Miserliness
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Miserliness is explicitly identified as a dust in verse 3:96 of the Ofudesaki.
Explanations
There are various explanations of the dust of miserliness according to various compilations (toki-wake) written by Tenrikyo followers.
Masaichi Moroi
One of the earliest of these compilations may be Masaichi Moroi’s, which describes miserliness as follows:
- The dust of “miserliness” includes begrudging paying an imposed charge, begrudging returning things borrowed, begrudging lending to others, begrudging fulfilling one’s responsibilities, begrudging sharing things with others, begrudging giving to those in need, and begrudging spending time for the sake of others. It goes without saying that begrudging doing whatever one is obliged to do comes under the dust of “miserliness,” yet that is not all. Begrudging spending time or effort on something that one is not obliged to do but that can help others or be of benefit to others is also “miserliness.”[1]
See also
External links
- Excerpt “Miserliness” from Dust and Innen by Kikuo Tanaka.
- Excerpt “Miserliness (oshii)” from Words of the Path by Yoshikazu Fukaya, pp. 68–69.
Notes/references
- ↑ A Glossary of Tenrikyo Terms, p. 78. Original Japanese may be found in 諸井政一 Moroi Masaichi. 『正文遺韻抄』 Seibun iin sho, p. 173–174.
