Tanabata

     Today, July 7th is tanabata festival day. In early-modern times, it is linked to several mythologies. But when I imagine this word, I imagine a waving flag. This festival was held originally on the lunar calendar. Thus in the solar calendar date, it should be around August 7^th.  Spiritually significant time in Japan is obon.  Once a year, around mid-August is the time when ancestral spirits come to visit us. And the 7^th of August will be a week before the obon. I feel it was originally the day to start the greetings to the ancestral spirits. The tanzaku notes were originally used to write the names of ancestors and not your wishes. The bata(夕) of tanabata（七夕) means evening… which signifies the night time, the dark place.. Yomi-no-kuni.. the spiritiual dimension of the dead.  The mythology tells that only once in a year, the male and the female is able to meet crossing the milkyway. But in fact, it makes sense to me if it’s really about the ancestors and the descendent meeting once a year.






      Today the astronomical phenomenon shows



(http://www.astroarts.com/index.shtml）that at 22:53 the distance between Earth and the Moon will be in the closest distance which is 369567km. This number, 369 and 567 is a very interesting number. 369 is Miroku (http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/miroku.shtml). And 567 is a significant year that is written on a sutra related to Miroku. The distance between the Moon is showing this number at this day. I cannot stop thinking that it may have been all planned from few millions years ago.




     I will say, from the ancestral worship point of view, tanabata is a day to start preparing for obon. On the sutra, it says that a new bosatsu, a practitioner, will appear. I would like to think that from today, people would start to have a new perspective, to see things in a different manner.


* You can search more about Miroku on this blog.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

It's coming

I was doing a research on comets and found out the latest information.

Breaking Space News :

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/PS1CometJune2011/

     “Astronomers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have discovered a new comet that they expect will be visible to the naked eye in early 2013. At that time, the comet is expected to be visible low in the western sky after sunset, but the bright twilight sky may make it difficult to view. The comet is named C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS).”

     According to the Stella Navigator, the comet is calculated to align with the moon in the western sky on March 13, 2013 estimated to reach 1.7 magnitude.  The orbit is unknown at this time and the astronomers will continue the observation.

　In my books (in Japanese only), I wrote some secrets about the moon. I’ve been writing about it on the blog as well, about two moons appearing in the sky one day. I think the time is coming soon. The arrival of the big comet will make it happen.

      A large comet like this is yet to be discovered. The universe is so vast and these discoveries are with luck. We know so little about what is going on in space. I sense that there will be more sudden discoveries of comets in the near future that will align with the moon.

    As the discovery of a new large comet shows, I feel that June was another big turning point for us. We must focus on our own inner universe and take good care of it.  To return to your good will means returning to the origin=universe=god. There is no point in comparing yourself with others or look for answers outside of yourself. You have your own god inside of you. It’s really time to trust your innate god.

   When you find someone who needs help, you feel you want to do something about it. That is your good will. It’s nothing difficult. It’s really simple. When those feelings come out, you are actually saving yourself. Simply follow your good will. That is the path of kannagara.

   Is this my good will? Is this my true good will? Is my good will right? These questions are good questions. Keep asking yourself. That is a good start. Be honest to yourself. Then the answers will naturally come to you.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Underground lakes and earthquakes

Data from the Meteorological Agency

1.   March 11 19:09  M3.6  Ishikawa-pref. 36.2°N/136.5 E

2.   May    20  19:36  M4.1 Toyama-pref. 36.4°N/136.8 E

3.   May    25  01:31  M2.9  Toyama-pref. 36.4°N/136.8 E

4.   June  09  13:22   M3.4  Toyama-pref. 36.4°N/136.8 E

5.   June  09  13:33   M2.8  Toyama-pref. 36.4°N/136.8 E

6.   June  13  13:53   M4.1  Ishikawa-pref. 36.4°N/136.7 E

7.   June  18  08:25   M3.6  Gifu-pref. 36.3°N/136.8 E

　

My thoughts from this data: Earthquakes has been happening frequently in similar latitudes and longitudes in the west side of Japan
. I am sensing that a movement is starting underground of Mt.Haku (Hakusan). When I bring focus on the underground of Mt.Haku, the first thing that comes into my mind is the movement of the water vein. Small to medium size earthquakes seems to have something to do with this deep underground water vein. And when it has to do with the water vein, the impact is one strong vertical shake. I sense, this type of impact suggests that 
water disappeared in one part which created a big cavern, a hole deep down where the earthquake occured.  In the Kanto area, the earthquakes occur from two plates crashing into each other. 
And in that case, the shake continues for few minutes sideways. Around Mt.Haku, the cause seems to be the water vein, so it only happens in an instant. Mt.Haku is a treasure trove of water. What is happening at Mt.Haku signifies that dry up of underground water is happening all over the world. 

I feel this is more serious than the plate type earthquake. I am sensing that the rise of underground temperature is escalating more than we could imagine. 
The heat is causing the underground water to boil and dry up.

     This spring in West-South of China, once in a hundred years type of huge drought occurred that caused a desertification that killed all plantation in a vast area. Equivalent to half of the population of Japan is in serious crisis. Many lakes had dried out. And this month, heavy rain has washed down this deserted area that killed many people. Also in Europe, droughts and floods are occurring by turns. The global warming is happening both above the sky and underground. The rise of temperature is causing the droughts.






     Japan has enormous amount of underground water that cannot be seen in other places of the world. And Shinto belief has a lot to do with worshipping the water.  

  

   This past few years, huge collapse of roads and residential area has been witnessed all over the world. This photo is one example in South America. The hole is few meters deep and it happened in the middle of the city. There is no history of digging in this area. I sense that this happened due to the dry up of underground water vein.

   We must send gratitude to water and Earth to save the underground water from drying up. 

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Never know what may turn out to be our advantage

(written June, 16th)

     

     This morning, my concern was about the worldwide blackout and how to prevent it. The solar flare created by the explosions on the surface of the sun will cause solar storms.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm)(http://ervinlaszlo.com/notebook/2010/02/16/abrupt-change-2012-problems-with-the-sun/
)

     Introduced on the above websites, “In 1859, largest flare which caused a massive coronal mass ejection (CME) to travel directly toward Earth taking 18 hours. This is remarkable because such a journey normally takes three to four days. The largest recorded geomagnetic storm occurred. Aurora were seen around the world, most notably over the Caribbean; also noteworthy were those over the Rocky Mountains that were so bright that their glow awoke gold miners, who began preparing breakfast because they thought it was morning. Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed in some cases even shocking telegraph operators.Telegraph pylons threw sparks and telegraph paper spontaneously caught fire.”




     In other documents, they recorded that electric poles caught fire in this event. Several scientists have written a thesis about what will happen when a large solar storm occur today. Most of them state that it will most likely take at least one month to recover the power plants. NASA has written numerous thesis and warnings in this past ten years about the damage prediction on Earth by the electro-magnetic waves from the sun. 
However, I haven’t seen any thesis on what will happen when the nuclear power plant has lost its electric power caused by a large solar storm. 

Will the emergency cooling down button really work in such situation?  If it doesn’t work, we couldn’t wait for a month recovery. 
Just looking at the recent Fukushima accident, we know that if there is over eight hours of blackout it creates a severe damage to the area.

    Fortunately, out of this misfortune that happened in Japan, the whole world is reexamining and reconsidering its own nuclear power plant. Some countries have already decided to stop using it or to build new ones.



    In Japan, the government is taking this matter into serious consideration and planning thoroughgoing countermeasures. Imagining, we had entered the giant solar storm without experiencing this accident in Fukushima, it would have been a most devastating tragedy. Today, we have more than four hundred nuclear power plants worldwide. Later on, the world may verify that the Fukushima nuclear accident had prevented a worldwide disaster. At the same time, I’m also sensing that we are entering a new era where humans are starting to develop resistance against nuclear radiation.

    Since the ancient times, living things on Earth have successfully evolved by overcoming and developing the toxin resistance from radiations and oxygen. Humans were able to survive through the chain of life because of the outbreak of CO2 that reduced the amount of oxygen. Prof. Kunihiko Takeda who specializes in the research of nuclear radiation claims repeatedly that its nonsense to reduce CO2. It is necessary.






   Therefore, I would say this Fukushima accident that seems like a tragedy, may eventually turn out to be an advantage. The people in this area may start to develop resistance to radiation faster than others who are less affected. I’m not saying you should be exposed without any knowledge and caution. You should still do everything you can like I have suggested in my previous articles.





    We will have a period, a chance to start adjusting our immune system. For all creatures to evolve, forward mutation must occur in the DNA. DNA is ancestral heritage. I feel that those who had cared for the spiritual pipeline of the ancestors are able to mutate. There is the third invisible line in the DNA structure. I sense that those who send gratitude and kuyō to the invisible part of self shall evolve.




Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Evolving to the third new energy

     At a Shinto shrine for important ceremonies, a black and white stripe hanging is put up around the building facing the sando (an approach to the shrine) path. Often we see the black and white stripes in funerals at Japanese Buddhist temples, and Japanese don’t have a good impression about this color combination. But in fact, it represents the Ying and the Yang, and not an unlucky color. By having two polar energies, the third new energy seems to emerge. 




     The hanging is also called the kujira-maku. Kujira is whale. Maku is curtain. It is named from the color of the body of a whale or because the skin is black and the meat is white. In ancient Japan, white was the traditional color in Shinto ceremonies. But black and white was also used in the hangings both in funerals and celebrations. The Imperial Family uses it as well in both occasions. 
(from Wikipedia)

     Strangely enough, the world cannot evolve with white and white or black and black. We need the two polar to make things happen. That's why we have male and female. The sexual genitals are also in polarity 凹凸.  So often, I see a married couple in reciprocal characters. The more they are contradictive the more I see fate. (laugh) I’m not saying that you should fight with your wife/husband. Maybe, the more contradictive the couple (+-) is the more chances to have a child (the third new energy)…  and the less contradictive couple (++) the less chance to have a child? This might be an interesting topic to do a research. Those who cannot find a partner maybe looking for someone too much like one self. You might have set up which level you are and looking for someone in the same level.

     When you look at a life from the Ying and Yang point of view, if life is difficult now then life will get better later. Physically speaking, it’s impossible to have the ‘minus’ time go on forever. While you’re in the time of the ‘minus’,  you struggle trying to enter the time of ‘plus.’ Without the struggle (starting of the + energy), you won’t get to the third part (emerge of the new). So just because you are in the time of ‘minus’, if you just stay there and wait until something is going to happen, nothing is going to happen. The more effort you make (+ energy), the bigger changes will come. 

   Ask yourself, am I avoiding to face something? If you feel like you have no idea what to do, do the ancestral kuyō with three incenses, simply do your best in the work that you are offered to do and care of the people around you. When you care for others, the energy will always come back to you one way or another. People who give you a hard time, might be just saving your life by pushing you to give birth to the third new energy.

     As long as you live, life is full of surprises and potentials. Even if you are suffering from a fatal illness, don’t stop trying to live. From the efforts you make (+ energy), there will always be an enlightenment to the third perception that will lead you to eternity. Once you enter the dimension of eternity, you will look back and only see love and appreciation. 

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

June 6th is Tango Festival

     Today I will write another fictional story that came into my mind. June 6^th (Monday) is the Tango Festival in Japanese lunar calendar. The modern Tango Festival is May 5^th, a holiday so called the Boy’s Day to celebrate the boys to grow up with good health. I looked up the original meaning of Tango(端午)  . This particular Chinese letter 端 (tan) means the beginning of things. <午(go) is noon, the middle of time> So what is going to start? 

     Warning within Japan for earthquake is still active but I also have deep concern about the other countries at this time. The shape of Japan is a dragon figure. It is where the god who created the five large continents in the beginning of time is sleeping. What happened here at the land of the original dragon is a sign of a beginning of what will happen to the world.

     In other words, what Japan goes through, the other countries with experience similar situations as a reflection. 1. Giant earthquake.  2. Tsunami disaster.  3. Nuclear radiation disaster. 4. Economy crisis. Every month, deficits on the trading business are increasing. This is going to become a serious crisis.

     




I feel that 1~4 including volcanic activity might start happening all over the world. But there is always the law of reverse between one world and another.  So starting around the 6^th of June, I’m sensing that it will start to happen from No.4.  The deficit in the trading business in Japan will obviously reflect in other countries due to the JPY currency exchange rate. National defts, stock market fluctuation… financial crisis is already happening all over the world.  Serious natural disasters will start to happen around this time as well all over the world.

      It started from the Far East, from the land of the rising sun. Japan was the first place to happen, in order to show the world how it can be recovered overcoming the greatest crisis. We will have to become the good model. Future is still uncertain and unfixed. We should become the Noah’s ark. The disaster prevention tasks including protection towards nuclear power, water and food purification methods are forced to be the primary mission for our government. These fields of study will escalate rapidly.  Kanazawa University has already publicized a method to purify nuclear polluted water that is a hundred times more powerful than the one in France. Many scientists are now making all their efforts to find new advanced methods try to save the radiation problem. Everything happens for a reason and no experiences will go to waste. We shall become the world’s safest place to live.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Business trip to the US

(extraction from May 22)　

     I was hesitant to go on a business trip out of Japan, but this time it was hard to avoid.  As I flew over the Pacific Ocean, a thought came into my mind as we pass the date line. “We no longer need a stereotype or any kind of formats. We just need to focus on looking into ourselves in the environment and circumstance we have chosen to be in. The concept of time has changed.”

(extraction from May 23)　

     Today, we went to do some research on the natural environment offshore. Tomorrow we will be going into the deep forest. According to the local people, the weather seems to be much cooler this year. The tornados are occurring much earlier in the season than usual and in a greater scale. I’ve only seen just a little part of the US, but I sensed that the nature spirits are not honored. They are taken cared but not being worshipped. The sacred trees in Ise Jingu (The Grand Shrine of Ise) are worshipped for generations. The trees are honored by humans for thousands of years which creates a certain kind of aura (energy) to it. The nature and the creatures of Earth including humans are interconnected and the nature seem to grow and evolve accordingly.


(extraction from May 24)　

   I’m still in the US on my business trip. Today, I’m going to write a fiction that came into my mind.

　　R was introduced to an American named Bill at a dinner party. Bill is a former navy commander who entered an oil company and now working in the natural resource industry.  He said he lived in Yokosuka, Japan during his navy days.  Bill asked R for a drink later on. They talked about the nuclear power plant accident and many other interesting subjects. After opening the second wine bottle, Bill asked R, “Do you know the movie The Day After Tomorrow? Was it a big hit in Japan?”  R said, “Yes, it’s also famous in Japan and was a hit.” Bill said, “That great. You know, actually that movie was made as one of our government’s strategy to leak the information about the weather changes. Our government uses the movies often as a part of their strategy.  The invasion to Iraq in 2003 was also executed due to this information (R thinks his ‘government strategy’ refers to the Pentagon Report – climate changes alarm starting 2011’ ).  The government was planning to stock more oil for heat in order to prepare for the upcoming cold climate. In truth, paper money is not much of our concern. But I’ll tell you one thing. The world is worried about the US$, but it’s well protected for the US citizens. I can’t say anything about the dollars outside the US due to the exchange rates. But the same US$ will have different values from being an US citizen or not. I’ll tell you a secret. We will need a passport to protect money in the near future. (interestingly enough, US has its own law to the world that they don’t need to publicly announce how much money they are printing. This means, no matter how much debt they have, they can print money endlessly. The reason why this doesn't become an inflation disaster is because they have the military power and already in control of the world’s resources and economy). ”







     Through this conversation R sensed that the US government knows about the secret of the sun more than any other countries. The current Nasa website data on the sunspot is detailed. There are many reports and analysis on the predictions regarding the sunspot in the US.

   At the end, all the pricey products will be useless. Both US and Japan have great economic power and at the same time, we have the freedom to choose our own beliefs and religions. This is something in common. It is taken for granted, but still in many countries, this is not possible. In some places, there are still limitations and less freedom.





(extraction from May 27)　

     My trip is over safely. I’ve felt protected by all your love and support through out this trip. I will be back to Japan at the end of this day. During this trip, I received many inspirations (revelations). It might be the weather. Because of this dry and clear air, the messages were all happy positive ones.  
I’ve come to an understanding that the humidity has a lot to do with the spirits existence. Japan is very humid and it feels like the spiritual energy is humid or dense as well compared to the US. In the old days, Kyoto was once a highly spiritual and culturally abundant place. It is located in a basin and very humid. It was both humid as in the weather and also in a spiritual density.

    In the US, I didn’t feel a lot of miscellaneous spirits flying around like in Japan. But constantly felt the big Lucifer (he is said to be a big devil but in truth he is a righteous god equivalent to Susanoo). Through Lucifer, I felt that Hilary Clinton is moving this entire country (Lucifer is behind her all the time, thus she is very powerful in many ways). I also came to an understanding that Hilary adores the Empress of Japan. I sense, one of the main reason of her recent visit to Japan was to see the Empress. There is a spiritual connection between these two ladies. Empress is a transformation of the sun goddess Amaterasu-ohomikami and Hilary is a transformation of Lucifer=Susanoo (Amaterasu and Sunanoo is like yang and ying of a coin=sun). The relationship of these two countries is inseparable like Tom and Jerry. 

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live 

Look into yourself

    There was a TV show about this legendry man who claims that he could open any kind of dial type safe. He says the secret is to have the image in your mind that the safe will open. He images the inside of the safety box. As watching him talk, I sense that he becomes the safe resonating in the same frequency and feel the safety box from the inside. He says, “once I become one with the safe, the knowledge comes to me how it can be opened.”  This logic can be applied in relationships as well. If you can see how the opponent is seeing you, then you will know what to do to solve the problems you might be having.



      Lovers should look from the partner’s point of view how he/she is portrayed. Husbands and wives should do the same. Being the other sex. What would she/he be thinking in this kind of situation? Most people are only seeing things from his/her point of view. 
They don’t try to think from the opponent’s point of view. One of the purposes of our lives is to know who we really are, to really look at ourselves.  Once we realize this, we start to realize many things. Many people look at others and make decisions on what to do about one’s life. If you do things because many other people are doing the same, then once the many others start to collapse, you easily collapse as well. That is a wrong judgement.

     People who believe in his/her own good will and always have the habit to think about others from their point of view invites fortunate situations, things go smoothly without so much effort. 

     To really try to see yourself and learn who you really are while living a normal life is the fastest way to know what god is. You will start to remember who god is. This is a living meditation. Dogen(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dōgen) is the actual person who established Zen and he tried to practice the meditative living. You don’t have to pay a lot of money just to go to meditation workshops. You will never find yourself through those kinds of meditations. There is no aim in true meditation. Simply live a normal life and see yourself, observe yourself, and when you can be truly grateful in your current condition or situation then you are enlightened. The more you feel deep appreciation to your life the more you are enlightened. A notable person who reached enlightenment has left a saying, “I cannot count how many times I had come to an awakening.” This means he had uncountable moments he felt appreciation about things happened in his life. So many people who became the victim of the earthquake and tsunami disaster are saying they are so grateful for this and that. They have and are still going through such a terrible experience and yet, they feel grateful for being alive and all the help and support there are receiving. From the realm of eternity (the view from the gods), these people are the fortunate people. We have come to a time where we have to face what happiness is all about.  During our short lives, many will come to a realization.

    Lets try to look into ourselves in our daily lives through these words.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live