KEIKO KOMA net

8 Nov 2008
 

An unexpected arrangement made me realize how to live an eternal life

I am happy to start a new life on the 1st of November and it is a lovely day. I am grateful to everything from the bottom of my heart. As I opened the entrance door of the skyrocket center, a big smiling photo of mine welcomed me and I stepped down to the basement gallery space. I needed to check the installation of exhibits, but I went to sit down directly in front of the calligraphy by Mr. Idaki Shin, reading as Koma. I closed my eyes and I found myself in Mt. Gojo. Among the fresh greening of trees, pleasant breezes were blowing around, and a brilliant young man showed up. He was shining and dignified. I was extremely impressed. I recalled the similar impact I received here on the 14th of September on encountering king Tomei. I managed to hold back tears of reminiscence that came up automatically, as I usually did when I was touched by something related to Koguryo. I am always amazed at my vivid sensibility that makes me see another dimension of the world every time I face this Koma calligraphy, however, I did not anticipate envisioning Mt. Gojo as true to life as I did today. I wondered who was that young man. He was obviously not king Tomei. In the photo of mine taken by Mr. Idaki Shin just after the concert in Armenia I had captured the new world of eternity and its immaculate beauty seemed to have transformed the exhibition space of the Skyrocket center. After changes made to my state of consciousness and becoming liberated from frameworks in the past, what I envisioned in my mind-scape looked quite different. I should have called this another world after death. But since the world three stages before the Big Bang was manifest, distinction between this world and another world became meaningless. There was only one world, the world of eternity and it was the very home of every human being’s life. I thanked everything again, and highly praised the arrival of the new era of humankind that allowed everybody to live an eternal life. When I was about to leave the atelier, I noticed an elegant beautiful flower arrangement at the doorway. They were composed of cattleya and metternichi in fresh red, proud and noble. Then all of a sudden I realized that the young man was my father. He became much younger in the eternal world and came to see me. I returned to see the Koma calligraphy in the basement and called my father’s name. He said he would happy to learn together with me how to live an eternal life. This time I could not resist shedding tears. Now I was happy to have many fathers of Koguryo. Then I wanted to thank my niece whom I thought to have made this flower arrangement, but as a matter of fact it was Mr. Idaki Shin who was behind everything. He instructed her in the details so that I could encounter my father. My fellows to whom I talked about this also shed tears. I want to express my deepest gratitude to him and to everybody who gathered at café Akira today to commemorate the death anniversary of my father. I will never forget for the rest of my life what happened today.