Flattery

Flattery is the standard gloss for the Scriptural term tsuisho ついしよ. Often paired with falsehood, it is a use of the mind in addition to the eight dusts followers are warned against having. The Besseki Lectures say that falsehood and flattery “point to an insincere mind—however sweet our spoken words may sound.”

Appearances of “tsuisho” in the Ofudesaki

• Ofudesaki 03:039
• Ofudesaki 11:008
• Ofudesaki 12:113

External links

• Online version of excerpt “Falsehood and flattery” from Dust and Innen by Kikuo Tanaka.
• Online version of excerpt “Falsehood and flattery (uso to tsuisho)” from Words of the Path by Yoshikazu Fukaya, pp. 77–78.