Anecdotes of Oyasama 64
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Anecdotes of Oyasama 64 presents the contents of "Smoothed out Gently," a selection from Anecdotes of Oyasama, published by Tenrikyo Church Headquarters in 1976. The content below appears on page 56 of the print edition.
Text: English translation and original Japanese
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64. Smoothed out Gently Yearning for Jiba, Tokichi Izumita (nicknamed Kumakichi) returned one day and found Oyasama smoothing out small pieces of crumpled paper on Her knee. Oyasama said to him:
Receiving this instruction, Izumita cheerfully went back to Osaka to continue his work of saving others even more earnestly. However, it was hard to save others and spread the teachings. Accordingly, whenever his confidence was shaken, he poured water over himself to encourage himself on to further efforts. At midnight, during the coldest season of the year, he would immerse himself in the Yodo River for as long as two hours, and climbing up on the bank, he would dry himself in the wind, as he thought drying with a towel would spoil the effect. It was not so cold in the water, but the blowing north wind would severely and coldly sting his wet body. However, he patiently continued these cold water ablutions for about thirty nights. He would also remain all night in the water holding onto a post of the Tenjin Bridge before walking about to save sick people, as he was once told that he must first torture himself. One day he returned to Jiba and was received by Oyasama, who said to him:
Hearing these words filled with parental love, Izumita was able to fully understand the preciousness of the human body, a thing borrowed from God the Parent.
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六四 やんわり伸ばしたら ある日、泉田藤吉（註、通称熊吉）が、おぢば恋しくなって、帰らせて頂いたところ、教祖は、膝の上で小さな皺紙を伸ばしておられた。そして、お聞かせ下されたのには、
と。お諭し頂いた泉田は、喜び勇んで大阪へかえり、又一層熱心におたすけに廻わった。しかし、道は容易につかない。心が倒れかかると、泉田は、我と我が心を励ますために水ごりを取った。厳寒の深夜、淀川に出て一っ刻程も水に浸かり、堤に上がって身体を乾かすのに、手拭を使っては功能がないと、身体が自然に乾くまで風に吹かれていた。水に浸かっている間は左程でもないが、水から出て寒い北風に吹かれて身体を乾かす時は、身を切られるように痛かった。が、我慢して三十日間程これを続けた。 又、なんでも、苦しまねばならん、ということを聞いていたので、天神橋の橋杭につかまって、一晩川の水に浸かってから、おたすけに廻わらせて頂いた。 こういう頃のある日、おぢばへ帰って、教祖にお目にかからせて頂くと、教祖は、
と、お言葉を下された。親心溢れるお言葉に、泉田は、かりものの身上の貴さを、身に沁みて納得させて頂いた。
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