1903—Meiji 36

明治三十六年九月十八日

楽しめば楽しむ理ある。一つ楽しんですれば一粒万倍にも返す
理である。

明治三十六年九月十八日

それ／＼運んでこうと真実の理を映してくれ。

明治三十六年十二月二十二日

成るもいんねん成らんもいんねんなら是非は無い、と言えば、ど
うもならん。

明治三十六年十二月二十二日

成るもいんねん成らんもいんねんなら是非は無い、と言えば、ど
うもならん。

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明治36年・1903

September 18, 1903*

If you take delight, there is the principle of delight. If you do one

thing with delight, this principle will return it ten thousandfold. 1

September 18, 1903*

I want you to visit them and reflect the truth of sincerity to them. 2

December 22, 1903*

If you say, “There is nothing I can do since the arising, or the

non-arising, of things and events depends on my causality,” it
leads you nowhere.3

December 22, 1903 [alternative trans.]*

It will not do, thinking that, because all is based on innen, noth-
ing you do will help no matter what.4

1
Previously unpublished translation.
2
Tenrikyo Online, TT 4.48 “Reflecting”; TENRIKYO, October 2005, p. 3
3
Tenrikyo Online, TT 5.14 “Self-Awareness of One’s Causality”; TENRIKYO,
September 1995, p. 4. An alternative translation corresponding to this passage is given
in the next entry.
4
Dust and Innen, pp. 34–35. See previous note.

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