Today, at the Vienna Hall of the Fuchu-no-Mori Arts Theater, Master Idaki Shin played a piano and pipe organ concert. I always love visiting Fuchu-no-Mori Park outside the venue and listening to the voices of trees. Today, I perceived a scene filled with energy rising and soaring all at once, and the message was also “soaring high.” I felt joyful at the thought that I, too, could soar through the concert, and it made me look forward to it even more. At the “Food and Health Seminar” given by Katsuaki Saito before the concert, I reflected deeply on the workings of life itself, and my heart overflowed with gratitude for the life that tirelessly continues to work so that I may keep living.
During the concert, it felt as though I had been taken to outer space. For a moment, I no longer knew where I was or what I was doing, and when I became aware, the concert had finished. It felt as if I had been in another dimension, another space entirely. In the sensation of being in cosmic space, the coverings, enclosures, frameworks that bound life itself and restricted, hardened states all dissolved and disappeared. I felt with my life that human beings are meant to live freely, without restraint or control. The deeply implanted sense in this constructed society that tells us “we must do things this way” melted away, and I came to understand what it means for “the body to move.” I realized that "moving” is to move as life itself is functioning. To drive oneself relentlessly through the mind is a very painful way to live. From today’s experience, I intend to move according to how life itself is lived. As was expressed in the concert message, I came to understand that for each individual to regain a body becomes resistance against war and resistance against a distorted society in which human life cannot truly live. Knowing this prompts me to live properly and fills me with strength to live. Furthermore, when I announced the concert message, I felt my body become aligned as I spoke the sounds of words while sensing the pulse of my own body. I am filled with joy and gratitude to have experienced that when words are precise and are expressed accurately through the voice, one can regain the body and regain oneself. Today’s concert brought about a profound transformation within me. The way of living that has long gone against life itself has been healed, and I look forward to recovering each day and becoming increasingly vibrant. I am sincerely grateful for the concerts that provide me with irreplaceable experiences. I will devote myself to making it possible for many people to share in these experiences together. Thank you very much.