KEIKO KOMA net

11 Apr. 2012

The Idaki Shin concert

I usually told everybody I came across even by chance in a street that without the music played by Mr. Idaki Shin I could not live on. Twenty eight years ago I walked around the city of Hiroshima and at a crossing I addressed a person who was waiting for a green light and introduced our concert. That person asked me how I found his music indispensable for my life and I replied that I meant literally as I said that “I could not live on without his music” I repeated what I had said and then I explained how I had recovered from a fatal illness and discovered a life full of hope just by listening to the sound of the piano played improvisationally by him. I became vigorous enough to live on. Pains and sadness in my heart I had suffered from childhood were clarified by his music and I could not resist bursting into tears for a while, and then I found myself wide open so that a special light had come down into my heart. The sound of the piano played by him was much more than the musical one. I would never forget the moment I received the light with great hope to live on. Though I had been told to die within two months by a medical doctor, the encounter with Mr. Idaki Shin miraculously saved my life and moreover I became awakened to the truth and realized a way for realizing the deepest wish I had cherished since childhood that was a global peace. Pains I had suffered since childhood were gone and I was living a truly vigorous life. I literally owed my life to the sound played by Mr. Idaki Shin. Without this I could not live on and I should have been dead a long time ago. When I told this story some people bought tickets to our concert on the spot. One time I addressed a girl who sat next to me in a pancake shop and told her that our concert would manifest her true self. And she bought a ticket immediately with brilliant eyes. Like this I loved telling people about my life and special experiences I had at the Idaki Shin concerts that allowed me to talk with any person I met even for the first time about the essential things in our life that usually people positively responded to with sincerity, honesty and eagerness to participate in our concert. This was indeed a unique concert activity. A young lady I met in Gifu wrote me a letter telling me that I brought about a special fragrance of spring as I introduced our concert, and she was extremely happy. She also wrote that though at first she considered herself not a cable to sell many tickets to our concert she became encouraged to challenge selling some to support us and accepted my proposal. Actually she sold out all the tickets I had passed her. I was grateful to be able to meet many new people that I would never have had a chance to meet without our concert activities. I was extremely happy to see that after having participated in one of our concerts they became liberated from pains and sadness of life to open up a marvelous future. The Idaki Shin concert was a must for our life. I was looking forwards to encountering new people and the truth at the coming concert in Kyoto. .