Anecdotes of Oyasama 190

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

Anecdotes of Oyasama 190 presents the contents of "This Path," a selection from Anecdotes of Oyasama, published by Tenrikyo Church Headquarters in 1976. The content below appears between page 149 and 150 of the print edition.

Text: English translation and original Japanese

190. This Path In the summer of 1886, Kichitaro Matsumura returned to the Residence. In the eyes of Matsumura, who had acquired some education, the illiteracy of the people who gathered at the Residence and their very uncouth manners seemed questionable. He had even come to harbor a sense of contempt toward them. One day, when he had an audience with Oyasama, She said to him: "This path is not the way of intelligence or knowledge. I do not say, 'Do not come,' to those who come. I do not forcibly say, 'Come,' to those who do not wish to come." Upon hearing these words, Matsumura realized his arrogance and repented from the bottom of his heart. Thus the preciousness of the truth of Jiba became deeply embedded in his heart.

一九〇　この道は 明治十九年夏、松村吉太郎が、お屋敷へ帰らせて頂いた時のこと。多少学問の素養などもあった松村の目には、当時、お屋敷へ寄り集う人々の中に見受けられる無学さや、余りにも粗野な振舞などが、異様に思われ、軽侮の念すら感じていた。ある時、教祖にお目通りすると、教祖は、 「この道は、智恵学問の道やない。来る者に来なと言わん。来ぬ者に、無理に来いと言わんのや。」 と、仰せになった。 このお言葉を承って、松村は、心の底から高慢のさんげをし、ぢばの理の尊さを、心に深く感銘したのであった。

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