Anecdotes of Oyasama 90

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

Anecdotes of Oyasama 90 presents the contents of "Deeper in the Second Generation than in the First," a selection from Anecdotes of Oyasama, published by Tenrikyo Church Headquarters in 1976. The content below appears on page 76 of the print edition.

Text: English translation and original Japanese

90. Deeper in the Second Generation than in the First When Tamezo Yamazawa began to serve Oyasama in 1881, Oyasama instructed him in the following manner: "God says, 'Showing innen to parents, God waits for children to appear.' Do you understand? Therefore, virtue is more deeply planted in the second generation than in the first one, and deeper still in the third than in the second. By becoming ever deeper, it will become virtue which lasts forever. It depends on the mind of a man whether it lasts for one generation only, or for two or three generations, or forever. By the continuation of this virtue even a bad innen becomes a good one."

九〇　一代より二代 　 明治十四年頃、山沢為造が、教祖のお側へ寄せて頂いた時のお話に、 「神様はなあ、『親にいんねんつけて、子の出て来るのを、神が待ち受けている。』　と、仰っしゃりますねで。それで、一代より二代、二代より三代と理が深くなるねで。理が深くなって、末代の理になるのやで。人々の心の理によって、一代の者もあれば、二代三代の者もある。又、末代の者もある。理が続いて、悪いんねんの者でも白いんねんになるねで。」 と、かようなお言葉ぶりで、お聞かせ下さいました。

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