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Tenrikyo: Return to your Origin and savor the Joyous Life

	5 a.) All human cultures. Learned behaviors characteristic of a society and not biologically inherited. Usually internalized as a system of truths. Such truths generally have a limiting effect on the human imagination. b.) As far as is known, among all animals only human beings are capable of creating and relating such complex systems of truths. c.) Generally, cultural truths are transmitted through stories that are suitable for children so that the children can easily grasp their meaning and significance. d.) When different cultures come into contact with each other conflict arising out of differences in truth systems is often the result. e.) Compromises necessary for restoring peace often lead to feelings of anxiety and loss.
	4.) One's own culture. Left undisturbed it appears that most people can find peace but not necessarily joy in a world governed by familiar cultural truths. But then there is the fact of constant upheaval in the history of humankind that casts doubt on this rather rosy view.
	3.) One's community. It is often the case that a city, town or village has its own local flavor. Such flavors can often be viewed as placing more or less limitation on the human imagination.
	2.) One's family and friends. Often the source but not exclusively the source of our most intense emotional experiences of joy and sorrow and all that falls in between.
	1.) The all important self center. The autonomous subject of all the experiences of the above states centered on our body.