In Tenrikyo, the Joyous Life (yōki gurashi, 陽気ぐらし or 陽気暮らし) is the ideal taught by spiritual leaders and pursued through charity and abstention from greed, selfishness, hatred, anger and arrogance.
[1] The characters that make up yōki yusan and gurashi/kurashi are as follows: At the focal point of Tenrikyo's ontological understanding is the positing of original causality, or causality of origin (moto no innen もとのいんねん), which is that God the Parent created human beings to see them live the Joyous Life (the salvific state) and to share in that joy.
It is the state of mind which accepts all occurrences in one's daily life positively and as the intention of God, including hardships.
[4] Tenrikyo doctrine and tradition assert the spiritual maturity of humankind will gradually improve over many rebirths[citation needed] and countless millennia, and by so doing will grow in more joy and bliss and will get closer to the world of the Joyous Life.
It is said that when the hearts of humankind have been adequately purified, God will inaugurate the world of the Joyous Life by bestowing a sweet dew on the basin to be placed on top of the Kanrodai, which when consumed, will allow people to live the full lifespan of 115 years without illness or misfortune, and die painlessly to be reborn.