OFUDESAKI 17-71

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OFUDESAKI 17-70

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OFUDESAKI 17-68

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OFUDESAKI 17-67

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OFUDESAKI 17-66

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OFUDESAKI 17-65

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Why Does the Sazuke not work?

 
What if we could cure every illness like cancer with the sazuke. Our religion would spread like wild fire, with donations coming without any end, with great  temples and churches built to accomodate all the people coming to cure their illness. But we know that the sazuke does not cure all diseases, and some may even say that it is not effective. 
 
Like the Youki-tsutome, are we using the sazuke as intended by God? Remember the Youki-tsutome is not a prayer asking God to sweep away our negative thoughts, but it is a prayer asking God to help sweep the dusts of other people. The sazuke is not intended to cure illness that are present. So we cannot go to hospitals to cure patients by administering the sazuke to them. It will not be effective on them. So who is the sazuke effective on?
 
The sazuke is effective to the people we have spread God’s teaching of the soul, pure mind, and God’s guidance to help one understand the soul to purify the mind. By our performance of the youki-tsutome, God then places illness as guidance to these people, to convince them of the truth of their own soul. God by these guidance is showing people the negative thoughts in their minds. It is these thoughts that they will likely act upon, resulting in the creation of their negative fate, which the soul collects, stores, and eventually manifest as suffering when the right opportunity arises.  God by these guidance, is showing people what their own soul does, when they act upon their evil thoughts. So it is important to tell these people that God may place illness on their bodies. When these people understand God’s guidance that they receive, they will come to our places of worship to be healed of their illness. This is the opportunity when the sazuke becomes effective. We perform the sazuke on them, and inform them more about the soul and how to purify their minds.  This is how God’s truth of the soul is spread to the world. Yes the sazuke is effective when used as a method to spread the truth of the soul! 
 
 
もし私たちが sazukeでガンのようなあらゆる病気を治すことができるとしたらどうだろう。私たちの宗教は野火のように燃え広がり、寄付は後を絶たず、病気を治すためにやってくる人々を収容するために大きな寺院や教会が建てられるだろう。しかし、私たちは sazuke がすべての病気を治すわけではないことを知っている。
Youki-tsutome のように、私たちは sazukeを神の意図通りに使っているでしょうか?Youki-tsutome は、自分のマイナス思考を神に掃き清めてもらう祈りではなく、他人の埃を掃き清めてもらう祈りであることを忘れてはならない。sazuke は、今ある病気を治すためのものではない。だから、病院に行って sazuke を投与して患者を治すことはできない。効果がないからだ。では、どんな人
魂の教え、純粋な脳( mind)、脳(mind)を浄化するために魂を理解する神の導きを広める人に有効です。私たちが Youki-tsutome をするように、神様はそのような人たちに導きとして病を置き、自分の魂の真実を納得させるのです。このような導きによって、神は人々の脳(mind)の中にある否定的な考えを示されるのです。これらの否定的な思いは、私たちが行動することで、否定的な運命を生み出し、私たちの魂はそれを集め、蓄え、やがて適切な機会が訪れたときに苦しみとして現れる。これらのガイダンスによって、神は人々が邪悪な考えに基づいて行動するときに魂が何をするのかを示している。だから、神が彼らの肉体に病を与えるかもしれないことを、これらの人々に伝えることが重要なのだ。このような人々が神の導きを理解したとき、病気を癒してもらうために私たちの礼拝所にやってくるでしょう。このときこそ、Sazuke が効果を発揮するチャンスなのだ。私たちは彼らにサザエを与え、魂について、脳 (mind) を浄化する方法について詳しく伝えます。こうして神の魂の真理が世界中に広まっていくのです。そう、Sazuke は魂の真理を広める手段として使えば効果的なのだ!
E se pudéssemos curar todas as doenças, como o câncer, com o sazuke? Nossa religião se espalharia como fogo selvagem, com doações sem fim, com grandes templos e igrejas construídos para acomodar todas as pessoas que viessem para curar suas doenças. Mas sabemos que o sazukedo não cura todas as doenças, e alguns podem até dizer que ele não é eficaz.
Assim como o Youki-tsutome, será que estamos usando o sazuke conforme a intenção de Deus? Lembre-se de que o Youki-tsutome não é uma oração pedindo a Deus para varrer nossos pensamentos negativos, mas é uma oração pedindo a Deus para ajudar a varrer a poeira de outras pessoas. O sazuke não se destina a curar doenças que estejam presentes. Portanto, não podemos ir a hospitais para curar pacientes administrando o sazuke neles. Ele não será eficaz para eles. Então, quem e quando o sazuke é eficaz?
É eficaz para as pessoas que divulgamos o ensinamento de Deus sobre a alma, a mente pura e a orientação de Deus para ajudar a pessoa a entender a alma e purificar a mente. Por meio de nossa atuação no youki-tsutome, Deus coloca a doença como orientação para essas pessoas, para convencê-las da verdade de sua própria alma. Por meio dessa orientação, Deus está mostrando às pessoas os pensamentos negativos em suas mentes. É com esses pensamentos que elas provavelmente agirão, resultando na criação de seu destino negativo, que a alma coleta, armazena e, por fim, manifesta como sofrimento quando surge a oportunidade certa.  Deus, por meio dessa orientação, está mostrando às pessoas o que a própria alma faz quando elas agem de acordo com seus maus pensamentos. Portanto, é importante dizer a essas pessoas que Deus pode colocar doenças em seus corpos. Quando essas pessoas entenderem a orientação de Deus que recebem, elas virão aos nossos locais de adoração para serem curadas de suas doenças. Essa é a oportunidade em que o sazuke se torna eficaz. Nós realizamos o sazuke nelas e as informamos mais sobre a alma e como purificar suas mentes.  É assim que a verdade de Deus sobre a alma é divulgada para o mundo. Sim, o sazuke é eficaz quando usado como um método para divulgar a verdade da alma!
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OFUDESAKI 17-64

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God will not heal you

 
 

If you have cancer or any serious disease. It does not matter how long you pray, what you promise to God, or donate to the church,  you will not be healed by God. This may surprise people, who believe that God has the power to heal us, and remove our sufferings.  But God has given us the instrument to heal ourselves. We have our own minds that can heal any sufferings. Let me explain.  In the beginning God created the perfect body from the existing sea creatures in the ancient muddy ocean. The perfect body includes our brains , that help  us reason and understand God’s teachings. Into the minds of the first couple, God added the pure thoughts of God from heaven. Through evolution we are who we are.  With the pure mind, and the perfect body, we should be able to live a happy and healthy life. But negative thoughts have infested our minds. Our perfect body is not compatible with this type of mind that has negative thoughts. This is why suffering appears in our lives. God wants us to attain the pure mind like the mind given to the first couple. The pure mind brings upon only health and happiness from our own soul. This includes the elimination of any serious illness. 

 
How do we attain the pure mind? We must understand the soul, which God tells us we do not understand in the first verse of the Ofudesaki, the most sacred scripture in the world. Let’s talk about the soul that God tells us we do not understand. Most people believe that we exist for eternity because of our own soul. When our physical body dies, it is the soul that leaves the body to go to the next destination, whether it be heaven, or back to earth to begin a new life. But God tells us that it is our own soul while in our bodies that monitors our behavior. It collects our demerits from acting on our negative thoughts, stores them, and eventually manifest these demerits back to us as suffering when the right opportunity arises. This opportunity to manifest the fate may not appear until the next life.  Our soul when our body dies, takes our fates and their associated thoughts to our next destination. Our memories may be erased, but our thoughts and associated fates are carried to the next destination by our souls. Death does not give us a clean slate to start over. Now we know why suffering and joy occur in the world.  What do we do when suffering occurs?
 
When cancer or any serious illness appears, are we just to suffer because we have created it ourselves by our past actions. God tells us we do not have to suffer, if we remove our negative thoughts attached to the suffering. Some people will say by performing the Youki-tsutome-tsutome, God helps us sweep our negative thoughts. But according to the Ofudesaki,  they are wrong. This Service is not meant for that purpose. Then how do we remove our negative thoughts? God tells us when suffering occurs from our own soul, do not blame the messenger of the negative fate, or do not blame God. Instead to ponder one’s own mind for the negative thoughts that may be associated with the fate that has been manifested. God tells us not to act on these thoughts when suffering occurs. This is how we eventually purify our minds, and remove the negative fates associated with the negative thoughts. With the mind purified, only health and happiness will come from our souls, including the elimination of any suffering. Cancer or any serious illness can be cured!
 
This is the information we must spread to the world. It is about the soul that must convey to people, especially to those who are suffering. Only when their minds are purified will their illness subside. 
 
Many in Tenrikyo will say I am wrong, and that the sazuke is meant to heal the sick, to introduce them to the teachings.  Yes and no to their assertion. I will explain in my next post.  
 
 
もしあなたが癌や深刻な病気にかかったら。どんなに長く祈っても、神に何を約束しても、教会に寄付しても、神によって癒されることはない。このことは、神には私たちを癒し、苦しみを取り除く力があると信じている人々を驚かせるかもしれない。 しかし、神は私たちに自分自身を癒す道具を与えてくださった。私たちには、どんな苦しみも癒すことができる自分の 脳 (mind)があるのだ。説明しよう。 はじめに神は、太古の泥海に存在した海の生物から完璧な身体を創造された。完璧な身体には、神の教えを理性で理解するための脳も含まれている。最初のカップルの 脳 (mind) に、神は天からの神の純粋な思いを加えられた。進化によって、私たちは今の姿になったのです。 純粋な 脳 (mind) と完璧な肉体があれば、私たちは幸せで健康な人生を送ることができるはずです。しかし、私たちの 脳 (mind)には否定的な思いがはびこっている。私たちの完璧な肉体は、ネガティブな思考を持つこの種の 脳 (mind)とは相容れない。これが私たちの人生に苦しみが現れる理由です。神は、私たちが最初の夫婦に与えられた心のような純粋な心を獲得することを望んでおられる。純粋な 脳 (mind)は、私たち自身の魂から健康と幸福だけをもたらす。これには、深刻な病気がなくなることも含まれる。
 
どうすれば純粋な 脳 (mind)を得ることができるのだろうか?世界で最も神聖な経典である『おふでさき』の最初の節で、神が私たちに理解できないと教えている魂について理解しなければならない。それでは、神が私たちに理解できないと教えている魂について話そう。ほとんどの人は、私たちが永遠に存在するのは自分の魂のおかげだと信じている。肉体が死ぬと、魂が肉体を離れて次の目的地(天国であれ、地上に戻って新しい人生を始めるのであれ)に行く。しかし神は、私たちの行動を監視しているのは、肉体にいる私たち自身の魂であると教えている。否定的な考えに基づいて行動したことによる私たちのデメリットを集め、それを蓄積し、適切な機会が訪れたときに、最終的にそのデメリットを苦しみとして私たちに現すのだ。この運命が現れる機会は、来世まで現れないかもしれない。 私たちの肉体が死ぬと、魂が私たちの運命とそれに関連する思考を次の目的地に運ぶ。記憶は消えても、思考とそれに関連する運命は魂によって次の目的地に運ばれる。死は私たちに白紙に戻ってやり直す機会を与えてはくれないのだ。さて、私たちはなぜこの世に苦しみと喜びが生じるのかを知っている。 苦しみが生じたとき、私たちはどうすればいいのだろうか?
 
ガンや深刻な病気が現れたとき、私たちはただ苦しむしかないのだろうか。神は、その苦しみにまつわる否定的な思いを取り除けば、苦しむ必要はないと教えている。陽気づとめ」をすることで、神様はマイナス思考を一掃してくださると言う人もいる。しかし、おふでさきによれば、それは間違いである。このおつとめはそのためにあるのではありません。では、どうすればネガティブな思いを取り除くことができるのでしょうか。自分の魂に苦しみが生じた時、その負の運命の使者を責めたり、神を責めたりしてはならない。その代わりに、現れた運命に関連しているかもしれない否定的な思考について、自分自身の 脳 (mind) を熟考しなさい。神は、苦しみが起きても、そのような思いで行動しないようにと教えている。こうして私たちはやがて 脳 (mind) を浄化し、否定的な思いに関連する否定的な運命を取り除いていくのです。心が浄化されれば、苦しみがなくなることを含め、魂からは健康と幸福だけがもたらされる。ガンやどんな重い病気も治すことができる!
これは、私たちが世界に広めなければならない情報です。人々に、特に苦しんでいる人々に伝えなければならないのは、魂についてです。心が浄化されてこそ、病気は治るのです。
天理教の多くの人々は、私が間違っている、おさづけは病人を癒し、教えを伝えるためのものだと言うだろう。 彼らの主張にはイエスでもありノーでもある。次回の投稿で説明しよう。 God
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OFUDESAKI 17-63

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