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No.11 A moment to create a peaceful society by any means
Something must have changed drastically through our concerts in Lebanon. My experience was really precious  I want to express my deepest gratitude to everything from the bottom of my heart and I am filled with vigor to open up a truly peaceful society, while everybody came back to Japan safe from Lebanon still under tensions. Mr. Idaki Shin told me that he was also impressed by our team’s big achievement though this time the number of our staff was minimum. When everybody got together the result was much greater than what was anticipated. Concerts in Lebanon were full of precious experiences. Especially, at the last concert in Bint Jibeil I felt as if I had encountered Jesus Christ. The purest light of sacred life was manifest. No scene was as beautiful as that. I realized every soul of people in the past was together with us to create a new future. We knew that the internal condition of human beings was the cause of an outer situation. So when our heart was filled with love we could create a truly peaceful society. Only those alive could do so in the actual world.
No.10 Life in the world three stages before the Big Bang
Before the last concert in Lebanon this time, Mr. Idaki Shin told everybody that tonight’s concert would show us the future perspective for peace here, the place most ferociously damaged by the war two years ago. On the way to Bint Jibeil from the city of Tyre, I felt in the winds and hills the atmosphere of Jesus Christ and I was told that he had indeed passed here. The most beautiful pure sky was seen, and I wondered why human beings have been fighting each other under this wonderful world. In Bint Jibeil, the senator who took us to the meeting with Mr. Berry invited all of us to lunch at his home. I really enjoyed home made dishes and was greatly impressed by the people’s warmth . However tombs were seen everywhere and I realized the sadness behind people’s smiles and fresh breezes in beautiful hills. In the concert Mr. Idaki Shin fully accepted the prayers and grievances of people on the edge of life and death, united them to his life and nursed them with great love. I felt that Jesus Christ prayed together with the sound of the piano. That was a moment of encounter with a great divine being and my life was struck with thunder like an impact by its holy light. Ever since I determined to live in the world three stages before the Big Bang, I could clearly see my shortcomings and immediately correct them. So I concentrated myself on not deviating from it and after all I have experienced the resurrection of divine souls. When the world three stages before the Big Bang was manifest the world transformed itself completely. I acknowledged that this was the only hope for realizing global peace. After the concert, the night sky looked pure and stars were glittering beautifully as if they were expressing the arrival of the era of human life. Tonight’s concert was indeed guided by a divine being and I would never forget the deep and marvelous experience I had. . .
On the following day I woke up to find that the big applause of the audience was still perpetuating itself in my ears. Towards the end of the last song everybody was enormously moved and clapped his or her hands to make a big sound wave in tune with the piano played by Mr. Idaki Shin. The world three stages before the Big Bang was manifest on earth. I shed tears with joy and was filled with hope for the future. We will have a final meeting before departure and I want to express my deepest gratitude for every marvelous experience in Lebanon.  ..
No.9 A moment to create a peaceful society by any means
Something must have changed drastically through our concerts in Lebanon. My experience was really precious  I want to express my deepest gratitude to everything from the bottom of my heart and I am filled with vigor to open up a truly peaceful society, while everybody came back to Japan safe from Lebanon still under tensions. Mr. Idaki Shin told me that he was also impressed by our team’s big achievement though this time the number of our staff was minimum. When everybody got together the result was much greater than what was anticipated. Concerts in Lebanon were full of precious experiences. Especially, at the last concert in Bint Jibeil I felt as if I had encountered Jesus Christ. The purest light of sacred life was manifest. No scene was as beautiful as that. I realized every soul of people in the past was together with us to create a new future. We knew that the internal condition of human beings was the cause of an outer situation. So when our heart was filled with love we could create a truly peaceful society. Only those alive could do so in the actual world.
No.8 My homeland
In the morning, while war torn buildings with a lot of gun-holes and the statue of the assassinated president Mr. Hariri were seen just in front of my hotel, when I looked above, clouds were forming a shape like a phoenix that symbolized the empowered breath emerging from the land of Lebanon. After overcoming all the grievances in the past it was heading towards the future. My first concert was reported in several newspapers. One article highly praised the music of Mr. Idaki Shin, saying that its writer had never heard anything similar to it and now he could never forget it. Another compared my poem to a famous Iranian poet who died young and was still very popular especially among young people. 
In the evening we held our concert in Tyre, the homeland of my soul. Actually since yesterday night, my back started suffering. I was feeling massive negative energies so I knew that only Mr. Idaki Shin could help me get over them. And he concentrated on my sufferings, and he said they were enormous, and even he would take several days to overcome them. At the opening of the concert I saw among the spectators the Mayor of Tyre, I waved my hand and spontaneously he jumped on to the stage, embraced me and expressed repeatedly his joy and gratitude. We shed tears together. From the very first note, the sound of the piano played by Mr. Idaki Shin touched everybody’s heart and expressed the magnitude of grievances from the loss of numerous precious lives and both physical and mental damage to those who survived during the bombings by the Israeli army. The concert was really dramatic and everybody was enormously moved. I concentrated on attuning myself to the world three stages before the Big Bang wishing that the Mayor and everybody in Tyre would connect themselves to this newly manifested divine world. And when I felt the sound of the piano had fully expressed it, every spectator applauded loudly and I found myself clapping my hands without consciousness. When I read the last poem, it was about my heart for Tyre as my home. Everybody shed tears again and the concert ended marvelously. The applause has never stopped.
Mr. Idaki Shin said that something enormous was changed by tonight’s concert. The Mayor invited all of us to dinner and he started to call me the king of Tyre while he used before to call me a princess. He also told us that he had received a call from the president of the parliament, Mr. Berri, asking him to make sure to invite us to next year’s Tyre festival. I realized again that Tyre remains always a very special place in my life and it is indeed my home.
No.7 Messages of Mother Earth
Tomorrow we will hold my poetic concert in Tyre. Our Iranian staffer came all the way from Teheran and has been in charge of the Arabic subtitling of my poems. Many negative incidents happened before and after arriving here so we decided not to hold the Idaki Shin solo concert that was initially planned to take place on the 5th December in Tyre. Prof, Ghazi told us that the situation in Lebanon was not yet stable. So this time I felt satisfied by holding my Mind-scape exhibition and four concerts. Mr. Idaki Shin said my exhibition was as if we had created a new sacred place. I felt vividly that the land of Lebanon was nursed and calmed down by the powerful and pure light radiating from the exhibition space. In response to our activities the situation of Lebanon is indeed positively changing every day.   
By the way the person who arranged the meeting with Mr. Berry for us originated from Bint-Jibeil. He has attended two of our concerts and told us that the city center was completely destroyed by the Israeli army’s bombing two years ago and numerous lives were lost. I was told that everybody was looking forwards to our concert that would take place inside a school as there was no music hall. According to information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, both Tyre and Bint-Jibeil were considered dangerous places and one is recommended not to visit them. So on arriving in Lebanon I called the Japanese Embassy and reported our plan. Everybody advised us to be fully alert. I woke up every day feeling grateful to be alive. Though the noises in the streets sounded the same as before I could hear an internal prayer offered by the land of Lebanon. I realized that great being above human kind has been exercising its power over our activities and I shed tears out of deep gratitude. 
No.6 Brilliant sea
Yesterday we had a meeting with the. Minister of Culture of Lebanon and he was very happy to see my Arabic book as I presented it to him together with a handmade book cover. Before going to this meeting, Mr. Nehme started to suffer from pain in his back and asked Mr. Idaki Shin for help. Mr. Idaki Shin concentrated on the state of his body and fully received negative influences. He sweated a lot and after a while his pain went away. I was talking about Mr. Idaki Shin’s ability to get over any limitation in human life and I acknowledged the need for him to exercise his power all over the world. What he can do is difficult to understand or imagine through explanation in words, so I have been motivated to hold as many Idaki Shin concerts as possible to allow people all over the world to realize what is actually happening. So I wished from the bottom of my heart that many people would come to our concert tonight. 
In reality after the concert, spectators came to ask me how I could overcome critical situations in my life. So I told them about the Idaki counseling courses and they went to ask Mr. Idaki Shin how they could take his courses. I felt sorry because the courses are currently available only in Japan. 
At mid day we had the opportunity to meet with the President of the Parliament Mr. Berry. I had been excited since morning. After passing through many security checks we reached his room. It was indeed a great honor as he wrote me back his own poem when I wrote one dedicated to Tyre at the time of  the Israeli army’s bombing in Lebanon two years ago. Both poems were included at the end of my Arabic book. I presented him also with a handmade book cover and an art piece that I created for him. I explained that I started to make art pieces that would manifest the internal light of life wishing that its pure light would protect everybody from war attacks. He seemed to be very impressed and put it in the middle of his bookshelf saying that he would keep it there forever. I was also impressed by his immediate understanding of the nature of my Mind-scape art pieces. I continued to talk about the ability of Mr. Idaki Shin and our determination to realize global peace. Then he proposed that we come to perform in the coming Tyre summer festival. He said that peace could be only realized through people to people direct dialogues, especially through music and poems. 
After the meeting the afternoon sea looked more brilliant, and I was greatly thankful for having been provided with the opportunity to see Mr. Berry. The state of his life that we could understand through a face to face meeting told us much more than the exchanges of letters we had undertaken in the past. He was indeed a great person and gave us a lot of hope for the future.
No.5 One world, one life
Today is the second day of our concerts in Lebanon this time, and the beautiful blue space of sea and sky look like waiting for our concert as numerous encounters among the light of life shall happen. The elegant sea waves seem to keep pace with the rhythm of tonight’s concert. Seen from the stars and moon outside the earth, a creature may wonder why human beings are fighting each other though we are all living on the same planet. I feel that something above humankind is surely trying to correct us. Soon all humankind will find the world far beyond Heaven is our eternal home. 
Just before the concert Mr. Idaki Shin took my picture and showed it me. It looked somebody else but not me. I might even say it was an extra-terrestrial creature. He said also we had to pay the utmost respect to the holy spirits of Lebanon. He put on shiny new shoes. I said to myself that the world three stages before the Big Bang was my eternal home and I attuned myself to its indifference to outer circumstances. When I read the last poem about Tyre as my home, I could not resist shedding tears and every spectator applauded loudly. I felt the warmth of people as we shared the same heart. Mr. Nehme made a closing speech with difficulty because of tears and Mr. Idaki Shin nursed his back. The world three stages before the Big Bang expressed at tonight’s concert was like a pure and beautiful stream of life that wiped away all the negative influences within people and around surrounding space. The sound of the piano played by Mr. Idaki Shin was free from any obscurity, embraced people’s sadness, echoed to the beautiful core of life and gave birth to new energy to open up a wonderful future. I said after the concert that I became a citizen of another planet. On the way to the concert hall I started to suffer as negative energies have been accumulating in my life before the concert, moreover I was stuck in heavy traffic so when Mr. Idaki Shin received me at the entrance of the hall, I was relieved and he took away my suffering. I recalled how many times he saved my life as I was born with such a special constitution that it was nearly impossible for me to be alive in this human society. The actual world was indeed difficult and painful but I encountered the world three stages before the Big Bang that allowed me to live on forever. Unusually for me in the past, at night I could sleep fast and deep now that I have started a new life in the world three stages before the Big Bang.
No.4 Dream of Lebanon
Today I made an installation of my art works at the exhibition hall in Palais d’UNESCO, Beirut. I was extremely satisfied with the advent of a beautiful space. Mr. Idaki Shin selected one named The Wisdom of King Tomei to place at the center of the exhibition. Then the whole exhibit seemed animated with joy and I felt that the center of all of Lebanon was settled. He wrote “Koma” in Japanese calligraphy and put it in front of the work. Then he continued to write “Amnokwang river”, “Dream of Mt. Gojo”, and “Dream of Lebanon” as he asked Mr. Ghazi how he interpreted the work into Arabic and he replied “Dream of Lebanon”. Every calligraphy expressed the realization of global peace. And we decided to put together with “Koma” ,“Dream of Lebanon” as the Arabic title. After all I named my exhibition “Dream of Lebanon”. Everything here is waving harmoniously to gentle breezes of Lebanon and is shining full of a new light of hope. Now I have a pair of “Koma” calligraphy: at the Skyrocket Center, and here in Beirut.   
Later today I went down to Hamura shopping area to buy frames for photos printed out by Mr. Idaki Shin and I enjoyed beautiful views on the sea-side road with pleasant breezes. I remembered my first visit to Lebanon. It was soon after when I had lost both my parents and I tried to regain my identity in search of the origin of my ancestors. Mr. Idaki Shin suggested that I go to Lebanon, the center of Phoenician civilization that might be connected with Koguryo in ancient times. And at an historic site in Tyre I  met the soul of my father who taught me the eternal nature of human life. Then I could recover. Eight years have passed and I am indeed grateful to my life as I have realized many dreams of mine and everything is leading me to pave the way for global peace.
No.3 A newly manifested world
At today’s concert in Beirut the music played by Mr. Idaki Shin marvelously expressed divine beings of Lebanon frequently represented symbolically as big cedar trees. I was certain that his music has influence all over the world. Many people came to greet me as they were deeply impressed by my poems on my attachment to Lebanon. Though many unpleasant incidents have happened this time, finally we could share the same heart, understand deep grievances and acknowledge vigor for the future especially when I read the last poem on the city of Tyre as a glorious homeland for my soul. Under whatever circumstances I am determined to carry out my mission so I have looked into the internal condition of my mind to see if I have not deviated from my deepest wish to pave the way for global peace. At the same time I was hit by a fear of death, a feeling that has been coming up in my mind repeatedly since childhood. It seemed to have historic roots in my ancestors so I tried to attune myself to the new world expressed musically by Mr. Idaki Shin. Then I found myself in a new space that allowed me to live on, the world far beyond Heaven By diffusing this space we can build truly peaceful society. 
On the following day when I woke up in the morning the sky was a beautiful blue and seemed to be filled with potential encounters with the true light of life. Over the large sky the eternal world was there, wide open to us. There may be some difficulties, however the new world is within reach of our hands.
No.2 A new day
I woke up on the first day in Beirut surrounded by big noises coming from the streets, which were very familiar to me. The sea was as blue as what I called Phoenician blue, however something looked different and I realized the tense circumstances of the city. Mr. Idaki Shin instructed all of us not to go out alone. I became excited just by staying in Lebanon as it was the heart of my favorite Phoenician civilization so I said to myself to be wise and concentrate myself to contribute to global peace. Mr. Idaki Shin has started to respond to the negative state of people’s lives and has been struggling with them. I should never be distracted by things of secondary importance.  
Later Prof. Ghazi brought me the newly published book of my poetry in Arabic. Its cover photo was of me standing in front of king Kotai’s tomb in Jiian, taken by Mr. Idaki Shin. The other photo used for the flip of the cover was the one that he took under the arch of Tyre. Both photos captured the image of an ideal self that I have been wishing to become. Inside the book there were photos of Mt. Gojo, the stele of king Kotai, Amnokkwang river, an arch in Syria and a blue heavenly pond. The Arabic alphabet marvelously suited my photos and I rejoiced at everything. So Mr. Idaki Shin repeatedly told me with a big smile that I should be the happiest person in the world. I recalled that my photos at the Armenia concert looked completely different and they showed me an unknown self of mine. 
We talked at a coffee shop near Mr. Ghazi’s home. It was a place famous for exhibiting art works by a modern artist from Iraq. I consulted Prof. Ghazi on how we could realize my deepest wish to organize as many Idaki Shin concerts as possible in order to share the precious experience of the new world of authentic peace and the future of humankind. Then he explained to us how terribly the region was facing ever increasing conflicts and aggressions and that we needed to make our future plans very carefully. Mr. Idaki Shin asked him if he noticed a big change in my life and he said I looked more vigorous. In reality I have been suffering from unstable blood pressure and have always been carrying a measurement device with me. He further explained to Prof Ghazi that my ancestors such as king Tomei and Kotai could not live a long life, so as far as my life was assimilated to their soul I would have repeated the pattern of their short life. Owing to Mr. Idaki Shin we could change destiny and make a miraculous recovery from any negative condition in our lives. I believed that nobody on earth should miss this special opportunity to be a person contemporary with Mr. Idaki Shin.
No.1 It is raining in Beirut
We arrived safely in Beirut and everybody was fine. We were welcomed by a beautiful rainbow over the city that even made us cheerful. I felt that nature knew the world three stages before the Big Bang and was waiting for us to express it at forthcoming concerts. Though it was raining in Beirut Prof. Ghazi, Mr. Nehme and a director of the Ministry of Culture of Lebanon came to Beirut airport to receive us. We could renew our family relationship. By chance our driver was the same person who drove us to Tyre when we visited Lebanon for the very first time and he remembered us very well.
In the evening the weather cleared and beautiful clouds clad in light blue were seen. I imagined that people should be happy simply to live in a land with abundant nature and I regretted the endless conflicts that have been perpetuated here. I wondered what enigmatic connection has led me to come frequently to Lebanon. I anticipated something very important happening during our stay this time.