OFUDESAKI-GOD'S TEACHINGS

God’s objections, guidance, and anger appear as illness on one’s body.    God is helping us understand our own soul, to purify the mind.

God to place illness as guidance to help one understand the soul, to purify the mind.

Since talks by themselves may not convince others, God will begin to place illness as guidance to convince people about the soul, to help them attain the pure mind.

This simple solution of attaining the pure mind to live the Joyous life is too simple for people to understand. People think that religion should be complicated involving deep prayers to God, sacrifices, pilgrimages and donations to the church. God is telling us in the Ofudesaki that all we need to do is attain the pure mind by understanding what comes from our own soul. When the mind is pure, one is saved. Only joy and health will come from one’s own soul.

歓喜に満ちた人生を送るために純粋なkokoro (mind)を獲得するというこのシンプルな解決策は、人々にとってはあまりにも単純なことだ。 人々は、宗教は神への深い祈り、犠牲、巡礼、教会への寄付を伴う複雑なものであるべきだと考えている。神は『おふでさき』の中で、私たちがなすべきことは、自分自身の魂から湧き出るものを理解することによって、純粋なkokoro (mind) を得ることだと教えている。kokoro (mind) が清らかであれば、人は救われる。自分の魂からは喜びと健康しか生まれない。