Today Master Idaki Shin gave a concert of piano and pipe organ at the Fuchu-no-Mori Arts Theater Vienna Hall. His concert is a place of fundamental resolution. Issues, tasks, or problems that I need to overcome rise to the surface. And I experience with my life that they have been liberated and resolved by the concert.
This morning, the notion of “god” that I have believed since childhood surfaced, and I felt suffering. Frames of fear, good and evil, right and wrong had been built into me—though realizing it, I could not do anything about it. When that state dissolved entirely during the concert, I felt as though I was dreaming. My head grew light, released from its bonds, and became free. And during the concert, before my eyes, Michael Jackson came back to life, dancing in time with Master Idaki Shin's rhythm—I found myself completely absorbed, watching. The dance, united with the rhythm, was beautiful—beauty beyond compare. And I felt that his soul had come back to life. I have heard from Master Idaki Shin that the souls of those who have passed are moving ahead of us, and I live each day truly feeling this to be so. Today too, seeing Michael Jackson revived filled me with deep joy, and my life grew vibrant. Perhaps, the spirit world and this reality have become united. If that is so, then living is a thing of deep joy and delight. That souls are eternal is something I came to know deeply, after my father and mother passed away. And it is precisely because of this that I can live now. That I can now feel there is no distinction between the other world and this one brings me even deeper joy. The time has come when each person can express one’s being, live shiningly, and build a world where everyone can live. Today's concert brought an experience beyond imagination. It was an experience where I felt saved again. Holding in my heart hope for the day when I can share this experience with people all over the world, I will live each day, from tomorrow onward, expressing anew the wishes that arise within me, and moving forward. Thank you.