24 July 2012

A message from Lebanon

Mr. Ghazi wrote us a message for our Japanese website and a newsletter within their column named an ever inheriting truth. My heart was filled with people’ s sadness living in a hard time. However we could bear hope as Great Being has been exercising its influence towards us as we faced a great transformation of history. I would remain unified with Great Being and keep on opening up our future. I would never give up and keep on holding many concerts in Japan. As Mr. Ghazi wrote in his message I vividly recalled that when I had met his mother for the first time at his home she embraced me with the warmth of my own mother and I could not resist shedding tears. It was when I was in a mental abyss as I had lost both of my parents. I was in need of regaining my vigor to live on so I decided to visit Lebanon and the city of Tyre in the south, the land of the Phoenician civilization as one of the roots of my ancestors, Koguryo. The pleasant wind was blowing and my sadness was nursed. The beautiful blue sky and sea made me joyful and a forgotten elapse of time. I kept on walking toward the sea and realized the world of eternity surrounded with lovely brilliant flowers and their fragrance. In the evening after daily work people gathered over tea under a big tree. The warmth of their truly human heart greatly moved me. In reality that was only three days after the military conflict with Israel came to a truce. People had not lost their human nature during a war and this light-vision gradually wiped away the sadness in my heart. A beautiful house surrounded with flowers that was built facing a historic ruin of Phoenicia was very impressive and still vivid in my heart. That house should have seen numerous wars and sadness of people, however it expressed the rich and high spirituality of people that was unchangeable since ancient times. Its garden was the historic site itself. So the inhabitants should live a truly human life true to its eternal nature and spirituality. Later I came to visit Lebanon many times and encountered Prof. Ghazi and to my great wonder that house was his family home. My soul trembled at this coincidence. Our souls were connected to each other from the beginning. Like this I considered anything happening in the Middle East countries as my own and I was always working wishing to diffuse our energies to the rest of the world.