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The selfish society
The Selfish Society. As parents we tell our children to work hard in school so they could become lawyers, doctors, and entrepreneurs. We dream of our kids playing professional sports making millions of...
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Why is it difficult for the rich to receive salvation?
Why is it more difficult for a rich man to get salvation? This would include a businessman, a politician, and religious leaders. It is not the wealth, the power, and the knowledge that these people...
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Why do we suffer?
Why do we suffer? Suffering does not discriminate. Rich people, poor people, religious people, nonreligious people, good people, evil people, famous people, powerful people all suffer. The suffering of...
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God’s Litmus test
What is God’s litmus test for being on the right path to salvation? It is said that if we have anger, we do not know God’s teachings. Anger arises from arrogance. When we feel that we are better than...
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Reincarnation and Causality
Looking at history, many of minds have believed in reincarnation. These include, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon Bonaparte, Henry Ford, General George Patton, etc.… All these men had...
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The Prayer to Save All Mankind
What do we do when we believe that some one is trying to place harm on us? Today we see evil people that kill in the name of their religion. The civilize world attempts to kill or capture these...
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How to become a good person
Sometimes I think how does one become a good person? We are selfish and arrogant by human nature; which makes it difficult to be impartial. For example, the truth or evidence does not matter anymore...
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Work as God’s Blessing
You hear of people that love to work, and they wake up in the morning eager to work. But for many of us, we attempt to prolong our sleep, and dread going to work. Daily we look at our clocks, or our...
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The Future Health Care in America
Today, the policy is political correctness. Being right or honest does not matter. One only has to be polite and be pretentious so as not to hurt the feelings of a group or faction. This is noticeable...
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How to Feel Good
What is it that we all seek in life? Sometimes we think if only I can have a perfect job, a perfect marriage, better health, more money, more influence, etc.…, will my life become more happy. But we...
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If you have anger, you do not know God’s teachings
In the Heaven’s Truth Church (Tenrikyo), we are told that if we have anger, we do not know God’s teachings. But how do we remove greed, arrogance, and self-love from our minds? Anger, I believe comes...
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OFUDESAKI 6-123
Interpretation: People tend to forget or refuse what is taught to them because of the dusts in their minds. These dusts are the thoughts of regret, covetousness, self-love, greed, and arrogance. These...
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OFUDESAKI 11-32
Interpretation: Marvelous salvation results in the purification of everyone’s mind. When the mind is purified of evil dusts, our hearts will only bring upon joy or splendor.
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