Yoshimaru and Rica Higa
2012.5.2
Please take a look at the photos of the ceremony held at the foot of the Mt. Fuji last year. Mt. Fuji was not visible in the thick mist for a while. Then all of sudden, it appeared. Mt. Fuji sent us one message. “Though the way may look closed, you can see me, the Mt. Fuji when the mist clears up”.
First let us tell you the words of God told to Rica at her prayer today.
Words of God
Find your thread.
It is entangled and knotted in many ways.
Try to disentangle knotted thread of yours.
Then you will be guided to somewhere ahead of you.
Try to disentangle your knotted thread.
Try one by one.
Then it will be disentangled slowly.
Then it will be easier for you to see more.
Try to disentangle your knotted thread.
Never give up.
Keep trying.
Get your thread much closer to you.
Then you will get back your own conviction.
Try to build your way to your own new future.
Messages to the Forthcoming Fire Ceremony
We are going to introduce the messages from the members of the action committee of this ceremony. Its chairman is Mr. Kiyoshi Takahashi. They are the real feelings and wishes from the people concerned.
What is this ceremony to begin with? What are we looking for?
In short, this ceremony is a gathering of people who wish to try to create a wonderful future and keep all the living beings.
It is our ultimate goal.
We have the following three targets to reach.
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wishing to create a wonderful future for all of us
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wishing to make the circle of people and grow it for all of us
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wishing to talk about the way to peace and keep talking about it for all of us
Prayers for the people are not only those praying with their knees down and hands crossed. It means more than that. Suppose everything can be settled or solved by only praying. Then probably we do not have to keep own bodies in this material world.
In reality, we are living in this material world.
So what are we hoping to see and change in this world?
So are we happy in this world of struggles and competitions?
So is it that we want to live in the world where all the living beings can live safely?
The revelations tell us that we must have the picture of the future we want to live in.
The revelations tell us that we must go on the way to such a future.
The revelations tell us that we must be aware of our real wishes.
The revelations tell us that we must act to make what we are aware of come true.
The revelations tell us that all this is eventually the praying itself.
In other words, we try to change the reality by getting rid of something we don’t need.
In other words, it is something we can make in our daily life in each way.
When we go to the supermarket, we can smile to the working women, people who deal with us at the checkout counters, and thanking them for what they do for us.
We can thank those people who do important jobs to save lives.
We can thank those people who educate children for their independence.
These are the times when we can try to change our courses for the future.
Many people tend to think that it is hard to live in the world of idealism. Many people are tired of living in the world where the economy and competitions are almighty. Many people are doing things they do not want to do. Many people are making such a system keep operating.
Is this all right?
We guess that many people are doubting it.
We guess that the majority of people are not thinking that it is right.
It is probably the voice of the majority.
It is the people who have created the whole working system in the fields of service, finance, advertisement, judiciary, administration, etc. Some people thought of such a working system. And it is working. Are they for those who made it? Or are they for those who work for the makers of the system?
When you change your ways of thinking, you can change the world
When you change your ways of thinking, you can probably change everything.
You can make something that can hurt people.
You can also make something that can heal people.
This is the very important key.
When you start thinking in a different way, you can change the world.
When you start dreaming your future and move to change the world, you can change the world. When you don’t move to change the world, nothing would change. It is that simple.
We, members of the action committee of the Fire Ceremony, do have our visions and dreams of our good future.
We try to make them come true.
We try to help each other, with respective minds of responsibility, for the ceremony.
We need all kinds of people who can help us with this ceremony.
Painters, composers, praying people, dancers, singers, stage-setters, fire-guardians, cooks, people who answer people’s questions, people who come and join the ceremony—we need all of them.
This ceremony is possible to hold with the concerted cooperation of all of them.
Let our descendants see what we do now 1000 years later!
Holding this ceremony is making our future. It is the same thing.
The size of this ceremony is getting bigger and bigger each day . We need the helping hands from as many people as possible. We can help each other now. It is beyond our personal gains or losses.
This is our basic idea.
We are praying together to make this ceremony a wonderful one.
The Lake of Yamanakako, at the foot of the Mt. Fuji, will be the place for joint prayers soon.
All of us are volunteers.
Soon the people living in the neighboring villages will come and visit us with some foods they prepare. They may bring traditional Japanese lanterns to make the Lake of Yamanakako look beautiful. Probably the whole place will be full of lanterns. And all of us will be smiling and laughing all together.
This is a tremendous energy itself. It may be transmitted to other areas soon.
It is the energy coming from the hearts of all the participating people. All the smiles and laughing voices will reach many places over the Mt. Fuji. They may reach the world of the invisibles. We may see some messengers coming to us for some help.
The power of the individual may be a small one. But when they get together, you will see a huge power. It may reach the heart of some being that we people cannot see now.
We are not just waiting for it. We are preparing for it. We are preparing ourselves for our future. We are going our way one by one and step by step.
This is the basic idea of this ceremony.
When our descendants see what we do now one thousand years later, they may be seeing such a difficult world to live in. Let us send them our messages now.
