Category Archives: Religion
Why Our Religion Is Different
As a Tenrikyo member, I ask you what information do we have to share to the world, that would make the world better. Is it our Service that we perform monthly? Is it our belief in an everliving Oyasama, or … Continue reading
OFUDESAKI 5-79
Interpretation: God will show illness as guidance, to help people understand the heart.
Your illness can be cured
Throughout time, many of the prophets were able to heal people of their illnesses. But what was the purpose in the ability to heal the sick? Was this a way of telling people that they represented God? Or did these … Continue reading
The Truth of the Soul
Welcome to our website and the teachings of the Tenrikyo religion. Most of us can agree that our physical bodies will decay and decompose when we pass away. We will also agree or hope that there is something in our … Continue reading
How Much More Does the World Have to Suffer?
I would like to comment on an article in the Tenrikyo Newsletter. There is some in the church that believe that the progress in spreading our religion has come to a halt or slow progression. They go back to literature … Continue reading
Why We Need to Understand the Soul
The soul contains our fate and our pattern of thoughts. Our fate is our destiny, or what eventually our bodies are confronted with in life. Our thought patterns are arrogance, regret, greed, miserliness, and self-love. We all have these thought … Continue reading
What is Causality and Reincarnation?
If only people could believe in causality and reincarnation, how the world will be so different. There will be no cheating, no stealing, no killings, no adultery, no lying, no scamming, no corruption, and no wars. There will be an … Continue reading
Our Sacred Book
In our religion, God has given us instructions to save the world in a compilation of verses called the Ofudesaki. Many other religions have sacred documents that profess that they are from God; but the verses in the Ofudesaki are … Continue reading
What Flows From the Heart/Soul
Someone who commented on one of my blogs told me that the early Christians believed in reincarnation and causality. I cannot verify this assumption, but I was searching the Internet on the soul or heart, when I came upon the … Continue reading
You Can Not Kill Evil
Suppose I tell you that our bodies are not ours. Like the environment around us, they are all created and possessed by God. Unaware of this, we segregate from each other by race and gender. Some go to extremes and … Continue reading