KEIKO KOMA net

31 May. 2011

Beautiful mountains

I loved May since childhood as it was full of the vigor of life in nature. This year at its beginning, I went to Morioka and Miyako city, in the tsunami hit area, and at a refugee camp I served coffee to people. The landscape on the way from Morioka to Miyako looked like Koguryo’s homeland and made me greatly impressed. I was filled with energy from newly born lives and totally refreshed. I realized that human life could be renewed at any time in this manner. I sat by the Kitakami river and I thought about my life when the brilliantly shining sunlight of the river blessed my life. I was filled with happiness from top to end. New buds of trees were also brilliantly shining. The lovely cherry blossoms in mountains manifested an eternal beauty that was beyond the border between this world and the other. I would never forget this landscape. I shared the countenances of nature in Tohoku and continued my way to Tokyo, Yamanashi, Nagano, Gifu, Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyougo, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi and Fukuoka. On my way traversing all over Japan I was touched at one place by lovely lotus and wisteria flowers and at the other hit by a heavy storm. Purple sky and mountains made me recall my life before I had encountered Mr. Idaki Shin. I used to wander many places and mountains looking for an answer to my fundamental questions concerning the meaning of my life. On the way from Kyoto to Kanazawa via Fukui there were mountains and winds that looked like connecting us to the mainland. The sea of Japan always came into my view all of a sudden and my heart became greatly touched as I realized there was something within my heart that knew hidden sad stories in past history. I should listen to its voice and the landscape around me orchestrated to manifest something that was beyond time and space. People used to live here and dedicated their lives to creating a truly human world for everybody to live a happy and vigorous life. As I moved to the north of Japan, mountains looked very different and I amused myself appreciating changes of nature. This year everything looked different and I was filled with hope for our future as a life unified with nature should be marvelous, joyful, full of cultural aroma and poetic. I recalled that since childhood I wished to create a new human world where coming new generations and our children would live a brilliantly shining life filled with hope. Now I was realizing this, unified with nature, and renewing my life in a new human era.