Precept of Tenrikyo
Sweep the dust, daily.
Greed, arrogance, anger — eight dusts settle on the heart each day; hinokishin, cheerful unpaid service, is the broom.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Hinokishin is voluntary, unpaid, cheerful service — cleaning streets, helping neighbors, disaster relief — offered as gratitude for the borrowed body rather than as merit-earning. Tenrikyo members mobilize substantially after Japanese disasters. The word means literally "daily service," and the framing matters: it is not charity extended downward but thanks expressed outward.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Work, plant, breed, irrigate.
Zoroastrianism
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Holi — the festival of color.
Hinduism · rite
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The alms round.
Buddhism · rite
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Asteya — and the merchant's word.
Jainism
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Repairing the world is human work.
Judaism · core tenet
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The towel and the basin.
Christianity · story
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