Articles and exerpts from a variety of books, on the teachings of Tenrikyo
Tenrikyo’s view of humanity provides many important insights into how to bring a settling to this world. Let us focus on two of them. The first insight is that human beings are children created by God the Parent for the purpose of living a joyful life and that God the…
The Anecdote (Summary) In the summer of 1885 Zenzo Miyata was so moved by a talk at the Shinmei Fellowship that he became a Tenrikyo follower. Led by Seijiro Imagawa, he returned to Jiba soon thereafter and was granted an audience with Oyasama. Zenzo was then thirty-one years old and…
In Christianity, people often speak of original sin. It is said that the sin of the first humans, Adam and Eve, who disobeyed God, is passed on to all their descendants and that humans will not be saved so long as they remain affected by its consequences. Presumably, it is…
From the word “parent,” people in general only think of their immediate parents who bore and raised them. In Tenrikyo, however, this word is interpreted in a broader sense. Most importantly, the word signifies “God of Origin, God in Truth” who created human beings and continues to work in our…
The Anecdote (Summary) When Shobei Masuno’s wife, Ito, visited her childhood friend Cho, daughter of Yazaemon Koyama of Sannomiya in Kobe in February 1884, Cho said to her, “Tenri-O-no-Mikoto is truly the all-powerful God of wonders.” Ito had been suffering for three years from an eye disease. Several famous doctors…
This is the second edition of An Anthology of Osashizu Translations, published in 2007. This book seeks to present in a single volume the body of work that has accumulated over the years on the translation of the Osashizu, The Divine Directions. The 722-page volume comprises Osashizu passages quoted in…