26th Mar. 2014

 

The truth of soul

 

Before opening the Koma gallery Café right under the Yasaka tower, I held a gallery exhibition of my mind-scape art works at Shijou street and a person who saw a leaflet of the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered Concert came inside and told me that he was a professor of a university in Kyoto, had a class that day, and was greatly attracted by the sign board of Koma as he passed by. He told me if I knew that Tohoku district had dominant historical influence from Koguryo and as that was a new thing for me, he said that he would show me some documentations about his arguments. Actually he participated in the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered concert held in Kyoto and taught me the deep relationship between the Tohoku district and Koguryo and presented me some books.
Later as I was reading one of them at my home in Tokyo a big earthquake happened. This was the Great North Eastern Japan disaster on the 11th of March. That day I was scheduled to hold an event entitled “Stories by Keiko Koma” and I wished to tell something about Koguryo as my life was inseparable from my ancestor’s history and I was looking for some historic traces in the Tohoku district. Therefore I realized all at once the great magnitude of the earthquake and soon after this I started to visit every disaster hit area, following strong wishes at heart, and corrected my own life.
One day a highway leading to a disaster hit area was interrupted and I made a tour around normal roads and came across a place that greatly attracted my heart with strong nostalgia. I looked around and found that the name of the place was “Koma”. I was very surprised at the coincidence and felt a historic link. Then I investigated its background and found that it was a land of ancient hero Aterui and the central government had intensively attacked “Koma”. I understood the reason why my heart was so moved with a touch of sadness and I could not resist shedding tears. I would have never come across that place and discovered the truth of history if there were not for the disaster.
When I looked at the night sky in Tohoku I envisioned and encountered a being that addressed me saying “my dearest person”. I became greatly moved at heart realizing a great sadness and I anticipated that the truth would be manifest in some future.
Also when I held the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered concert held in Tohoku, there was a poem that I could not resist narrating with tearful eyes. In the pure blue night sky, a blue wind has come and stars were brilliantly shining and souls of people addressed me. I put this into words and narrated it at my concert as the voice of numerous souls of people who had known tremendous grievances, regrets and strong agony far beyond tears that no words could express. I prayed that people now alive would acknowledge them sometime in future and until that time I would keep on creating an opportunity every day.
Last year we received a guest from India who came to Kyoto to take the Idaki counseling courses and we took him to Kiyomizu temple where there was a memorial inscription of Aterui and Mirei. Actually before visiting there my life knew its location so I could easily find it and rushed to greet it. I closed my eyes in front of it and our Indian guest took a photo from behind that I did not notice. Later he showed me the photo and told me that he was greatly moved to have attended a special moment and he thought that I was praying to my ancestors. It was surprising that he understood the importance of my encounter with the soul of Aterui. I have received a message from him and my heart was penetrated by an impact of his sadness. I swore to recover his heart some time in future and a special wind blew to express the depth of his sadness that I shared at heart.
Like this I was guided to Kyoto and Tohoku and came to understand the deep historic relation between them. Souls of people got together and have been guiding my soul to the truth. When those alive came properly to realize the truth, the sadness of souls of people in the past were nursed and transformed into love. This was what I have realized by discovering the true history of Koguryo. I sincerely wished that I would remain truthful to the truth. Not to mention that the Idaki Shin concerts allowed us to realize the truth of history and the world of souls. Nothing was more precious and grateful than his concert activities as they provided us the opportunity to realize the truth.
Master Idaki Shin has been expressing the theme of the sea at his charity concert for the Tohoku disaster and at every concert he has clarified a deeper meaning of the sea for our life that would drastically influence the rest of the world. This was great for us to make a radical change in our world and create a global peace. The truth shall be acknowledged by our soul and the truth is more precious and joyful than anything else in our life.