Joyous Gard Joyous Gard The castle of Joyous Gard is the home of the knight Lancelot as mentioned in Arthurian legend. It has been associated with Bamburgh Castle. In Arthurian legend, the Joyous Gard is the home of Sir Lancelot, who names it as such when he sets up his household at the castle. Late medieval British author Thomas Malory gives the following details. After Lancelot's adulterous and treasonous affair with Queen Guinevere, Lancelot rescues Guinevere, who is under sentence of death from King Arthur, and brings her to the Joyous Gard. According to the Stanzaic "Morte Arthur", Arthur then unsuccessfully besieges
Joyous Life as "yōki asobi" (陽気遊び) and "yōki gurashi" (陽気ぐらし). Early outlines of the Tenrikyo teachings use the terms "yōkinaru yusan asobi" (よふきなるゆさんあすび) and "yōki yusan" (陽気遊参). The characters that make up "yōki yusan/gurashi" 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. Tenrikyo teaches that the Joyous Life will eventually encompass all humanity, and that gradual progress towards the Joyous