Prayer Circle

The Beautiful Eyes of Mother

 

 (video taken on March 4, 2010 at Ikeijima Island, one of the main islands of Okinawa)

 

This elder woman sings a legendary song of Okinawa with her own voice as you see. It is told in a local dialect beautifully. After the song, she thanks Yoshimaru and Rica Higa for their visiting the Island for prayers. She thanks the God for making it possible to build 7 lighthouses in the Island and for bringing happiness for the people who live there. She thanks Yoshimaru and Rica for what they are doing for the world, the country and the people even by going abroad for prayers. She tells that there are many maidens in the service of the Shrine( or sibyls) in the Island. She says that this year of the Tiger(2010), one of 12 signs of the Chinese Zodiac, is a happy year for all. Rica Higa is right there with her thanking this elder woman for her words of gratitude.

Speech by Yoshimaru Higa in Hokkaido

Speech by Yoshimaru Higa in Hokkaido, north of Japan(June 6, 2010)

 

What is “personal prayer” or “prayer for individuals”?

My wife and I are always thinking and creating the ways of our prayers. By receiving the visions, we have to think how to conduct our own divine prayers. We are living in the nature daily and so things change according to time. When such changes take place, we do our own prayers in accordance with changes. Now, what is “prayers for individual persons”? When I do this, we can see the “past beings” or the “guardian spirits”. But I do not tell anyone about it. Why don’t I? I don’t tell anyone this because if I do so, it would rather harm people. There was a person who got to know about this from me and abandoned all his efforts to try for himself in life. He thought that his guardian spirit is so great that he himself would not have to make any effort any more. He obviously made a big mistake. It was his illusion. What I think is most important here is to let each individual realize who he/she is and what he/she can do for himself/herself first. How could one realize it? In short, it is up to the person. If he/ she does what is important for himself/herself, then he/she will be able to trust himself/herself and get a great power. As for the “guardian spirit”, it is enough to know its existence. It is enough for anyone to know that there is his/her “guardian spirit”. I repeat. What is most important is the efforts of himself/herself. It is the person who does pave his/her way for the future.

 

The reason of our prayers in mainland Japan, not only in Okinawa

The people in Okinawa were suffering from the shortage of water a long time ago. Before it was returned to Japan in 1972, the cut-off of the water supply was one of the biggest problems in Okinawa. There were tanks for water storage at the roofs at every house in old days. The situation got better after 1972. This is why the people of Okinawa had to resort to the “divine ceremony for water supply”. For example, there was a ceremony to pray in front of fountains. People had to take good care of the fountains in order to get this gift from nature. The fountains are the very source of water and they are very important. Water comes out of fountains after many years through rivers, mountains and forests. The “divine ceremony for water” is dedicated for the maintenance of the cycle of the nature itself.

It seems to me that the natural cycle of water coming all the way from Tibet is going berserk. It means that the balance of nature and recycle of the water is out of balance. So it does not reach all the regions any more. What do you think will happen if all the forests in mainland Japan and Okinawa die and all the trees dried out? It would lead to a disaster. No one will be able to get any fish or sea tangles. It will be so because the nutrition and nourishment coming from the forests and the rivers into the oceans will all stop. People will not be able to capture any herring, sardine or tuna any more. People will be in a big trouble.

The same is true in the case of nuclear power plants. One such plant has about 900 employees. About 5000 people are concerned with the plant including employees themselves, their families and the business dealers. So once you build one nuclear power plant, it will be very difficult to undo it once for all. And, worse still, if a criticality accident should take place, it would damage a huge area more vigorously than that happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 by atomic bombings. The whole area will be contaminated by the radioactivity from the accident. This will stay there for millions of years leaving the place as the land of death. People will die of cancer, genetic disorder and whatnot. We are making it a rule to visit all the nuclear power plants in Japan at least 3 times a year in order not let such a misery or an accident happen. The same thing in the case of forests and rivers.

 

What If the Mt. Fuji explodes…?

Japan is being situated in a very delicate area. 4 major plates of the crust of the earth gather around Japan. There is no such country like this. This is why there are many earthquakes in Japan. If the Mt. Fuji should explode, it will be a trigger to start the major change of the nature---the change of Earth’s major crusts. If 3 big explosions take place, they will surely fasten such a big change. So this is why we are doing our major prayers at the Mt. Fuji when we can. This is why we are conducting our divine ceremonies with visitors and friends from outside of Japan.

 

It is the mission of us humans to keep our lives for the next generation.

Our Mother Earth is alive. We humans are its children. It is important, therefore, to let all the living creatures live. Let them live. It may be more true to the fact if we say that we are being lived on the Earth. We have to keep our lives. We have to do it to make a heaven, or a new Earth. We need to keep our lives for the next generation.

 

It is up to you, each person, to change this world.

We are living here daily on this planet Earth. What do we need if we want to change this world? It is up to each action and deed of each person. If you try to change the world, I am sure that it will change. It is not the psychic being that can change the world. It is you, an ordinary person, married or single. Please pray from the bottom of your heart. Pray for the people who you think are important for you. If you do so, it will be a big power eventually. We still have a plenty of time for it. Please do it. I beg you to pray.

A New Year Greeting from Mr. Uwe Friedel

“For our circle the new year is a year of new beginning. We hope that soon we can meet more often and more in depth with people who sincerely care for life on Earth.

We wish to all of you around this beautiful home planet a year in which you can understand how you can contribute to the evolution of humaneness.

We wish that you find many, many people with whom to share the good and bad moments, thoughts, prayers, songs, food and drink, sunshine, rain and all other things that nourish our body, soul, mind and spirit.

May you be healthy and protected and understand the blessings that surround all of us.

Uwe Friedel

Germany

 

 

A New Year Message from Ms.Elizabeth Araujo

A New Year Message from Ms.Elizabeth Araujo、wife of Don Alejandro Cirilo Oxlaj of Guatemala

 

Hello Yoshimaru and Rica Higa and friends in Japan.

Greetings from Guatemala and a Happy New Year to you, may all your dreams come true in the New Year.

The year is gone and we were not able to do the gathering here in Guatemala as we wanted. I have doubts if 2011 will be different, the money the President had assigned for the gathering had to be used for fixing the roads after the heavy winter.  We had one of the volcanoes close to the capital city erupting and close the airport for 10 days, it caused a lot of cleanup work, then we had 2 hurricanes, and 7 months of rain, that caused a lot of damage to the roads.  

 

Let's see what the New Year brings.  

 

A New Year Message from Mr.Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq of Greenland

I am Angaangaq, and I come from Greenland, the land of the Big Ice. Your people came and visited my homeland in July 2009. They prayed as the Sacred Fire once again returned to the land of the people at the Top of the World. It was an honor to receive such distinguished guests as Rica and Yoshimaru Higa to commemorate that once again the trees are growing, as they did long ago, so long ago that no one knows the time. We would use seal oil lamps for cooking, for warmth and light. But now, once again, we have light and warmth from the fire made from mother earth. 

 

Mother earth is changing and the Big Ice is melting badly. In 2009 people from around the world came together in Greenland in the circle which has no beginning nor ending, in which we all belong. And we all heard how the ice was speaking, ice blocks falling off every 20 minutes or so, thundering as they exploded, shaking the earth on which we walked, slept, prayed and celebrated.

 

My grandmother says: The easiest ice to be melted is the ice on the ground, the hardest ice to be melted is the one in the heart of Man. Only by melting the ice in the heart of Man does Man have a chance to change and begin using his knowledge wisely.

 

And so my prayer for you, the people of the rising sun, is that you will learn to melt the ice in your hearts. For with your help we will all have a chance to change and begin using our knowledge wisely. 

 

In Unity,

Angaangaq - The Man Who Looks Like His Uncle.

 

Mr. Dave Courchene’s Message for the New Year of 2011

Mr. Dave Courchene’s(founder of the Turtle Lodge, Manitoba, Canada) Message for the New Year of 2011

 

As a people we have been given beautiful gifts that reflect our uniqueness and beauty.  Our ancient Indigenous knowledge, prophecies, rites of passage and puberty rites carry the teachings that lay the foundation to ensure a sacred connection to the Earth and our purpose in life.

 

Return of the Ancestors - Arriving Fall 2010

 

Yoshimaru Higa re-started

Yoshimaru Higa re-started his deed of “fast” and “divine activities” receiving another series of “revelations”---------------------------------January 9, 2011

 

(from Rica Higa)

Let me tell you that many new revelations are being told and conveyed to my husband, Yoshimaru recently almost daily. This has been continuing for some time from the end of last year(2010) till today. My husband sometimes wakes up out of a horrible nightmare in the middle of night all sweating. When I see his face, I can see what he must be going through with these days. I can guess how terrible those nightmares are. I myself would like to tell about them in our blog, but it is also my sincere feeling that the timing is not right now, because it is right after the New Year. Let me tell you that my husband is unable to summarize what they are in one simple format. So it is impossible to tell about them now.

(from Yoshimaru Higa)

When I see such a nightmare or receive a revelation as such, I find myself totally caught up with a panic being in a horrible situation. I am THERE! So let me be true with you by saying that I cannot sit still right. It would be better off if I could go somewhere else to try to make things get better. I sometimes talk with my wife in our car and then throw everything to her in a bad manner. It is no good. There are two selves in myself--- one is a person who is so scared of what he has seen, and the other, a person who is trying to do something to change it. These “two beings” in myself sometimes make me treat my wife in such a bad manner. This is a reality.

(from Rica Higa)

Both my husband and I are tense during the end and the beginning of the year(both in the new and the lunar calendars). What is being told to my husband now is that we should be very careful in our actions and activities till around the Vernal(Spring) Equinox. It is so because it is the turning point now. For the force which would like to lead us to a worse direction, this period of time is a good chance to do so.

My husband left Okinawa for the mainland Japan today. He will go from the southern tip of Kagoshima Prefecture up north by going around all Kyushu. Then, he will go up on the side of the Sea of Japan to Osaka. In Kyushu, he will do a prayer at Mt. Aso(Kumamoto and Miyazaki)---this is a big volcano---. He will also conduct a prayer at the Cape of Sata, southern tip of Kagoshima. Remember that he did a series of prayers at the northern tip of Hokkaido at the Cape of Souya at the end of last year? Now it is time to complete an important prayer to “tie the divine prayers of the North and the South”. Then, he will continue his trip to many nuclear power plants in Kyushu, and the mainland facing the Sea of Japan. I will be meeting with him in Osaka in Jan.13. Then, we will go up north from Shiga, Fukui and Ishikawa by visiting nuclear power plants, lakes, swamps, seashores, etc., and do our own prayers there. After that, we are planning to go to Tokyo for “study meetings” and other prayers. Then, we will go to the nuclear power plant in Ibaragi and Shizuoka for prayers and will be back in Okinawa on Jan.29.

It is for the lunar New Year ceremonies and Pre-Spring “Setsubun” ceremonies. After that, we will be praying around in the north of Japan(Tohoko Area and Hokkaido) until the Vernal(Spring) Equinox.

My husband has been keeping his deed of “fast”( cutting all eating), but it was discontinued on Dec.24 last year. But he will start it again. This deed of “fast” will continue till the Vernal(Spring) Equinox, But, since it is important for him to sustain his own life, he eats once in a week. This year is the Year of Rabbit, the 4^th of the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac. We need your cooperation and assistance to make this new year a better year.

17 years ago

【I suddenly collapsed 17 years ago and went through with many surgeries】

by Yoshimaru Higa in his blog in June, 2010

 

As you may probably know about this because I have told this many times in my blog, I have collapsed all of a sudden 17 years ago. I had to go through with several surgeries and I was hospitalized for some time. Then, my gallbladder and large intestine were totally removed. After the surgeries, the God appeared and asked me----the one who is destined to die, if you would continue to tread the road for prayer with your mother, I would save your life---so answer me right away. I was sitting straight on the bed in the hospital and was answering the God that I would continue my own duty and prayers. Thus, I gained my second life and I am being in the hand of God.

The doctor connected my small intestine and the rectum. Usually, the water coming from the small intestine is to be absorbed by the large intestine. But, since my large intestine was removed, this function did not work at all. Consequently, the water coming from my small intestine is to be released as it is to outside of my body directly. This important water contains lots of nutrition. So when it is washed away from my body to outside, it naturally ends up with the shortage of water, nutrition and sometimes would fall into a fit of convulsions.

I had to live up with myself after a series of surgery. And I dared to challenge a life of FAST for 47 days, only with brown sugar, water and salt, after my prayer in 2003. I moved around Japan by car, from the center(Honshu) to the north(Hokkaido) and climbed many mountains. But, due to this FAST, I lost not only lots of fat but my own muscles as well. Worse still, excessive release of water from my body caused me many convulsions around my body and anemia. I am aware that I need to rebuild myself, but this is a fact that I have conducted many prayers and travels under such condition.

 

 

 

about the Taikoku Miroku Taisha

【about the Taikoku Miroku Taisha】

 Let us introduce our main shrine, the Taikoku Miroku Taisha, which is operating as a foothold and a base of the divine activities being conducted by Yoshimaru and Rica HIGA.

 Hatsu HIGA, Yoshimaru’s mother, received a divine revelation and dedicated the divine body of the God of Yin and Yang(the shade and the light) as the main God at this place in Okinawa. It is the origin of this shrine. She received another revelation which told her to open the “Amano-Iwato”(the cave of the sun God) and did open the cave there. It was called as “Koza Miroku” in the beginning. Hatsu was calling the God as “Tenchi-Inyoh-Musubi-No-Ookami” ( another official name for the God of Yin and Yang).

This main God’s body is actually protected and dedicated in the shrine now.

During 1952 and 1955, Hatsu was conducting divine prayers around the Okinawa Main Island and its neighboring islands all alone by herself. In 1961, she was invited by the Imperial Palace and conducted her own divine prayer there. But, due to the heavy burden of divine activities and prayers, she got sick and was hospitalized. It is such a coincidence that her son, Yoshimaru, also got sick and collapsed in 1993. Yoshimaru got divine-influenced during his stay at the hospital, and started his divine activities together with his mother till 1998 when Hatsu passed away. 

It was in 2004 that the current name of the Taikoku Miroku Taisha became official. Yoshimaru, after inheriting the divine activities from his mother, named it so by the will of his mother. In here, there are many caves such as “Amano-Iwato”, “Amano-Iwaya” , “Mifushi” and so on. The shrine, called as “the Forest of Gold”(now it is called as “Mt.Kaimeizan”), is there to protect various Gods coming from the limestone cave of the sun God(the “Amano-Iwato”). On May 28, 1952, the God of Yin and Yang appeared and the “Amano-Iwato” which was sealed in Mt.Kaimeizan was opened on November 15, 1952 at long last.

 (the Gods)

●the Tenchi-inyoh-Musubi-No-Ookami(God of Yin and Yang)---the creator. 

●the Amano-Iwato-Ushi-Tora-Koumyo-Daijin----the God in the cave of the sun God which protects the main God(God of Yin and Yang). It helps all the Gods create a new country or a world by “getting rid of un-genuine Gods and balancing the disciplines of the universe”.

●the Amano Iwato---There are many Dragon Gods which protect the Mother God of the Earth. The above “Ushi-Tora-Koumyo-Daijin” is the chief God which protects the Mother God of the Earth. The Dragon Gods work as messengers for creating a better future by making the most of wisdom, divine virtue and divine power. There is also a Dragon Turtle as “a messenger from the Palace of the Dragon in the ocean”.

 

 

Annual Schedule of our Divine Activities

  (Taikoku Miroku Taisha, Okinawa,Japan)

 

●January 1(Gregorian Calendar)

 We start prayers on December 31 for thanking the year going, and from 0 hour on January 1, we start prayers for the coming new year.

 

●January 5(Gregorian Calendar)

 We start our divine activities in a real sense from this day.

 

●February 6(Gregorian Calendar)

 We consider this day as “setsubun”(the day before the beginning of Spring). There is a story to tell about this. On February 6, 1945, when Mrs. Hatsu Higa, mother of Yoshimaru Higa, was preparing herself for meals, one beggar come into the house.At that time, Mr. Yoshihiro Higa, Yoshimaru’s father, was running a steel mill in Hiroshima. Hatsu was trying to prepare meals for the employees. She was good enough to hand this beggar two rice balls. Hatsu was busy but kind enough to do this. When she turned back and looked at the beggar, he changed into a “Daikoku-Sama”(supreme God appearing as a human). The God gave one millet dumpling to Hatsu and 2 more dumplings to the girls(daughters) who were there. We consider this day as an important day for this legend. We celebrate what we received from our God and thank for it. This is the day which tells the turning point of the season in the calendar.

From this day, we will be in Spring and many new lives such as plants and animals will welcome and enjoy the coming of a warmer season. We pray so that new lives will stay good and evil ones would turn into good ones.

 

●May 28(Gregorian Calendar)

 We call this day as the day for “the Yin and the Yang Festival”.

This is the day when our divine stone, the stone of the Yin and the Yang, was discovered and found. Hatsu Higa got the revelation that this divine stone is the one that would save the world. This stone was found in 1952.

 

 

●August 15(Lunar Calendar)

 We celebrate the Father God this day. This God is one of the three importants dedicated Gods.

 

●November 15(Gregorian Calendar)

 This is the day that the “Amano-Iwato”(limestone cave) was opened by the God in the same year that the divine stone was discovered and found in 1952.

 

●November 15(Lunar Calendar)

 This is the day that we pray for the orders and systems of the nature so that it will be harmonized to each other.