Anecdotes of Oyasama 147

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

Anecdotes of Oyasama 147 presents the contents of "True Salvation," a selection from Anecdotes of Oyasama, published by Tenrikyo Church Headquarters in 1976. The content below appears between page 119 and 120 of the print edition.

Text: English translation and original Japanese

147. True Salvation In 1882, Isa, wife of Yohei Yamamoto of Kurahashi Village in Yamato Province, who was then forty years old, received such marvelous salvation that she was completely healed of a leg ailment of long duration. At the moment of her healing, as she rose to her feet, her leg and hip joints gave out cracking sounds from the long disease. Yet the trembling of her hands did not cease. She worried about it very much, even though it did not seem serious. She returned to Jiba in the summer of 1884. When she was received by Oyasama, she begged, holding out her trembling hands, "May I ask you to breathe upon these?" Then Oyasama instructed Isa: "It would be very easy to breathe upon them. But your trembling hands seem of little inconvenience since you have already been saved from your serious leg ailment. Rather than being cured completely, it is better that you have some trouble left to be healed; then you will understand the innen of your previous lives and be continually reminded of it. This will lead to your true salvation. People tend to wish nothing but to be completely cured. But what is most important is to gain virtue that will lead to true salvation. So I lend you this book instead of breathing upon your hands. Have this book copied and read it every day." Oyasama lent her a complete set of the seventeen parts of the Ofudesaki. From that time on her trembling hands no longer bothered her. For the rest of her life, she read the Ofudesaki which had been copied for her by her own father, and she spread the teachings to whomever she met. She was so blessed that she lived to be eighty-nine.

一四七　本当のたすかり 大和国倉橋村の山本与平妻いさ（註、当時四十才）は、明治十五年、ふしぎなたすけを頂いて、足腰がブキブキと音を立てて立ち上がり、年来の足の悩みをすっきり御守護頂いた。 が、そのあと手が少しふるえて、なかなかよくならない。少しのことではあったが、当人はこれを苦にしていた。それで、明治十七年夏、おぢばへ帰り、教祖にお目にかかって、そのふるえる手を出して、「お息をかけて頂きとうございます。」と、願った。すると、教祖は、 「息をかけるは、いと易い事やが、あんたは、足を救けて頂いたのやから、手の少しふるえるぐらいは、何も差し支えはしない。すっきり救けてもらうよりは、少しぐらい残っている方が、前生のいんねんもよく悟れるし、いつまでも忘れなくて、それが本当のたすかりやで。人、皆、すっきり救かる事ばかり願うが、真実救かる理が大事やで。息をかける代わりに、この本を貸してやろ。これを写してもろて、たえず読むのやで。」 と、お諭し下されて、おふでさき十七号全冊をお貸し下された。この時以来、手のふるえは、一寸も苦にならないようになった。そして生家の父に写してもらったおふでさきを、生涯、いつも読ませて頂いていた。そして、誰を見ても、熱心ににをいをかけさせて頂き、八十九才まで長生きさせて頂いた。

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