Being sensible means caring

       Today is Setsubun(節分). It is the new years day for the shinkai (神界)- The World of the Gods. This morning, I felt the difference, refreshed and revitalized. We have moved up one step higher in the spirit level.  Yesterday, I didn’t feel hungry at all. I didn't want any solid piece running through my throat. I drank a lot of distilled water with a pinch of sea salt. 

       I came to an understanding once again that when we leave this physical body, we cannot consume or take anything from the outside. It becomes an obstruction. If you had received many healing sessions from a fee-charging healer, you will suffer a lot at the end of your life. When you’ve been involved for a long time with a religious group that gathers donation, you will suffer after your physical death. If you have lived your life without any involvement of such groups or healers and maintained your original spiritual energy, leaving your physical body will go smoothly without any pain. When you can leave smoothly without pain, your soul is able to go to a higher realm in the heavens. 

     There are serious Buddhist practitioners who attempt in sokushin-jōbutsu (即身成仏) trying to attain Buddhahood while still in the flesh. You really don’t have to practice such thing like stop eating. When we humans and animals get old and sense the end of life, we will naturally stop eating. When we come to acknowledge that god lives within all of us that is the same as attaining Buddhahood.  

No special practice needs to be done.

       When I watched the sunrise this morning, an image of Eleven-headed Kanzeon (Japanese name for the Bodhisattva of Compassion/ one female figure form of Buddha) came to me.

      The number eleven represents the “eleven dimension” of the heavens, the whole of creation. The microcosm of the Universe is always here within our chaotic daily life.  So we really don’t have to try and figure out what is happening in the distant cosmic world. When we are able to see and observe all the details of what is happening in our own daily life, we are seeing and understanding the whole Universe.


      Therefore, when we really worked hard and did our best, we come to attain a Buddha-like peaceful smile on our face in our later days.  A craftsman who sought a path with dignity and sincerity may come to enlightenment. A housewife who went through many hardships in family matters may also attain enlightenment.


       Japanese language is very interesting. It is purposely designed to have the vibrational energy that resonates with the World of the Gods. In time, the words had changed, yet the hidden sound effects still remained. For example, we call Kanzeon as “Kannon-sama” since the old days. Kannon (観音 – Kuan Yin in Chinese) literally means observe the sounds/senses. It is about our senses. I feel being a Kannon is about being sensible, caring about how others are feeling and listening well.  Whether it is about work or a personal relationship, it’s very important to try and sense and understand about your opponent.

        As mentioned in the Ooharae-no-kotoba (大祓詞 – the only valid norito chant) descended through goddess Yamato-hime (皇女倭姫), in the ancient times, the plants and trees had feelings and communicated with us. It is now starting to happen again. The already starting new era is a time where we could once again communicate with all lives. If you listen carefully and care for all living things, you will become the god/goddess of compassion and heal/help many people.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around us so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.

The True Intention of *Nichiren - Part 1

After studying the Buddhist literature diligently, Nichiren was convinced that Hokkekyo (法華経) sutra was the most powerful with highest intention that is truthful to the original intention of Buddha. He began visiting all the different Buddhist schools to denounce the true intention of Buddha. He did not stop only with Buddhist schools but to other occult sects. He visited different dojo(school) of exorcism or shamanism trying to convince them to become a believer of the Hokkekyo sutra.

Nichiren believed in the power of Hokkekyo sutra with all his mighty soul and went to schools after schools like a fireball running around. But for some reason, he never went to any of the Shinto sects to convince his belief. It was not because he didn’t believe in convincing them. Why did he neglect to propagate to the Shintoists? The secret lies here.

With my psychic vision, I understand that Nichiren was born to a fisherman who lived by the ocean and believed in worshipping the sun. This childhood experience sets a foundation deep inside of him that becomes the core of his understanding about spirituality. (read more -blog Oct.6-08)

At this time, Buddhism was widely popular through out Japan. Nichiren had a sense of discomfort about this. I sense that Nichiren’s soul was a derivative spirit of God Susanoo. ((a brother of Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Ohomikami in mythology. He is the yin side of the sun. Amaterasu is the yan side of the sun))

So he came up with an idea with a big ambition to become the most famous preacher in Buddhism in order to unite all the Buddhist schools and lead them to worship the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Ohomikami.

The first thing Nichiren did was to go to Mt.Hiei(比叡山) in Kyoto. There he went through all the sutras and found out that the spirit of Amaterasu-Ohomikami was hidden inside The Eleven Headed Kannon or Quan Yin (十一面観世音菩薩) through Myōhō Renge Kyō (妙法蓮華経 = Hokkekyo) sutra. He shivered from astonishment when he found this out. He witnessed the big intention from the Gods in this sutra. He was ready to propagate the belief of Hokkekyo.

Before he started his propagation, he visited the Gegū of The Grand Shrine of Ise. He stayed at Tendaishu Jōmyōji Temple (天台宗常明寺) in Ise. He purified his body with the water from the well every morning and visited the shrine for 100 days asking for mercy to Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Ohomikami so he could complete his mission to unite the Buddhists to chant the Hokkekyo sutra. The historical fact that a man who is trying to open a new stream of Buddhism, visiting a Shinto shrine before his mission is most peculiar. And the journey will unfold to a surprising conclusion. …to be continued.


Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live



*Nichiren 日蓮 :A Buddhist monk of 13th century Japan. A controversial figure during his lifetime, he is the founder of Nichiren Buddhism, a major Japanese Buddhist stream encompassing several schools of often widely conflicting doctrine.(from Wikipedia)

The Secret of Hakusan Part 2

I sensed The Eleven Headed Kannon Bosatsu in Hakusan. He was a Buddhist and that is why he expressed the divine energy form as Kannon Bosatsu. Why was it The Eleven Headed Kannon out of all the Kannon figures? And why was it a Kannon Bosatsu, rather a lower ranked figure and not the higher figure or state such as a Nyorai? With his excellent psychic ability, he couldn’t have mistaken from one to the other.

The secret lies in the number eleven. Number 11 signifies infinity. It means that it includes all the Kannon states or figures and all of the other spirits in existence. The fact that it is a Bosatsu, signifies that this divine spirit is not a spirit that is looking down from a higher place in idleness but she uses her power practically in this realm of reality. Taicho Daishi witnessed, in Hakusan, the root of all gods who uses her power practically in this realm of reality. This is why he expressed the spirit as “The Eleven Headed Kannon”. Taicho Daishi had no interest in attaining eminence. He enjoyed being in the crowd using his gift to heal the people. He didn’t even think of establishing a sect. But the people recognized his great power and the rumor took off which eventually reached to the Emperor’s ears and received in audience by His Majesty. It was quite common for a founder of a sect to be recognized by a man with power and attain support to establish his own sect. However, Taicho Daishi was the only one who received patronage by the Emperor.

The origin of all gods in the world of Japanese Shinto would be 天之御中主神, Amanomeminakanushi-no- Kami. In the understanding of the ancient Shinto, the universe started from the World of Gods called 高天原, Taka-ama-hara. The first god to appear on Takaamahara was Amanomeminakanushi-no- Kami. 
 

It will not be a mistake to say that the No Name God, the Root God is the same as Amanomeminakanushi-no- Kami. It is the god (energy) that is stationed at the center of the universe. God Ōkunitokotachi-Ōkami is the one who materialized the planet earth with his own spiritual vibrational energy when it was still a molten lava. Amanomeminakanushi-no- Kami is the parent of Ōkunitokotachi-Ookami and one could see the figure of this Root God in the sky. It appears in front of us as the North Star. The shift of the North Star means the shift of the universe emerging from the Root. Ōkunitokotachi-Ōkami who created earth has eight children gods. The eight stars surrounding the North Star is the children gods – the Bid Dipper (seven stars) plus a companion star Alcor. These eight star plus the North Star makes nine stars. These nine stars represent the whole universe that brings practical power to our planet. In Japan, these nine stars are worshipped on the Emperor’s enthronement ceremony, Ōnie-no-matsuri, which explains how important these stars are.

The Goddess of Hakusan, Kukuri-hime-Ōkami is the one to “Kukuri- bring together” these nine stars. (Ku also means Nine. Kuri has a meaning to gather). The one to bring together the whole universe happens to be a Hime, a female. This signifies that this chaotic world can only be brought to peace when a female becomes the leader. Like Queen Himiko who governed the Taikoku of Japan in the ancient times.

In the Japanese mythology when the couple (to become parents of Amaterasu-Ohomikami) was fighting at the Yomo-Hirosaka, Goddess Kukuri-hime comes and say “Your future chidren is waiting.”(meaning there is no time for fighting).

All men with power and money, they all know that they will eventually die naked. When we think of the future for our children, deep inside, we all know what we must do NOW.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

The Secret of Hakusan (Mt.Haku) part 1

The sacred mountain Hakusan was the first land that was born which later expanded to become the Chain of Islands of Japan. The original energy form of earth god is Ōkunitokotachi-Ōkami. After he created the whole landscape of this planet earth, he rested on the area where it is now called Hakusan. From there the Chain of Islands of Japan arose and expanded. In the beginning, it was a very different shape from what we see today.

Hakusan arose and the land was created around the mountain all the way to Ise spreading long and narrow to the other end that went very close to the Chinese Continent. Hakusan was three times taller at this time than what it is today. But size of the skirt of the mountain is almost the same as today.This land is directly connected to the chain of mountains, the key line that I have been talking about between Ise and Hakusan, is the center of Honshu (the main continent of Japan).

One side of the skirt spreads all the way very close to the Chinese Continent. Eventually through numerous events of land shifts, the long and narrow land made a right turn and stabled itself to what we see today as the Chain of Islands of Japan. It settled in a shape of a giant dragon that represents the energy form of the god of earth, Ōkunitokotachi-Ōkami.

The god who resides on Hakusan that is the origin of Japan is called Hakusan Kukuri-hime-Ōkami. She rarely appears in any of the mythologies that has been passed on. A very mysterious goddess. She had been intentionally hidden by Amatsu-Kami who created the Japanese culture. But the word “Kukuru”, this ancient word vibrational energy, was left for us to “know” from her name. “Kukuru” comes from “Kukuri-hime”. Hime means goddess or princess , female or hidden, secret. Kukuri or Kukuru means “to gather, or bring together, bind, bundle”.

This secret tells us that Kukuri-hime is NOT the only true god that exists. But it is true that Amaterasu-Ohomikami is the most important god at this epoch of today. And it is also important to know that they are Goddesses.

The secret of Hakusan can also be understood through the works of Taicho-Daishi. I sense that he possessed the greatest psychic ability of all times in the Japanese history, who was able to connect with the sources of The World of Gods.

He was the man who opened Hakusan. When I say “he opened,” it means that he was the first man to train Shugendo in this mountain. He prayed to the god of Hakusan and established Buddhism on this ground. He sensed the Eleven Headed Kannon Bosatsu in Hakusan. The divine vibrational energy level of this Bosatsu is 11. It is the same level as Amanomeminakanushi-no- Kami, the highest level that could be perceived by a human being. The true identity of the Eleven Headed Kannon Bosatsu is one form of Amanomeminakanushi-no- Kami. The reason why the supreme god appeared in a Bosatsu figure is because it was a severely difficult time for the Japanese people and the god decided to show them a figure through the popular religion at that time to help ease the pain. Therefore the Eleven Headed Kannon Bosatsu of Japan and India has a totally different significance and the level of vibrational energy is also different.

Another story is that in the very ancient times, Hakusan was the center ground of Japan to hold spiritual ceremonies. The supreme god, Amanomeminakanushi-no- Kami was worshiped at this sacred ground. However, when the conquerors arrived to this place, they destroyed and closed the place. Until the arrival of Taicho-Daishi, it was a place of taboo. A strong fate of this place can be preceived.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live