Tenrikyo Ofudesaki - Everything is What God Says and Does -

Let's take a look at these poems and see what kinds of readings we might employ in savoring their meaning:

• We are entitled to have the expectation that "something marvelous" is about to be revealed to us.
  • We are instructed to calm our mind in order to receive the "something marvelous" that is promised. So let's take a moment and do that now.
• The "something marvelous" that is now revealed to the calm mind, the "mind like clear water" is the revelation that quite literally "everything is what God says or does".
• Enlightened to the original truth that everything is what God, our original parental consciousness, ever present at the "heart", "core" and "root" of our mind, says and does and the promise that God, the original conscious cause of everything, will never cause trouble to those of us who are close; how are we to reconcile the evils of illness, weakening, death and other troubles that trouble our mind and cause us to suffer? Check out this Osashizu.
• Human minds are all abstractions of a single "four fronted mirror residence".  In a human body that original four fronted mirror will reflect as real whatever is held up and appears within it; which is how the state of our mind becomes the state of our world. To be close to and know the mind of our original parent is the point of view of the totally purified mind like clear water. To be away from and not know the mind of our original parent is to hold up and reflect as real, common truths of the world that are based on selfishness and greed and the deeply held, for good reason, belief that our body is ours and separate from God's body, which is the universe, all that exists, ever has existed or ever will exist.  In any case the marvel that is the "four fronted mirror" will reflect as true whatever is held up to be reflected in it.
• Our human experience has demonstrated that by thinking from a foundation of selfishness and greed we have been unable to distinguish between good and evil; often finding ourselves confronting evil as a result of our best self centered intentions to do good. For that reason we are hastened to return to the knowledge and understanding of the mind of our original parental mind where the distinction between good and evil is clear and the way of joyous living as intended is quickly realized.

Sure Guides: Section IVf