KEIKO KOMA net

17th Aug 2008

Extreme happiness to be here

I have experienced many precious things during my events this summer. I am certain that we have got over a mountain of obstacles. Before the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered concert at Laforet, the last one in Tokyo this year, I have been annoyed by dark energies that resisted the positive influence of our concerts. I was determined to do everything I could do to break through the situation. I revised the order of poems for my performance and all of a sudden I recalled that today coincided exactly with the day I visited Huanren, ten years ago, when I read one poem at the foot of Mt. Gojo as I was not allowed to climb up. It was soon after when I lost my mother. I wandered Huanren looking for a trace of her life. The pain of sadness in my heart was also revived. At that difficult moment, Mr. Idaki Shin proposed me to visit Lebanon, the land of Phoenicia, in order to trace the very origin of Koguryo. In reality I completed the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered project in Lebanon and its concert version outside Japan was also realized for the first time in Tyre. I swore ten years ago to Mt. Gojo that I would come back again in some future. I have kept on realizing internationally the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered concert. At the concert in Kyoto I felt the presence of king Kotai in my side and extraordinary energy joined my poetic narration. I sweat endlessly like a water fall. Every time I read poem about him a mysterious thing happened, in Kyoto my microphone was shut down for seconds and at Laforet Roppongi, the sound of the guitar was cut off all of a sudden. A tremendous power was obviously joining us. Not only in the Legends of Koguryo concert but also in the Idaki Shin solo concert entitled The Origin of Human Spirituality that followed it, a strong wind pressed the doors of the hall to open and each door needed two staff members to push it back. After the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered concert I was completely exhausted and I could listen to Mr. Idaki Shin’s solo concert with my brain vacant and free of preoccupations. I felt extreme happiness to be alive as a human being. For some reason I felt sadness at the sound of traditional Japanese drums and shed tears silently. I was moved to have encountered the origin of authentic human spirituality. It was also like a religious exercise that I loved to do in the past for awakening oneself but here we could do so just by sitting and listening to the music. I will go to bed with this quiet and deep impression provided by tonight’s concert.