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Today's Verse
In this cleansing, there shall be no discrimination between those within and the world. I shall manifest all of the mind of each of you. (XII:1-2)
Women’s Association Activity Guidelines 2021
At the monthly meeting held on the afternoon of December 26, 2020, Tenrikyo Women’s Association announced its slogan for spiritual maturity and the activity guideline for the year 2021. They are respectively, “Let’s follow the Divine Model and become the foundation for the Joyous Life,” and, “Let’s inquire into the…
Young Men’s Association Activity Guidelines 2021
On January 25, Tenrikyo Young Men’s Association held its monthly meeting online, with the proceedings being livestreamed from Yoki Hall. This year, the association will continue to promote the same guideline as in recent years: “Take on challenges for world salvation.” The newly added sub-guidelines read, “Let us settle in…
Spring Grand Service 2021
On January 26, the Spring Grand Service was conducted at Tenrikyo Church Headquarters with Successor-Designate Daisuke Nakayama serving as chief officiant on behalf of the Shinbashira. The Grand Service commemorates the day when Oyasama withdrew from physical life—namely, the lunar calendar date of January 26, 1887. It was on that…
Insights into the Anecdotes: Unosuke Tosa (1855–1928), Anecdote 99 “Wedding in Osaka”
The Anecdote (Summary) One day in March 1882, Unosuke Tosa abruptly left his home in Muya without telling his wife, carrying only the shrine of God the Parent on his back. He made this move after a long struggle with his parents-in-law, who strongly opposed his single-hearted devotion to…
The Shinbashira Delivers New Year’s Address
The Shinbashira, Zenji Nakayama, delivered his New Year’s address at the New Year’s meeting of Tenrikyo Church Headquarters conducted in Dining Hall 2 on January 4. The meeting was attended by 655 participants, including resident officials of Church Headquarters, head ministers of directly supervised churches, superintendents of dioceses, members of…
Insights into the Anecdotes: Tamezo Yamazawa (1857–1936), Anecdote 90 “Deeper in the Second Generation than in the First”
The Anecdote (Summary) When Tamezo Yamazawa began to serve Oyasama in about 1881, She instructed him in the following manner: God says, “Showing innen [causality] to parents, God waits for children to appear.” Do you understand? Therefore, virtue is more deeply planted in the second generation than in…