Category Archives: Why do we suffer
OFUDESAKI 11-3
Interpretation: God’s intentions or expectations are that we purify our minds so we can live the “Joyous life”.
OFUDESAKI 10-102
Interpretation: Shinjitsu is the Original mind given to the first parents of human beings. This is a mind that has no regret, covetousness, self-love, greed, and arrogance. This is a mind that God wants us to return to. When we … Continue reading
OFUDESAKI 10-100
Interpretation: God wants us to spread the teachings to the high places. When these people are able to understand the teachings, God will begin to help them purify their minds. This is why hinokishin, or the spreading of the teachings … Continue reading
OFUDESAKI 10-99
Interpretation: God wants all of us to have the Original mind. The Original mind is a mind that has no regret, covetousness, self-love, greed, and arrogance.
OFUDESAKI 10-97
OFUDESAKI 10-96
Interpretation: The appointed time is when God will go out to save others to help them understand the teachings. When and where God will go to save?
OFUDESAKI 10-93
Interpretation: We must first purify our own minds before God helps us spread God’s truth to others.
POSTS
Interpretation: The harvest (ryuuke) refers to people that God guides to help them understand God’s teachings. These people (harvest) come to our places of worship due to our prayers to save them, and our spreading the teachings to them.
OFUDESAKI 10-30
Interpretation: This I believe is talking about when the minds of the world are purified. God will assemble the instruments that were present in the beginning of human beings. These were the sea creatures in the ancient muddy ocean that … Continue reading
THE CYCLE OF SUFFERING
I will call this diagram the cycle of suffering. This is why God tells us in the first verse of the Ofudesaki and the Yorozuyo that we do not understand the heart (mune) that resides in each of us.