Towards "Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered" Concert
Today, we held the first “Tamashii no Katari (poems of souls)” this year at Komae in Tokyo. While cold rain came down, I’m sincerely grateful that many people joined us from across Japan. In the latter half of the event, we played the recording of Master Idaki Shin’s concert titled “Jumong.” Jumong was there from the beginning and was with me the whole time. Along with me was his young and shining presence I met at the site of the first plains fortress he built. Wrapped in the scent of early spring snow, I brimmed with the breath and energy of nation-building. Strength welled up from within seamlessly. My life grew vibrant and kept moving forward toward the future. I understood the speed and rhythm of Jumong’s nation-building. I was purely excited. The rhythm taught me how essential it is to keep moving. I was truly happy for the opportunity to experience and learn how he built a nation. Nothing makes me happier than building on today’s experience and engaging in nation-building together with Jumong. It is a movement where everyone lives vibrantly and shiningly. I will start today. Thank you.
13th Jan. 2025 / in Tokyo
7th Jan. 2025 /in Tokyo
A pillar of light stands in a faraway world
Merging into the light of the truth shining in a depth of each person’ s life
Begins to move
An unknown world has opened
A bud of possibility is born and the future blooms
A new world
A pillar of light stands in a faraway world
The center of a new world
Encounter
Being united
Light of life being born anew
Power
Love
Open the way to a new era
23rd Jun. 2024
9th May. 2024
Wind from a world afar
Beyond the sea
Here are one
Love that is born is eternal
Throughout space
The wave of love spreads
An infinitely transparent and beautiful world,
A single shining blue star,
An eternal soul.
The 19th king of Koguryo, Gwanggaeto the Great,
Was born under a light of Heaven,
In a world of war.
He continued to fight, and continued fighting.
He became a young king,
Leading the vanguard ahead.
He was challenged to risk his life in the middle of enemies.
The enemies, admiring the beauty of the young king,
Left without fighting.
He met desirable people to live together with,
Who became people of Koguryo, so we hear.
A wind was blowing in the land of the Gwanggaeto the Great, an infinity, an eternity, a clear mind.
He lived and kept his purest soul.
He entered into the enemy with an intention not to sacrifice anyone else's life.
He continued to fight.
There was a limit in this world, and
There was a limit in Heaven, he realized.
Soon or later far beyond Heaven,
An infinite world would be opened. Believing so,
He lived and fought together with Heaven.
Why could a human not live without a fight?
Why could a human kill a precious life?
He questioned the infinite world.
Soon or later, far beyond Heaven,
A time in which a light of the origin would appear,
A time in which many souls would accomplish their wish,
While knowing that there was a limit in Heaven,
A sorrow through his life with Heaven,
was engraved on the ground.
A time in which the land of sorrow would turn into light.
He continued to wish even after death, continued working,
He continued to make a time which would open far beyond Heaven
An appearance of a light of the origin,
An infinite world, opened far beyond Heaven.
All souls would wake up, revive, and gather.
The Beginning of a new era of new human beings.
Brilliantly and beautifully shining internality manifests the authentic state of our life full of love.
In my teens, I suffered from many diseases almost in every part of my body and experienced life and death crises several times. In such a critical moment I shed tears with slight hope. And after a dozen of years of investigations, I realized the source of hope I had embraced as an eternal bearing for opening up a future. By properly acknowledging the internal conditions of my body, I discovered that communion with another person’s life happened within my body and not only mine but another person’s physical or mental pains and a state of illness can be nursed gradually or rapidly owing to the nature of human life that could meet others in a much broader and unknown dimensional space. I did not need to operate consciously nor wish to make this process happen: towards unity with nature, everything happened just naturally and repeatedly. Now my piano improvisations express this marvelous encounter with people at a very deep level of human life so that each of you may realize an authentic state of love and realize that your life is indeed shining on to eternity in this vast universal space.
As a support to Lebanon for the explosion accident that happened at the port of Beirut, Lebanon on August 4th, 2020, NPO KOMA will donate an ambulance to the Lebanese Red Cross.
NPO KOMA donates a Volkswagen ambulance to the Lebanese Red Cross.
On behalf of NPO KOMA in Japan, and as a sign of sympathy to the people of Lebanon due to the huge explosion that occurred in the port of Beirut on August 04, 2020, Ms. Keiko KOMA has decided to offer a fully equipped ambulance to the Lebanese Red Cross organization.
The Volkswagen Transporter ambulance has been purchased from Ets. F.A. Kettaneh S.A., the sole importer of Volkswagen in Lebanon, and has been equipped with top-of-the line ambulance equipment, meeting the highest standards of safety as required by the Lebanese Red Cross organization.
On behalf of the Lebanese Red Cross, and Ets. F.A. Kettaneh S.A., we would like to thank NPO KOMA and Ms. Keiko KOMA in person for this generous gift, in addition, a great thanks goes to the lawyer Mr. Fuad HADDAD (OTSUKA) for his much appreciated efforts in the realization of this contribution. This initiative will definitely contribute in helping the sick and injured people in the days to come.
MAYA KHOURY
General Manager
Volkswagen
Ets. F.A. Kettaneh S.A.
Riad El-Solh, Beirut