Which translation is correct?
Song 6-3 in the Mikagura-uta may interest you!
(Mina sekai no) (mune no uchi)
(kagami no) (goto kuni) (utsuri nari). 6-3
Tenrikyo Church Headquarter translate this as:
The innermost hearts of all in the world,
are reflected to Me as in a mirror.
My translation is:
All the world’s soul interior,
of mirror, like the dirt(negative actions), to be reflected resulting in (karma).
Which translation is correct?
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The purpose of our religion
The following is from the Mikagura-uta, Song 11.
Human being’s Origin, of the beginning grounds,
God’s Residence’s locality determine it. 1.
Wife and husband gathered, spreading God’s truth.
This is most important, fundamental element. 2.
If seen the world, little by little,
Mokko (carrying heavy loads) bearing, spreading God’s teachings. 3.
Greed forgetting, spreading God’s truths,
this is most important, for the fertilizer (Youki-tsutome) to be effective. 4.
Forever, the carrying of the earth (God’s truth).
Still to exist if so, I also to go. 5.
Unreasonably to stop, nonexistent because,
the mind to exist if so, who resulting in. 6.
Something remarkable, carrying of the earth.
This is your contribution, to result in if so. 7.
The Residence’s earth, one digs up.
The locations to change, only. 8.
This time until now, to everyone,
the soul was not understood. What regret! 9.
This year, the fertilizer (Youki-tsutome) accompanied,
sufficient people, reaped (cultivated) harvested.
How delightful, how grateful. 10.
This translation is different from Church Headquarter’s translation. Please compare.
Most peope in the Tenrikyo religion believes that the Yorozuyo and the 12 Songs are most important for the salvation of the world. But are these dances is what God wants? Does God want the world to dance in Japanese attire, and sing in Japanese? Will this save the World?
Song 11 of the Mikagura appears to express God’s desire. First God wants us to understand the Origin of human beings. Why is the Origin of human beings important? God created human beings from the sea creatures in the muddy ancient ocean, and from heaven added the pure mind from God into the first couple. But unfortunately negative thoughts have attached to our minds, resulting in negative fates that our own soul collects, and eventually distributes back to us as suffering. God wants us to attain the pure mind that was given to the first couple. When the mind is pure, one is saved. Only health and happiness as intended at the Origin will appear from one’s own soul.
God wants us to spread God’s truths to save others. This is called hinokishin, or a person’s contribution. What do we spread from the Jiba, or place of God’s Residence? We spread the truth of the pure mind, the soul, and God’s guidance. This is the purpose of our religion.When the world understands these truth, there will be peace and prosperity. This is why the spreading of God’s truth is so important.
What happens next? With the performance of the Youki-tsutome (fertilizer) with a pure mind, God helps us bring a harvest of new members to our places of worship to save. How does this happen? To the people we have spread God’s teachings, God places illness as guidance, depending on the amount and type of negative thoughts in their minds. It is these thoughts that they will act upon in the future, resulting in negative fate that their own soul collects, and distributes back to them. God with the placement of illness as guidance is showing them their future. If they understand God’s guidance, these people will come to our places of worship asking to be healed of God’s guidance. We then perform the Osazuke to heal them, and further give them instructions on how to purify their minds. Remember when the mind is pure, only health and happines will appear from the soul.
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When the mind is pure, one is saved.
Little by little, throughout the world, for the pure mind, to save the preparation, only to do. 4-36
When the mind is pure, one is saved. Only health and happiness will appear from one’s own soul.
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WHICH ONE IS THE CORRECT TRANSLATION
Kono tsutome kore ga kono yo no hajimari ya
kore sai kanota koto de aru nara. 15-29
This Service, this is these workings, beginning.
This on occasion realized, by the occurrence (guidance) to exist if so.
or
This Service is the beginning of this world.
If only this is realized.
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Do we have the courage to follow the instructions in the Ofudesaki?
Why is our religion not growing in membership? We do not understand our prayer. In the Ofudesaki God tells us that the Youki-tsutome is a prayer to save others. By the acceptance of this prayer, God helps people understand their own soul. God places illness as guidance depending on their existing negative thoughts in their minds. God is showing them theirfuture, if they do not remove their negative thoughts. It is our own soul that monitors our behavior, and brings upon justice. This is why God wants us to understand the soul, and why the performance of this special Service will help people understand their own soul.
The question is what church leaders will be bold enough, to spread the truth of the soul to attain the pure mind, and then perform this Service asking God to help other sweep their minds. Will this bring upon people to our churches to save? God tells us in the Ofudesaki, if we follow these instructions, there be no failure in one in a thousand of guidance to not appear to the people we have spread God’s truth to. Does any body have the courage to follow God’s instructions in the Ofudesaki?
なぜ私たちの宗教は信者数が増えないのでしょうか。私たちは自分たちの祈りを十分に理解していません。『おふでさき』の中で神は、ようきづとめ（陽気づとめ）が他者を救うための祈りであると教えています。この祈りを受け入れることで、人々は自らの魂を理解する助けを神から受けます。神は、人の心にある既存の否定的な思いに応じて導きとして病を与えます。それは、もし否定的な思いを取り除かなければどうなるかという未来を示しているのです。私たちの行いを見守り、正義をもたらすのは私たち自身の魂です。だからこそ神は、私たちに魂を理解することを望み、この特別なつとめを行うことによって、人々が自らの魂を理解できるようになるのです。
問題は、誰が大胆に魂の真理を広め、純粋な心に至り、そのうえで神に願って他者の心を払っていただくこのつとめを行うかということです。これによって、人々は救われるために教会に集まるようになるのでしょうか。神は『おふでさき』の中で、これらの教えに従えば、導きが現れないことは千に一つもないと説いています。いったい誰が『おふでさき』における神の教えに従う勇気を持っているのでしょうか。
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What is the Soul?
It is disturbing that there is so much violence, corruption, discrimination, wars, etc in this world. What do religions tell us about these conditions? In the Ofudesaki, God in the first verse of this sacred scripture tells us we do not understand the soul. What would happen if everyone in the world understood the soul? God tells us there will be peace and prosperity in the world.
What is the soul? Most people understand that because of the soul, we live after our physical bodies die, and go to heaven. But what would happen if our soul also descends back to earth from heaven to be reincarnated into any race, or gender. If we knew this, it would be difficult to discriminate against any race or gender.
But what does the soul do when in our physical bodies? It monitors our behavior, and eventually serve justice for our Behavior. Many time karma does not occur immediately, and may occur in the next life time as the right opportunity to manifest may not appear in this lifetime. When our physical body stops functioning the soul leaves with any unmanifested fates and their associated thoughts to the next destination. Therefore, when we are reborn, we do not get a fresh start. This is why suffering or joy appears in our lives, and why we have different thoughts, good or evil in our minds.
But now we know why suffering and joy appear in the world, we can prevent future suffering from not acting on our negative thoughts. But how do we remove our negative fates from our own soul, if present now? God tells us how to do this in the Ofudesaki.
この世界には多くの暴力、腐敗、差別、戦争などが存在していることは、憂慮すべきことです。これらの状況について、宗教は私たちに何を教えているのでしょうか。『おふでさき』というこの神聖な書物の冒頭で、神は私たちが魂を理解していないと説いています。もし世界中の人々が魂を理解したなら、どうなるでしょうか。神は、世界に平和と繁栄がもたらされると語っています。
魂とは何でしょうか。多くの人は、魂があるからこそ、私たちは肉体が死んだ後も生き続け、天国へ行くのだと理解しています。しかし、もし魂が天から再び地上へ降り、どの人種や性別にも生まれ変わるとしたらどうでしょうか。このことを理解していれば、どの人種や性別に対しても差別することは難しくなるでしょう。では、魂は私たちの肉体の中で何をしているのでしょうか。それは私たちの行いを見守り、やがてその行いに対する報い（正義）をもたらします。多くの場合、因果応報はすぐには現れず、この人生では現れる機会がないため、次の人生で現れることもあります。肉体の機能が止まると、魂はまだ現れていない運命やそれに伴う思いを携えて、次の行き先へ向かいます。したがって、私たちは生まれ変わっても、まったくの新しい出発をするわけではありません。これが、人生に苦しみや喜びが現れる理由であり、また私たちの心に善や悪のさまざまな思いが生じる理由でもあります。
しかし、苦しみや喜びがなぜこの世に現れるのかが分かれば、私たちは自分の否定的な思いに従って行動しないことで、将来の苦しみを防ぐことができます。では、もし今すでに自分の魂に否定的な因縁がある場合、それをどのように取り除けばよいのでしょうか。その方法を神は
What is the Service?
(Kono tsutome) (kore ga kono yo no) (hajimari ya)
(kore sai kanotaa) (koto de aru nara) 15-29
This Service, this is these workings beginning.
This on occasion realized, by the occurrence (guidance) to exist if so. 15-29
This Service is the beginning of this world.
If only this is realized. 15-29. (Church Headquarter’s translation)
Which translation is correct? Is the Service the beginning of the world, or is it the beginning of God placing illness as guidance to help up understand God’s teachings of the soul, and pure mind.
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Sorry for not placing new posts recently. I am working on a book comparing my English translation of the Ofudesaki, and comparing to Tenrikyo Church Headquarter’s English translation.
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Why Our Religion does not spread
Why has our religion not spread throughout the world? The membership is closer to zero percent of the world population. In the Ofudesaki God tells us how to spread the teachings to the world. First what is it that we must spread to the world that would bring peace and prosperity to the world? It is the message of our own soul that we must spread to the world.
How do we spread this truth to the world? God has given us two special prayers, the
Youki-tsutome, and the Osazuke. What do they do?
The current administration of Tenrikyo believes that the Youki-tsutome helps us sweep
our own minds. But is this the purpose of this special prayer? Are we asking God to sweep
our own minds? In the Ofudesaki, God tells us this Service is a prayer asking God to sweep
the minds of others. We are asking God to save others.
In summary, we do not know what we are praying for. The Service is not to help ourselves. We should already know how to sweep our own minds by understanding the fates that come
from our own souls. This Special Service is to save others. This is why our religion does not
spread to the world.
What does the Osazuke do? The next post…
なぜ私たちの宗教は世界中に広がっていないのでしょうか。
信者数は世界人口のほぼゼロパーセントに近い状態です。『おふでさき』の中で神は、どのように教えを世界に広めるべきかを教えています。
まず、世界に広めるべきものとは何でしょうか。それは世界に平和と繁栄をもたらすものです。それは、私たち自身の魂のメッセージであり、それを世界に広めなければなりません。
では、この真実をどのように世界に広めるのでしょうか。神は私たちに二つの特別な祈りを与えました。「陽気づとめ」と「おさづけ」です。これらは何をするものなのでしょうか。
現在の天理教の教会本部は、「陽気づとめ」は自分自身の心を掃き清めるためのものだと考えています。しかし、それがこの特別な祈りの本当の目的なのでしょうか。私たちは神に自分の心を掃き清めてもらうようお願いしているのでしょうか。
『おふでさき』の中で神は、このつとめは他人の心を掃き清めていただくための祈りであると教えています。つまり、私たちは他人を救っていただくよう神にお願いしているのです。
要するに、私たちは自分たちが何を祈っているのかを理解していないのです。このつとめは自分自身のためのものではありません。私たちはすでに、自分自身の魂から生じる因縁を理解することで、自分の心を掃き清める方法を知っているはずです。この特別なつとめは、他人を救うためのものなのです。
これこそが、私たちの宗教が世界に広まらない理由なのです。
では、「おさづけ」は何をするのでしょうか。
続きは次の投稿で…。
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OFUDESAKI-GOD'S TEACHINGS 