Tenrikyo-Ofudesaki - Checking My Vocabulary -"Anecdote"- "Anecdotal"
"Anecdote"-"Anecdotal" -
"A short amusing or entertaining story about some happening, usually personal
or historic or biographic."
Prior to the scientific revolutions of the previous couple of hundred years, truth was primarily determined by direct experience and by anecdotal evidence. From the point of view of original consciousness both of those methods for determining truths of the world are products of the free play of the human imagination. Some of those imagined truths deliver benefits while other deliver pain and suffering. To sort them out we are encouraged to completely calm and settle our imagination to view their truth and utility from the point of view of our original consciousness or heart.