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C. Divine recommendations
I. For physical health
II. For mental health
D. Proper use
I. Individual impact
II. Worldwide impact
Tenrikyo-Emblem: Dennis Akihiko Tanaka
„In the beginning, the world was a muddy ocean. Tsukihi, God the Parent,
finding the chaos unbearably tasteless, though of creating human beings in
order to see the Joyous Life and thus share in that joy.“
(The doctrine of Tenrikyo, Chapter Three, The Truth of Origin)
● Fish and serpent: models for the human husband and wife
● Further animals taken from the loaches: orc; turtle; eel; flatfish; black snake;
globe-fish
(Picture: Private)
● While growing up: land and sea, heaven and earth, moon and sun
appeared and had been established
● Effectes shall represent the needs for the human body, such as breathing,
humidity and warmth
(Picture: Private)
„This is the Residence where I began human beings. Because of this causality,
it is here that I descended.
This is the Residence where I began this world. Therein lives the original
Parent of human beings“.
Discerning this, Tsukihi descended from the desire to teach about all matters“.
(Ofudesaki IV:55 and VI: 55-56)
(Picture: Private)
„All human bodies are things lent by God. Do you not know the free and
unlimited workings of God“?
(Ofudesaki III: 126)
„So long as you remain unknowing that the body is a thing borrowed, you can
understand nothing at all“.
(Ofudesaki III: 137)
(Picture: Private)
● Body represents reflection of our mind: if deeds are bad, misfortune will
occur
„If only the dusts are cleanly swept away, then I shall work marvellous
salvation.“
(Ofudesaki III: 98)
(Picture: Private)
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Misfortune and illness
(Picture: Private)
„Illness and pain of whatever kind do not exist. They are none other than the
hasting and guidance of God.“
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(Ofudesaki II: 7)
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Calamities and troubles : expressions of the warm parental love of God
● God's loving care and severity needed for dangerous paths of life – human
beings gratitude is essential
● To be achieved by „Hinokishin“ for living the Joyous Life in the sense of God
● Definition of Hinokishin
„If your mind is true sincere, there will never be a failure in any salvation.“
(Ofudesaki XIII: 71)
● When mind is completly purified, then paradise will come: no misfortune and
illness any more
„There is nothing stronger than true sincerety. True sincerety is the truth of
heaven. If this is true sincerety, the world will be convinced.“
(Picture: Private)
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