Audio Book of Joyousness Day After Day

The audio book rendition of Joyousness Day After Day, written by Zenye Nakayama, is now available here. The book was originally published in Japanese under the title of Yorokobi no hibi and was translated in 1992 by the Translation Section of Tenrikyo Overseas Department. The audio recording, read by Ron Nakahara,...

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Stories Inspired by Oyasama

  “Stories Inspired by Oyasama” is a short film series brought to you by the Website Sub-Committee of Tenrikyo Mission Headquarters in America. It is a global collaboration inspired by love for and desire to share testimonies of Oyasama’s Parental Heart.   Two of the creators, Michael Yuge (New York,...

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Seeking Inner Well-Being in a Return to the “New Normal”

Our basement room is filled with half-baked interior-redesign projects that quite never made it to the finish line. In the worship room, our new aquarium, with fishes adopted in March of last year, has spread itself out, along with used sanitization bottles of all stripes and colors cluttering every nook...

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My Thoughts on the Changing Perspectives of the Mask

My Thoughts on the Changing Perspectives of the Mask By: Rev. Takahiko Hayashi In the early stages of the Coronavirus pandemic, government health officials urged us not to buy masks. Their reasoning was that these precious resources should be preserved for healthcare workers and that the masks will not prevent...

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My Oyafuse 2019/2020 Experience

My Oyafuse 2019/2020 Experience By: Tomikazu Okura I decided to join Oyafuse this year because I thought it was a timely opportunity for me to experience living at the Jiba. There were a couple of options for me here at the Jiba but I thought studying at TLI would be...

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