Tenrikyo Ofudesaki - Save Yourself By Saving Others-

As always these poems offer some very useful instructions and opportunities for us to ponder and use to quickly awaken both our self and others. Our efforts in this regard constitute copying the tireless efforts of our original parent to employ all means appropriate for our time place and level of maturity to  help us quickly awaken to the joy of living as was intended in the creation of human beings:

• We have already discussed that the "services" are not all the same and as instruments we are hastened to employ "all means", just like our original parent does, to help each other to quickly awaken to the true origin of the mind. The first step in this involves finding some appropriate way to calm down the mind - this is what the services are intended to do - eventually settling a mind to be "like clear water." As a matter of course it is difficult to do this unless we practice doing it in our own mind.
• Once settled like "clear water", the mind can be understood as having returned to being one with the original consciousness that it appeared reflected within, the mind of God. We call this being single-hearted with God but when it is understood from the "innermost heart" it is known and understood as our original state of the mind and not associated with any words, thoughts or concepts, common truths of our world that we have accumulated on it.
• Pondering the implications of that original state of mind then reveals the truth that the one saving and the one being saved are in fact the same. In truth there is one conscious mind , called God  by the self-centered imagination and God has one body, called by us the universe. To know and understand this original truth requires sincerely examining our own mind, identifying where it appears, where it rises up, originates from and what remains when it settles.

Sure Guides: Section IVf