul is given. Just to note the Osazuke does not cure existing illness. It only cures illness given by God as guidance.
8, This is how we spread the teachings of the soul to the world. When the world understand their own soul, people will be hesitant to act on their evil thoughts. When the minds of the world are pure, only peace and prosperity will occur in the world.