I am the kind of person that tries to understand everything in a logical way. This even applies to the teachings of God. Today, I would like to talk about the limitations for the human mind to comprehend the teachings, using the teachings of the mental dust as an example. The teaching of the mental dust, or the 8 dusts of the mind is one of the fundamental teachings of Tenrikyo, and as with many of the teachings it employs a metaphor. It is a metaphor that I find quite powerful. It states that the human mind is fundamentally pure, but as we use our minds in various ways, impurities can ac...