What does salvation mean? In the majority of religions, salvation means eternal joy in heaven. But in the Ofudesaki, God tells us that we are saved when we attain the pure mind. When the mind is pure, only joy and health will appear from one’s own soul while on earth.
How do we attain salvation, the pure mind? God tells us in the Ofudesaki. We must first understand our own soul. It is because of our own soul that we can live for eternity. It is this soul that leaves our physical bodies when it dies, ascends to heaven, and then returns back to earth to be reborn. But what most people do not understand is what the soul does while it resides in our physical bodies. The soul monitors our behavior. It collects the negative energies created by acting on our negative thoughts, stores them, and eventually returns them back to us as fate (karma or innen) when the right opportunity arises. This right opportunity may not manifest until the next life time. It is the soul that leaves the body, and takes with it the fates that have not manifested, and their associated thoughts they acted upon. This is why we do not start with a clean slate when we are reborn. This is why suffering or joy appears, and why we all have different mindsets.
Now we understand the soul, how do we purify our minds to be saved? God tells us to ponder our own minds instead of blaming others or God when suffering appears from our own soul. Then God tells us when we identify these negative thoughts or emotion, not to act upon them. This is how we gradually purify our minds, by not acting upon our negative thoughts when suffering appears. This is difficult to do because we always want to blame
others, especially when they appear to cause our discomforts. But God tells us they are just messenger of our own soul.
others, especially when they appear to cause our discomforts. But God tells us they are just messenger of our own soul.