The true identity of Yahata-no-kami or Hachimann-shin

The shrine that worships Yahata-no-kami or Hachimann-shin (八幡神) is called Yahata Jinjya or Hachimann Jinjya. There are so many Yahata Jinjya all over Japan. The number of this shrines are probably second largest after Inari Jinjya (稲荷神社).

According to my psychic reading, this god or Kami is a deified spirit (who used to be human). It means that he is not a true deity.  Yahata-no-kami is said to be the deified Emperor Ohjin(15^th Emperor, 270-310AD) but there are few other theories and it is not certain. The name Yahata-no-kami suddenly starts to appear in historical documents around 1300 years ago. He is a mystery. The fact that there are so many of this shrine is also a mystery. One of the oldest historical documents Kojiki does not mention this kami.

I have been told by a Kami not to reveal the truth of this Kami for a very long time. The reason is because it will change the history of the birth of this country. I will write as much as I am permitted. I visited some of the Yahata Jinjya that are over a thousand years old. When I visited the shrines, I found out that there was actually not the Yahata-no-kami nor the Emperor Ohjin but a different Kami enshrined. I felt the same Kami enshrined in all of the old Yahata shrines. The name of the Kami is Hakusan-kukuri-hime-kami. This means all of these shrines used to be Hakusan Jinjya. When we add all the Hakusan Jinjya and Yahata Jinjya through out Japan, we will have the largest group of shrines that worships the same Kami. Hakusan-kukuri-hime-kami is the goddess that brought Izanagi-kami and Izanami-kami back together. (parents of Amaterasu-ohomikami)

In the super ancient days, the center deity of the unification of this country was Hakusan-kukuri-hime-kami. Even with the Buddhist temples, the ones that worship Yahata-dai-bosatsu(八幡大菩薩) used to be Hakusan Jinjya. The lands were taken over in the later days to create Buddhist temples.

When you are visiting Yahata Jinjya, think of Hakusan-kukuri-hime-kami and send gratitude towards her. She is a true deity that resides in these shrines. The reason why the name was changed from Hakusan to Yahata is because of the stratagem planned by powerful immigrants from a foreign land. The true identity of Yahata-kami is a foreign god who was worshipped by these immigrants. Because these people were skillful in metal casting, astronomy and medical science, the Japanese leader of this time thought they were holy people that can use magic freely. They got involved in politics as well and managed to somehow change many of the Hakusan Jinjya into Yahata Jinjya for a place to worship there own god.  It has been changed from Yahweh to Yahve→Yahhah →Yahahata →Yahata. The ancestors of these people from the continent had been one of the eight tribes who supported the first Emperor Jimmu (660-585BC).  They also had a close relationship with the Hata Family (秦 also 幡 of Yahata. Yahata written as eight hata ) who were also immigrants and aristocrats of a foreign land. I’m sure they didn't know about the fact that the spirit of Yahweh was already here in Japan resting at Gegū of Ise Jingu long before their arrival.

It is merely one scene of a long story of the making of Japan, a mysterious land where the gods reside.  



Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu
Thank you for letting us live

The more you polish, the more you shine

In my daily life, I always communicate with people with the awareness that they all have their innate god and that they all have parents who gave life to them. When I acknowledge these things, no matter how the person is bringing an irrational outrage on me, I could still deal with him in a calmly manner. Raising an infant to an adult is a long and hard work. Therefore, not to judge that one person alone but by thinking of his parents who gave so much effort to raise the child would bring a different dynamics to the picture.

Living in a society, frictions between people are unavoidable. One of the lessons we need to learn is how to polish ourselves through these circumstances. The person you have to deal with is like a mirror, a chance to look at your soul. Unfortunately, this world is made to work in this way. You cannot polish yourself without others involved. You always need others to create a friction. So you have a chance to look inside the mirror and polish yourself. The others could be your partner in life, your parent, child, schoolmate, or a colleague. When you are having problems with someone, it simply means you are “work in progress. ” You are simply in the process of polishing yourself.

The awareness of polishing your own mirror is very important in this dimension. If you are unaware of this idea, you will waste a lot of time under living in force of habits and suffering. Once your mirror starts to shine, you will start to feel sympathy to everyone around you. We should not forget that we all have our own innate god within. We are all connected to the root source of Kami.

When you want to convince the opponent, try to reach his soul, his innate god. Even he doesn’t respond at that time, he will think about it later. The content of the discussion has to come for your sincere intention in order to reach the innate god of your opponent.

Let us work on polishing our mirror through the frictions between others to shine our light.

  

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

*Please read article on August 26,2008 for valuable information on “mirror.”

Mirror World

The world you live in can be changed just with a little shift in your thoughts. People’s happiness and unhappiness are created very simply than one would imagine.

There are several universal laws in this world we live in. One of them is called the Law of Reflection. What you give (feelings and actions) to others will reflect onto yourself.

 

Whether you are aware of this law or not will change your life. If you were aware of this law, when you got into a fight, you won’t be too obsessed until you hurt yourself. You know it’s better to stop fighting and act from your side because you know that it would reflect back to you.

If you are praying for your own benefit asking for your wish to come true or asking for healing your sickness, your “world” would probably not change. That is because of this law. When you are praying for others from your heart the Law of Reflection will work.  The “others” could be your ancestral spirits. When you are praying for your closest “others” it may result in healing yourself.

The secret to true happiness lies upon this law.

Honor your innate god, your conscience. And at the same time think about what you are emanating to “others.” If don't forget to be humble, you will be all right. Your softness will melt the fist.

According to the mythology, when Amaterasu-Ohomikami’s grandchild was sent to this World of Reality, he was given one farewell gift. It was a mirror. This implies a message from the gods that this world we live in is a Mirror World.

Today, we will meet more people who would be reflections of ourselves just like a mirror.

What are you emanating and what does your reflections look like? 

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Remembering your loved one

One day, one of my relative came to see me. She said she had some discomfort in her throat. She was concerned maybe it could be cancer.

I diagnosed her with my psychic vision. It was not a sickness. What came to me was her mother who died ten years ago. When her mother was in the hospital, she choked herself and couldn’t breathe. She died quietly while no one noticed her condition.

I asked her if it was her mother’s birthday or death day. She said it was her birthday and suddenly she looked stunned. She said that her mother hadn’t been in her mind for a while. I told her, “She doesn’t have a physical body anymore so she is not suffering. She’s all right. Just think of her once in a while. That will heal her.”

Next morning, her feeling of discomfort in her throat had disappeared. She was happy about it.

This incident made me reassure how strong people’s feeling remains in a living close relative. This woman died in her 50s, still young and had remaining concerns about her family. 

This was a reaffirmation for me that days such as a birthday, a death day, or some memorial day is the only time when the lost souls could come and contact the livings (usually a close family member) to try and send their feelings toward them.

 This mother had come to her daughter. She had other children (boys) but they were not doing the ancestral kuyō, so she couldn't reach them.

On the other hand, the daughter was working on her three incense ancestral kuyō. So even she was married and her tanzaku was on her husband’s last name, her third incense for ‘the others’ enabled her mother to come to her for help.  She was very much a mommy’s girl, so she was happy that her mother came to her.

There is a Universal Law that “what you do comes back to you.”  This daughter has healed her mother. This will bring good fortune to her.

I didn't know that even a birthday could be a day for the diseased to visit their loved one. Any memorial day related to the diseased is a good day to send him/her a special gratitude. Your thoughts toward him/her will be reached. Lets think of them once in a while. It will be a great comfort.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Over eating and poor eating

Uncontrollable habits of overeating and poor eating often have a lot to do with one’s mental condition. The scientists might explain that the stress you carry affects your hormone secretion and the satiety center of the brain.

However, from a spiritual point of view, there are some cases that you are forced to eat by the spirit who is possessing you.

If you feel this might be your case :

1. Before you start your meal say, “all of my ancestral spirits, let us share and eat this food together.”  Also say “itadaikimasu (thank you for this food)” aloud. This is a Jingi(仁義), benevolence and righteousness or integrity toward the spirit. It will be a Harai (cleansing) to cut off the wrong connection.

In many religions, there is a prayer before every meal. This has a true spiritual meaning. By saying a prayer, you would be eating only the right amount.  The amount you eat would differ when you say a prayer or not. At the time when food was very precious, prayer was a must.

Saying “itadakimasu (thank you for this food)” aloud would make you really appreciate the food and make you eat with proper behavior unlike a beast. You would eat less or the right amount.

2.  Another way is to imagine your steaming favorite dish while you are working on the daily gratitude sending to your ancestral spirits. For the spirits, this is appreciated much more than actual food offerings.  This in fact depends of the level of the spirits. The lost souls that are in the lowest level in the World of Spirits would prefer real food offerings. But it is not good to be so enthusiastic about these spirits. It is best to offer food only on some special memorial days few times a year.

Toward the spirits, a good image needs to be offered. Towards the people alive, the actual act of goodness is effective. We need to offer something that cannot be seen to the unseen and offer an act to those that can be seen.

We took the “trouble” to come to this World of Reality to experience the uncomfortableness. Watch out for those who are making money out of the teachings from other dimensions. They are far from enlightenment.

The enlightenment only comes from living the daily lives in an ordinary fashion. Don’t attempt to runaway from the ordinary.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Motherhood will Melt your Fear

The other day, during the Olympic men’s figure skating competition, one of the Japanese skater’s shoelace got cut off. And obviously his score was a disappointment one that didn’t reach to attain a medal.  

Surprisingly, he said that this shoelace had cut off many times but he kept using the same one by knotting them together over and over again. He was afraid to change it into a new one because it might feel different and uncomfortable.

I could understand if he had to change his skating boots but what he worried was about his shoelace. I sense that he believed it was bad luck.

This is the kind of belief in the Shugendo Path. You create your own superstition and make rules to strangle yourself. This kind of superstition is nonsense and would only create bad luck like him. On one of the most important day of his life, it happened.

In truth, the fee-charging ceremonies or rituals are the same. You are restraining yourself. You might be thinking, if you paid to receive a certain ceremony or a ritual that things are going to change. It would actually create nothing but destruction. It will create filth between you and your ancestors. And your ancestral spirits’ effort trying to help you would not reach you. It will become an obstacle.

There are more chances to have a better life when there is no filth from spirits other than your ancestors.

I would never think or act in a superstitious way.

People who are weak tend to find comfort in these rituals. People who had very strict parents tend to look for “restraints.”

All human beings both men and women have deep instinct to return to the Great Mother. It is like the river fish returning to the ocean. Until we return, we will never have the true fulfilling comfort.

No matter how much you love your partner, or how wealthy you have become, you heart is not fulfilled until this time comes.

The Great Mother has always been inside you. Don’t look for it outside. It will manifest by acting through your feminine side, the motherhood. Your compassion to have mercy on your ancestral spirits is an important aspect. It is a good training to nurture your motherhood.  

To have motherhood is an important quality for an entrepreneur. The company will grow successfully. To nurture his/her employee and feel the joy of development is the feminine side necessary for a leader at this era.

If you want to get married, make sure you find someone who has good motherly quality (both men and women).  Don’t misjudge by their outlook or financial wealth. 

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Be the Winner

One of my reader sent me the words said by Shikō Munakata (Born 1903. Internationally recognized woodblock printmaker):  “I am Aomori”  (Aomori Prefecture is his home ground)

“I have my home town and I have me… that’s all…it’s pretty simple.  I feel that wherever I go, I am here and I am there, everywhere. My body brings Aomori and I feel it’s buried inside me. So there are no borders between Aomori and me. That's how I feel. Maybe Aomori is not happy that I said so, but I AM AOMORI. I’m not a place, not a hometown. So I must be an Aomori bogyman! Ahahaha. ”

My insight:

He is a man in disguise. He is actually a Spirit of the Great Nature of Aomori. He just came to play and have fun in this world.

In order for a man to be born, a merge must occur between a traveling soul and the Ubusuna-kami (a god spirit of the birthplace). We have all gone through this process to be born in this world.

From his words, I understand that he feels the importance of the god of his birthplace, Ubusuna-kami. In his case, his ego is already much smaller than average people. His consciousness is in motion together with a land.

Even today, most people are still suffering from problems in a small realm called “self”.  

The truth is that we are all spirits of the land, the spirits of Japan and moreover we are part of Earth and part of the whole Universe.

However, we still seem to suffer through reality.

Even if I told you that You Are the Universe, what is going on in your reality wouldn’t change and you still can’t let go of your suffering state of mind.

So how about thinking the other way around. Could you imagine that the Great Spirit (you) has entered your small world by his own choice? And just through this limited time, he has come to experience the “disability or the uncomfortableness.” It was your own choice whether you like it or not. So you don’t have to believe that you are one with the Universe, or go to a psychic or attend workshops and pay a lot of money to solve your problems.

If you have that kind of time and money, it’s so much better to go and enjoy good food, read or watch a movie. Whatever you do at your own home, you will get a good insight because you are in your personal original magnetic field. You can come to a decision through your own power. Things you feel by talking to a fee-charging psychic sensei is totally wrong. You are poisoned by the spirit behind this psychic and not being yourself. The spiritual seminars/workshops are the same. When I see the room with my psychic vision, I see the room filled with smoke (magnetic energy) that is coming from the spirit behind the presenter and the participants are all in trance.   

One of my reader sent me a photo of a seminar. The photo was taken from the very back of the seminar room. The sensei, teacher was in the front giving a lecture. In that photo, I could see a monstrous being with many fangs sticking out from his mouth. At the end, even the organizer will be eaten by this evil spirit.   

Shikō Munakata had a very hard time in his youth including poverty, ill-treated at school and having poor eye-sight. His success didn’t come around until his mid-life. Even though one is in a spiritually high state, this human realm will make you experience many sufferings. To look it from the other way, it means the more suffering you choose to have the bigger soul you are.

If you are having a real hard time now, it’s going to be all right. Try to find joy in this limited “realm” while you have it.

Even in hard times, if you don’t forget to be grateful and to have fun, you are a winner. You didn’t loose against the choice you made before you entered this world. You have reached the peak of one mountain.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Practice to be Flexible

The problems in life could be coming from you being in many ways "stiff." Having a stiff body or having a stiff heart. They could both get you into trouble. If your heart were stiff, when someone says something unpleasant to you, you would be badly influenced by it more than necessary.

The ego that makes you want to look good is stiffening your heart. It is binding your heart. When your body is stiff, that could become the cause of all kinds of illness. It's a sign of bad circulation. When you're experiencing a sense of stiffness, your body is giving out a signal to warn you. It's saying you better do something about me.

The readers ask me questions about their illness. When his illness is cancer, I could see it as a hard lump. The image I see through my psychic vision in cancer patients is that his whole body is stiffened. The stiffness of one's heart will link to the stiffness of one's body. If you are stubborn, you should watch out. You do have a tendency of creating a tumor in your body.

In this world, one of the key factors to bring happiness into your life is to have a flexible heart and body. A flexible heart would make your physical body strong and have control of your emotions. The "flexibility" could be the answer to make your life easier.

I was very surprised when I paid a visit to Gekū of Ise Jingu for my first time to offer the Shinon-kansha(神恩感謝), the formal visit to attend a ceremony to offer gratitude to the gods. The way the priest chanted the Norito, Oharae-no-kotoba (大祓詞), was so gentle and relaxed. His state of mind was like the water in a stream. He was so calm. He totally relaxed my ceremonious attitude at once. He had no strain of trying to chant well. There is a Japanese archaic word, Kotohogu, meaning “to voice the word of rejoice or celebration.” The priest of Gekū chanting the Norito reminded me of this archaic word. He had melted my heart and body with his ability of voicing.

In Ko-Shinto (ancient-Shinto), an outbreak of an evil spirit was said to occur from being obstinate. When you start to become obstinate, you have to watch out for yourself.

Well, many things happen in one lifetime. Simply untie the knot as you walk step by step.

This photo want sent to me from a reader who recently took a picture at Izawa-no-miya shrine. It is very rare to see this kind of orb with a clear print of an ancient bronze mirror and a glow around the circle. It is a kenzoku (retainer) of Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Ohomikami. It is protection this shrine where the god reside.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

What is Shinto?

It teaches about being grateful to the Great Nature. Not only does it teach being thankful but to "live" with the nature.

The Ise Jingu is a great example of using the wisdom of living with nature and produces their own natural materials in their daily Shinji rituals.

At the bottom of Isuzu River, the water from the ocean is jointed. A saltern is made at this place and a shrine is taking care of the production. This salt is actually used in the rituals or ceremonies at Ise Jingu. At Izawa-no-miya shrine, rice is entirely produced for the offering to the gods. At the shore of Ise Jingu, the priests in their white attire work on making dried seafood with abalones, squid and other types of fishes to be used in the ceremonies. They also use it to cook them and present as their daily offerings to the gods.

It's much like a self-sustaining housewife growing her own vegetables in her garden. Maybe the only difference is the conscious offerings of gratitude that comes along with the production. I think many of our readers are doing very well on this matter.

On the other hand, what is missing at the Ise Jingu? They don't send gratitude to the ancestral spirits. In the idea of Shinto, once we die we become assimilated with the nature. Therefore sending gratitude to the Great Nature = ancestral spirits. I still think it should also be directed directly to ancestral spirits.

For the Imperial Family, the Naikū is their ancestral grave. Thus, when they pay a visit, they will be worshipping their ancestors as well as the gods. And I believe that we should be doing the same; to have the altar for the gods and for our ancestors below. It makes sense. When the political system was established, the tragedy happened and the gods and ancestral worship had been separated.

Now that our nation is in prostration, it is important for us to follow the Imperial Family and work individually on sending gratitude to the Great Nature=Gods and to our own ancestral spirits.



From now on, if you cannot believe in your own choice and go ask for help to psychic readers who ask for money or selling products, your luck will turn downwards. The Earth will keep the souls that trust oneself and doing his/her best. The humans are the transcription of the Earth itself. If you abandon yourself, you are abandoning the Earth. Then you will be forced to leave this world.

If you make an effort, the effort will be rewarded and revival is possible.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Beauty Comes from Within

Lately the sunspots are appearing daily in a high amount. I sense the spiritual power from the sun is taking us back to the original condition, regaining one's true nature.

From now on, your aura will reflect your daily thoughts more and more. It's like you are wearing a spiritual gown. It is a time where the face, especially the eyes would start to show about the truth of a person.

One's physical body will age and one may suffer from a miserable sickness. But when your thoughts stay in goodness, it will reflect on your physicality. You will be projecting a sense of grace. The inner essence will show more and more as the times goes by.

Once in while, a scene I saw on TV 20 years ago comes back into my mind. It was a show that gathered actual accidents. One of the accidents was about an explosion of a water pipe on the side of a road, taking place at a small town in South America. A small girl fell into one of the hole created by this explosion. The water pressure forced her to fall into the hall, so it was really tight and several adults were trying to pull her out but failed. She was buried all up to her neck. Only her face was on the surface, trying to breath as much as she could. After a long effort, the adults had given up pulling her. They were all in tears and trying to bail out the water. The whole pathetic scene was shown on the screen.

At one point, I noticed the girl's eyes made a sudden change. She had realized spiritually that she is dying soon. Inside those eyes, I was able to witness a gentle smile of Jesus Christ very clearly in the light. An understanding arose to me on that moment. That the spiritual being who is worshipped in the region comes to guide the soul(s) in an adequate figure when the time has come. Maybe the beauty of the Christ was shown so vividly because the girl was pure. Later, the girl disappeared into the water.

It proves that a simple belief is worthy and surpasses an egoistic logic.

Today, just like any other day, I continue to simply change the water of my Kami-dana altar, putting up three incense to my ancestral spirits and send my gratitude.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live