OFUDESAKI-GOD'S TEACHINGS

In the first verse of the Ofudesaki, God tells us, ” We do not understand the mune”. Without understanding the mune, one will not be able to understand the Ofudesaki, our sacred scripture from God. What is the mune? Tenrikyo Headquarter translate the mune as God’s heart.  This kind of makes sense, we do not understand God. But is this the true meaning of mune?  Lets see how mune it is used in the Ofudesaki. 

God tells us ponder what comes from the mune. God tells us to sweep our mune, God tells us that God is observing the mune’s interior, we each depend on our mune, the mune’s sweeping by oneself can do, the mune’s interior what comes from hurry sweeping, the mune’s interior what comes from ponder to do, and the mune is settling the future is promising. The way mune is used,  mune appears to be our own soul, and it is our fates that come from our own souls. Because of the soul, we reap what we have sowed.  

Let me explain what the soul is. The soul resides in our physical bodies. While it resides in our bodies, it collects the negative energies resulting from our evil actions, stores them, and eventually releases the energy as our negative fates (suffering) back to us.  This suffering may not occur until our next lifetime, as circumstances may not present itself to be manifested in this lifetime.  When our physical bodies cease to function, the soul leaves our bodies carrying our fates (negative and positive), and their associated thoughts (thoughts they acted upon to create the fate)  to our next destination. This is why our memories of past lives are erased, but we do not begin with a clean slate when we are reborn again. This is why God encourages us to purify our minds now. God gives us instructions in the Ofudesaki how to do this. 

In summary, when our minds are pure, only positive fates will appear from one’s own soul. When the mind is pure, one is saved. This is God’s message to the world. Again without understanding the first verse, one will have difficulty following God’s instructions to purify the mind, and to spread God’s teachings to the world.

What do we do when illness occurs in our lives? First we must determine if it is from God’s guidance or is it from our own soul. In the Ofudesaki, the illness of cholera is mentioned.  God tells the early followers that the suffering is not illness, but it is God’s guidance to purify the mind. God told the early followers to purify their minds and not to be depressed to eliminate the sufferings of cholera.  Could God have also created the Covid pandemic to help purify the minds of the world?  But like other religions, the Tenrikyo religion followed, and advocated the isolation of people, wearing of masks, and the injection of controversial  covid vaccine. We did not follow God’s instructions of purifying our own mind to eliminate suffering of covid. This would of been a great opportune time for the religion to stand up to the world, to teach the world about the soul and the pure mind to eliminate illness.

On the same subject, how many of Tenrikyo followers depend on medicine to cure our illnesses? How many of us are on blood pressure, diabetic, or heart medications. Should we depend on physicians and medicine for our health, or should be rely on God’s teachings of the soul to be healthy and happy? Remember in the Ofudesaki, God tells us if we purify our minds, only joy and health will appear from our own souls. When this happens we are saved. Something we should all ponder when the next pandemic occurs in the world. 

In summary, God tells us to know the Origin of human beings. God created the perfect human body from the existing organisms in the ancient ocean, and God placed the pure mind (shinjitsu) of God into the first couple. This combination of the perfect body and the pure mind should result in only joy to each soul, but negative thoughts have infected our minds, resulting in suffering to our bodies. God tells us to remove these negative thoughts so only joy and health will come from one’s own soul, as intended by God when human beings were created. Our negative thoughts are not compatible with the perfect human body. This is why there is suffering and illness in the world. God tells us how to remove our negative thoughts in the Ofudesaki, and also how to spread the teachings to the world. 

Again the Ofudesaki can be be found on the Ofudesaki Study Group on Facebook, and also can be purchased at amazon. The book cover is read and titled Ofudesaki. Please do not obtain the e-book as it is not formatted correctly. Also a summary of the Ofudesaki, God’s Recipe for Health & Happiness also can be obtained at Amazon. Again do not purchase the e-book as it also is not correctly formatted.

What would happen to the world if everyone understood their own soul? There will be only joy in the world. Why would this happen? It is our own soul that monitors our behavior, and eventually distributes joy or suffering back to us for our actions. We reap what we have sowed because of our souls.  

Initially people when they understand the soul will be wary, and not act upon their negative thoughts because of fear of suffering, but eventually people will understand the joy that will come upon them when they do not act upon their negative thoughts. They will become spirited each day.

People will also understand that when their physical bodies stop functioning, the soul with leave their bodies, containg  the fates that have not manifested and their associated thoughts to the next destination. This destination is to heaven, and then returning back to earth to begin a new life. Our memories are erased, but we do not get a fresh start in life when we are reborn, as the soul carries our fates and their associated thoughts from our previous life. This is why God tells us to remove our negative thoughts in this lifetime. God shows us how to do this in the Ofudesaki.

Racial and physical discrimination will also cease to exist if we understand the soul because the soul is able to enter any body, white, brown, red, or black. Our bodies like everything else is borrowed from God. This is why when we hurt others, we are also hurting God.

Where does this information come from. It is all written in the Ofudesaki. You can find the English translation at the Ofudesaki Study Group on Facebook, or purchase the most accurate English translation on Amazon (red book titled Ofudesaki). Please do not purchase the e-book as it may not be formatted correctly.

では、私たちはどのようにして他者に魂の現実を認識させる手助けができるだろうか？それが次の投稿で説明したいことである。