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OFUDESAKI 13-81
OFUDESAKI 12-182
Interpretation: When one attains the Original pure mind, only positive fates will appear from our own hearts.
OFUDESAKI 12-174
Interpretation: Inside the body is illness as guidance. This no one knows
OFUDESAKI 11-24
Interpretation: God, by these manifestations (guidance as illness), is showing us what our hearts do naturally for us. We reap what we have sowed.
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 10-98
Interpretation: This path is to attain the Original mind (pure mind)
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 7-50
Interpretation: The blessings are God’s guidance to help others understand the heart. As emphasized in the first verse of the Ofudesaki, the knowledge of the heart is foremost to one’s salvation.
Understanding the Heart to Save the World
Like all Tenrikyo members believe, I believe that God descended from heaven to save human beings. In the first verse of the Ofudesaki, God tells us what we need to understand and share with the world to do this. We … Continue reading