10 June 2012

The Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered video screening salon

I went back to Tokyo and today I held a salon gathering at the Cafe Akira Roppongi and screened a video of the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered concert held on the 12th of May. Our space was equipped with the custom made sound system and its sound was better than any other rental space. So many people came to appreciate its best sound and in reality it invited special winds of Koguryo that I had experienced for the first time in my life in the year 1998 when I had visited Koguryo’s historic sites. My life became extremely vigorous. That I considered as one of the best moments in my life. I recalled when I had carried by myself a big red suitcase at the central station of Beijing in the year 1998 and was very excited at heart. One of my staff members who had traveled with me in China at that time told me that I looked extremely happy in the morning at the train restaurant though the breakfast was very simple, while four Chinese men who sat next to us enjoyed the meal very much, and looked very happy. I recalled the scene with joy. However, generally at a restaurant in Japan, from childhood, more often than not, I came to feel vanity and sorry as Japanese did not pay respect to the holy nature of food, and were just eating some like a beast. In Tanzania I saw wild animals eating other animals in the same manner. This made me very sad, much more than a negative effect I had suffered from taking a strong medicine against malaria. Therefore the scene of breakfast and the light-vision I had envisioned on the train from Beijing to historic sites of Koguryo greatly impressed me. As long as a person remained as a human being poor or rich did not matter at all, and what counted was happiness at heart and enjoying life with friends, while eating foods like a beast was a very miserable and sad thing. I considered such a person as really poor at heart. When people got along well with others the surrounding space became brilliantly shining. I also recalled when I had visited Gode town in Ethiopia where a heavy drought had hit. The Hospital of Gode did not have bed, however the eyes of children there were beautifully shining. I had never seen such lovely smiling faces with Japanese children, though Japan was abundant with commodities. I thought over a meaning of poverty and the richness of life. I believed that a life unified with Great Being was a truly happy one under any difficult situations. Today’s video screening at the Café Akira made me realize an authentic happiness. Thank you very much.