Core tenet of Tenrikyo
The body is a thing lent.
Kashimono-karimono: bodies are borrowed from God the Parent; only the mind is one's own — and therefore one's responsibility.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Tenrikyo's central teaching is kashimono-karimono — a thing lent, a thing borrowed: the body belongs to God the Parent and is on loan, while the mind alone is one's own. That single distinction organizes the whole faith: illness and misfortune are read as guidance about the state of the mind rather than as punishment, and the appropriate response is to examine and sweep the heart rather than to bargain.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Nothing has a fixed self.
Buddhism
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The soul is the shape of the body it fills.
Jainism
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Emptiness runs all the way down.
Mahāyāna
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A person has more than one soul.
Haitian Vodou
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You are not your body and not your mind.
The Church of Scientology
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You are a point of light behind the forehead.
The Brahma Kumaris
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