KEIKO KOMA net

24  Jan 2009

Gratitude for a new beginning

After many years of absence I visited Kagoshima and was welcomed by an elegant and shining landscape: clear blue sky, snow covered Mt. Kirishima and my favorite Sakura island. The weather report said it might snow, however, it was a fine lovely day. I considered that a bud of energy for rebuilding our country was born. My lecture was fully attended and extremely animated with a lot of hope for the future, so many people waited for me at the entrance and asked me to hold our concert in Kagoshima in the near future. When I told them that I was more than happy to do so any time if local people would collaborate with us, they willingly proposed for me mutually to plan a concert in April as it was the season of new life. Twenty four years ago I organized in Kagishima as many as seven Idaki Shin piano improvisational concerts entitled Tangun , a legendary hero of Koguryo. At that time, on the 13th May, my birthday, I came across by chance an exhibition of Koguryo wall paintings held at a department store in the center of Kagoshima city while it was visiting major cities across Japan. Enormously impressed by this coincidence I rushed to the exhibition and a painting of a blue dragon attracted me so greatly that I asked the organizer to allow me to use its photo for our concerts. As a result of their good will, we could make a beautiful leaflet with its image. I also stayed at home for months, preparing these concerts. I walked around every corner of the city as if it were my garden yard. So I have many stories to tell. After twenty four years, the impression of Kagoshima was different and I acknowledged that buds of life that we implanted all over Japan by organizing our concerts have been cherished and were now ready to bloom. Owing to endeavors made by people of Kagoshima, all two hundred seats of today’s lecture were sold out. Some were coming from the rest of Japan. I anticipated something wonderful and new to happen. I knew that one could do any job without difficulties if one came to have the ability to promote our event as it required changing the atmosphere of people’s internality. However heavenly power has been always together with us and made us achieve more than we had planned. In Japan one’s deepest wishes had been considered as human expressions that could touch the heart of a god. But of course one had to exercise one’s power 100 percent in order to achieve more than 120 percent. And after the advent of the world three stages before the Big Bang, one’s potential became limitless if one was connected with it at one’s core of life. I have been grateful to my life as I could achieve marvelous things in the past by expressing my deepest wishes. However I am wishing to be provided with much more power to tackle many terrible incidents in the world. After our two days’ special concerts held on the 11th and 12th January, I started to envision energy of light of pure life blowing all over the world. So one’s most beautiful light of life shall greatly influence  any part of the world. I am encouraged to stay true to my pure heart. I recalled that when I stayed at home in Kagoshima promoting our concerts twenty four years ago, I walked every street in Kagoshima and people called me a woman with a character similar to Sakurajima volcanic island as I never took a rest until I sold out tickets and I did so with great enthusiasm. Sometimes I walked all night long selling tickets to anybody passing in the street. All these memories revived with joy. Buds of hope are indeed ready to bloom everywhere I organized our concerts as if snow covering them shall melt down quite soon.