Anecdotes of Oyasama 137

Anecdotes of Oyasama
Author: Various authors Date Published: 1976 Pages: 159 (English ed.) Anecdotes Index

Anecdotes of Oyasama 137 presents the contents of "A Single Word," a selection from Anecdotes of Oyasama, published by Tenrikyo Church Headquarters in 1976. The content below appears between page 111 and 112 of the print edition.

Text: English translation and original Japanese

137. A Single Word Oyasama taught Isaburo Masui the following: "Some are good within yet bad without, and there are also people with the opposite character. To be sure, anger, selfishness and irritability are unadvisable. A single word is important. One achieves harmony in the family by the way one breathes in and out to form the very words one speaks." Further: "Isaburo, you are gentle and sociable to everyone outside your house. When you are home and face your wife, you become angry and shout at her; that is the worst thing you could do. Never do it again." Masui suspected that his wife might have complained about him, but on considering that God knows and sees through everything, he simply decided he would never get angry again. Thereafter, he was never irritated by anything his wife said.

一三七　言葉一つ 教祖が、桝井伊三郎にお聞かせ下されたのに、 「内で良くて外で悪い人もあり、内で悪く外で良い人もあるが、腹を立てる、気侭癇癪は悪い。言葉一つが肝心。吐く息引く息一つの加減で内々治まる。」 と。又、 「伊三郎さん、あんたは、外ではなかなかやさしい人付き合いの良い人であるが、我が家にかえって、女房の顔を見てガミガミ腹を立てて叱ることは、これは一番いかんことやで。それだけは、今後決してせんように。」 と、仰せになった。 桝井は、女房が告口をしたのかしら、と思ったが、いやいや神様は見抜き見通しであらせられる、と思い返して、今後は一切腹を立てません、と心を定めた。すると、不思議にも、家へかえって女房に何を言われても、一寸も腹が立たぬようになった。

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