The Path to reach the heart of god

There are numerous religions and methods that have been introduced to the world from the ancient times. Most of those teachings were about believing in a savior outside of yourself and not inside your heart. When you believe in something outside of yourself, there are many risks and dangers that come along with it. People spend a lot of time, money and efforts for a long time only to realize one day, is this really the right way to live? Why am I still unfulfilled? Even if you are happy with the religion you believe in, the future is uncertain. What will come at the end? Are you sure your will reach the righteous god? All religion will say beautiful things. But in truth, when you rely on anything outside of yourself, it is a gamble.

Then what belief would bring you safely to the righteous god without any risk? It is the path from your innate god through the pipeline of your ancestors. Only from your innate god, would you reach the Root, the origin of all things. When you trust your innate god, you will start to sense the greater god rather than the god created by humans. When you start to sense that, you will finally feel the absolute comfort being in the realm of reality.

When you worship your ancestral spirits with gratitude, the pipeline that reaches to the Root source will be cleared. You will start to feel grounded in a true sense. You will start to encounter numerous moments in gratefulness. Maybe those things were already there and you are simply starting to realize it. You will start to “know” the true meaning of happiness.

When you continue the gratitude sending to your ancestors, you will naturally start to sense your personal god within. Then you might find another god related to your innate god who has been supporting you. Your direct communication with god(s) will start.

Seek a god within yourself and simply send gratitude to an outer god. Worshiping your ancestral spirits with gratitude is the fasted way to become one with god. Your strongest influence comes from your direct ancestral line. And ascending that stream is the only way to reach the state of god.

The oldest spiritual essence used in the very ancient times is “gratitude” and “yorishiro – 寄り代”(a place for the spirits to reside).The path that I am introducing here includes these essences.
“Yorishiro” is a hidden technique that is the basic secret source in ancient Shinto (Ko-Shinto).

Ancestral worship using tanzaku as a “yorishiro” will actually reach your ancestral spirits. It has a very strong practical power. It is most powerful because you are reaching the spirits who has the strongest fate with you. The occultic rituals created in the past few hundred years are very immature and in no comparison.

If you feel offended or feel fearful to this simple act of ancestral worship with gratitude, please don’t do it at all.

For those who have a strong belief of other ideas or are deeply influenced by the World of Ghosts, will not agree to what I am saying. If you could simply send gratitude to all the daily matters that occur in life, that would be good enough.

Most people will not feel anything and are able to continue with a warm heart. However, in the process, some of you might feel uncomfortableness. That is due to the ancestors’ or your spiritual dust that you are carrying. If you continue with compassion to your ancestors, it will eventually fade away. This process is necessary to prepare yourself to be “baptised” by the spiritual radiation from the sun.

The spiritual radiation from the sun is getting stronger. From now on, human will be divided into two ways. Those who become younger at heart and those who become mentally disordered. Financial wealth has nothing to do with it.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

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The Connection between Heart and Material

Comment from reader: By reading the last blog, a thought came to me. There is a traditional way to process silver ore into pure silver. To explain the process briefly, you let the bone ashes absorb impurities. The impurities along with lead will eventually be all absorbed by the ashes and only pure silver remains. I felt that the human world is the same. In order to become pure, we mix the impurities and refine it to become the genuine element. I want to try not to become the impurity. I thought that the elevation of the dimensions might be just like this chemical phenomenon.

Reply: In the World of Reality, the dimension we live in, all levels of souls are gathered in one place. No matter what sort of environment you are raised in, some do cruel things and some try to help others. For our hearts to mature, both good and bad influences are necessary. The only place where hearts can mature is in this World of Reality. In other dimensions, even in the World of Gods, there is an order where hearts could not mature. It remains in the same condition as when you had entered the dimension.


Even if you’ve managed to have any negative interference in your social life, you might have some health problem and need interference of others in the process of your treatment. As long as you live, you will be interfering with others. Both positive and negative stimulations are necessary for us to mature. When you have recognized that you had received an impure stimulation, simply let it go along with the same quality that you had with you. If people say bad things about you, simply let it go and stop doing the same to others. If people said good things to you that made you happy, do the same to others. If you continue to work on this process, what kind of heart do you think will remain?


This is the same idea of alchemy in the Western mysticism. Alchemy was about purifying a substance into a pure material. This also implicates the idea to change human souls into a pure and harmonious one. The aim was to become one with god. A man who had practiced this in his real life in Japan is Kūkai*. Kūkai was very knowledgeable about minerals. Some experts explain the reason why he opened a temple in Mt.Kōya is because the area has a rich underground vein of mercury. When Kūkai was studying in China, I sense that he was introduced to the Western alchemy and attained a secret ritual that has something to do with the correlation between mercury and the human spirit body. The temple complex built on Mt.Kōya, the pillars are painted in 朱色, vermillion color. To make this particular paint, mercury is used. Layers of vermillion that is made with mercury is also used as a base coat on the Buddhist statue.


Actually, Ise is also a producing center of mercury from the ancient times. Ise district has a rich underground vein of mercury. The color of the circle of light that represents the sun goddess, Amaterasu-Ohomikami witnessed through my vision at Izawa-no-miya of The Grand Shrine of Ise is exactly this vermillion color. Mercury is the most adequate mineral that is necessary to create a color that expresses the most significant god. The spiritual vibrational energy that is radiated from mercury is exquisite and gives effect to stabilize human brain-wave.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

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*Kūkai (空海) or also known posthumously as Kōbō-Daishi (弘法大師), 774–835 CE was a Japanese monk, scholar, poet, and artist, founder of the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism.

From 05-Oct-2008

Someone Like Yourself

People learn and grow by getting scolded by their parent(s) or teachers. When you are scolded, you may not understand the reason and you might hold a grudge against them. The trauma may last for a long time, even in adulthood some people still cannot let go of their painful memory of their childhood. In some cases, those grudges start to dissipate once he or she starts to mature. Many times, he or she really starts to understand when they become the parent. Even though it still doesn’t make sense for what your parent said or did to you, you now may be able to understand from a parent’s stand point. Hopefully you will realize that while your parent is still alive. Usually, it happens after he or she is dead. I too sometimes think about my deceased father and think that I could have done more for him while he was alive. But I think it’s just as good to be in the thoughts. When you think of him or her, think in a cheerful way. Those thoughts will reach to their soul. If you have sad or regretting thoughts, they would worry about you.

During one's life, there will always be people who would criticize you or slander you. Let it be. When he or she is immature, they would not understand you even if you tried to explain. The case might be vice versa. People will eventually grow up.

Outside of the World of Reality, in the other dimensions, souls with similar vibrational energy gather. In other words, they don’t have a chance to meet other kin. Although the spirits in a higher realm are able to go to the lower realm, yet still not able to stay for too long.

From now on, the spirits from the other dimensions are coming into our World of Reality. They are now looking for their kin souls. There is nothing to worry, if you are living proudly to your innate god. A kin spirit coming to you is a wonderful thing. I am very much looking forward to it. How about you?

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

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from Oct.4,2008

Your Own Color is the Best Color

October 10th was the futonorito day (meaning 20 - a divine number adding 10 +10) and the sunspot activity was outrageous. (http://swc.nict.go.jp/sunspot/). Since the 10th, my sleeping time has decreased to three hours. Until last month, if I didn’t have five hours of sleep, my days were a little hard. Now I am just fine with only three hours of sleep. I seem to have more stamina too. The company I work for, the building is quite big, and sometimes I have to run around. I don’t get out of breath anymore. Is this what they call runner’s high? (laugh)

When I hold a baby in my arm, I am overwhelmed by the baby’s spiritual magnetic field, how solid it is. It is not about how high or low her or his level is. He or she solidly holds their own spirit body as their essence. It is so amazing to know and feel that. When you are born to this world, each and every one of us is a representative of god. To maintain your own spirit body in a good condition is the way to bring out your innate god with ease. However, as we grow old, we have thoughts, actions, having ill feelings on others or against you…etc. We repeat all of these things and we add “stuff” onto our spirit body.

Moreover, in recent years, people have been paying a lot of money to become a licensed psychic reader or healer not knowing that they have added a spiritually magnetic energy field to themselves. Healers have become a trendy occupation making a lot of money. This is nonsense, and in truth it is a fraud. These people are ignorant. In time, the answer will be exposed to everyone. By that time, it will be too late to turn back.

If you interfere with other spiritual magnetic field in exchange with money, your innate god will hide, your life force will shrink, and cuts down your life span. One's life span is determined by how pure you maintain your original spirit body.

When you believe in yourself, you are maintaining your innate god and your life span will be as long as it should be. You will look younger than your actual age.

People who are in the “spiritual business”, might talk about how your soul is higher or lower than others, but this doesn't really matter. Whoever kept his or her own “color” is the successor.
Psychics who give spiritual dust to others, will age faster, some loses hair in younger age. They usually don’t live long. But on the other hand, when that psychic has an evil spirit behind, they live much longer. The ones whose works are lackadaisical, death will approach in their 50’s.

Those who are ordinary people, simply live by believing in yourself, even if you are ill or in misery. That is your “color.” If you can live in gratitude, you have nothing to worry about. In fact, that it the most wonderful way of living. You will be led to live in a place where everyone is in gratitude. It is a very comfortable place.

If this strong sun spiritual radiation continues, the psychics who make a living out of their “spiritual business” might not be able to survive. With the sun radiation starting from next year, his or her spirit body might be burnt by the sun.

The sunset is exceptionally beautiful on the day when intense sunspot is exposed.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

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from blog of 10.19.2008

A Precept from God about Cannibalism

A while ago when I had a dinner meeting with a doctor who specializes in genetic disease, we discussed about AIDS. He told me about a discovery on a tribe with a custom of cannibalism. They researched the tribes’ skeletal remains and the descendents’ conditions to discover that they had an immune related disease similar to AIDS. God may had created such precept for cannibals to have problems in the immune system which eventually lead to extinction of the group of humans or animals.

The doctor said that the key source is protein. When you bring in the same DNA type of protein into your body it creates some sort of disorder.

In my understanding, AIDS had started from a sexual contact between two men who has the same chromosome. With my amateur mind, I thought that when the protein/sperm is absorbed from one man to another, it is just like cannibalism. One is taking another human’s protein. Male and female have a different chromosome, so there is no problem. There are of course many other professional opinions on the HIV outbreak. This is just my thought. But when I start to think about it, my mind went on to think about the genetically engineered seeds and fertilizers. The industry is creating a specific type of protein in the plant genes, so when the pests eat the plant they would die from it. The livestock and we humans are consuming these plants. Most beef are made out of cows eating these GM plants. Simply by looking at the immune disease, I sense that engineering protein is against the natural order.

From next year, fertilizer export restraint regulations will occur due to the resource problem. We might have to rely on chemical fertilizers more and more. However, if we start to worry too much, there will be nothing for us to eat. I too will be eating out when I go on a trip. We simply have to accept the condition of this modern society.

But knowing about this or not will make a big difference. You could make a choice when you have to eat out. I would suggest avoiding eating beef in a cheap or fast food restaurant. If you have to eat beef, buy the expensive domestic ones. The cheap imported beef will damage your intestine. From now on, due to the vibrational frequency of earth, if you eat a lot of meat, there is a possibility to cause bloody stool.


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Breathe in from your nose

Breathing in from one’s nose is very important for both your physical body and spirit body. I sense when you breathe in for your mouth, the germs goes directly into your body. You may not feel it right away, but your immune system is weakened, and lowers your metabolism, which will lead to gaining weight. People who are overweight tend to breathe from their mouth. Whether they started to breathe with their mouth because of obesity, or they gained weight because of mouth breathing is uncertain, but if you want to loose weight, you might want to try breathing with your nose. People who have breathed in a spirit(s) that had come around would more likely gain weight.

From now on, the sun radiation will be become stronger, and the spirit body will become dominant rather than the physical body. The physical body’s immune system will become weaker and weaker every year. So it is better to breath from the nose to protect yourself from germs and bacteria.

The lost souls and evil spirits are structured by rough magnetism and form into a cloud like solid state. When this cloud like form tries to get into a human body, I sense that a nose hole would be too small to enter. So it is waiting for the mouth to open. You should try to sleep with your mouth closed. When we die, we(the soul and the innate god) also leave the physical body from the mouth. It looks simply as a reflex of the muscles but it may be god’s creation as a natural providence for the soul to leave the body. Some people feel tired when they wake up in the morning. There are two reasons for this. One is because a spirit had entered during one’s sleep from the mouth. The other is caused by stuffy nose which creates oxygen deficiency. In my case, I seem to breath with my nose quite deeply. My wife tells me that it makes a very deep noise, she feels like she might get sucked in [laugh].

When my nose is stuffy, it is very hard to sleep. In the beginning, I used to use the spray type medicine. But I got the burning sensation in my throat, and the chemicals started to bother me. So I went to the drug store to try and find something else and I found a nose clip. It's a half round clip like the cow ring. You clip it in your nose holes. This pushes the inner part of your nose inward and spreads the hole so more air flow is created. Your sleeping face will look funny, but it works very well. It works to stop snoring as well.

The yogis clean their nose by putting a cotton string into their nose and out their mouth. It is because during meditation the amount of oxygen flow is very important. I don’ t think you need to do this far, but having a good flow of air in your nose is a good thing both for your health and spiritual protection.

In the Japanese ancient script Kojiki 古事記, God Susanoo was born from Izanagi, when she had blown her nose. Susanoo who came out from her mother’s nose, when he appears in a human figure he would have a very beautiful nose. It was not just big but a graceful nose. The mythology of Susanoo tells us about many different sides of humanness in the World of Reality. Susanoo who expresses the multiple qualities of humanness was born from a nose. This signifies that the nose plays a very important part of a human body. Thus nose breathing becomes very important. Deep nose breathing will help spiritual growth. This time, out of all the millions of gods, it looks like the Kongenshin -Root God wants to put Susanoo as the main play role.

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Buddha’s True Intention

In my understanding, the only real teachings made directly by Buddha is Shitai 四諦 and Hashoudo 八正道. I sense that the essence of these teachings is based on only two matters. Accepting the situation, and live with gratitude. The rest of the teachings were developed few hundred years later after his death. His teachings were cheerful and vital. The religion that used Buddha created many wrong doings.


From the Hashoudo -八正道 (The Eight Right Paths), I sense particularly the Seichi-正知 teaching; to know about life in the right way, tells us the spiritual essence of his teaching.

Shitai teachings -四諦 (The Four Basics of Buddhism); 1) The truth of life is about suffering. 2) The cause of the suffering comes from attachment. 3) When you overcome the suffering you reach enlightenment 4) The path to reach enlightenment is Buddhism. From Shitai, #1) is the basics of Buddha. He tells that life is about suffering. It is normal that you are suffering. If you try to run away from it, you are going against the universal nature.

People try to avoid pain and use god or pay money to someone who claims to take the pain away from you. This will definitely result in receiving more pain later. It is because these people are going against the universal truth. Buddha says, human cannot run away from life, aging, illness, and the shadow of death. No matter how rich you are or how poor you are, sexual problems between men and women, fear of aging, sickness and death are always equally there for everyone. All of our problems are based on these four matters.

That is why, the NOW is so important. When you are having an ordinary life, that is a miracle and you should be very grateful for it. When pain or difficulty arises, that is the normal condition to be in. Those who are in gratitude in every moment are the ones who have overcome all the four conditions. This applies to #3).

Buddha tells me that those are the enlightened ones. You might think, oh dear, even after I am enlightened do I still have to deal with pain and sufferings?

That is right. You do. But when you are enlightened, you will understand that life is short and both suffering and joy will eventually disappear. You will understand that both suffering and joy is a precious thing that you are allowed to experience in life and be in gratitude. Even in hardships, you will always be able to keep a gentle smile on your face. You will start to feel that everything is precious. This is Satori – enlightenment, Kannagara=to be one with your own innate god.

Sitting in meditation for hours is a waste of time. You will only be in the dream world I call Makkyo 魔境-the demonic realm. How many did actually reach true enlightenment through meditation? There are only a hand full in this past thousand years out of the billions who attempted. Don't waste your time in doing such thing. If you have time to meditate, get involved in the real social world, and together with your innate god, accept everything that comes along with gratitude.

Deal cheerfully with all situations. This is what Buddha wanted for people.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

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The Descent of Nichiren

According to my reading, people of the ancient Mu had migrated in the area that is now called Isobe-cho (town) in Ise where Izawano-miya shrine is located. These people were a group of priests from Mu who worshiped the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu-Ohomikami ( in Japanese term). These people were extremely skilled in swimming. They swam like mermaids. Spiritually, they inherit the gene of the mermaid tribes. In the time of Mu, there were people who were half fish and half human. Other local people discriminated them and called them Kaijin “ocean tribes”. They were only allowed to live by the ocean in a limited area. But in fact, this limitation allowed them to maintain their line of descent for a very long time. I sense that they eventually spread through the whole cost line of Japan. I sense, Wajima in Noto Penninsula is another location where many of these ocean tribes migrated.

One of the poor ocean tribe people who lived by the shore who became famous is Nichiren*. I sense that he felt a strong connection with the sun since birth. I also sense that his mother while she was pregnant with him had experienced the rising sun jumping into her stomach. Nishiren himself have been sensing a special vibrational energy from the sun since childhood. But he didn't know what it was. Because his family was poor, one day, he decided to go to live in a temple and became a monk. In the Hokekyo sutra, he felt the same vibrational energy that he was feeling from the sun. It is sad to see the teachings have changed so much since those days. Like the teachings of Buddha, today, it is very different from the original.

There is an unknown story of Nichiren. Before his foundation of a stream in Buddhism, he secludes himself in Tendai-shu Domyo-ji temple, cleansing every morning at the “Well of Vow” before visiting The Grand Shrine of Ise, Gegū for a hundred days. Domyo-ji temple is an uji-dera* of the Watarai family who was in charge of all the ceremonies held at The Grand Shrine of Ise, Gegū. Mr. Watarai is the founder of Ise Shinto, who said that The Grand Shrine of Ise, Gegū is the place where the supreme god of this earth resides. Interestingly enough, Mr. Watarai was also born in Isobe-cho.

Japan is such a mysterious place! I sense a divine grand plan.

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*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.

*uji-dera 氏寺: A Buddhist temple financially supported by an aristocratic family.

Mappo is the shinning Era of the Future

Mappo-末法, or The Latter Day of the Law, is one of the Three Ages of Buddhism. First phase (Age of Shoubou 正法), which lasts 1,000 years (some say 500 years) following the death of the Gautama Buddha. Second phase (Age of Zoubou 像法), which lasts 1,000 years; during this period the practice of the Law begins to deteriorate. Also called the "Age of Copied Law" or the "Age of the Imitation Law. Last phase (the Age of Mappo 末法), which lasts 10,000 years; during this period, the practice of the Law declines until no one follows the Buddhist tenets; also called the "Age of the Decline of the Law." Some people in the Middle Ages interpreted as “the end of the world”, but it only signifies the decline of Buddhism. It is only predicting that as the time goes by, Buddhism will no longer work. It does not indicate cataclysm or any arrival of negative conditions in the world. Therefore, Mappo does not imply “the end of the world.” (from a free dictionary)

I sense that this is one of the very few prophecies Buddha had actually predicted. The calculation of the years would match as Mappo being this present era. I feel that Buddha meant, not only Buddhism, but the end of all forms of religions that is ran by organizations or gatherings.

Today, the environment of earth magnetic field is dramatically changing. There is a very close relationship between the spirit-part of human and the magnetic field. Until now, the environment of earth magnetic field has changed, and the religious rituals and incantations that worked before are loosing its practical power. Some may even start to work negatively. From now on, meditation techniques, incantations, the ideas people thought as divine power that was bought and sold with money, and anything that lead people to depend on spiritual power outside of oneself will cause a decline of one’s level of spirit-self.

However, there are some ideas in religious teachings that will still be effective. For example, the Buddhist teaching taught by Dōgen. He taught that one will see the light by devoting and simply focusing on doing the daily works such as house cleaning, cooking, farming or family business. This idea will still be effective. I would say this kind of work is a “meditation with eyes open.” This will lead to the path of innate god. It is more important to do the work that is in front of you with your eyes open, than the regular sitting meditation.

Ancestral worship is the same. It is always best to send gratitude by yourself. If you do it under an organization and letting the leader pray for you, it will not properly reach to your ancestors. The “color” of the leader is different from your own “color”. Your ancestors will not appreciate the difference of the colors. Even doing any kind of volunteer work is the same. It has to come from “your own will”. If someone else or an organization forced you to do it, it doesn’t have the same meaning.

This can be related to the Divine Revelation received from the Future God of the Sun by Aleister Crowley, The Great Beast. When he was traveling in Egypt, on April 8th, 1904, he received the revelation “Do what thou wilt”. This Great Beast is the seventh dimension derivative of Susanoo.

Mappo is about releasing all the spirit’s magic chains. It is the beginning of the century where humans will become one with their own innate god.

“Do what thou conscience (innate god) wilt!”
- by Ryman-Ise-Hakusan-Do
This is the way of kannagara….

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

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Mother God of Earth

In each country, a Jiboshin (地母神), mother god of earth, resides. These mother gods of earth are one family line and they are globally networking. They usually reside on great chain of mountains around the world where the snow falls.
The leader Jiboshin of this network resides in Japan. It is the God Hakusan. This deity is at the eleventh dimension and it posses both mother and father quality. Amaterasu-Ohomikami is at the tenth dimension and her main focus is to protect and mother the land of Japan. But God Hakusan is more of a global god and in a way, it doesn’t show any special affection to the Japanese people. When I look at Mt.Haku from a distance, I can see the Kailas Range of Tibet and the Rocky Mountains of North America overlapping. In Mt.Haku, I sense a spiritual energy that runs globally beyond the realm of Japan. The local people call this mountain “Shira-yama.” This tells me that ancient people from other continents had come to admire this mountain. The sound of “shira” has a vibration of the Chinese tribes. What I am trying to say is that this mountain has attracted people from all over the world from the ancient times.

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Festivals are Resuscitation ・Rebirth

The other day, I saw a TV show titled “Ise and the Japanese people.” I was able to see only a part of the show, but it was very interesting. They were talking about why the sengu had to be done every twenty years. In a Japanese tradition, twenty years to learn a technique of some kind seems to be quite common. So the twenty years cycle passing on from one generation to another would be adequate. I was expecting to hear that kind of answer. However, the intellectual who was invited to talk about it said something interesting. My interpretation of his speech is, “the spiritual power of the gods will start to decline after twenty years. So every twenty years, we do the grand festival, the sengu, to resuscitate and give a rebirth to its power. ” As for an academic person, he said something quite right even from a spiritual perspective. I was unexpectedly impressed. When you look at the old documents about the festivals held at The Grand Shrine of Ise, they seriously believed that the power of the gods have a cycle of life and death, just like the rising and the setting of the sun. So they held many festivals and events in different season to maintain the divine power.

Every year, all over Japan, in Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples there are festivals such as hadaka-matsuri (running around the town naked)or kenka-matsuri (fighting fest)to revitalize the energy of the gods. The people who all carry innate god gather and enjoy the wildness. When I see the excited people carrying the mikoshi (portable shrine), everyone’s magnetic energy is strongly emanated creating a huge ball of energy. As the festival goes on, the ball is “kneaded” and becomes bigger and bigger. At the end, when the mikoshi reaches the main shrine, the huge ball of energy subsides inside the shrine. In a regular shrine, a big festival is held once a year. Every time people pay a visit to a shrine and leave their wishes, the energy ball shrinks. And in one year, the festival revitalizes it again. So when people stop holding festivals, it means the gods will disappear from the shrine or the temple. Thus the shrine or the temple will be a deserted place.

The sengu of The Grand Shrine of Ise is a super grand festival. They prepare twenty years for the next festival. The offerings are made with the finest skills and hearts. The magnetic spiritual energy of the craftsmen is “kneaded” into the works. Thus the process itself is already a part of the Shinji – work for the divine. Every morning when we are doing the gratitude sending with incense to our ancestors, or changing the water on our altar, we are also “kneading” the magnetic spiritual energy. The act will resuscitate and revitalize the god spirits and our ancestral spirits.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

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Dissolve mental problems on your own

Mentally disordered patients are less welcomed by the spirit mediums and healers who know at least a little about the spirit world. Healers who receive money in exchange for a session cannot dissolve this kind of illness. While you are receiving money, a righteous god will never come to help the session. The patient does not know about this and keeps paying only to give away their life force.

Mental illness has a lot to do with the spirit world and it cannot be dissolved so easily. The longer the progression of the illness, the more interference of the spirits. It becomes more and more difficult to extricate from the situation.

Those who have been complaining about life for a longtime or blaming or cursing the world or others for one’s misfortune will start to have mental illness. And the spirits who are in the same mental condition will start to interfere. When the mental illness is expressed aloud with vulgarity in speech, action and face expression, it is already out of control. The spirits have taken over. The person him/herself is like a string puppet even with a potential to commit an indiscriminate killing.

From now on, there will be more and more clients who come with problems that has to do with demonic interference. The healers who receive money from clients will be in deep trouble between their own interference by the demons and the client’s. The demonic world is capable of manipulating people to an extreme such as mass murder. They can easily defeat healers receiving money for their work.

There is a way to prevent oneself from becoming mentally ill. It can be done by ancestral worship with gratitude. If any of your ancestral spirits are still lost souls, you are receiving the negative vibrational energy from them. This energy has an influence to your depression. If you don't do anything about it, the sickness will worsen. In fact, before blaming the depression to your ancestors, you must realize that it happened because you are weak and you are trying to runaway from your own problem. It really started from you and, you must realize that you are the only person who can heal yourself. An outside help cannot do a complete cure.

Even when a shaman has given you a cleansing ritual or a counselor giving you a therapy session, it will be only a temporary relief.

From my past experience with long term (more than a decade) depression and anxiety problem clients, there are many cases that were solved by ancestral worship with gratitude.

There are different types of depressions, but here is my advice in the order from lighter symptoms to heavier ones.

１）　Act on ancestral worship with gratitude using three incense.

If this becomes too hard on you,

２）　Simply light three incense to your ancestral spirits and the other spirits without saying the words.　

If this is still too hard on you,

３）　Send gratitude daily to anything you could think of.

If the condition is severe and the person is not capable to act on any of the above three,

4) The family member with same last name to act on 1). It will take time, but the condition should get better. When the person him/herself starts to feel better and capable on acting on his/her own, it will always work faster.

Life is short. We need to make an effort on our own.
If you are dependent on others and have expectations, nothing will change.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank your for letting us live

Overcome Sins with Goodness

There is a summer event in Shinto called “Chinowa-kuguri”. The event is to pass several times through a large loop made out of kaya-kusa, sedges, and bamboos. By doing so, it is said to cleanse you from sins and epidemics, and clear away evil spirits.

I sense “death and resuscitation” in this act of “passing through the loop”. And when I did a reading on the origin of this event, I started to see the ancient agricultural age. After the harvesting, people made a hut with the same materials, sedge and bamboo. The farmers would stay in the hut quietly for two weeks to experience the oneness with god. It was to heal the body from all the work, but also to apologize and cleanse the sin for killing the small creatures in the soil during the production of the crops and to capture animals for food. The idea of “vow and cleanse” is the basics in Shintoism. As the time goes by, people felt that they didn’t have enough time to sit for two weeks, so it had been simplified into the event of “Chinowa-kuguri”. In the ancient times, people shut oneself in a hut once a year in order to experience the oneness with god, and to cleanse one’s sins.

The cells that construct our body are repeating the cycle of “death and resuscitation”. Even in a healthy body, cancer cells are produced every day and immune cells are fighting against it on a daily basis. When the cancer cells are little stronger then the immune cells for a certain amount of time, it will form a focus. Whether the cancer is malignant or benignant depends on one’s emotions. If one is cursing another, complaining all the time, selfish, or worried and having no sense of gratitude, these feelings will help to increase the cancer cells. On the other hand, feelings that will help to increase the immune cells is to have the sense of gratitude that you are led to live by the source, the Root. Everyone possesses both cancer cells and immune cells. As long as we live, we will make mistakes and create sins. Everyone carries both “Sin and Goodness”. If you know that you have sinned in the past, don’t forget about it and keep adding more goodness into your life, so at the end, goodness overcomes the sins. If you know you have sinned, you have more fate to be saved. Today, the “Chinowa-kuguri” can be done by saying “Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu. Thank you for letting us live.”

Depression

Q… During my high school and college years, I had social phobia and depressed most of the time. When I couldn’t communicate with people, I became depressed. Sometimes, it was so severe I couldn’t even sleep. Three years ago, I went to a psychiatrist who prescribed me anti-depression pills. I continued to take them for six months but it didn't really help. I know I had to do something about it, so I researched about the idea on “ki (chi)” energy. I started to do yoga and chi-gong exercises and another exercise called shiko-fumi (stamping of the ground done in Sumo wrestling) 100 times. The shiko-fumi is said to ground one’s energy. I also have been going to acupuncture treatment. In addition, I started the ancestral worship with gratitude after reading your book. As a result, I don't know what is really working for me, but I am less depressed and enjoying my daily life. My major at school was in the field of science and I plan to work in the same field. Therefore, I didn’t believe in the ideas about spirits and chi energy that I cannot see with my own eyes. However, recently, I couldn’t stop thinking that the experiences I had have something to do with the invisible energy. It is just my feeling, but I would appreciate if you could help me to understand a little more.

A.. This kind of depression, most of the time, comes from having lost souls in your ancestral pipeline. In his case, his problem started around the growth period. Most of the time, this means it’s not a physical cause. The descendents who have parents with expectations tend to be influenced by his/her ancestral spirits. Stop the gratitude sending to your ancestors and try doing just the other exercises. You will find out that the exercises only work for a while. Eventually the depression will come back on you.

The lost souls are not enjoying giving a hard time to their descendents. While you are alive, you might have sworn not to interfere with your descendents’ lives. However, when you die, you might think differently. All the people who exist here today are a result of something like a super complicated lottery that picked the combinations from time before time. The line that created You is only one line of combinations, that is your family line. On this single line, all of your ancestral spirits reside. When you die in peace with no regrets, you are able to choose another spirit line for your own growth. However, when you are not in peace and lost, you will remain in the same family line. The more lost souls in the ancestral line, the harder the descendents’ lives will be. When the pipeline is plugged, the spiritual force from the Root cannot reach you. All creatures derive from the Root. The breath from the Root becomes the life force for all humans.

Some people pay a lot of money to some ghost busters, trying to get rid of the lost souls. This is not the right way to solve your problem. Instead, it will worsen the situation. The only way to solve your situation is by sending gratitude to your ancestral spirits. This will clear your pipeline and increase life force.

Modern science understands only the surface of the magnetic fields. I sense that magnetic fields contain memories of the past and future. I sense that the human’s DNA, that format a physical body, is affected by his/her individual magnetic field. I believe this idea will be the key to elucidate the mystery about the universe. It will influence the concept of space and time. With the limiting knowledge of today’s science, the truth about the spirit world cannot be comprehended.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

God is a fluid light

Q.. How are the Japanese Gods dressed?

A.. I have never seen a true god dressed nor in a human-like figure. I only see a shape of a fluid light or shall I say the light is forming a fluid shape. When I see something that forms a human-like figure, I immediately leave the place. The lower level existence tends to take the shape of a human figure.

From my experience, the color of the light is important. The existence cannot control its color. They cannot pretend to be another color no matter what. I can only tell the color when I have the permission.

Q.. What is a dragon ? Is it an entity that we cannot see in this dimension? Or did we use to have them on this earth plane?

A.. When the deities move around, the energy warps just like the flare on the surface of the sun. The ancient people were able to see this movement of energy and described it as dragons. There is another type of dragon figure entities that is the spirit of dinosaurs. 「竜神」is a spirit of dinosaur. There are two different dragon spirits. 「龍神」and「竜神」.
They can both be read as Ryujin, a dragon entity, but it is a totally different entity. 「竜神」has once had a physical body of a dinosaur in the ancient time. It comes from the World of Ghosts. At present, I sense that chickens inherit this dinosaur’s spirit body and DNA. At The Grand Shrine of Ise, they keep chickens free at the sacred ground which has to do with the sun worship tradition. Knowing that they have the spirit of dinosaurs, makes me feel excited and in wonderment. 「龍神」has never had a physical body. It is another form of divine energy. It looks like a dragon when it is moving from one place to another twisting its fluid energy body. The people in the ancient time were able to see this. The ranks of these two spirits are quite different.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Sun Goddess - Amaterasu-Ohomikami

My favorite person, Munetada Kurozumi has written a poem using the letter 「太」several times when writing Amaterasu-Ohomikami. 「太」means bold or abundantly inflated. Sun is 「太陽」which also uses the same letter. The fact that the letter 「太」needs to be used in describing 「天照太御神」* Amaterasu-Ohomikami can only be understood when you actually sense the deity. I need to use this letter. This is the only adequate letter to describe the deity. I cannot explain it in words.

( 「天照太御神」is commonly written as「 天照大御神 」without the dot in the middle of the letter 「大」.「大」 basically means big, large or great. 「太」means big, bold, bord, abundantly inflated. The sun is 「太陽」which means "abundantly inflated Yan energy".)

Amaterasu-Ohomikami is the actual name of the deity, and the word itself creates a powerful kotodama. These ten letters (in Japanese) each have divine meanings. Out of the ten, the special ones are:

ア　A = Beginning of the universe.

ラ　Ra(La) = The current civilization. This 6000 years of earth civilization. The World of the Sun God is the leading role in this civilization. La= The sun god.

ス　Su = The Root God. It sits in the middle of the ten letters.

ホ　Ho = Hoto is the female organ. It means “birth” and “embrace”.

At Ise Izawa-no-miya, I witnessed the circle of light of Amaterasu-Ohomikami. There is no sense of sex but my impression was “motherhood”. Amaterasu-Ohomikami is commonly written as Ōmikami but it has to be Ohomikami . That gives the correct kotodama.

When you say it, emphasize these four letters. Say it in your mind, on the train ride as you go to work or while you are caught in traffic in your car. Say it again as many times as you like when you feel the sun in the morning. It will be effective.

From now on, all gods including Buddha, Bosatsu (Bodhisattva) will return to the Root. Before the recurrence, they will gather at Amaterasu-Ohomikami.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Hierarchy of the World of Gods

We humans cannot really seize to come about the truth of god. It is an inconceivable existence. When you start trying to explain about god, the mistake is already happening. But humans are weak. When one keeps it “unknown”, one cannot continue to praise and pay respect. Therefore, I would like to talk about how I sensed “god” in the past. This is only one small part of what it might be.

First of all, in the World of Gods, all gods are derivatives of the Root god and its hierarchy figure is in a pyramid shape. This Root god really has no name. The moment a name is created, it means, that a human being has detected it. Thus it is no longer the Root god. The job of this “existence” seems to be just giving birth. From this Root god, Jehovah, Allah, Amaterasu-Ohomikami….. all of these energy figures have derived. The figure would look different depending on how each part of the world perceives it.

For example, Amaterasu-Ohomikami derived from the Root, and then other gods were created through Amaterasu-Ohomikami. The same thing happened with Jehovah and Allah. They created other gods, saints and holy spirits, and configured a world of its own.

In the case of Amaterasu-Ohomikami, this divine spirit is divided into ten. This is how I use the word “rank”. There are rank 1 to rank 10(highest) of Amaterasu-Ohomikami’s existence. When I describe the level of a shrine, I would say, “this shrine has the sensation of such and such rank of such and such god”. In the case of The Grand Shrine of Ise, Izawa-no-miya, I sense the 10th rank, the highest of Amaterasu-Ohomikami. At present, Naigū is at the 8th rank. However, it is still in a growing process. The fact that the divine spirits still reside alone, is already quite fascinating. It is getting more and more rare on this earth. The feeling that comes from the act of “worship” by the humans reaches to the divine spirit, and through that sensation, the divine spirits decides to reside.

At present time, the word vibration said by humans that makes the divine spirits of all religions all over the world joyous, is “Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu.”

For now, we stand at the crossroads. One road leads us to become one with the Root God, the other road will lead us to extinction. All the dimensions will merge either with the World of Reality or with the Root God.

At this time most of the deities are returning to the Root in order to reconstruct the World of Gods and the World of Ghosts. Therefore, one cannot depend on any god. The spirits you should be dealing with are the sun goddess, Amaterasu-Ohomikami, your innate god and your ancestral spirits. All matters can be dealt through this trinity.

All civilization will reach to worship the sun. In the case of the Spirit World of Japan, Amaterasu-Ohomikami is the most important god.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Monologue

From the blog written last year, I have mentioned about the process we will be experiencing towards The Days of Miroku.

• Time will pass faster
• World map will change due to the rising of sea level
• Decrease in the amount of food consumption.
• The power of the kotodama “Ikashite -itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu(Thank you for letting us live)” that effects the all mighty will be revealed.
• The average temperature will be around 20℃(68°F) all year around after the shift.
•The influence from the sun radiation.

The electro-magnetic waves from the sun are getting stronger, thus it is like the earth being in a microwave oven. It is heated from the inside. The ice of the North Pole and the South Pole is melting not from the surface but from below.

On the surface, it is simply electro-magnetic waves but there is also the spiritual energy of the sun that is getting stronger. This will change the whole structure of earth from the basis. There will be a big revolution in the environment, geological features, weather, temperature.

The melting of the ice will create cold summers, and sudden high rise of temperature. The four seasons is ignored and temperature will fluctuate in both extreme. The heat increase from the inside will cause volcanic eruption.


Commentary:

This August of 2008, the occurrence of sunspot was zero. The media had announced that this had never happened in the past 100 years.

Henrik Svensmark , a physicist at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen who studies the effects of cosmic rays on cloud, explains this phenomenon as a decrease of sun activity. ⇒decrease of the magnetic activity of the sun. ⇒ This causes increase of cosmic rays to reach earth. ⇒ create more clouds that will protect the earth from harmful radiation. ⇒ More clouds create more rain, but less clouds means more harmful radiation that could be fatal to humanity ⇒ The increase of clouds will bring less sun light to earth ⇒ creates a fall in temperature (mini-ice age).

In Hokkaido (northern island), this summer they recorded the lowest temperature in 115 years. Mt.Fuji had its first snow fall on August 9th, the earliest snow fall recorded in 94 years. These are evidences to the fall of temperature related to the decrease of sunspot occurrence. But on the other hand, NASA is reporting that the sun activity is entering the active 24th cycle, and the magnetic energy of this term may influence humanity in a way we have never experienced before. They are also predicting the global warming in this cycle. The scientist’s opinions seem to be different. Most of them are predicting global warming and some are predicting the opposite. In my psychic vision, the future, The Days of Miroku, is stabilized around average 20 °C all year around. This vision is about what happens after the shift of earth and human evolution. But according to my god spirit, we are already moving toward that world.

As my god explains, the temperature will fluctuate in both extremes. Giving an extreme example, an average of 20 °C could mean, 15 days of 40°C and 15 days of 0°C in one month. My god explains the fluctuation of temperature in both extreme will repeat its cycle. If this is really going to continue, there will be a big influence to our lives on this planet. This short term fluctuation of temperature is already happening. But according to the revelation I received, “this will actually start happening from June 2009(Heisei 21 in Japanese calendar)”, if our consciousness did not change by then. Last year, I received a revelation that “the consciousness of Japan on September 18th 2008(Heisei 20) will become the basic consciousness that will be transferred to the future of earth. If the 18th of this month, is a peaceful one, the future of our world will be peaceful. If by the 18th some problem occurs and the nation is in a negative emotional condition, that condition will be transferred to the world. I believe that it will be all right, since the awareness of gratitude is spreading more than at the time I had received this revelation. We can change the future. I was not permitted to talk about “dates” given by my kenzoku-shin, retainer god. But this time, he gave me the permission to write but only once.

When problems occur, people tend to blame it on the government or others. This means that these people have the tendency to depend on them. Instead, we need to depend on our Innate God. The purpose of our life is to make an effort in nurturing your own goodness/righteousness within, trusting your gut feeling.

You don’t even have to believe in what I say. Just sense it and make your own decision.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Tracing the Three Stone Pillars

Where are the Three Stone Pillars on the ceremonial ground at the top of ancient Hakusan, now?. Where are they now? I did a reading on it. Before the attack from another tribe, some of the people escaped to Shamballa along with the priest. But there were some that received a mandate from the priest to bring the main pillar and one of the other pillars to Ise. The rest of the tribes scattered to different places all over Japan. The main pillar is now under the open ground of The Grand Shrine of Ise Gegu. This is where the new shrine will be built in 2012. The stone pillar is buried underground in the center as the divine pillar. The other pillar was transferred to the Continent of Mu, and was worshipped as a place for the sun god to reside. Just before the Continent of Mu sank, the priests of Mu delivered the pillar to Isobe-cho in Ise . That is now where Izawa-no-miya stands. The people of Isobe-cho are descendents of the people from the Continent of Mu. By the way, the third stone pillar was taken away by the other tribes to Mt.Pekuto, the sacred mountain of Korea.

When I was reading this part, all of a sudden my consciousness jumped to Isobe-cho of the 20th century. I started to see a man. He has deceased. He was a nameless man who practiced Shinto. He was actually sent from the World of Gods as a kamibito. He embodied the soul of the ninth rank of the Kishin Seijin Kai* of Susanoo line. The ninth rank is the highest rank that can incarnate into a physical body. This person has saved the nation in crisis several times from behind the scenes. The fact that the Imperial Family was able to remain in its position even after the war had to do with his hidden effort. This person had been bestowed a spiritual “Divine Sword” from the World of Gods. It seems that by using this spiritual treasure, he pursued his duties to protect the Spirit of Japan. There seems to be a person at this present time who has inherited this “Divine Sword”. Guess where this person is now?

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live


*Seijin Kai 正神界: The World of Righteous God
* Kishin 鬼神：Direct translation wil be ogre or demonic god. Kishin is one type of god in the order of Seijin Kai.

Shamballa Tribes

This morning, I was driving my car to go to work. It was a nice sunny day. Just when I started to feel something was different from an ordinary day, I saw a belt of light coming up from the ground. It was going up and down as it was scanning the pedestrians. It looked like it was examining a patient. This light belt scanned through me as well on that same day. The light was coming from the ground and not from the sky. It felt like it was checking the soul’s history and the current status of consciousness. It felt like it said, “I’ll be back”. Then a vision came into my mind.. ancient Hakusan. In this vision of the ancient time at Hakusan, there was a ceremonial ground. This ground constitutes the heart and soul of Japan. The scene was people worshipping the highest god of the World of God, Amenominakanushi-no-kami. Two stone pillars were standing and a woven rope made out of tree bark was tied up in between.

Then one more pillar stood behind the two. From that place looking towards the Japan Sea, Noto peninsula was larger than that of today. It was further out almost reaching close to Korea and China. The priest of this ceremonial ground was a Reijin* . The priest and the tribe of this Hakusan Kingdom sensed the coming of a sudden attack from another tribe, and escaped into the underground tunnel to another dimension, to the phantasmal “Shamballa”.

After the earthquake in Noto peninsula, “the blood stream” has started to flow again between Ise and Hakusan. This line is the main artery of the original divine spiritual body of the chain of islands of Japan. The blood stream will eventually run through the entire body, the whole of Japan. This means the origin god of Japan, Kunitokotachi-Okami, will wake up and start to move.

I sense that the tribes in Shamballa are searching for the right people to be riding the dragon shape body of Kunitokotachi-Ōkami. They are looking for the people who care for the things that are taken for granted and, who have the sense of gratitude. Half of 2007 has ended. The other half seems to be like the closer time of the long long journey of the human souls. From 2008, turbulent times will come.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live


Reijin 霊人: During this time (apprx. 300,000 yrs ago), humans were all half spirit half physical and transparent. The spirit part was the main function. The one’s that shine brighter than others were selected to become priests.

Hakusan (Mt.Haku)

There are many Hakusan Shrines all over Japan, the highest number of shrines with the same name. No one knows why there are so many. It is indeed strange. There is a secret god who was concealed in the past. Geographically, the line between Hakusan and Ise is a key that plays an important role. It also has to do with the sun worship traditon.

My special mountain is Hakusan. I could see the Light Pillar towards the heaven not from the shrine but from the top of this mountain. I saw it from the Noumi plane. It is very rare to see the pillar at this location. The color is white and the size of the pillar is gigantic. I sense that this Ise-Hakusan line holds the key on earth.

Q.. Who is the secret god of Hakusan Shrine? And who concealed this god? Please tell me.
A.. The secret god is Kukuri-hime-kami. She is the god who can re-fasten the loosened human souls. This goddess is able to influence your helical DNA structure. When she is concealed, the human hoops are loosened, and wars and crimes are created.

I sensed that, in ancient times, a very important being was worshipped at the top of Hakusan. It had to do with sun worship. A kingdom existed around this area and Hakusan was the center of it.

When you visit the Hakusan Hime Shrine and Ise Gegū, you will be receiving the active vibration of the sun. The light pillar will also be rising at the top of the Hakusan, so if possible, go to the entrance of the trail and spend a few hours and then go to Ise. This would be the ideal trip. If that sounds a little too much, Hakusan Hime Shrine is an easier access. Heizenji-Hakusan Shrine in Fukui Prefecture is also acceptable. The distance between Hakusan and Ise is about 100km (62.5miles). Take the train or a car.

Hakusan Hime Shrine worships Kukuri-Hime-Kami. The hidden god is worshipped. In ancient times, it was most actively worshipped, but some powerful force arrived and sealed her. The number of shrines that worship her is the largest in Japan and yet her legend has disappeared.

Q.. For this powerful force, Kukuri Hime, who re-fastens the human souls, was inconvenient. What was the force?
A.. I sense there is an archetype of this force in very ancient time. This force is transferring the same concealing incident into this dimension over and over again. I am trying to identify the age of this occurrence but the scenery looks very different. There are two moons in the sky and the air feels different from the present. Yet the stage is certainly still the same as where Hakusan is located today. It is probably the time of creation or the era of gods. This is what I can see.

Q.. Where is Hakusan connected to?
A.. To the reverse side of the universe.

Q.. What is the definition of the reverse side of the universe?
A.. In this universe, I feel there is a law of “two factors constructing one” in the order of nature. To begin with, there exists the front side and the reverse side of the universe. I sense these two giant universes are connected at one apex point. One star will be positioned at the similar location on both universes. There is a somewhat parallel or symmetrical order that takes place. When I saw this through my spiritual vision, it reminded me of something that looks very similar.

It is the human brain. The front universe is the left brain, and the reverse universe is the right brain. Maybe the human brain is actually the miniature copy of the configuration of our universe. Each of the nerve cells in our brain could be a star in the universe. The understanding of the cosmos in Japanese esoteric Buddhism is described as “The Mandala of the Two Worlds”, the Taizō-kai - Womb World and the Kongō-kai - Diamond World. The number of cerebral nerve cells that increase and decrease from our time of birth to the time of death, and the movement in the space between the beginning and ending of the universe may well have a correlation. Scientific research on the brain may be the way to find out about the moving pattern of the universe. If there already exists this sort of theory please let me know.

Right after this reading, the Divine Spirit told me something interesting. “When the fixed star shines white in the evening sky it means one sun’s life has ended. As a reward for its completion, an offshoot of the sun descending to this dimension and is born as a human. It is true, from this sense, that humans carry Amaterasu-Ohomikami in their own Innate God. In a very rare case, when one human being is able to embody Amaterasu-Ohomikami during his or her life time, at his or her death one fixed star will actually explode and disappear.”

When a great person dies, newspapers would often describe, “a giant star has fallen” as a metaphor. It seems like this is actually true. I asked the Divine Spirit, if there was any person during my lifetime who had manifested an explosion of a fixed star. In the 20th century, there was one in the Japanese industrial field, and also one in the religious field. I will write more later.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Izawa-no-miya

Naigū is most famous at The Grand Shrine of Ise, but for me I only sense the emperor’s ancestral spirits. Driving half an hour from Naigū along the beach side, there is another shrine called Izawa-no miya. When I was drawn to go there, I was blessed to witness the Nichirin -Circle of Light of Amaterasu-Ohomikami. This was quite difficult for me to understand. The color was orangish-red. This shrine is located in a very unique place. The land is like a shape of a Kofun, the ancient Japanese keyhole shaped tomb mound, very old place.

Izawa-no miya is the only place I witnessed the Circle of Light of Amaterasu-Ohomikami. What I sensed then was that it came from the Continent of Mu, from easily over 15,000 years ago.

Today, this shrine, Izawa-no miya is still connected to the core of Amaterasu-Ohomikami.
Gegū is like the parent and Izawa-no miya is like the child.

The divine spirit Amaterasu-Ohomikami still resides at Izawa-no miya. This place is a miracle. According to my spiritual senses, it is older than Naigū. Moreover, the appearance of Amaterasu-Ohomikami is at the highest level, the tenth level.

However, please do visit the Gegū first. This is where it connects to the No Name – the Root, a most rare sacred place on earth.

When I witnessed the tenth level of Amaterasu-Ohomikami, it was an orangish-red Circle of Light with a flickering outer rim. What I sensed through that light was simply “a motherly affection”.

Izawa-no-miya is also known as Izou-gū.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

The Grand Shrine of Ise, Gegū part 2

Q.. Is the Innate God different from Kongenshin – the Root God that resides at Gegū?

A.. The Gegū energy connects with the North Star. This is where the seeds of all life on earth derive from. Through my spirit vision, I can see the champagne gold Light Pillar descending from the North Star to the Gegū (the outer womb) and all lives spreading out on earth from this Light Pillar. In the past lives of earth, the North Star was positioned differently from this life cycle, so the Light Pillar was in a different place. In this life time it just so happens to be placed in Ise in Japan. (When you nurture your innate god, it will eventually become one with Kongenshin – the Root God).

Underneath the center of the building of The Grand Shrine of Ise, it is said that a very large piece of wooden pillar is buried vertically. It connects earth and heaven. I sense that this is actually a stone pillar rather than wood. From now on, there will stand many many pillars of Kamibito* who walks around the earth.

Naigū is clean and pure in the morning. But by later afternoon, it is contaminated. Some tourists come in drunk and foreigners spit on the ground. This is very sad and unfortunate for Japan. However the priests of this shrine are excellent. In the morning the divine pureness is back again. This is fascinating.

In my reading, at the Naigū, I can only sense the spirits of the Imperial Family. Many spirit mediums have said that Amaterasu-Ohomikami is a male god. That is because these people are sensing the energy of the Naigū where the male emperors are buried.

But thanks to Naigū which attracts more tourists, Gegū and Izawa-no-miya, remains pure. It is all meant to be through the divine order.

Q.. You have mentioned that the Gegū and the North Star are connected. Is there anywhere else on this planet that is connected to the North Star at present? Where in the past was it connected?

A.. At present I sense….. on this planet only Gegū is connected. In the past…. It seems the place is not on the current map. The places are now under the sea.

At the Gegū, I have registered the North Star and the Big Dipper several times in my brain. Gegū is a place beyond gods. There exists a No Name of the universe. This is a place where you connect to that “One and Only”. Gegū is officially said to worship Toyouke-Ōkami. This was more or less added later, so Naigū is honored more than Gegū, since absolute value had to be placed on the Emperor’s royal family. Ise Shinto was created later to act against this matter, which I deeply honor.


Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live


*Kamibito – A man who has become united with a higher righteous god during one’s life

Taka-no-miya of Ise Gegū

Q.. Bulgarian bio-energy healer Vera Kocshevska*, according to the former Soviet Science Academy, ”There is probably no one on this planet who posses more supernatural power than Vera.” When she visited Japan, the crew showed her the map of Japan and asked her where she would want to go. She pointed exactly to Ise Gegū. When she visited the Gegū, she said she had witnessed Jehovah in a little structure near the main building.

A.. I sense that little structure is Taka-no-miya. This small building is on a small hill. When I visited this place, I sensed that in ancient time, some foreigners came to this hill and dug about 5 meter into the ground and buried a coffin. Later a small shrine was build on top of this. It was a very peculiar sensation. If someone actually dug under this shrine and found out who is buried there, the whole ancient history might be turned upside down.

Q.. It is very interesting what you mentioned about Taka-no-miya. When you say, “you sense … “, does it mean you actually see the vision or is it an intuitive knowing? How long ago did these foreigners come here?

A.. In my case, a lot of information comes with in seconds. It’s hard to explain but I just understand what happened in an intuition kind of manner. How long ago? … I sense it is over three thousand years ago.

Q.. Taka-no-miya is an interesting place. I sensed an older man with a beard. I’m wondering who that is?

A.. That is Moses. He buried The Ten Commandment Carved in Stone under the main shrine of Taka-no-miya about three thousand years ago. On the way back, he lost his strength and died around Ishikawa Prefecture of today. Taka-no-miya was built about one thousand years later.



* Vera Kochovska: In 2006, the President of Bulgaria, gave the President's medal of honor to Vera Kochovska, a 61-year-old woman who has been Bulgaria's most famous clairvoyant since sightless prophetess Vanga died in 1996. Vera was acknowledged for her supernatural powers and charity efforts.

The Grand Shrine of Ise, Gegū

I hope you will have a chance to visit The Grand Shrine of Ise or Ise-Jingu, Gegū one day. If you go in the morning, you will be able to see the golden pillar of light rising high into the heavenly sky. The Light Pillar can be seen at the sengū* open ground near the building. The shrine itself seems to be a device that brings in energy from heaven and to emanate all around. I sense the energy that runs through the open ground is directed towards the North Star. Every time I have visited this Shrine of Ise, I have always been able to witness this line of ki. It cannot be seen later in the afternoon. When I am in a very good physical condition, I am able to see the Big Dipper as well.

Gegū* (outer shrine) is truly beyond logic. It is absolutely a miracle that this exists. Why this place out of all the places on earth? Well just visit and enjoy the place.

I don't’ mean to be secretive about it. It is true the Naigū (inner shrine) is a very honorable place where the Imperial family spirits reside, but when I first visited the Gegū, I was stunned. A champagne gold pillar of light was rising from the ground towards heaven. And the light was beaming toward the North Star. I don’t think there is anything like this any where in the world. If a truly gifted religionist came to this place, Christian or Jewish or any other religion, that person should be able to understand what I mean. I know we would feel very close to each other.

I want all religionist in the world to visit Gegū. The Jewish rabbi will definitely feel Jehovah. A devoted Christian will feel Jesus Christ. A devoted Muslim will feel the breath of Allah. This place is on the level of planet earth not on the level of human, thus it is beyond one religion.

I feel this Gegū is Kongen-shin, the Root God. I sense that all the gods were created from this existence that has no name. This place will connect you to the highest conscious that you believe in. If you have the qualification, you will know.

On the tip of the pyramid, there is one root energy source. This energy divides unlimitedly and spreads down. Whichever side you climb from, the top is the same tip. One will reach the same source. In all religions, when you reach attainment, you reach the same place. I sense that this Grand Shrine of Ise Gegū is directly linked to the Root source.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live



*Sengū 遷宮: The transfer of the deity to a newly constructed shrine. The whole shrine structures are renewed every 20 years since 690 AD.

*Gegū 外宮: The outer shrine is written as “Geku” at Ise-Jingu official site and other road marks. Also Naigū (inner shrine) is written as Naiku. However the author insists that it should be pronounced in “g” instead of the “k”.

The meaning of “sanpai” 参拝- pay a visit to a shrine

Nowadays the shrine I would consciously visit is Ise Jingu - The Grand Shrine of Ise. As for Hakusan, I sense the mountain itself is a shrine, so I go to look at the mountain from a distance and send my gratitude. In the old days, I used to visit different shrines in the Kinki district as I was called. There are shrines where god spirits often resides, and there are shrines where gods have been distant. God spirits are free moving energy. When I say the gods are distant, it does not mean there are no gods at all. When a person with sincere gratitude is paying a visit, a god will come around. We all are a household of our “living innate god”. Visiting a shrine means, “god spirit in a living human being” visiting “the free moving god spirit with no physical body”. A shrine is a place for two gods to meet. In a shrine, they hold a mirror as a godly body. This means that you are there to look at your own innate god.

In Shinto, from ancient times, there is a type of spiritual exercise called Jireihai, which means to honor oneself in the mirror. You are paying a visit to a shrine simply to mirror your own god within. A shrine is a place that provides you the opportunity. The important part is not the shrine but the person who is visiting. Naturally, if the shrine is kept sacred, your chance to meet your innate god will be greater. Your innate god is a derivative of Kongenshin. It holds all factors of all gods. When you visit different shrines, you will meet a different part of your innate god. When I visit Ise Izawa-no-miya, I will witness Amaterasu Ohomikami within myself. When I visit Ookawa Shrine in Nara, I witness the retainer dragon within myself. There are many shrines all over Japan. Wherever you go, you will see a different part of yourself. The important fact is that the god is within yourself, not in the shrine. A shrine only holds the space for you to meet your innate god.

I hope you can see the difference now, how paying a visit to a shrine to ask for your wish is wrong and what the correct idea of a shrine is.

When you put your hands together at a shrine, this means you are “facing the mirror”. You are facing yourself (innate god) and returning to it. A person who sends a curse at a shrine will be cursing him/herself. If you send a wish at a shrine, you will be in a situation where you will always have to be wishing. When you send gratitude, you will be in an environment where you will always be thanked.

The righteous gods do not like elusiveness. Shrines are originally a place to send gratitude for good harvest only. How did it become a place to ask for wishes? It is a tragedy.

Q.. What is the proper manner for an offertory.
A.. I do not through money. I only send gratitude. When I have the chance I will send a donation.

Q.. When you are sending a prayer at a shrine, do you need to tell your name and address?
A.. No need at all. God is not such a needy existence.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Twenty years of visiting Ise - Part 5

We took the bus to go to Naigū. It has been years since I have taken a public bus. My wife and I were getting some change ready. It was 200 yen until the last stop all of the sudden, it went up to 410 yen! I would recommend you to get off at Okage-yokocho and walk. It will be cheaper.

We got to Naigū around 1:30 pm. The heat was intense. For older people and people with health problems, I would recommend to visit early in the morning. Spiritually, it is always better before 9:30 am. I have heard that many of the African tribes who worship the sun believe that the sun god only appears at sunrise and sunset. During the day, the sun god is not present.

When I sent my gratitude at the honden, main shrine, of Naigū, I sensed the seventh rank of Amaterasu-Ohomikami. I could see one Light Pillar standing toward heaven on the left side of the ground of sengu. The path behind the main shrine toward Aramatsuri-no-miya, the scenery is quite spectacular. However, this time, a fence was made and was no longer able to see the view. This time I didn’t sense anything at Aramatsuri-no-miya. I bought a Ken-barai-fuda*(charm) at the Naigū shrine office.

After leaving the shrine, we went to Okage-yokocho to have some ice shaves. When I looked at my shoes, it was covered with white dust from the gravel walk. I was going to clean it when we got back to the hotel, but ended up wearing it all the way back home. I felt this could be a souvenir for my house. Instead of taking the bus, we took a taxi back to the parking lot. If you are more than a party of four, it will be cheaper to take a taxi. During the taxi ride, the taxi driver told us an interesting story. He said that due to the exposure to the sunray, skin diseases are occurring within the taxi drivers. They had requested UV protection sheets to be applied on the car windows but was rejected. He said, “Even in Ise, we might need sun glasses like the one they wear at the South Pole,” kind of half joking and laughing.

After saying goodbye to my sister’s family, we went to a Shinto goods store near the entrance of Gegū and bought a hemp bark. I apply this bark to the tip of the core bar on my eight-legged altar. The god spirits reside on tree barks.

The next day, we went all the way to Sakamoto, Shiga Prefecture to a special soba restaurant. This Tsuruki-soba is a purveyor to the Imperial Household. The restaurant built 120 years ago had a nice atmosphere. I sensed that this area is a patrol course for the monkey ogres, who are the kenzoku spirits of Susanoo in the lower rank. Maybe it has to do with being close to the shrine, Hiyoshi-Taisha*. Such as this soba restaurant, when the local spirits are worshipped, they would receive protection and last long. The trip has come to an end. We drove back home looking at Lake Biwa on the way.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live




Ken-barai-fuda 剣祓札：A rare charm sold specially at The Grand Shrine of Ise (or Ise-jingu). It is rare because it has a special kind of tree bark wrapped on the top of the wooden piece inside the charm which is the old traditional way of making a proper charm.


Hiyoshi-Taisha 日吉大社：Located in Sakamoto, Shiga. The shrine was first built in the 8th century but was burnt when Oda Nobunaga destroyed the shrine along with Enrayku-ji temple. Hideyoshi Toyotomi constructed the existing buildings in the last quarter of the16th century. His name during childhood was “Hiyoshi-maru” and his nickname was “Saru” which means monkey.

Twenty years of visiting Ise - Part 4

After visiting the Gegū, looking at Asama-yama (Mt.Asama) on the right, which is one of the passing points of the sun, we drove the winding highway towards Izawa-no-miya. As we come close to the town, Isobe-cho, we started to see some stores lining on the right side of the road. As we drove down the hill, we saw two police cars stopping a car for speeding on the opposite side of the road. I felt sorry for the policemen to be working even on the Obon holidays. I told my family to remind me on the way back for not speeding.

Izawa-no-miya had expanded their parking lot since last year. The shin-den (rice field at a shrine), where the Otaue-shiki* is held, now had a roof in the area for the visitors to watch the ceremony. When I first visited the Izawa-no-miya twenty years ago on my bike lead by my god spirit guides, they didn’t even have a parking lot. I am happy to see the development happening every year and at the same time, reminisce about the modest looking old days. Even the eel restaurant, just before the main gate to the shrine, looks like they have renewed their signboard. Back then, it looked so shabby, it was hard to tell whether they were open or not.

We went through the Torri archway, cleansed our mouth and hands with the provided water and slowly walked toward the shrine. To me, the approach (san-do・参道) toward Izawa-no-miya always feels like a transbirth canal (san-do・産道). It feels like returning back to a mother’s stomach from the lower world. The main shrine would be the womb. When I send my blessing at the shrine, the nichirin (the circle of light) of Amaterasu-Ohomikami appeared in my mind as always. The calm and gently vibrational energy signified that nothing critical is going on.

For the God Spirit who resides at this shrine, this major turning point of time is just another phase, and it seems like serenely observing the eternal flow of time. Mother of earth is for sure a Big Mama with a steady nerve.

After visiting the Izawa-no-miya, we went to a French restaurant outside the main entrance of Gegū. Because it has been one and a half year since our last visit to Ise Shrine and spending time with my family, so I decided to give them a treat. We had a lunch menu that was 3500 yen each. Too bad I (the driver) couldn’t have a drink. [laugh] As we were leaving the restaurant, when I was at the cashier, I found a photograph on the wall. It was a photo of the Dai-Torii grand archway. The lower part of the photo showed a clear rainbow color orb. I thought it was very unusual to see a shot so clearly close to the ground.

Leaving our car at the parking lot of Gegū, we took the bus to go to Naigū (the inner shrine). On the way from Izawa-ni-miya to Gegū, we had seen how crowded Naigū is and we knew we didn't want to drive in there. (continue)



Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live



[Otaue-shiki - 御田植式 : Rice planting ceremony held at rice-planting time in May or June in all parts of Japan to pray for a good rice crop and successful harvest.]

Twenty years of visiting Ise - Part 3

I would like to talk about my impression of this time’s visit to the Gegū. As I pay a visit at the main shrine (honden), I sensed the vibration of a deity from behind the oratory. This vibrational energy was the same sensation I had always felt at this place.

At a shrine where god resides and when the god is present at that time, its spirit body emits an exquisite vibrational energy. When there is some kind of problem or conversely, in a high joyous state, the vibration becomes bigger and rough. Last year, the vibration was very big. When it is in that state, I could hear a sound like a bee flying. The sound cannot quite be explained in words. Kaminari 雷 means thunder. Kami means god. Nari or naru means make a sound. This might be the derivation of the word for thunder.

In the ancient times, people sensed this vibrational energy of the deity. When they sensed the anger, they made efforts to improve and when they sensed the joy, the whole village celebrated the joy together.

This time the vibrational energy was stable. All shrines at the Gegū were stable except for one, the Kaze-no-miya (the wind shrine). Up until last year, it was stable. This year, it has started to make a sound.

Some incidents at the Kaze-no-miya are recorded in the priest diary of Gegū. At a critical time when foreigners tried to invade Japan, the day before the attack, smoke rose from Kaze-no-miya and the billowing smoke flew off to the direction toward the invader. At another time in 1959 when typhoon stroke the Ise Bay, while Ise city had devastating damage, all the main shrine were left undamaged, in spite of the straw-thatched roofs. But only the Kaze-no-miya was totally crashed by a fallen tree, as if it had saved all the lives of the others at the sacrifice of its own.

The name of the deity who resides at Kaze-no-miya is Ibukidonushi-Ōkami. It is one of The Four Deities under Susanoo that teams up to work on missions. I sincerely hope that this first runner deity does not have to sacrifice again. If the majority of the people who are living on this land of Japan become consciously aware of the sense of gratitude to what they already have, the deity of the Wind Shrine will not have to make its move and instead settle down. (continue)

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Twenty years of visiting Ise - Part 2

At the shrine office of Gegū, we applied to receive the Daidai Kagura ceremony. On the application, you write one person’s name to represent your group and the number of total attendance. Then you choose what kind of prayer you want. I chose the “gratitude sending to the gods”. Next time, I want to do it for “the security of the Japanese nation.”

This time, we came together with my own sister’s family. I sat down at the waiting lounge, thinking that this will be a good cultural education for our children. Maybe because it was early in the morning, there was no one else waiting. The waiting lounge was spacious, very clean and free drinks were prepared. The bathroom was very clean too. We waited for about 20 minutes and a priest came to lead us to the inner shrine.

After a brief prayer chanted by a priest, two kami-miko, shrine maiden, held a ceremony to offer shin-fuda (a charm that represents a God) and shin-sen (food offerings – dried bonito, squid and tangle). This was marvelous. One of the kami-miko brought the food offerings to the entrance of the oratory. The other kami-miko receives the offerings and places it to the altar. The kami-miko goes back and forth few times in front of the attendance and the two miko’s timing is so perfect to the details. When the kami-miko comes to the center of the oratory, she would once slightly bend her knees before she continues to walk toward the entrance. This feels like she is expressing greetings to the attendance and at the same time, giving a sign to the other maiden to match the timing of their movement. Throughout the ceremony, these two kami-miko impressed me the most. I had witnessed god spirits behind these maidens who are probably still under 20 years old. There were higher rank priests around them but the god spirits only resided around the two maidens. I sometimes see kami-miko’s of today, who are not so pure and having fun in their private lives. But these kami-miko’s at The Grand Shrine of Ise are keeping themselves very pure. I sense they do not have much of a private life. They are true virgins who god spirits reside.

This time, I learned one more thing. It was the prayer chanted by an upper rank priest before the Kagura, offering dance. I had never heard of this chant before. It was chanted very slowly in a soft gentle manner like talking a story. The unique vocalization emanated the gentle energy of The Grand Shrine of Ise.

If you would like to offer a prayer, the basic Okagura (15,000yen) is sufficient. It was very expensive for us, but receiving a special charm to bring home, and the whole ceremony with fresh local food offerings was totally worth it.

The received charm did not fit into my altar at home. So I added a wooden holder for the charm attached to the left side of the altar. Even if you don’t have an altar at home, this charm is very thick, so it will stand on its own. If you can, please offer sakaki leaves and water. The energy from the god spirits will then be able to reside. If you cannot use sakaki leaves, at least, offer a bowl of water and change it once in a while.


Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Twenty years of visiting Ise - part 1

Around end of June, a thought came to my mind to visit The Grand Shrine of Ise on August 15th. As a “salary man” and a salesman, holidays without getting emergency calls from clients are limited. In addition, taking a trip with all the family members will be costly and we cannot afford to visit so often. My favorite person, Munetada Kurozumi (1780-1850) visited the shrine in Ise six times during his life. This is amazing. In those days, there were no public access or cars. He had to walk for days or weeks. Sickness, accident, robbery… many possible obstacles are on the way. Actual records of his loan application for the trip still exist. In those days, visiting the The Grand Shrine of Ise was once in a lifetime dream for the commoners. In order to pay a visit to the shrine, people made stops on the way in towns to find work until they had enough money to reach the destination. People who could not visit the shrine for some reason, asked the visitors to take their dog instead. I wonder how many of the dogs actually made it back. If there was, I believe that dog is a true Komainu ( a dog like creature that protects the shrine).


On August 15th, we got up at 3 am and drove off looking at Hakusan (Mt. Haku) from a distance. We took the new Meishin Highway for the first time. It was a really nice and clean new highway. I was surprised to notice the area between Shigaraki, Kouka and Kameyama, full of the vibrational energy of Ise-Hakusan line. It seems like this highway was made in the middle of the untouched wild nature. There are no other place receiving such restorative energy from the universe. Kameyama is where the world known liquid crystal screen was invented and produced. I sense that this is not a coincidence. A place with such good vibrational energy will be the best place to come up with great new ideas. A delicate work such as equal allotment of the liquid crystals may be affected by the energy of the area. No wonder the brand name made in Kameyama has a high reputation.

After several restroom breaks, we reached The Grand Shrine of Ise around 8:30 am. After visiting the main shrine of Gegū, we visited all the other shrines both in Gegū(outer shrine) and Naigū(inner shrine). Then we asked for a formal gratitude sending prayer done by the priest called Daidai Kagura, at Gegū Kaguraden.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Memories of my father– part 2

There was a legend that was passed on within my family about this mound in a shape of a small hill. The story tells that a divine sword is buried inside the mound. The divine sword is made out of metal that does not rust and it is not gold.

During my grandfather’s time, there was once a very heavy thunderstorm that lasted for three days and three nights. The river that ran through the town burst and the water flooded through out the town. Strangely, the water did not recede even after the rain had stopped. My grandfather felt odd about this and sensed something was wrong at the mound. He went to the mound to find out it was partially destroyed. His instinct was that one of his cousins had done this. He went to his cousin and pressed him for an answer. He confessed that he tried to steal the sword to sell it and make money. But when he started to dig, black clouds started to fill the sky, thunder started rumbling and heavy rain started to fall. He kept digging, but the thunder became louder every time he swung down the shovel. The timing was so exact, he became scared, decided to give up and ran away. The thunderstorm did not stop for three days after this incident. My grandfather fixed the mound, but since then, people kept going into the mountain to the mound trying to steal the sword. Every time the thunder rumbled and heavy rain fell. One day, my grandfather decided that he had to close the area by destroying the mountain trail so no one can enter the area. His cousin’s family eventually died out. My father had to move out from the town due to his business. Other relatives also ended up moving out from the town for business reasons. We no longer have any relatives living in that area. Maybe Susanoo’s anger created this fate.

My father has been to the mound when he was little. Naturally, I have never been there. Now that I think about it, I wish I had asked my father where exactly the mound is located. By now, the plants and tree has grown wild, it would be hard to find.

Another part of the legend I had heard from my father is that when there is three children in the family, and the first child is a boy, the second child a girl and the third child a boy, the third boy is called “Onikko”(an ogre child).

This is much like the Japanese mythology about the Sankishin – The Three Dear Gods. The first son was Tsukuyomi-no-kami, the moon god, the second daughter was Amaterasu-Ohomikami, the sun goddess, and the third son was Susanoo.

My grandfather had already departed before I was born. And I am the third son in the same order… As I write this, the thunder has started to rumble….

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Memories of my father -part 1

Every year around the time of Obon, I think of my father. Even in his last few years, in spite of having weak legs, he still insisted in paying a visit to our ancestral grave. Within my family, I was the only “salary man” who could take a bon-holiday. So I was always the one to take my father to the grave. Our ancestral grave was on a slope of a hill in the precincts of a temple outside of our town. Climbing the slope was not easy for an old man.

During our visit to the grave, he always told me the same story. He told me that the real grave of our ancestors is deep in the mountain. It is in a sacred ground that people are not allowed to step in. I didn’t know why our ancestral grave was in a sacred ground where people are prohibited to enter. He said it was not the usual Buddhist type of grave but a mound like a small hill.

Until my grandfather’s generation our family worked as craftsmen. They made traditional crafts of the region. They also had another job as a priest who specialized in a certain kind of work. They were not official Shinto priests but a local one. But many of our relatives have later become official Shinto priests. One of them has become the head priest of a shrine that has a history of 1500 years. My father used to live in the precincts of that shrine during his time in college. Interestingly enough, this shrine enshrines Ōmononushi-no-Ōkami as the main god and also Hakusan-Kukuri-hime and Amaterasu-Ohomikami.

The area deep in the mountain where our ancestral mound exists, use to be called “Onizuka” (Ogre Hill) in the old days. The mythology tells that long ago, Susanoo appeared on earth. When he had left this plane, he left his physical body on the ground and that body was buried in a mound. For some reason, my father’s family was in charge of looking after this mound. When the eldest son of our family died, the bones were buried in this mound. The rest of the family had another grave outside of town. This long tradition in our family ended in my grandfather’s generation.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live


(Obon is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the departed spirits of one's ancestors. Obon or Bon festivals usually last for three days around August 15th.)
(For more details about Ōmonushi-no-Ōkami, go to: Ise Hakusan Do Dictionary)

The secret behind the Samurai Spirit

At the end of the Pacific War, the Kamikaze unit went on their mission. Some made a miraculous return home. I remember once watching their interview on TV. The front part of the plane was made the smallest in size. The American warships were firing like a heavy hail to shoot down the planes. In order to succeed in hitting the warship, the Kamikaze planes had to fly down in the exact same angle as the bullets coming from the warship, otherwise they were shot down. In other words, they had to fly straight towards the bullets. If they tried to run away from the bullets, they had more chances to be shot down before hitting the warship.

On the TV interview, the man said, “what I shouted when I was flying down straight towards the bullet and the warship, was ‘Mother~!!!.’” He said he is sure that all the Kamikaze soldiers said the same thing.

Just like, when God Susanoo went to see his mother who had gone to Yomi-no-Kuni (the Land of the Dead), cried for his mother aloud as if it would reach both heaven and earth, human has a nature to call for one’s mother when they are at the time facing death. The TV show was showing the film where the Kamikaze unit was celebrating their last sake together before getting on the plane. Their faces did not look so serious or sad, instead, they had a silent and calm smile. This was truly a face of a samurai. The soldiers and the samurais did not kill people because they wanted to. In those days, they had no choice but to surrender to the way of living the era had compelled them to do.

It is a tragedy that in this modern society, in spite of the freedom and wealth, there are more people committing suicide than the number of Kamikaze soldiers who died for their country. The power of almost insane courage a Kamikaze soldier had came purely from the desire to protect his family that he loved and appreciated. Today, I feel that the image of samurai is often misunderstood. They are not just warriors who killed people with swords toyed by fate.

My understanding of a true Samurai Spirit is about always seeing things through matter of life and death. When you see things through matter of life and death, most of the problems in modern society disappear. You will no longer have any attachment to things or other people. Instead you will be appreciative to the small things that happen in your daily life.

Ikashite-Itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Samurai Spirit

In 1853, Naval commander, Matthew Perry arrived to Japan on a black warship. He was the man who reopened Japan to the West. I was deeply moved by the words he had spoken of his impression about the Samurais in those days.

He commented as, “Japanese people are sophisticated and knows the way of things. I have never seen such people with dignity and grace, yet unpretentious.”

In this modern world, even the Japanese people have images of samurai as “warriors with sword, Hara-kiri (self-disembowelment), taking one’s own life, and chonmage (the funny hair-style), etc..”　It sounds like a ludicrous clown. Is this really the truth of a Samurai? These qualities would not have given the foreign man the impression of “dignity and grace”.

Today, I sometimes happen to see the Samurai Spirit in some Japanese people. Those are the patients who are in treatment for their terminal stage of illness, and had been notified their death by their doctor. When they were notified about their death, in the beginning, they were shocked, having a sense of despair. But as the time goes by, despair turns into acceptance, and they start to feel the preciousness of the “now.” Finally they come to a point of realization that they were “led to live” which makes them pure and peaceful.

When we are alive, most of the time, we don’t think about death. One might have an illusion that he/she is going to live forever. They become obsessed with things and relationships. They start to buy and collect things. Some people might not even care about other people to get what they want. But suddenly, if you were to find out that you only have a month to live, would you still continue to buy more things? Would you fight with others to get what you want? When you forget about death, one tends to get obsessed with things and becomes delusional, forgetting that one is “led to live”.

In my opinion, Samurai Spirit is about “living the moment with no regret.” It’s about living moment to moment, having no sense of attachment, being pure and clean, and realizing that one is “led to live.” Thus having the sense of gratitude and the sense of eternity.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live