Infertility 2

Hints to fertility are:

1. Act on #1 and #2 on the previous article.
2. Stop using shampoo, soap, hair dye and cosmetics with chemicals. Use the ones with natural ingredients.

３. Stop consuming food with antiseptic substance (preservatives). Instead take more fermented food. I believe the ultimate food is the fermented food. Like natto (fermented soybean) or pickles, I sense that during the process of fermentation the agrochemicals and other bad substance are disintegrated.

4. This suggestion is all up to you whether you want to try it or not, but you can try using a plain yogurt (healthy bacteria). I sense that having enough healthy bacteria inside your vagina has a lot to do with getting pregnant. You can try putting a small amount of plain yogurt around the inside area of your vagina. Do it before you go to bed. There are number of specialists who suggest this method.

Yogurt is also good for atopic skin decease. Try a yogurt pack on your body before you go to sleep. But if you find it uncomfortable please wash it off right away.


Infertility treatment is very expensive. Some people cannot afford it. But I believe that god has left us ways to improve one’s condition without spending any money.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Infertility

Woman having problems with pregnancy is increasing. This is a big problem for the future of humanity.

In the past, I have mentioned about the causes:

1. Your ancestral spirit line is blocked. By doing the three incense kuyō your line will clear out, and have a place for a new spirit to decend.

2. The location where the couple lives might be the problem. The uji-kami, the local god may not be the right god for the unification of the souls. Some people become pregnant after they have moved to a different place. In the third world countries where people take care of the spirits of their land, they are often very fertile.


This time, I want to explain about some physical matters. It’s about the bacteria. I sense that pregnancy has to do with having a good balance of good bacteria inside the vagina.

When I see a woman on TV, sometimes I can smell a scent of cheese from her face. That woman usually looks very healthy and cheerful. I believe that such woman who has that kind of scent has a very healthy body and she is fertile. Single or married has nothing to do with it. It comes from a very healthy female body. This might be the scent of what is called “pheromone.”

On the other hand, there are those who look healthy and beautiful but doesn’t smell like cheese. Many of these ladies smoke.

Many people don’t realize, we all have a distinctive odor. The odor comes from the process of bacteria fermentation that live inside and outside our body. The living bacteria are probiotic or the opposite. When we get sick, it means that our probiotic bacteria is out of balance.

Smoking cigarettes will cause to decrease the probiotic bacteria on the lower stomach area which makes a woman sterilize. When there are less good bacteria, the internal vaginal area becomes dry and the dryness causes a bad smell that is cause by increase of bad bacteria.

From a medical point of view, the sickness causes the unbalance of bacteria. But from a spiritual point of view, it’s the other way around. I personally feel that the figure, health, life spam, and luck are all based on the information from the DNA and the bacteria plays sort of like an “execution team”. The bacteria hold the destiny of the humans.

You might say, it’s just a bacteria. How can it be so influential to cause a sickness to change the physical condition of a man? For example, an endemic disease brings a terrible deformation to a body caused by parasites. Some people become infected by the disease, when some people do not. The science tells that it has to do with the resistibility and luck. But I would say that the condition of the permanent bacteria of the person has an effect on the parasites.

When science faces a wall that they cannot overcome, they would say it’s just a coincidence. The coincidence is not a coincidence and can be explained.

The balance of the permanent bacteria is not only affected by substance but can be changed drastically by one’s own emotions and thoughts. This is the key to solve the mystery of “coincidence.” When you worry too much, distressed, angry or sad… these emotions will turn the good ones into bad bacteria. On the other hand, when you are enjoying life and happy, this condition will create good bacteria to grow. It’s not a coincidence. This is how things happen.

Women who have been infertile for a long time may say, “I’m sick of being told to be positive.” But knowing the fact that your thoughts and emotions can influence to grow good bacteria might be new information to you. I see these bacteria radiating a light. I sense that these bacteria are the source of an aura. There is a phrase that would make your bacteria (your aura) to shine.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu
Thank you for letting me(us) live
(to be continued)

Starting from Kata

Even when you are trying to send only gratitude in front of god or ancestral spirits, deep down you know you have a wish and you feel bad about it. I am sure there are many people who feel the same. Many people are wondering, how can I get over this feeling of wanting to be saved by an outside source?

In the past articles, I have explained how your wishful thinking is going to give you negative effects. So now, those who have wishful thoughts feel guilty having it.

Could we really control ourselves from these thoughts? Could we really do it in a pure mind from the bottom of our heart? The answer is no, we can’t. It’s because we live in this World of Reality.

In this world, our action is valued than our thoughts. So even if you had a wishful thought in your mind, as long as you don’t say it out loud in front of god or ancestral spirits, it’s all right.

The problems about some people who are into spirituality is that they put so much importance in the unseen world and forget to be responsible in the daily matters. What should really be considered seriously is what you speak and what you do daily.

Spending a lot of time trying to go to other dimensions or future is a waste. You should forget about knowing the unseen and simply focus on your action in this visible world.

In Japan, we have a tradition of michi (道), a path of learning one thing. In a michi , there is a kata(型), a form. For example, in the path of tea, there are forms of sequence to learn. You wouldn’t truly understand the kokoro, the heart of tea right from the start and that’s all right. Even a master who has practiced tea for fifty years would still use the same kata. One’s heart might change and grow, but the kata remains always the same. The kata is “to live” and it is always there for you until you need another kata and that would be in another plane.

Humans need to work on a kata repeatedly until they understand the kokoro of it. This applies also in the gratitude sending to ancestral spirits. One day you will feel that it has become a true prayer from the bottom of your heart. Trust that day will definitely come.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

The Pillar of the God

Isuzu River is the bounds (kekkai) between the sacred ground of Naigū of Ise Jingu and the outer world.

Isuzu (五十鈴) means fifty bells. I think it’s a very Shinto-ish name. Bells signifies the harai, purification. The Shinto maiden dances with bells in her hands. The metallic sound of the bells clears off the evil spirits or negative energies. Not just one bell, but to have many bells to create multiple sounds is the key to harai.

In ancient Shinto, the kazutama(the spirit of numbers) of 3 and 5 is called “annanai”. Annanai means “to help one another”.

The number 50 is bigger than 35 and I sense that it means “perfection.” The Isuzu River is a river that purifies perfectly.

On November 3rd, a ceremony was held for the newly built Uji Bridge that runs on top of Isuzu River. The day before the ceremony, one of our reader took a photo of the new Uji Bridge (shown ). On this photo, you can see a Divine Pillar descending from the heavens. The love from the nation and the efforts of the priests of Ise Jingu are felt by the gods. The gods are making a move.
This photo shows that the divine energy is filling this bridge.

The next kekkai after the Isuzu River is the Miya River. Around a thousand years ago, the priests were strictly told not to pass this river. A visit to the outer world passing Miya River was considered unnecessary for the priests of Ise Jingu. As long as they serve the god of Ise, they were to dedicate their lives to stay inside the sacred ground of Ise Jingu all year around.

I certainly hope the priests of today remain in the same spirit.
The God of Ise is roaring like a thunder. It is time for the priests of Ise to brace oneself so he doesn’t get blown away.

The line between Ise and Hakusan, the center of Japan, is starting to glow.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Don’t add any negative energy onto yourself

From a reader:
Daughter: “Mom, I want to go to Tenmann-gu(Osaka) before my college entering exam.”
Mother: “Sure. But don’t use the word please let me pass, ok?”
Daughter: “I know mom. I’m going to write, I will pass!! on the Emma.”

Comment:
This is a proper attitude to pay a visit to a shrine.
The true function of a shrine is to reflect your own thoughts like a mirror. In the mythology, when Amaterasu-Ohomikami’s grandchild Ninigi was going to the World of Reality, Amaterasu gave her a mirror. She said, “Think of this mirror as me, the sun goddess. And keep this on your altar. This will guide your path with light.”

This means: To look at yourself in the mirror once in a while, to check on your actions. Are you truthful to yourself? Have you done anything wrong? If you keep doing this, your path will be guided with your own light and things will go well.

The shrine where god reside = mirror = reflecting back to you. This is what actually happens at a shrine. So if you had said “Please let me pass the exam!, what comes back to you? You are asking a wish to yourself.

When you are asked so many wishes from others, wouldn’t you feel stressed? It’s the same thing when you are asking yourself so many wishes. It’s only adding a minus energy to yourself. You are strangling your own spirit.

So when you say “I will pass the exam”, you are proclaiming. And proclamation will return you a very good plus energy. It’s active rather than passive. You are energizing your own spirit by saying so. If you are able to exhibit your real ability, you should be able to pass. The only reason you don't pass is when you couldn’t exhibit your real ability. When you are asking/begging to pass, the added minus energy might make that happen. Don’t depend on others for your fate.

This applies to other matters like work or health. If you paid to get a healing session, you are only adding minus energy onto yourself. You might be relieved and feel safe that someone got rid of your karma or evil spirits, but in truth, it’s the other way around. You are not set free but only strangling yourself.

At a shrine, it is best to offer your gratitude and nothing else. When you do this, the gratitude energy will come back to you, and you will start to feel grateful for everything.

There is no need to ask for personal desires. Good luck will come to you even you don’t ask for it, if you are acting on goodness. This is one of the secret of this world we live in.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Just the way it is

Ise is the land of the rising sun where the sun appears from the ocean.

In Kumano, the sun is hidden in the morning looking from Ise. And the ancient Shintoist acknowledged the area as Yomi-no-kuni (the land of the dead).

Thus the god worshipped in Ise has been the sun goddess Amaterasu-Ohomikami. And the god worshipped in Kumano was the god of the land of the dead, Susanoo, in the ancient time. The original shrines worshipped one or the other. But nowadays, other gods are added from humanly thoughts and the distinction of shrines has become dim.

The essence of Japanese Shinto is the teachings of nature. The name of the gods expresses the different functions of nature.

Amaterasu = sunlight = activate lives.
Susanoo = moonlight = give rest to lives.

This morning, I received a message from a god that Susanoo = sunaosa (meaning honesty). Susanoo is also a god of harai purification. So this message means that one’s honesty will purify one’s impurity and problems.

In the mythology, Susanoo was unruly to his father, a rebel. But old tales are often told the other way around.

In this world, we have day and night, light and dark. Some spiritual gurus would say they are no light and dark, it's just in your imagination. But that is not true.

I would say, just look at your life the way it is with honesty. We humans have gone through many problems through out our lives from ancient times. That has been the same. We need those problems in order to grow. It’s meant to be the way it is.

How do we get through our problems? Look at it with your honest feelings. Don’t get sucked into the problem. Observe. If you look at your problems from the point of life and death, it’s really no big deal. Time will be the solution. Accept the way it is with honesty.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Come to a Realization

The news was talking about a man who was released from prison after 20 years. He was accused of murderer but was discovered as false charge. There was a TV show about his life after the release.

He was going into a Ramen shop. I was touched by the way he was eating the noodles. You can see that he was really enjoying the moment. He was not acting. It was coming from inside and I could tell even from the TV screen. Inside the prison, they probably wont’ be serving such good hot ramen. Being away for 20 years from tasty food can really make a man look so happy with one bowl of ramen. It was beautiful to look at.

In Shinto, a “naorai” (直会) is held after a *shinji, Shinto ritual. At a naorai, the participants gather to enjoy the offerings (food and sake) after the ritual. Many people think it’s just a party to celebrate the ending of the ritual. But it is actually a part of the ritual. It is an important ending for god and human to merge as they share the offerings.

So if you only attended the ritual and skip the naorai, it means that you didn’t complete the whole. The offerings will be filled with divine energy from the god during the ritual. Thus by eating the offerings after the ritual, you become one with god.

I am suggesting that the woman in the house should be taking care of the home altar. She should be the priestess of the house. The reason for this comes from the same concept as the naorai.

When the woman of the house who takes care of the altar cooks meals for the family, the same thing as the naorai is happening. If you live alone and take care of the altar by yourself and cook for yourself, that would be the same as well.

Naorai is nao=直 and rai=会. 直 means directly. 会 means to meet. So the meaning of naorai is to meet directly with the god.
　
The meals should be taken as a *shinji. One should eat slowly to appreciate it. Laughter is another good thing to have during a meal.

Even in the mythology, it talks about the importance of laughter. When the sun goddess Amaterasu-ohomikami hide herself in the cave after knowing there are so many crimes in the world, the laughter of the party outside made her come out.

Going back to the story about the man who was false charged, he went to the park after eating ramen. The children came around him probably because of the camera shooting. Surrounded by children, he looked very happy with an innocent smile. In the interview, he told about being lonely living alone that he didn’t have anyone to talk to. In prison, at least he had others to talk to. In any case life is hard. But if you could come to a realization for what you have, rather than what you don’t have, you will be able find peace.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live



*Shinji <神事>: Shinto ritual, divine service

The Filth Becomes Manure

Most of the famous Zen monks have left many scrolls and paintings. However, many of them leaves desire for fame or ambition in the content. Even the famous Hakuin (白隠) left some of these traces in his writings. One of the very few pure hearted one was Ryōkan who has become popular in the recent years.

Many people are fond of someone like, Ryōkan, a hermit. But much is misunderstood. If Ryōkan would have become successful, he probably had killed himself. He was someone who had suffered from the success of his ancestors. The success had actually left filth in his ancestral spiritual pipeline. He was born to a rich commercial family. At the same time, the family had a long history as a Shinto priest of Ishi Shrine in Niigata.

It is interesting that most of the Zen monks who became famous had a Shinto family background. As long as you live in Japan, the Ubusuna-kami (the birth place god) will come to interfere when it comes to the advancement of a soul.

When a family has a long history in doing one business, business related problems are always there, and people suffer from jealousy and grudges. Employees might have died from accidents. Those things will create filth in the spiritual pipeline of the family. I sense that Ryōkan suffered from unreasonable anxiety and apathy from a very young age. In spite of being the eldest son in the family, he rejected to inherit the business and left his family at the age of 18 to become a monk. He had difficulty with his father who had so much hope for him. His mother, on the other hand, was a wonderful person who Ryōkan adored. He saw her as the prefect example of motherhood. His father later killed himself after the fall of his business. Ryōkan was deeply hurt by the incident.

Funny episodes are told about Ryōkan. One day when he was taking a nap on the veranda, a flea came out from his sleeve. He talks to the flea, “hey, where do you think you’re going? Come back home” and puts it back into his sleeve. Another story tells about him breaking his own roof of his shabby home for the bamboo shoot that came out from his floor. He was also once caught being mistaken for a robbery and was buried into the ground alive. Even then, he didn't try to defend himself and kept silent.

There is something about him that is very childlike and innocent. But the reason behind his character comes from breakdowns, sadness and sense of impermanence.

He acted as he was a free spirited man. His image seems to have no relation to discipline. But actually, another side of him had ninety disciplines. That makes him different from vagabonds.

Some of his disciplines were:

* Don’t interrupt when others are talking.
* Don't try to convince your beliefs.
* Don’t under value others.
* Don’t quibble while drunk.
* Don’t try to hide your mistakes.
* Don’t show off your intelligence.
* Don’t make promises easily.
* Don’t talk about regrets.
* Don’t make a fake smile.
* Don’t be proud of your position.
* Don’t scold people with your ugly thoughts.

Ryōkan was a man of effort.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Don’t think of Kami like your Personal Servant

御祈祷(go-kitō) or 祈願 (kigan) is a ceremony to offer gratitude to kami (god) in hopes that we receive continuous protection. The shrine offers two types of gokitō, 御饌(mike) and 神楽(kagura). Both the Naigū (Inner Shrine) and Gaigū (Outer Shrine) provide a Kaguraden (a ceremonial hall). And the priests and the maidens will performs in front of kami as the conveyor on behalf of the offerer. (quote from Ise-Jingu official website)

I feel, using these two words, 祈祷 (kitō)・祈願 (kigan) should be reconsidered at this time.

Because these two words or Chinese characters are used, the people misunderstand the way to worship a kami.

These letters were used by the influence of Buddhism, and it has a hidden meaning such as curse, win, battle and request personal desires. They are all self-centered evil attitudes of human and what kami dislikes.

Most people think that kami is there to ask for wishes. That is a misfortune. Why is it a misfortune?

You are asking kami for your personal desires to come true. This is a rude attitude towards a kami, and most people do not know about it. This is happening because the priests of today’s shrines cannot sense the kenzokus (the spirits that protects the kami). They have forgotten the osore - the reverence towards kami.

How would you feel if your child come to you, hand you a small coin and say “I pay you this much so would to make a move to make my wish come true?”

Do you think the kami who has given you life and who is completely in the position of justice would say “yes, I shall make it happen” to every personal desires?

If your wish comes true, there will always be someone in trouble on the other side. That is how the balance is created in this society. Is that what you want?

If my child came to me to ask for a wish, because I love him I would really want to make it happen. But then, I think whether it would be good for him. I might secretly help him make it happen. But I would never say yes to everything he asks for. Sometimes, I would scold him that it’s not going to happen and life is not that easy.

You shouldn’t be asking for small details to the almighty god. Simply send gratitude for what you have at this moment, for being alive. Put your heart to it. The energy of gratitude will reach to kami. And if he thinks you need help, he shall help you. The gratitude prayer would work much stronger than a wishful prayer. Wishful thinking should be left in your daily moments to encourage and bring focus to yourself.

It is the shrine’s responsibility to have led the mass to a wrong way of praying.

When you are asking for a formal prayer (mike or kagura) the priest would ask what the purpose would be? And give you a list. Select 神恩感謝 (shin-on-kansha) gratitude sending to kami. Some shrines don’t even have this on the list. What a shame.

If the shrine does not have this in their listing, ask for 家内安全 (kanai-anzen), safety of family. During the ceremony, think as you are offering this to kami rather than asking for protection and be in gratitude.

The energy of gratitude will create 神気 (shinki), divine energy. The energy you send will always come back to you and change your life in someway.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

A Collection of My Photography

"Mt.Haku -The Home of the Gods" - 「神々の故郷、白山」


From few years ago, I have been sensing the nature withering away. It will escalate faster then one can imagine. Whether we can save the nature from dying or not, depends on how much appreciation we have for the nature. The shrine is a place where you could go and send gratitude to the gods of nature. When you come to a realization, your gratitude could save the nature. The energy of true gratitude would be felt by the fairies in the forests and help save the forest.

I have been taking pictures of the forest and the nature since I started to think of this. I used to visit Haku-san (Mt.Haku) area for work, so I had a lot of chance to catch the scenes of Haku-san. It’s often covered with clouds, but when you can see it covered in snow it is spectacular.

I've been wanting to take the whole mountain view. So I had visited many weekends. I felt I was guided. And found unusual spots where there are no artificial buildings in front. The clouds were gone when I was there.

I took many great pictures but the best one is the one with a strong blue aura of a god in front of the Haku-san mountain.

Haku-san is very hard to get to. And even if you go there it’s very rare to see the whole view. Usually, it is covered by clouds. It would be a pity for the readers not to be able to see this beautiful mountain.

Just when I was thinking about it, I happened to find a photo book of Ise Jingu at a book store. I looked at the publisher. It was Random House Kōdan-sha. This publisher had contacted me two years ago when my blog first became a book. There are many photo books of Ise Jingu but almost none on Haku-san, the origin of Shinto.

Through my blog, so many people have started to worship Haku-san, and I felt like I wanted to show them the image through my perspective. I have more than a thousand photos. But interestingly, the publisher picked up 108 photos to publish. The number 108 is said in Buddhism the number of earthly passions.

To each image, I wrote a comment through my inspiration in hopes that the viewer/reader of this book will feel enlightened.




To get 10 free photos, you can go to:
http://www.randomhouse-kodansha.co.jp/isehakusan/

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Lets Practice to be the Musubi

One of the important God’s job is to be the musubi (結び). It is to join two or more different things and create something new. This is the core feature of the Creator.

At a Shinto shrine, there is thick twisted rope hanging on top of the front opening. This is called shime-nawa (注連縄). The shimenawa is the actual image of what the musubi is about.

Sake is also something that cannot be forgotten in Shinto tradition. Sake is made of this process of musubi of different substances and then fermented. Sake is one fine musubi art work. One of the finest symbolic god’s artwork is offered to the altar at a Shinto shrine.

Rice contains the divine energy of Amaterasu-Ohomikami and pure water. Sake that is made out of rice has the spiritual power to expel evil spirits and purify.

Rice = Amaterasu-Ohomikami
Water = Susanoo

These two divine Gods’ power is in the sake. And it is mixed with all the other eight millions gods’ power and fermented. The sake is a creation with all the Gods together.

Japanese sake is sacred. In Shinto, sake is used in many different ways for purification.

When I pore sake on the ground, I sense it cleanses the place and expel the negative energy. But like salt, it only works temporarily.

We also play the role as a “musubi” in the society. For example, we introduce a job to a friend or vise versa. This is unknowingly creating a “musubi”. When you are cooking for your family, you are also doing the “musubi” by putting together different substances.

Meeting your life partner is also a creation of the power of “musubi”. In order to be jointed, you shouldn’t just wait for it to happen. You must actively work on it. As a human being, you are here to learn to be a better “musubist”. In this World of Reality, we humans are the creators.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Watch the Amount of Food You Eat

Until five years old, I remember I hated eating. I remember thinking, “why should I put all these things into my body?”

My mother worried about my health and forced me to eat. I still didn't eat so much, but I was chubby. My wrists were meaty it looked like I had a rubber band around. My brothers used to tease me and say, “hey lend me your rubber band” and push my skin around my wrist.

Also, I never ran out of breath when I was running. I was always running around with my yellow rain boots on bear feet. We had a large open ground in front our house. I used to run around in circles clock wise.. counter clock wise… then I would start to run swirling around in different directions. And that was my first out of body experience. I knew I was running but the scenery around me had stopped. And I was sucked into the blue sky. The next second, I realized looking at the Earth from space. I remember this very clearly. It was before I entered preschool. Now when I think about it, I think I might have accidently danced the Sufi dance.

Like in my childhood, when you are eating little and maintaining a healthy body, you consciousness can expand.

Since the beginning of September, I am only eating once a day and very little. I exercise everyday like I have been always doing. I am starting to feel that my body senses are returning to when I was five years old.

If you are recently starting to feel some health issue, it might be the amount of food you are consuming. People have a belief system that one has to eat a certain amount. The older you get you have to change your diet and the amount you eat. But your thoughts are set and doesn’t want to change. If you eat more than you should, you are overworking your organs that is screaming stop! Stop! And your physical condition becomes poor.

If you are recently feeling fatigue, you might want to change your diet and eat less. If you are doing well and feel good, you don't have to worry.

Eat less and if you feel a little hungry, have something like dry fruits. I carry dry figs and have one occasionally.

In the microcosmic world everything is vibrating. The Earth is also vibrating. Recently I sense the Earth substances are vibrating faster. This is influencing our body as well. It is time to reevaluate the amount of your food consumption.

Ikashite itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

The Place after Death - 3

During the 49 days of the Bardo Period, everything you did in your life will reflect on your soul. From the “death” point, the energy you sent outside will all come back to you in this short period. Therefore, if you had made others suffer, you will experience the same pain all at once. So in a way, it’s better to experience the pain while alive. After your death, you no longer have a physical body to protect you. The pain will feel much stronger.

What if I acknowledged the wrongdoings and apologized or made efforts to make it up? If you had done this, there is a law that your actions will be reflected on the judgment.

What I am trying to say is that, just by dying you will not be able to run away from your wrongdoings. At the same time, if you had given a lot of love to others, you will be feeling all the love back to yourself.

Are you wondering if the kuyō will really reach to your ancestral spirits? I will say, would you only do things when it’s guaranteed? In that case, it will only be a duty labor just like you work for your wage. Doing a kuyō must come from your wanting to do so. Love must be given without any compensation. If you could act on sending kuyō like an unconditional love with no guarantee to do any good for you, then that is genuine. And it will for sure reach to your ancestral spirits.

Those who know that one must live no matter what and do good without any expectation is worth giving applause.

Even if you stayed single, if you had help heal your ancestral spirits, you will be healed and saved after death.

Everything you do is recorded. Every little thing you do in this life is all worth doing. It will sum up at the end and come back to you.

If you become aware of this, your way to live your life will change from now on.

The Bardo Period is a time of reflection. And you will be judged by your own innate god = “good will” which way to go, to heaven or to hell. At this point there is not escape. Your soul belongs to the Root Source of All. You are simply a derivative of the Root. Therefore your true genuine part is made from goodness. And you will be judging yourself from your own genuine part.

At the end, not a singe soul can escape from one’s own righteousness.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

The Place after Death - 2

Each person’s situation on death is different. 0.1 second before the actual death, an enormous drama takes place.

When one comes into this world, the first family encounter is a mother. When one dies, the first encounter is one’s ancestral spirit. Your ancestral spirits are the bridge between this world and the next.

The fact that you need a physical body while alive, you have the fate to have a relationship with a destined family line.

At the moment of your death, your ancestral spirits will come into your consciousness as a ball of light. The radiant lights will show you one of your familiar ancestors, or one that you don't recognize but can feel that he/she is your ancestor. Sometimes the light may not be a shape of a human figure. It comes in many different patterns.

If you had helped heal many of your ancestral spirits during your lifetime, many ancestral spirits will come to greet you after your death.

I am recommending the three incense kuyō. When you act on this, the energy that you send as a kuyō (to help heal those ancestral spirits who need help) will be divided by the leader of your ancestral spirits who is most stable and has the strongest tie with you. This leader and others who were healed by your kuyō will come to greet you when you die. One of the Buddhist sect, Jōdo-shū’s painting of the “Nyorai coming to lead the followers to paradise” is very much showing what I just explained. But they don't come in a figure of a Nyorai. They will usually come in a ball of light or in a figure as your ancestral spirits.

At the time of death, those who were greeted by his/her ancestral spirits will have a very peaceful face even it was a terrifying accident. It all happens within less than a second and when you are greeted, you are saved and your face will look peaceful.

After this second, you start to enter the 49 days Bardo Period. If you had an ordinary life, even though you didn’t believe in god or guardian ancestral spirits, at least one of your ancestors will come to greet you. However, with a small group there is not enough light and you might feel pain when leaving your physical body. When a large group of spirits comes to greet you, the light turns into a golden light. It is amazingly beautiful. When you are wrapped in this golden light, you will feel so safe there is nothing to be afraid. The separation from your physical body will also be smooth and easy.

However, depending on the way you lived your life, you might not be able to recognize your ancestral light even though they came to greet you. In this case, the soul remains at the place where he/she died. These people were not ready to leave their physical body but still died and forced to separate. So the pain remains even after the separation. For this kind of soul, right after the death, the consciousness can pretty much move around freely. But as the time goes by, you start to find it difficult to move around. And eventually, you get stuck in one place. So the only way to move is to possess a living person.

Those who entered some religious sects or made people suffer, when these people die, an evil spirit will come to greet them. Those souls won’t even have the chance to enter the Bardo. To be continued…

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

The Place after Death - 1

After one’s death, the soul has approximately 49 days to decide where to go. I sense that this applies all over the world. I call this 49 days the Bardo Period, the transitional time from one dimension to another. In Tibetan Lamaism, there is a Sutra for the Dead. They talk about the 49 days after death in a similar idea.

However, comparing with my memory on life after death, the content on the sutra seems to be a little out of date. Time has passed. Today things has developed and changed since the day the sutra was made.

In a simple manner, let me explain what happens during this Bardo according to my memory and my on time physic vision.

People will eventually die. You and I, we all die at some point. The 49 days after death is a sacred time. A very special time, one can only experience once in every lifetime. You strip off your physical body and become a spirit entity in the same shape and size as the time of your death. During this period, your consciousness also stays the same at the time of your death.

During this period, you will learn to let go of your physicalness and move on as a spirit. As time passes, the senses about your physical body start to disappear. The more you feel less physical, the more your consciousness becomes sharper. You start to remember all the feelings you had in your life. The happy memories and the sad memories, it all starts to come back clearer and sharper. At the end of the 49 days, those emotions will be as ten times bigger than at the time of your death. Your hidden emotions will be revealed, the one that you were avoiding for many years. If you had made others suffer, you will start to feel those pains of others.

Your goodness = innate god, have seen everything and knows everything.


If you had cause pain to others but didn't know about it, you will be shown visually to acknowledge your wrongdoing. The level of sin depends on whether you did it on purpose or not. If you have done it consciously, obviously the pain will be felt more.

Your own innate god, not by anyone outside of you, judges it all.

The problem is, “will you be able to cope those emotions? Are you living your life righteously, so you don’t have to suffer after death?”

If you had given a lot of happiness around you and your family, those emotions will become larger as well. At the end of the 49 days, all of your experiences will be summed up and your innate god will decide your next journey. To be continued…

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Towards A Grand Dream

After a physical death, our soul stays in an intermediate between this world and the next. The intermediate is called Bardo. And the length of time the causal body remains in this Bardo is 49 days.

Actually, the Bardo period exists in this Earth plane as well. And that period is now, between September 9th and October 26th (old calendar: 9th day of the 9th month). It is not physically 49 days. But because our timing is escalating, spiritually we are experiencing more than 24 hours a day. Therefore, this period will be equivalent to 49 days. I sense that we will be experiencing several Bardos periodically from now on.

Are we able to experience the Bardo without physical death? The answer is “yes, we can.”

The seekers in the past had an extreme purpose to experience death consciously while still alive. Those who succeeded in leaving his body while still in conscious, becomes totally free from dimensions’ restraint. I sense that the Russian mystic, Uspenski i Petr Dem i anovich tried to experience death while taking a walk but failed.

Most of the wild animals die while keeping its natural instinct. Therefore, the reincarnation cycle is very fast.

The great Mother Nature has repeatedly experienced the Bardo period. I sense that the last Bardo period for the Earth was 3000 years ago. At that time, I feel that a big shift occurred on the spirituality of Earth which led to a big change in the human immunity, physical system and civilization.

The Earth has now entered the Bardo period. In the next few years, our planet will go through several Bardos. And of course we humans too will be experiencing a huge change. This time, it seems to be more than the just a 3000 years cycle. The Great Bardo that happens every 300,000 years and the even larger 3 millions years cycle Bardo seems to be overlapping all at the same time. The Earth will go through something it has never experienced before.

The change will be more than you can ever imagine. Like the human beings appearing on this planet all of the sudden.

I find it interesting that the god spirit has told me about this Earth level Bardo being 49 days. The same length of time as the Bardo in the human realm. Maybe the Root God sees Earth and Human Beings as one set of organism.

If we could wake up one day to realize that we are truly a part of this planet Earth and have a sense of gratitude for what we have, it is still possible to pass through this Bardo smoothly without too much disaster.

I believe that our human consciousness will grow as well as the progression of planet Earth.

I sincerely hope that one morning, we will simply wake up to realize a totally different self.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

October 26th, The Time of Kukuri

Wrote Sept 10th:

Yesteraday was September 9th. In my consciousness, the 9th day of the 9th month, is the starting date of kukuri(bundle up/to gather/ the oneness). I never felt so seriously about this day than yesterday. The spiritual light from the sun was definitely stronger than ever. I could even feel it inside my room.

I am concerned about what might happen on October 26th. This is the 9th day of the 9th month in the moon/old calendar. It will be the first quarter of the moon phase.

The celestial movements are still influencing our planet Earth. But astrology no longer works at all. In fact, you should just do the opposite of what is told. You shouldn’t waste your time and money on fortune telling anymore. You might be missing a big chance to change your life.

The past few thousand years, The World of the Ghosts (spirits) where in control of our destiny. It worked accordingly to the celestial movements. To be more precise, it was not really one’s destiny but the ghost spirits forced humans to believe in those things, and those whoever interested in astrology were led to make things happen.

From now one, your own heart will change your destiny rather than the movement of the sphere.

Astrologically, we are now entering the cycle of Aquarius. Aquarius signifies the end of the celestial ruling. Aqua means spirit. The phase of Aquarius is the “Waxing Age of Spirits.”

Humans will be free from the ruling (material/vertical society/money), and will be able to manifest a reality by one’s own heartfelt desire.

Between September 9th and October 26th, the spiritual energy from the sun will be very strong. The World of the Ghosts will start to contract. I wonder how the oneness that has started from The World of the Gods
will take place at our World of Reality.

The Japanese government has made a big change. We will start to see more changes around the world.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

A Heartfelt Thought... 3

While my father was doing business with the hospital in Osaka, Mr.Hamuro was a doctor and a manager of the hospital. Mr.Hamuro had always tried to support my father in many ways. Even after my father’s retirement, Mr.Hamuro kept sending letters trying to continue a friendship. Through my psychic reading, I feel that Mr.Hamuro had some sort of problem with my father in a past life and now trying to make peace. They each carry the karma of Fujiwara and Tachibana Family, so I sense that Mr.Hamuro simply couldn’t stop doing something for my father. He probably didn't know why he feels that way. In spite of Mr.Hamuro’s heartfelt effort, my father still didn’t go to Kasuga-Taisha. It was very interesting for me to see the reaction of the descendents carrying the karma of their ancestors.

In the later days, Mr.Hamuro’s face was like an Okina (翁). Those who have dedicated their life for a divine purpose will turn into an Okina face like you see in the Noh play mask. A very soft, light smile. Only those who had contacted a high rank god spirit above the 7th dimension of the Worlds of the Gods would start to look like an Okina. The present Emperor has started to have an Okina face. Living in this dimension, they already start to look like a god.

I sense that when a god appears in a human like form he would be wearing an Ikansokutai (衣冠束帯), traditional formal court dress, with an Okina face. A goddess would have an Otafuku (お多福) face. A smiling face with eyes slanting downwards with big round cheeks.

The man with an Okina face said “God has already given everything to people. All we need to do is to realize that.” In a way, this is a very tough thing. What happens when he/she doesn’t come to a realization? He/she will only be the way they are or become worse.

A better one or worse, our future depends on each and one of us. 

In the recent election for the House of Representatives, the nation truly worried for the country and made a serious decision. An understanding came to me through this election. I reconfirmed that the god has given his life in our hands of humans. The future can change. It all depends on us. Whatever the result, god will accept.

We must choose to live. We must make an effort to live.

1. By sending gratitude towards our ancestral spirits, through each family spiritual line, the healing energy can spread to all human beings.

2. Pay a visit to the shrine close to where you live (Uji-gami jinjya). You have the fate to live in that area. Therefore you have a relationship with your local god. Send gratitude to your uji-gami (local god). This will help the Kuni-tama (国魂), the god that protects this country, and give him power. This energy will extend to help the Mother Earth to heal as well. Not only will it help Japan, but it will help the world to become a place of peace.

The gods does not help each individual, but he/she will try to protect the leaders, such as the Emperor or the Prime Minister. We chose our leaders. We must be responsible to support them as well.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

A Heartfelt Thought ... 2

The reason why my father said that he didn’t want to go to Kasuga-Taisha is because he wanted to respect his own ancestors. Kasuga-Taisha worships a personal god of Fujiwara family.

For generations, as a Shintoist, my father’s family has been worshipping God Susanoo. Our family has been the keeper of Susanoo’s onizuka mound. We have been told that our family’s root comes from Tachibana (橘氏) Family. And that the Tachibana Family’s root god is Susanoo. (The famous Kamibito and psychic of Showa, Matsuzo Matsushita told my father that the Tachibana Family is the ancestor of Masashige Kusunoki,a notorious samurai general of Kamakura period, and my father’s family.)

The big four noble family in Japanese history are Genji, Heishi, Fujiwara-shi and Tachibana-shi. Out of the four, Tachibana Family has taken over the karma of God Susanoo. This family had experienced the same calamity as in the mythology of Susanoo.

According to the Mythology of Japan, Susanoo had committed numerous sins at Takamagahara (heaven)
and was expelled from the World of the Gods. He was sent to Ne-no-kuni (Hell).

The truth behind this incident was that Susanoo took the blame of other gods. These gods were the bureaucratic members who were positioned under Amaterasu. Why did these gods commit such crime? The whole system of the World of the Gods was running in a pyramid like operation. Goddess Amaterasu was at the top of the pyramid and other gods lined up under her. Then God Susanoo suddenly appeared out of the blue with the same level of power as Amaterasu. The other gods were afraid of him and thought he might take over the whole system. So they laid a snare. The gods destroyed Amaterasu’s precious farm and blamed it on Susanoo. For some reason, Susanoo never said anything against the blame and silently went to Hell.

The same thing happened with the Fujiwara Family and Tachibana Family during the early Heian Period (794~). The Fujiwara Family succeeded in curry favor with the Imperial Family and became very powerful. The incident called “Jouwa no Hen (承和の変)” is one famous affair where Tachibana Family was trapped just like Susanoo in the mythology. The family that carried the karma of Susanoo has repeatedly experienced exile in history.

Even in the modern day Japan, the blaming on one person is still happening. This election of The House of Representatives was to blame former Prime Minister Aso. Our society has a habit to make one person take blame and be expelled. Is it really just that person’s fault? We have to think about that.

Going back to Kasuga-Taisha, the actual origin of this shrine is way older than 1300 years ago when the Fujiwara Family became the Uji-gami of this shrine.

Way back in the ancient days, Kasuga-Taisha was a shrine to worship Mt.Mikasa (御蓋山) as a god. Therefore, this shrine takes a very unusual style of merging the ancestral spirits and a god spirit.

The Fujiwara Family worked on foreign affairs and had a chance to learn a Tao spell from China. They learned the secret technique to worship their ancestral spirits together with a god spirit of the mountain in order to sublimate their spiritual level. This is how they succeeded in this World of Reality.

To be continued…


Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

A Heartfelt Thought brings your Soul to Light

The election of the members of the House of Representatives was held on August 30th. As I was watching the news of the election, something completely different came into my mind.

It was the story my mother spoke to me during our last trip. The story was about Yoriaki Hamuro, the former head priest of Kasuga-Taisha who passed away early this year. For some reason, this story came into my mind during the election news.

I have never read Mr. Hamuro’s books nor had a chance to meet him. But I knew he was an old friend of my father. During a long drive with my mother, we had a lot of time. So I tired to get as much information as possible about this man because her stories were all very interesting to me.

My father and Mr.Hamuro met each other at a large hospital in south of Osaka city. My father was working for a medical supply company and he often visited this hospital. My father became friends with Mr. Hamuro at this hospital and they used to go out for a drink after work. Even after Mr.Hamuro had become the head priest of Hiraoka Shrine (枚岡神社) and Kasuga-Taisha (春日大社), he used to write to my father asking if he would come and visit him to the shrine. My mother said that he did go to visit Hiraoka Shrine but not to Kasuga-Taisha. I remember asking my father why he didn’t want to go to this shrine. He said, “I don’t want to go to a shrine that worships the Royal Fujiwara Family.” My father never told Mr.Hamuro that he was the descendent of a shrine that worships God Susanoo. My father simply kept their friendship as work partners and nothing more. On the other hand, Mr. Hamuro seemed to be more curious about my father.

During the 60’s, my mother said she had a chance to talk to Mr.Hamuro directly at the hospital. At this time, Mr.Hamuro was a well known doctor who succeeded in developing an operation on babies who were born with cleft lip. Many doctors came to this hospital in south Osaka to learn from him.

Mr.Hamuro told my mother that he devoted his work on curing the clept lip because he just couldn’t see a bright future on these babies. He said he couldn’t stop thinking about finding a way to change their lives. This was his vocation.

Through my mother’s story, my understanding was as follows; “The god who created humans must be able to cure an uncompleted lip. There is always a way to solve. Gods are waiting for us humans to find the solutions.” I believe that Mr.Hamuro was determined with this thought.

Such determination and devotion brings great inspiration. He found a method that completely cured cleft lips without using any machines or cellular transplantation. He succeeded by simply using the baby’s own facial skin.

A strong heartfelt caring thought brings great inspiration. To be continued…

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live