Tenrikyo Dynamic Mission - WORLDLY COMMON - TRUTHS OF THE WORLD - Pg. 10 "What I Have Learned "

• I have learned that I was raised to have at my disposal a number of principle truths to use as  foundations for the reasoning behind my everyday worldly common thinking. 
  • Perhaps the most important of the truths taught to me a child were of a moral and ethical nature and were justified by supernatural truths that were and continue to be characteristic worldly common truths of my society and culture.
  • I did not choose the principle worldly common truths of the world that I was taught as a child, they were selected for me.
  • The natural process of teaching moral and ethical truths to children has gone on all over the world and through all ages and similarly were and are justified by supernatural truths that are characteristic of the society and culture that holds them to be true.
  • Experience has shown that no two human minds are exactly the same. Also no two cultures are the same otherwise by definition they would not be distinct cultures. This difference leads to confrontations between moral and ethical truths has held by various individuals and cultures.
  • Historically, the integrity of the moral and ethical truths of any given culture has been attempted to be maintained through the use of conditioning, intimidation and force.
  • The use of conditioning, intimidation and force either between individuals or between cultures has historically been shown to result in a degree of stability in various societies and cultures but has in many cases has resulted in unnecessary and unintentional suffering.
  • After looking all over the world and through all ages and pondering it is apparent that the true foundations and principles created in the human imagination are in fact unstable as it is clear that none of them, neither scientific nor supernatural have persisted through time. All have been subject to change even though all of the changes have met with stiff resistance.
  • Upon reflection it appears to me that selfishness, greed and the intended or unintended exploitation of the inability of the human imagination to distinguish between the original truth, that is our original consciousness - metaphorically "Nihon"- and the many and changing truths of the world that are created by our powerful human imaginations - metaphorically "Kara" -  are at the root of all human suffering.
• I have learned that all of my worldly common thoughts accumulate on the foundation of a single thought that can be described as the understanding that "I am this body" or "this is my body".
  • I have learned that if I would like to know and understand the truth of myself - who I am beneath all of the imagined self centered truths that have accumulated as my self imagine and which in many cases are truths that I did not even choose for myself - I will have to find the means to quickly and temporarily turn off, clear or settle my self centered imagination even down to the idea of being and owning a separate body and then compare the original conscious truth that remains with the imagined truths that had previously made up my self image.
  • I have learned that the recollection of single heartedness with the original mind of God - metaphorically known as the "mind like clear water" - is pondered and compared with the self centered imagination the distinction can be savored as the knowledge and understanding of original cause of all things in detail and the foundation for a new, free and unlimited self centered imagination.
• I have learned that the total replacement of a self-centered imagination that does not know its true origin, with a self centered imagination that through single heartedness both knows and understands it true origin is intended to be the one and only foundation of a free and unlimited joyous experience of life. 
• I have learned that intentional single-heartedness with the truth of our origin is difficult and tricky because of our worldly common tendency to convert everything that we see, hear and do into worldly common understandings and truths of the world. Which explains why even those who heard the teaching of single heartedness with the original cause of all things directly from the truth of origin, the original parental mind of all things were unable to comply with the instructions and quickly awaken.
  • I have learned that the truth of our origin is not a worldly common truth dreamed up in a human imagination. It is what remains when the human imagination is totally settled, "like clear water".
    

And so goes the regret of our parent of origin concerning the unintended consequences of worldly common thinking and the truths of the world that flow from it.

| Worldly Common pg. 1  | Worldly Common pg. 2 - "In the Shallow Water" | "Worldly Common pg. 3 - Diving Deeper" |

| Worldly Common pg. 4 -  "Deeper Still" | Worldly Common pg. 5 "Oh!" | Worldly Common pg. 6 "Me My Mine" |

| Worldly Common pg.7 "Borrowed" | Worldly Common pg. 8 "Lent" | Worldly Common pg. 9 "One Light Reflected"|

 |Worldly Common pg.10 "What I Have Learned " |Worldly Common pg. 11 "Some Metaphors"  |

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