Tenrikyo-Ofudesaki - No Two Minds Are The Same -

This is a major insight and guide provided by this teaching. Although it seems simple it is not often referred to because it is actually very much at odds with our worldly common expectations and the ordinary truths of the world.

When we look all over the world and ponder the journey of our species we find that there have always been ideas of what is good as distinct from what is bad. All human beings are conditioned from childhood in the distinction between causes and behaviors that are good and causes and behaviors that are bad. As our groups became more sophisticated we tended to view this as the distinction between good and evil and we codified and  adopted systems of belief that establish those views as common truths of our world.

If we calm down our minds and ponder those systems of belief we find two things to be true about all of them. First: they are the creation of human thinking and Second: They are not understood to be true or false or even important in the same way in all of the minds of the world. That is to say that their foundations are based on beliefs and the beliefs are themselves always in flux and subject to change.

This teaching however, promises to expose and reveal the original source of the human mind, calling it the mind of God, further making the claim that it is that original unchanging source of the human mind, the mind of God, that will distinguish good and evil and not the unstable belief systems of the human self-centered imagination.

It reasonably follows then that the work or Services intended to save all human beings equally and quickly are not based on maintaining or establishing human belief systems, common truths of the world, but rather on the work of quickly exposing and revealing the true origin of the human mind.

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