Tenrikyo Ofudesaki - A Thing Called Learning

It is not, I imagine, intended here to disparage learning and the knowledge that has been accumulated by human minds over the course of our journey but  rather to make the point that the true origin of the human imagination is not as yet known and in fact cannot be imagined or known by the ordinary means of learning and accumulated knowledge. This original , natural truth is often referred to in ways such as the unimaginable fundamental truth of origin, the mind of a three year old child, the original cause, original consciousness, heart, core and mind of God that eternally exists prior to and beyond the grasp of the human imagination.

Even until now, though people speak highly of a thing called
learning, no one knows of things yet unseen.

She was not a well-known person. She was just an ordinary person on a farm. She had no special knowledge. She was not extraordinary. But understand well the truth that it was she who taught the ultimate teaching. She did not travel to see and to learn. She was not taught anything in particular.
Izo Iburi January 8, 1888


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