2 Jan 2013

Star night in Kyoto

At the end of the second day of New Year, when Mr. Idaki Shin made rice cake in the inner garden of the Koma Gallery Café, eventually it started to rain, while we heard that in India rain drops were considered as the blessing by God, as our pure heart was corresponded to by it. Actually I was grateful as the rice cake, thus blessed by Heaven, purified my life and made me filled with energies to live on in a new era. I could not call it mere food but something holy with purifying power. I acknowledged what I heard from Mr. Idaki Shin that was that a truly delicious food could change our world by changing our condition of health for the better, a way of life to a simpler one, and our future direction to focus on the most appropriate one moving forward. My life became filled with joy of living a life true to principles of life.
As the darkness of night deepened, I went to greet the Yasaka tower and closed my eyes to envision with joy a light-scape of opening a truly new world. In the night sky, a brilliantly shining star was seen and to my great wonder, a voice of soul within my heart told me that it was the same one that ancient people had seen when they were building a new country. The light-scape was at once manifested, present, future and remote past. I realized that my sincere dream was being realized. Stars in the night sky looked grateful to the persistent work by Mr. Idaki Shin who has been paving a way for a marvelous future at the risk of his life. I realized the presence of Great Being that has always been with us, sharing the same heart under any difficult circumstances, and giving us a great hope and energy to move forward.
In reality I have never seen a night sky like this in Kyoto and I felt that when Kyoto was going to change, the entire Japan would start drastically changing. While this year would allow us to realize our dream and deepest wishes, all what we should do was just working on it for the future. I was grateful to each precious instance.