KEIKO KOMA net

14  Jan 2009

Father of Koguryo

Just within two days of the new year, I have already learnt many important things in my life. Though I wish to write about all of them it is physically impossible. Since I was a child on the second day of the new year I made it a rule to go to greet Koma shrine. However this year I went to the Skyrocket center as there was Koma calligraphy that served as a sign of a holy place of Koguryo. When I sit in front of it I could meet all the kings of Koguryo and today I envisioned the foundation for building a new nation. I was filled with light of hope. Also today I asked Mr. Idaki Shin to make another calligraphy to put at the entrance. While he drew it I made silver broaches with great joy as I sensed full of light the world three stages before the Big Bang. He eventually asked me if there was anything more that I wanted him to do. I was about to say “ dream of Mt. Gojo” but as a feverish sentiment came up from within myself I could hardly say a word. When he was drawing calligraphy I felt the same precious atmosphere that fully accepted my heart as I experienced at the encore of our concert in Aomori, when I narrated a poem spontaneously and I shed tears. His calligraphy was accompanied with a special frame where he engraved his own designs. It looked like expressing a vast dimension of human mind that made everybody kind and gentle and resembled somewhat a pattern of the cosmos or an ancient sculpture from the Jomon era. I felt like making my own frame by myself and I did a very amusing one though I had not tried to carve a wooden frame since my frameworks of consciousness were removed last year. In the end, he made the last frame that reminded me of my favorite painting in Hirosaki that I always enjoyed watching for a long time. His design and calligraphy looked like  what I called a light-scape inspired by that painting of Mt. Iwaki and cherry blossoms.
I also visualized an ancient world where everybody was living a happy life by cherishing one another. It might also be said to represent an ideal human life connected to the universe, blessed by rich land, embracing the sun within each heart and receiving information from the sea. It was a vision of everything. Mr. Idaki Shin also said that one could interpret our era as the opening of the Maitreiya, a Buddhist divinity that had some affinity to what we called the world three stages before the Big Bang. I felt a big hope for the future of human kind as I also envisioned within my life a Buddhist divinity on the 31st December 2008. When I returned home a photo panel that I ordered was delivered. It was a photo of Mt. Gojo that I named the father of Koguryo. Because the photo was taken at the very spot where I felt the presence of king Tomei and was deeply impressed by his heart that seemed to foresee what would happen after two thousands years, as he called Mt. Gojo by a name that had the same meaning as Idaki. At that moment, any lapse of time was transcended and I encountered king Tomei, the first  king of Koguryo. I called him the father of Koguryo. So every time I looked at the photo winds of Mt, Gojo were blowing and I could feel his presence. The dream of Mt. Gojo was the dream to realize global peace.