KEIKO KOMA net

12 July  2009

Lovely breezes and smell of rice cake

The other day I woke up in the morning to find myself surrounded by a lovely smell of rice cake that was a special dish of my mother. I called my mother but in vain as she died many years ago. I realized that it was the last part of my night dream. However, because it was so real and vivid, I decided to make some by myself, as I remember that in childhood I used to help her preparing them on such a lovely day as today with gentle morning light. I went to buy the necessary food materials and started working on them. Thought many years had passed, my hands still remembered how to make them and I could quickly finish making many rice cakes. As they tasted wonderful, I named them Koguryo’s lucky rice cakes. While I was making them I felt them blessed by beautiful light that made them taste very special and extremely pleasant to eat. My father also loved them very much and they were always accompaniments to celebrate something. As I was giving my lecture event tonight at Yokohama, I considered that today’s rice cakes were celebrating my event. These days I realized that NPO Koma’s activities were a marvelous business model that would lead to building a new society that did not sacrifice human lives. People really enjoy participating our activities and spend their earnings to contribute to global peace. I have never taken economic reasons as excuses for not doing anything. I have experienced many times in my life that when one was truly sincere to one’s deepest wishes, anything became possible. If a person had lost the sense of humanity and presence of one’s own soul, one would be treated as a mere object. So expressing one’s internality was urgently needed to open up the future of our world.