9th Feb. 2014
Snow fall
Two days snow made the heaviest snow in Tokyo for the last forty five years and today it was clear in blue and manifested a beautiful light-scape that was assimilated with Mt. Fuji and surrounding mountains. I felt the souls of my ancestors who had seen this vision in the past and died. Owing to the death of my parents I came to realize the eternity of human souls and that death was not a dead end so I could live an internally rich life realizing an eternal world of souls. The dark heavy sky of snow was changed into a marvelous blue and transparent sky and I raised a voice of cheers. The fusion of the sky with remote mountains made my soul tremble as it manifested Great Being. I felt souls of my ancestors and an eternal world. Today together with a small child we made sculptures of snow and threw balls of snow towards the sky. The blue sky reflected white snow and showed a shining light-scape of eternal souls. I realized again the eternal nature of our life.
While I scraped snow on the road I could hear a sound of melting snow. This year was the fifth year after having established our spots in Kyoto. At that time ever since I had visited Mt. Hiey in my teens I felt like going there for the first time and walked along a snowy falling path leading to the temple. It was in the midst of winter, however, I could hear the sound of melting snow that symbolically showed me that it was time to get along well again with my fellow family members from whom I had been separated for quite a long period of time. I felt a fresh wind of spring within my heart as the sound told me of the arrival of spring. So today’s sound of melting snow did for me the same and joyfully I finished scraping snow on the road that I did for the first time in my life and welcomed the arrival of a new spring. I said to myself that spring was coming soon. I found myself having scraped snow not only the space in front of my house but all the neighboring houses. I was grateful to be provided with a wonderful time with a lot of hope for the future.