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Excerpt Sources

• Fukaya, Yoshikazu. 2009. Words of the Path (Omichi-no-kotoba)
• Nakayama, Shozen. 2002. My Hopes for the Young.
• Nakayama, Zenye. 1992. Joyousness Day After Day.
• _________. 1996. Growing Spiritually Day by Day.
• Tanaka, Kikuo. Dust and Innen.
• Tenrikyo Overseas Department. 2004. Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo.
• _________. 2010. A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms.
• Tenrikyo Overseas Mission Department. 1998. Tenrikyo: The Path to Joyousness.

A

• admonition -- see: care
• amulet -- see: Proof Amulet
• anger (human) (Dust and Innen)
• anger (human) (Words of the Path)
• anger (God's) (Words of the Path)
• all people are brothers and sisters (Words of the Path)
• Arakitoryo (Words of the Path)
• arising occurrences (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• arrogance (Dust and Innen)
• arrogance (Words of the Path)
• Anniversaries of Oyasama (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• Anniversaries of Oyasama (Words of the Path)

B

• become completely pure (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• become pure (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• Besseki (Words of the Path)
• Besseki (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• bestowal (Words of the Path)
• broad path (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• broad path (Words of the Path)
• broom
• buds sprout from knots (Joyousness Day After Day)
• buds sprout from knots (Words of the Path)

C

• calming (shizumeru)(A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• care (oteire) (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• care (oteire) (Words of the Path) see also: divine guidance, weeding and fertilizing
• causality (innen) (Dust and Innen conclusion)
• causality (innen) (Words of the Path)
• causality (innen) (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• causality, self-awareness of (innen) (Words of the Path)
• causality, bring together and protect according to (Words of the Path)
• central pillar (Shinbashira) (Words of the Path)
• churches (kyokai) (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• churches (kyokai) (Tenrikyo: The Path to Joyousness)
• churches (kyokai) (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• churches and mission stations (Words of the Path)
• church head minister (kyokaicho) (Words of the Path)
• church procedure -- see: bestowal (ohakobi)
• clearing away (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• clear skies, a mind like (Joyousness Day After Day)
• clear skies, a mind like (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• cloudiness (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• conforming to the law (Words of the Path)
• constancy is sincerity (Words of the Path)
• construction (My Hopes for the Young)
• construction (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms) see also: endless construction, spiritual construction
• contribution and dedication (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• contribution and dedication 1 2 3 (Words of the Path)
• contribution of the day -- see: selfless and thankful action (hinokishin)
• convinces others, a person who (naruhodo-hito) (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• convinces others, one who effortlessly (naruhodo-hito) (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• convincing insight, truth of (naruhodo-ri) (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• convincing person (naruhodo) (Words of the Path)
• covetousness (hoshii) (Dust and Innen)
• covetousness (hoshii) (Words of the Path)
• creation (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)

D

• Dance with Hand Movements (Words of the Path)
• day of origin (Words of the Path)
• decisiveness -- see: separating
• deference and restraint (Words of the Path)
• depressed, being (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• dioceses and districts (Words of the Path)
• discursiveness (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• discussing with one another (Words of the Path)
• discussion -- see: refining one another
• dissatisfaction (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• dissatisfied mind vs. the truth of satisfaction (Words of the Path)
• distinguishing (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• see also: understanding, distinguishing
• Divine Directions (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• Divine Directions, The (Words of the Path)
• Divine Grant (Tenrikyo: The Path to Joyousness)
• Divine Grant (Words of the Path)
• Divine Grant (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• divine guidance (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• divine guidance see also: care, weeding and fertilizing
• Divine Model (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• Divine Model (My Hopes for the Young)
• Divine Model (Words of the Path)
• divine record (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• divine sanction -- see: bestowal
• doctors and medicine (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• dust (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• dust (Dust and Innen)
• dust (Words of the Path)

E

• each individual, each person, path of (Words of the Path)
• effectiveness, truth of (Words of the Path)
• endless construction (Words of the Path)
• endless generations -- see: eternal truth
• entering (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• eternal truth (Words of the Path)
• everliving Oyasama or zonmei (Words of the Path)
• expressing gratitude for God the Parent's blessings / expressing indebtedness (Words of the Path)

F

• falsehood and flattery (Dust and Innen)
• falsehood and flattery (Words of the Path)
• fellowship -- see: mission station
• fifteen (Words of the Path)
• filial piety (Words of the Path)
• final teaching (Words of the Path)
• fire, water, wind (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• fire, water, wind (My Hopes for the Young)
• fire, water, wind (Words of the Path)
• fool (My Hopes for the Young)
• fool (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• foundation of the path (Words of the Path)
• four-frontedness (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• free and unlimited workings (Words of the Path)

G

• God's bosom, living in (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• God's workings (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• God the Parent -- God, Tsukihi, Parent (Words of the Path)
• God the Parent, Tenri-O-no-Mikoto (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• Grant of Safe Childbirth (Words of the Path)
• Grant of Safe Childbirth (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• greed (Dust and Innen)
• greed (Words of the Path)
• grudge-bearing (Dust and Innen)
• grudge-bearing (Words of the Path)
• guidance -- see: divine guidance

H

• hatred (Dust and Innen)
• hatred (Words of the Path)
• health counseling (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• health disorder (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms) see also: illness
• hermit in the village -- see: sage in the village
• high mountains, mission to (Words of the Path)
• hinokishin (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• hinokishin (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• hinokishin (Joyousness Day After Day)
• hinokishin (My Hopes for the Young)
• hinokishin (Tenrikyo: The Path to Joyousness)
• hinokishin (Words of the Path)
• hinokishin (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• Home of the Parent -- see: Residence
• Honseki (My Hopes for the Young)
• Honseki (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• Honseki (Words of the Path)
• humankind (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• human mind (Words of the Path)
• human thinking (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• husband and wife (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)

I

• illness (Words of the Path)* see also: health disorder
• illness (origin of) lies in your own mind (Words of the Path)
• innen (Dust and Innen + conclusion)
• innen (Words of the Path)
• innen (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• innen, protect you according to (Words of the Path)
• innen, self-awareness of (Words of the Path)
• intention (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)

J

• Jiba (My Hopes for the Young)
• Jiba (Words of the Path)
• Jiba-Kanrodai (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• joy (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• joyous acceptance (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• joyous acceptance (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• joyous acceptance (Tenrikyo: The Path to Joyousness)
• joyous acceptance (Words of the Path)
• joyous acceptance(Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• Joyous Life (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• Joyous Life (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• Joyous Life (My Hopes for the Young)
• Joyous Life (Words of the Path)
• joyous play (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)

K

• Kakisage (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• Kakisage (Words of the Path)
• Kanrodai -- see: Jiba-Kanrodai
• knots (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)* see also: buds sprout from knots
• kyoto (Words of the Path)

L

• leveled ground (Words of the Path)
• Life of Oyasama, The (Words of the Path)
• low valleys, pushing up from (Words of the Path)

M

• Main Service (Words of the Path)* see also: Service
• matter -- see: troubles
• Mikagura-uta (Words of the Path)
• mind alone is ours (Tenrikyo: The Path to Joyousness)
• mind alone is ours(A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• mind alone is yours (Joyousness Day After Day)
• mind alone is yours (Words of the Path)
• mind of a three-year-old (Words of the Path)
• mind of saving others (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• mind of sincerity (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms) see also: sincerity, true mind (variant translation), true sincerity
• minister (person with head minister qualification) (Words of the Path)
• miserliness (Dust and Innen)
• miserliness (Words of the Path)
• mission station (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo) see also: churches and mission stations
• moderation (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• muddy, becoming (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• musical instruments (Words of the Path)
• mutual help -- see: respecting and helping one another

N

• natural and spontaneous path (Words of the Path)
• natural spontaneity, path of (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• natural term of life -- see: one hundred and fifteen years
• neglecting God's truth (Words of the Path)
• nioigake (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• nioigake (Words of the Path)
• nioigake (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• nioigake o-tasuke (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• nioigake o-tasuke (My Hopes for the Young)
• no discrimination between female pine and male pine (Words of the Path)

O

• Ofudesaki (Tenrikyo: The Path to Joyousness)
• Ofudesaki (Words of the Path)
• one day, a lifetime (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• one day, a lifetime (Words of the Path)
• one hundred and fifteen years (Words of the Path)
• oneness in two (Words of the Path)
• order, path of order 1 2 3 (Words of the Path)
• original causality (Words of the Path)
• Osashizu (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• Osashizu (Words of the Path)
• Oyasama (Words of the Path)
• Oyasato -- see: Jiba
• Oyasato-yakata (Words of the Path)
• Oyasato-yakata (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)

P

• parent churches and affiliate churches (Words of the Path)
• parental love (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• passing away for rebirth (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• passing away for rebirth (Words of the Path)
• passing away for rebirth (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• path (Words of the Path)
• path that is rushed without rushing (Words of the Path)
• path of the second- and third-generation 1 2 (Words of the Path)
• physical condition -- see: health disorder or illness
• pilgrimage to Jiba (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• pilgrimage to Jiba (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• see also: Residence
• pioneers of the path (Words of the Path)
• pondering (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• pondering and worrying (Words of the Path)
• Post-bestowal Lectures (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• portals opened (Words of the Path)
• principle of the season (Words of the Path)
• Promised Time (Words of the Path)
• Proof Amulet (Words of the Path)
• Proof Amulet (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• providence (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• purification (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms) see also: become completely pure; become pure

R

• receiving the truth of the parent (Words of the Path)
• red clothes (Words of the Path)
• regret (Words of the Path)
• refining one another (Words of the Path)
• reflecting (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• repayment for blessings -- see: expressing indebtedness
• repentance (Words of the Path)
• replacement of the mind (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• replacing (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• Residence (Words of the Path) see also: pilgrimage to Jiba
• respecting and helping one another (Words of the Path)
• resolve (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• resolution (Words of the Path)
• restoration (Words of the Path)
• restraint -- see: deference and restraint
• return to Jiba -- see: pilgrimage to Jiba
• road sign -- see: care

S

• sacred gift / sacred rice (Words of the Path)
• sacred gift (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• sacred rice (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• sage in the village (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• Sazuke (Tenrikyo: The Path to Joyousness)
• Sazuke (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• Sazuke, truth of (Words of the Path)
• Sechi Festival (Words of the Path)
• Salvation Service (Tenrikyo: The Path to Joyousness)
• Salvation Service (Words of the Path)* see also: Service
• salvation work (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• salvation work
• see also: sprinkling the fragrance and doing salvation work
• saved by the truth of saving others (Words of the Path)
• Scriptures and The Doctrine of Tenrikyo (Words of the Path)
• second- and third-generation -- see: path of the second- and third-generation 1 2
• self-centered thoughts (Words of the Path)
• selfless and thankful action (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• selfless and thankful action (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• selfless and thankful action (Joyousness Day After Day)
• selfless and thankful action (My Hopes for the Young)
• selfless and thankful action (Tenrikyo: The Path to Joyousness)
• selfless and thankful action (Words of the Path)
• selfless and thankful action (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• self-love (Dust and Innen)
• self-love (Words of the Path)
• separating (Words of the Path)
• Service (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• Service (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• Service (Words of the Path)
• Service practice (Words of the Path)
• Service performers (Words of the Path)
• Services in Tenrikyo (Words of the Path)
• settling (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• seventy-five years (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• Shinbashira (Central Pillar) (Questions and Answers about Tenrikyo)
• Shinbashira (Central Pillar) (Words of the Path)
• Shinbashira (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• Shrine of Tsukihi (Words of the Path)
• sign coinciding with sign (Words of the Path)
• sincere efforts -- see: effectiveness, truth of
• sincerity (jitsu) (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• sincerity (makoto) (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• single-hearted mind (Words of the Path)
• single-hearted salvation (My Hopes for the Young)
• single-hearted salvation (Words of the Path)
• single-heartedness with God (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• single-heartedness with God (Words of the Path)
• single-heartedness with God (My Hopes for the Young)
• Songs for the Service, The (Words of the Path)
• sowing seeds of sincerity (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• sowing seeds of sincerity (My Hopes for the Young)
• sowing seeds of sincerity (Words of the Path)
• spirited, becoming (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• spiritual construction (Words of the Path)
• spiritual growth (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• spiritual growth (My Hopes for the Young)
• spiritual growth (Words of the Path)* see also: mind alone is ours
• spiritual parents and spiritual children (Words of the Path)
• sprinkling the fragrance (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• sprinkling the fragrance (Words of the Path)
• sprinkling the fragrance (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• sprinkling the fragrance and doing salvation work (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• sprinkling the fragrance and engaging in salvation work (My Hopes for the Young)
• Stand for the Heavenly Dew (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• state of mind, according to (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• Story of Creation (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• straightforwardness (Words of the Path)
• suffering (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• sweeping (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• sweeping the heart (Words of the Path)
• sweet dew stand -- see: Stand for the Heavenly Dew

T

• tanno (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• tanno (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• tanno (Tenrikyo: The Path to Joyousness)
• tanno (Words of the Path)
• tanno(Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• ten aspects of the complete providence (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• ten aspects of the complete providence (Words of the Path)
• ten thousandfold (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• ten thousandfold (Words of the Path)
• Teodori (Words of the Path)
• timber (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• timber (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• timber (Words of the Path)
• Tip of the Writing Brush, The (Tenrikyo: The Path to Joyousness)
• Tip of the Writing Brush, The (Words of the Path)
• thing lent, thing borrowed (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• thing lent, thing borrowed (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• thing lent, thing borrowed (Dust and Innen introduction)
• thing lent, thing borrowed (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• thing lent, thing borrowed (Words of the Path)
• three years, one thousand days (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• three years, one thousand days (Words of the Path)
• troubles (Words of the Path)
• trouble, matter (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• true mind (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms) see also: mind of sincerity (variant translation), sincerity, true sincerity
• true sincerity (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• true sincerity (Tenrikyo: The Path to Joyousness)
• true sincerity (Words of the Path)
• truth (shinjitsu) (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• truth / reason (Words of the Path)
• Truth of Origin (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• Truth of Origin (Yoboku's Guide to Tenrikyo)
• Truth of Origin / Where there was no form (Words of the Path)
• twice the strength (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)

U

• understanding, distinguishing (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• unity of mind (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• unity of mind (My Hopes for the Young)
• unity of mind (Words of the Path)
• universal brotherhood (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• upholding human obligations (Words of the Path)
• useful timber -- see: timber 1 2 3

V

• vertical mission (Words of the Path)

W

• water (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• weeding and fertilizing (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• weeding and fertilizing (Words of the Path)
• wonder (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• work (Words of the Path)
• worldly common (Words of the Path)
• world will change to prosperity (Words of the Path)
• worrying (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms) see also: pondering and worrying

Y

• years, truth of (Words of the Path)
• Yoboku (A Glossary to Tenrikyo Terms)
• Yoboku (Growing Spiritually Day by Day)
• Yoboku (Words of the Path)