Today, I came to Kyoto. The experience of yesterday’s concert healed my body and mind so deeply that I slept soundly, as if reborn with fresh strength. I deeply felt how profoundly the body is soothed when tension dissolves, and I am filled with gratitude. At the concert, as I found myself in a world that transcended past, present, and future, all this world’s problems disappeared, and I experienced freedom. There, I felt that I could truly live, and my entire life was healed. Wishing to live in such a state, I began living anew today. I resolved to live beautifully inside and stay beautiful in whatever I do. In Master Idaki Shin’s Applied Course here in Kyoto, he also talked about living beautifully. It affirmed my resolve, and I was truly happy. I feel deeply that purifying the inside and living beautifully and shining on the outside would contribute to making the world better. When each person lives in this way, the world will surely become a place where human life can flourish. With this in mind, I am determined to practice it myself. Through our lectures and concerts, I have the opportunity of being cleansed inside, and I seize it at once. Blessed with opportunities of such magnitude, I am filled with the wish always to live beautifully inside and work to realize a peaceful world.
Mount Hiei is cold at a temperature of one degree. I hear animals calling in different places. The stars shining in the night sky are exceptionally bright and breathtakingly beautiful. To live united with the life of nature and regain the life of a human being brings peace inside and fills me with love. Thank you very much.