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OFUDESAKI 7-56
Interpretation: The words in the Ofudesaki, and the future predictions are all from God.
OFUDESAKI 7-54
Interpretation: God wants you to eliminate evil thoughts or dusts from your minds. These thoughts are regret, covetousness, self-love, greed, and arrogance.
OFUDESAKI 7-52
Interpretation: Because Oyasama is conveying this truth, God wants the early followers to understand that these truths come from God.
OFUDESAKI 7-49
Interpretation: The mind gets purified by eliminating the dusts of regret, covetousness, self-love, greed, and arrogance. When this happens our minds become spirited. This is what God wants for everyone.
OFUDESAKI 7-48
Interpretation: Because God wants everyone to be saved (see previous verse), God’s mind hastens to purify everyone’s mind. Remember the spirited mind is a purified mind. God is asking asking why our minds are depressed or not purified.
OFUDESAKI 7-46
Interpretation: When the mind is pure, one has access to God. Again these dusts we need to remove are regret, covetousness, self-love, arrogance, and greed.
The Broad and Narrow Path
In the Ofudesaki, God talks about the broad and narrow paths. On the diagram the black line in the middle separates these two paths. The broad path is the path of the heart, where one can purify one’s mind, if one … Continue reading
Summary of Ofudesaki
In the Mikagura-uta and the Ofudesaki, God uses analogies to make the teachings easier to understand. Most of the early followers were farmers working in the fields. God uses terms like weeding, water, fertilizer, and harvest in explaining the teachings. Yes … Continue reading
OFUDESAKI 7-45
Interpretation: God is telling the early followers that the blessings of guidance were not seen before. But they will begin to see these blessings in the future.
OFUDESAKI 7-44
Interpretation: God again like in the first verse of the most sacred scripture tells the early followers that they do not understand the heart. I believe it is the same today that most people do not understand what the heart … Continue reading