11 Apr. 2012
Kyoto concert
I wrote a message to people in Kyoto about the Idaki Shin concert to be held on the 30th March in Kyoto as I wished everybody to come to experience his marvelous performance. I recalled that twenty nine years ago I had started the Idaki counseling courses as I became motivated to share his ability with people all over the world. And twenty eight years ago I started to hold his concert. Since then he has been considered internationally as a great master of humankind and in Ethiopia he was described as a precious treasure for the planet earth. Those who had the chance to participate in his concert were very lucky and my soul trembled out of a great feeling of gratitude. I always witnessed that the countenances of audiences became completely refreshed with a shining smile as if they became a different person. I realized that human life was beautiful and became filled with hope. I was sure that they should have realized the big change made during the concert and acknowledged that pains and feeling of heaviness in everyday life were gone. Moreover one could never have imagined before that his concert have provided a special opportunity for awakening to the truth, the meaning of one’s life, and a vision of a glorious future. When I heard him play improvisationally the piano for the first time I was greatly moved and shocked as I realized that he had marvelously clarified and fully expressed the grievances and heart pains that I had suffered since childhood. I became liberated from them just by listening to his music, which no medical or mental treatment could do. This was a truly marvelous and amazing experience with a great impact on my heart. I sincerely wished that every person on earth would be provided with the same miraculous experience at least once in a lifetime and since then I have been globally organizing his concert. I had been realizing a deeper meaning of human life and had come to learn to live a more brilliantly shining life as I grew older. I was grateful to my life with supreme joy. I would keep on expressing my heart and wished many people to come to participate in our concert.