Tenrikyo Ofudesaki - The Mind of God Differs Entirely -
God's
mind, the original consciousness at the heart and core of our mind, which we are
constantly hastened to know and understand, differs fundamentally
with the limited foundation of our self-centered imaginings. That difference
is just an unchanging fact.
Throughout the poems we are repeatedly hastened and instructed in the means for quickly and clearly making the distinction, in our own mind, between our self-centered imagination (the ideas and thoughts handled by our mind's voice) and the original unchanging consciousness that makes those ideas and thoughts possible; hears the voice of our imagination and sees that the images reflected to it.
By extension then this poem then can be seen as an invitation to ponder deeply:
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On the meaning of God's free and unlimited workings in the creation of the world. The original parental consciousness lights up whatever combinations are possible among the instruments of creation without discrimination.
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The limitations of illness, weakening and death that attach to imagined ownership of a body borrowed from God's body which is the universe.
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The hastening and guidance directing us to change out the current limited foundation of our mind with the free and unlimited foundation that is the original conscious parental mind.
Take a moment to identify the voice of the self-centered imagination. It is in all probability constantly changing and moving about. Watch it for a bit and see how it is superimposed over both the borrowed body and God's ever present conscious mind.
The mind of God differ entirely.