Interpretation:
God wants to save the world, so everyone can live the “Joyous life”.
OFUDESAKI 7-32
Interpretation:
Our fate, either good or bad comes from our own hearts. When negative fate appears in our life, if we ponder our own minds of our own dusts or evil thoughts, we can purify our own minds. Remember it is these same thoughts that created the fate, by acting on these thoughts. We reap what we have sowed. It is the heart that collects this fate, and eventually releases it back to us.
Definitions:
OFUDESAKI 7-31
Interpretation:
God is telling us that this discussion of the heart concerns everyone in the world. It is not only about the followers of the religion. God wants to save everyone!
OFUDESAKI 7-30
Interpretation:
From our own hearts, our fates come from. It is not God that rewards or punishes us for our actions. Our own soul or heart regulate our behaviors. By understanding the heart, we should be able to purify our minds.
OFUDESAKI 7-29
Interpretation:
These blessings are guidance to the people we have spread the truth to. But before these blessings are seen, we must purify our own minds, spread the teachings, and then ask God for these blessings by performing the Joyous Service.
OFUDESAKI 7-28
Interpretation:
When the people of the world understand the heart to purify their minds, God will bring upon paradise to the world.
Nihon and Kara, Which are You?
In the Ofudesaki, the words nihon and kara are used. The meaning of these two Japanese words has always been confusing to me. From my study of the Ofudesaki, I interpret nihon to be people who have settled or purified their minds. Therefore, kara would be people without a settled or purified mind.
In the Ofudesaki, God tells us that God will distinguish between nihon and kara. How does God do this. Interesting, in finding the location of the Kanrodai, God told the earlier followers that God will place illness upon them, in relationship to the dusts or evil thoughts in their minds. God then tells them if the illness is the same, they should begin to sweep their minds of these dusts. God tells them after they had purified their minds to walk around the residence, and they will come to a stop where the origin of human beings started. This is where the Kanrodai, or Central Pillar will be erected when all human beings have purified their minds. Oyasama first walked the ground and came to a stop at a particular location. Of all the participants, only one person did not stop at this location. But when this one person carried an innocent child, she and the child stopped at this location. My guess would be this person who did not stop would be kara, and the others who stopped were nihon.
In the Ofudesaki, the same location where human beings were created, is where God descended from heaven to. It is the same location, that the soul of Oyasama returned to after her physical body ceased to function. It is my interpretation, that God compares our minds to the mind of Oyasama at this location when we perform the Joyous Service. Like the early followers who stopped at this location as God compared their minds to Oyasama’s pure mind, God compares our mind to the everlasting Oyasama at the Kanrodai. If our mind is pure, God accepts our prayer, and helps us share God’s truth to the world. My question to everyone is, are we kara or nihon when we perform our Service? If we are not nihon, what do we have to do to become nihon? The answer is in the first verse of the Ofudesaki.
OFUDESAKI 7-27
Interpretation:
This including the first verse of the Ofudesaki is one of the most important verses. God wants us to understand the heart, and what it does. This is so important, that God tells us in the following verse, that God will save all of us when this happens.
OFUDESAKI 7-25
Interpretation:
God is worried that the early followers do not understand God’s intention of saving the world.
OFUDESAKI-GOD'S TEACHINGS 