2nd Aug. 2019
Seven years old Erika told me that when she went outside she found a dead cicada. I had to leave so I told her that I would take care of it when I came home and got in the car. When I got back before I went to the Idaki applied course, I bought a broom and cleaned the entrance and the parking space. Then, the cicada that had fallen down on the ground suddenly started to make a sound and moved. I placed it on the soil that was slightly left in the flower bed and took off. At night, I drove back home with Erika. We immediately went to see the cicada. It was no longer in the garden, but lying on the concrete of the entrance that was underneath the flower bed. We buried it under the soil of the flower garden. Then, Erika asked me to write a letter to the cicada. We wrote down a message on a card together and buried them under the soil. Erika wrote “we are always together even after death.” Deeply touched by her words, we made a grave and put our hands together in prayer. I was in tears, feeling that we were connected with space and many souls were rewarded.
Every year when I offer a silent prayer on the day when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all my life is filled with tears. There is nothing but sorrow and I pray from the bottom of my heart, wishing that souls would be rewarded. Feeling very sorry for not being able to offer a silent prayer when I am in a foreign country or on a plane, I have promised myself that one day, I will become a person who will work to create true peace. When we held Master Idaki Shin’s concert in Hiroshima for the very first time, I saw sadness turning into light and my heart was deeply moved from deep inside. I envisioned that the sorrow of the land turned into love and a sprout of love would be born in the land of sorrow. Since then, we have held concerts in Japan and also in many parts of the world for 34 years now, and we are about to hold the 1200th concert soon. This world is in a state of crisis which I always feel as a pain of my own body and I am always thinking about changing the situation. The only hope now is the fact that I see a sprout of love born in the land is coming to a point where it will grow, so I decided to head forward to extend this light of hope. I see that the world will change all at once. I am intending to take a chance here and wish to create a peaceful world where sadness will never be repeated again. Thank you very much.
