8th Oct. 2013

 

Father

 

To my great surprise, the wording of my poem on my father that I created for the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered concert was identical to what I had written down in my diary in my teens. That was in the season of fragrant olive flowers and I was in a mental abyss, so suddenly I made up my mind to go to Kyoto in order to restore my identity. Then my father saw me off nodding silently, and then told me that by the time I would return home, those flowers would be gone. For some reason, though many years have passed, I vividly recall that day as if it were only yesterday. In reality the entrance gate of my home was full of fragrant olives. Their fragrance always made me recall my father as today, and I felt that he was joyfully helping me. I smiled out of joy. While I felt great gratitude for having encountered Mr. Idaki Shin, representing all my ancestors, I was living a life truthful to my own nature and deepest wishes of realizing a global peace, and developing my inner potentials to the full. I was determined to do so both mentally and physically.
Today also I was very pleased to have received a letter of encouragement from Mr. Nazih and I realized that human beings could live all together unified at heart transcending any special distance. Now we are heading for the coming Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered concert in Gujarat, India with the view to creating a new human history, and I wish to share that concert with as many people as possible. I will tune myself to remain pure at heart and depart soon to India.