KEIKO KOMA net

17 Apl  2009

Human dignity 

To my surprise, many parts of my muscles were aching when I woke up in the morning,
though at the Idaki Shin concert last night, I was simply sitting in a seat for two hours listening to the music. But I recalled that I felt very tired and sleepy after the concert. Mr. Idaki Shin told me a very important story about his message in his performance. I tried to understand better, however, I was too tired to read his message again and think it over. Later today there was a lecture on death given by Mr. Idaki Shin. He told us about his experience with old people when he was working for a home for the aged where he had faced many deaths. His story about his relationship with aged people always made me recall how he had taken care of my mother with human dignity. She was seriously ill and medical doctors considered her case impossible. However Mr. Idaki Shin treated her as a normal person and they became intimate friends. I believed that heavy traditions of Koguryo were a reason for her illness, so at my mother’s funeral ceremony I regretted her marriage with my father. My brother told me that it was useless wishing her life different as I should never have been born without my parent’s marriage. In reality what I hoped was that my brother would take care of her in the same manner as Mr. Idaki Shin, which was obviously too much for him. Later, I considered that my mother’s life was a very lucky one as she could encounter Mr. Idaki Shin who had fully accepted my mother’s total being. She started to change her personality and realized her own nature even when she was sentenced to die after over forty days of intensive treatment at ICU. She remained true to her own life that was connected directly with Mr. Idaki Shin, and miraculously she recovered. In reality both my mother and my father’s lives were saved many times by Mr. Idaki Shin and they realized that they could live a new life leaving behind everything unnecessary to their internality. And finally they passed away in happiness. Their deaths clarified essential things about human dignity as I could face it seriously and straightforwardly. Now I was motivated to provide as many opportunities as possible for people all over the world to encounter Mr. Idaki Shin, and newly inaugurated NPO Inochi’s precious activities.