KEIKO KOMA net

31 Dec. 2011

My dear homeland

Just by saying the words “my homeland” my heart became greatly moved and tears came up in my eyes. For me my homeland was a historic place of Koguryo and especially Mt. Gojo where Koguryo dynasty was built. I looked up to watch its photo. When I had visited places of Koguryo for the first time in my life, everything I saw looked quite familiar to me from childhood; the vast stretching field before my eyes, magnificent trees that were standing upright to Heaven, and a great traversing river, etc. I realized that human life was mysterious as landscapes in ancient times were still vividly residing within my heart as my true homeland though I had never been there. When I was in my homeland, without doing anything special, my life remained extremely vigorous, active at heart and filled with joy and happiness. As I watched the leaflet of the coming Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered concert held in Tokyo on the 8th and 9th January, my heart became excited and happy as if I were in my homeland as its photo was taken at the ruin of the first planed castle built by young king Shumou, and I was standing there as if it were he. So I trembled with joy as I considered that the photo had captured the most cherished person whom I had long wished to encounter. I had a similar impact in my heart when I saw a photo of mine standing in front of the tomb of king Kotai. Naturally I said that finally I had found the person I had wished to see. I knew people would find me strange as the person in these photos was myself. They were taken by Mr. Idaki Shin who said that he released the shutter at the same moment when he encountered special beings. His photos always testified this. Therefore I considered that these photos had captured images of a person whom I had wished to see. This I called the manifestation of “Being” of something and or somebody. I felt that people who shared the same heart as mine would be greatly moved at these photos. So I had selected these photos for my leaflets. Though I could not predict anything, my heart anticipated something wonderful to happen in near future. It would be time for the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered. My heart trembled. It was the beginning of a new era when human beings would become liberated from negative influences inherited from past history, develop their innate potentials to the full and realize a truly peaceful world.