Tag Archives: prayer
The fly on the wall
What would we see if we could place ourselves out of the picture? Like an impartial outsider looking through a clear window, we see a new world. Without greed, arrogance, hate and everything evil that is attached to our selfish … Continue reading
We All Have Sinned
The truth of causality is said to be difficult to accept. It is difficult to accept that the sufferings of this life may due to what we have done in our past lives. How can we place blame on the … Continue reading
Reincarnation as a link to Causality
Understanding the law of causality is what will bring peace to the world. Causality is the Truth of Heaven. Our actions today will affect our future. Reincarnation is the process we must understand to see the relationship between cause and … Continue reading
Heaven’s Truth Church
In the world, there are sunny days, and cloudy days. Every type of day is manifested by our minds. With each manifested day, if we go through with a purity of mind, then every day will eventually become a sunny … Continue reading
Don’t Kill the Messenger/revised
What if the world is a reflection of our minds? The problems at work, the unexpected sufferings are all the results of our minds. The delivery of these sufferings may be from people familiar to us, or may even be … Continue reading
The Two Paths of Mankind
There are two paths of mankind. One is a good path and the other is the bad path. The good path leads to joy, and the bad path leads to suffering. Everyone if given the choice would select the good … Continue reading
Heaven’s Truth
Almost everyone knows about the 10 commandments, or the sins we should avoid. In the Heaven’s Truth Church (Tenrikyo), the evils of greed, arrogance, covetousness, miserliness, anger, hatred, enmity and self-love is advised to sweep from our minds. The following … Continue reading
Blind Faith in Religion
Just recently I received a couple of messages from a blogger that I was a hypocrite, and an irate message that I did not know what I was talking about. He or she quoted a few verses from the Bible … Continue reading
God Does not Punish
One of my churches elder once told me that I should come back to attending church. She advised me that it was dangerous for my future if I did not. Was she implying that God would punish me for not … Continue reading
The Truth of Heaven
What is the difference between Tenrikyo (Heaven’s Truth Chruch) and other religions? I believe that many Tenrikyo followers believe that our church is a unique religion, different from all other religions. But realistically our religion is not much different than … Continue reading