Tenrikyo-Ofudesaki - Sure Guides - Mixed with the Human Mind -
Imagine,
if you will, the problem that Miki Nakayama had when speaking to and
teaching family and neighbors that her mind was no longer a human mind but
the original mind of God. She more or less looked like everybody else.
She needed food and water to sustain herself like everybody else. She had
family and relationship problems like everybody else. She ran the same risks
of childbirth as everybody else; notably experiencing a miscarriage at one
point. She had aches and pains like everybody else and though lasting for
ninety years her body weakened and eventually wore out like everybody
else's.
Yet the fact remained that from that single event on morning of October 24th, 1838 when her self-centered imagination, her human mind completely settled revealing the original conscious mind and cause of all that exists, the mind of God, she was in a position to take on the difficult task of opening a new path to show all human beings everywhere how to distinguish between the human mind or self-centered imagination and the original mind of God that remains eternally at the heart and core of everything; the very nature of which is high spirited joy in the experience of life.
Keeping in mind that the poems below were written when Miki was seventy-eight years old.; at least 36 or 37 years after her awakening. I will suggest three avenues for pondering. First is to ponder and come to terms with the fact that there are no "human thoughts" in the "mind like clear water". The original parental consciousness teaches from a foundation, the heart, where that truth is known and understood and that truth is not a "human thought" or idea that can be formed in the imagination. Second is to ponder the question of what ideas the extended Nakayama family and villagers thought were mixed in with her mind? The model story exists to help us with this kind of information. And third and finally is to pause now and ponderthe question, how does my thinking differ from theirs and then honestly and sincerely make corrections if necessary.
as being mixed with the human mind.
Listen replace your mind from now
and never think that I have a human mind.
Until now, because you thought I was human like you,
you were unable to understand anything.