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Vivian is a Colombian woman who works as a corporate accountant in Canada. She has been friends with Konohana Family member Yuko since she went to Canada to study English eight years ago, and she got to know the Konohana Family through Yuko. This June, she came to Konohana Family for the natural therapy program to change her own life, which she herself says was “constantly unhappy,” with “anger inside myself.”
Her plan was to stay for two months, but she actually graduated from the program in one month. The following is a report of Vivian’s care stay, compiled by Yuko, who was in charge of serving as Vivian’s “care supporter” during her time in the program.

Vivian’s Care Stay Report

“First encounter”
Before we start looking back at Vivian’s care program, let me tell you a little bit about our first encounter.
I went to Calgary, Canada in January 2014 and became friends with Vivian at a language school. Vivian had started living in Calgary the year before due to her husband’s transfer; she had no acquaintances in Canada, and her husband was busy with work, so she was often lonely and depressed.

We were in different classes, but we got to know each other through a mutual friend from the same school, a Brazilian woman. The three of us were all the same age, married, and hit it off right away. Since Vivian was in the same profession as I was, I felt quite at ease with her and visited her house several times. When I left town to travel to another part of Canada, Vivian and her husband drove me to the bus terminal on the day of my departure.

In August of last year, Vivian contacted me for the first time in a long time. At that time, I sent her a picture taken in front of the lotus pond with Jiiji and his wife Ai-chan, and told her that I now live in the community and am happy having a spiritual family, though I got divorced. She said she would love to see the lotus pond, and after looking at our homepage, she sent us a message saying that she would like to take the natural therapy program.
Japan’s border had been closed for a while due to COVID-19, but in April the border closure was lifted at long last and we started the procedure to allow her to come here. She arrived in Japan on June 20th and began her roughly two-month stay in the Konohana family.

“Purpose of the care program”
The purpose of the care stay that Vivian wrote on her application was:

Pre-Care Stay Meeting

Vivian arrived at the Konohana Family and had her first talk with Jiiji. Here is what she was told at the time:
“You are not using your personality well. In order for us to get to know you in detail, write a diary every day as much as possible, look back on your past, and write memorable things, both good and bad, since you were a child.
You have jet lag (due to a 15 hour time difference), so relax first and get used to life here. From now on, we will have a meeting once a week. Try to experience the culture of the Konohana family as much as possible.”

First Day of Care Stay

• Conversation with Jiiji at the apiary

  

  During a tour of the Konohana Family’s facilities, Vivian met Jiiji taking care of the bees at the apiary, and told him the following:
  “Before coming to the Konohana family, I had been avoiding eating flour and corn because they are indigestible and my stomach felt swollen after eating them. However, when I ate sweets made from wheat flour or corn grown here without using pesticides, my stomach didn’t feel swollen at all and no symptoms appeared the next day. Now I can eat them with great enjoyment.”
  Jiiji listened to her and replied as follows:
  “This is because you’re in a new environment and your mind is now in a positive state. In addition, the crops are very much influenced by the state of mind and vibration of the person who grows them. For example, if you grow crops for the purpose of making money, the vibrations of such greed will affect the produce. That is why we make it our top priority to cleanse our minds. Ever since its foundation, it has been the basic principle of the Konohana Family to cultivate hearts before cultivating the fields.”
  When Vivian asked, “How can I cleanse my mind?” Jiiji replied, “First of all, be honest. Honestly express both good and bad things, and receive the results.”
  Additionally, Jiiji said: “everything has its own vibration. For example, when one person enters a room, the atmosphere there becomes brighter, and when another person enters the room, it becomes darker. It depends on the vibration of the person. That’s why it’s important to be a person who emits good vibrations, and for that, it is important to be honest.”

• Meeting with Jiiji in the evening
  Jiiji interpreted Vivian’s personality as follows from the perspective of Katakamuna, her generation, and the heliocentric calendar.

• Katakamuna (Ancient Astrophysical Civilization of East Asia)
  The name “Vivian” can be divided into two parts, “vivi” and “an,” according to the nature of its sound. The vibration of “vi” has the characteristic of negatively comparing oneself with others and feeling fear. In your case, the “vi” is doubled, so it is emphasized.
  At the same time, you have “an,” with the vibration of higher consciousness. These two opposing qualities exist within you. There is a gap between these two natures, and they are in conflict, which makes your life difficult. So, you need to recognize your own negative thoughts, which are characteristic of “vivi,” control them, and turn your awareness toward higher consciousness.
  By emitting negative vibrations from yourself, you will be in trouble with things around you. The people and events you meet serve as a mirror for what you are emitting, and help you express your humanity. You have brought a difficult life program with you. But if you overcome it, it can be quite rewarding. Focus on the “an” vibration.

• Generation

  

  You belong to the Scorpio generation, which seeks new values and tries to live in its own way without being bound by the old generation, but also gets lost. People of this generation don’t have clear vision even though they have strong will, and don’t know how to live like themselves though they want to.
  Your current state expresses the characteristics of that generation well, so, from a cosmic perspective, you are on track with cosmic processes.

• Heliocentric Calendar
  Analyzing the planetary positions of the solar system at the moment of your birth on the heliocentric calendar, Mercury and Venus are working together in relation to each other. Mercury is the planet of intuition and Venus is the planet of love and delicacy. This shows that you are a person who makes likes and dislikes based on intuition rather than thinking. The most pivotal part of your heliocentric calendar is the conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune. This shows that you have a desire to interact with a lot of people and the purpose of improving your spirituality.

After the foregoing analysis, Jiiji told Vivian, “I can see you becoming relaxed and renewed in the future, so please write down your experiences so far in your diary.”

1st week

Vivian, as she started her care stay in the Konohana family, was superficially acting calm, but actually she was worried about what the people around her thought, and was overly sensitive to her surroundings. In her diary, she asked Jiiji a lot of questions about whether she could be who she is and what she could do to get better.

Vivian gained new insights from a welcome concert and comprehensive presentation from the Konohana Family.

Jiiji advised Vivian to look back at her rather negative past first.

• 1st week meeting
  Vivian wrote about her trauma from past experiences in a diary and shared it in the 1st week’s meeting. Jiiji gave her the following advice about it.

At the beginning of the meeting, the notion of toku (virtue) was shared. People with toku experience a good flow of things and are tolerated even if they don’t follow the rules, while on the other hand, people without toku somehow receive complaints no matter how strictly they follow the rules, and things don’t go well. So the importance of accumulating toku was shared.
As a goal for the next week, it was suggested that Vivian maintain an objective point of view, rather than being emotional, to broaden her world view, and to think in a reasonable way.

From this week’s meeting onwards, Vivian started trying to look at herself objectively.

2nd week

One day at dinner Vivian talked to Junzo and Keigo, who, like Vivian, have dakuten (voiced consonants) in their names, and learned that people with voiced consonants have a common tendency to feel fear when faced with something new or when they open their hearts to others. At the same time, Vivian found out that the reason why Junzo plays various roles (chicken care, making soy sauce, working at Lotus Land, acupuncture, etc.) is because he makes use of the characteristics of people with dakuten voiced consonants, who worry about various things and get distracted easily.

• Turning point 1 – Case of the Japanese language class
  When Vivian told Yuko that she had time and wanted to take an online Japanese class, Yuko told her, “since you are at Konohana, why don’t you do something that you can only do here, such as going and helping somewhere that interests you? As Jiiji told you, you are now in the care period, so you’d better give top priority to facing your heart rather than learning Japanese.”
  In the afternoon, Vivian looked back on it and thought she had been in a bad mood during that discussion, so she talked about it to Yuko. At first, Vivian thought it was unfair that she couldn’t learn Japanese even though she wanted to, but when she looked at it from a different perspective, she thought what Yuko told her made sense and decided not to take Japanese lessons but to practice it in everyday life. She also said that she was hesitant to work without an interpreter, but that it would be possible to communicate on her own with gestures.
  Yuko passed on Jiiji’s comment to her: “Attend to the highest priority first, and it will bring good flow. If you start with the lower priority, it’s just your self-centeredness.” Vivian seemed to get the point and feel refreshed, and said, “Thank you!” After this, her expression began to brighten.

Two days later, Vivian helped pack lunches for delivery and wrote the following in her diary.

• 2nd week meeting
  Jiiji told Vivian as follows:
  “You’ve been working passionately on this program, and you’re seeing good results, so this program’s effort to understand your personality will be completed in four weeks. After that, we will give you some presentations to enhance your spirituality. Today is the turning point of those four weeks. You have learned about the negative things that you yourself have been creating thus far, and from now on, you will learn how to go beyond that and positively learn from things around you, like people, events, news, and social conditions. After that, you will get presentations to expand your view of the world, and you will become a person who can convey important things. And even after you go back to Canada to be far away, it surely has the meaning to be there. Whether near or far, each one has a role to play in each position, and each is important.”

3rd week – Change

This week Vivian was very active, working in the kitchen to make sweets and egg dishes, helping with sushi decorating, experiencing soy sauce making, and helping deliver vegetables. Gratitude began to well up in her for various things every day.

• Turning point 2 – Kitchen incident
  Vivian helped wash the corn in the kitchen, but she was only instructed to wash it, so the wormy part of the corn was left unremoved. Miho-san, who instructed her, left to do her exercises, and Vivian washed the corn alone. Misa-chan told Miho-san that she had been irresponsible about it, but Miho-san didn’t accept that at all, which made Misa-chan angry, and they started arguing. Since Vivian doesn’t understand Japanese, she didn’t know what they were talking about, except that her name appeared in the discussion. At dinner time, Vivian looked depressed and her tone was more down than usual. She told Yuko that she would like to talk about what had happened that afternoon when she had time.
  The next day, she went to a bee farm in the Asagiri plateau with the beekeeping team, talked with Jiiji, refreshed herself in nature, and completely forgot about what happened in the kitchen. In her diary that day, she wrote that she grasped her shortcomings (her habit of not asking questions immediately though she doesn’t understand) from what happened in the kitchen the day before, and she expressed her determination to change this and her gratitude for what had happened. The supporter shared this event at the community meeting, and it was a great learning experience for Vivian. She was surprised and impressed by the fact that there was a place to learn that everyone could look back on what had happened and make use of it in the future.

• 3rd week meeting
  Jiiji told Vivian the following from the Katakamuna perspective:
  Your “me (meaning both “eye” and “sprout” in Japanese)”, which can see things well, is now starting to sprout.
  This journey is to clarify it, and it is important to awaken that potential. You have had a turbid and negative nature so far, just as the sound “vivi” in your name indicates. However, by understanding your own turbidity, “vivi” becomes “hihi”, the original sound without turbidity. “Hi” is the sound that marks the beginning of everything, so it means “a restart.”Jiiji also interpreted the meaning of “ai” (meaning “love” in Japanese) from the perspective of Katakamuna as follows:
  “A” indicates the vibration of a higher dimension, “i” indicates the positioning of the first particles that appear in the phenomenal world, and all phenomena in this world are born from “ai (love).” In other words, the experience that seemed bad for Vivian, and the fact that she is here now, have all been due to the love of God.As an assignment for the fourth week, she was given the theme of writing everything in the diary as it is, but with a positive perspective. Also, she was told that she could start studying Japanese (which would help her understand Katakamuna) after the 4th week, and explore various spiritual worlds.

4th week – Transformation

Vivian had a migraine headache and a sore throat amidst the spread of the new coronavirus in Japan, so she was placed in a simple quarantine just in case. She spent most of the week in her room or going for walks alone, and her migraines persisted. Though she didn’t have much time to communicate with her supporter during this period, from the supporter’s viewpoint, she seemed to be in good condition, just like a butterfly in its chrysalis when it stores up the energy to fly out.

• 4th week meeting – Graduation from the natural therapy program
  Jiiji told Vivian as follows:
  It is nice that this final week in quarantine was brought at just the right time as a week of self-focus. Since you are now free of unnecessary thoughts and focusing on being present, you now feel things differently than you used to. In your remaining days here after the program ends, we will give presentations to further deepen your spiritual learning.

After that, Vivian continued to stay, receiving presentations to broaden her view of the world, and experiencing various things every day.

And the following month, Vivian’s Natural therapy program graduation concert was held.

The Konohana band sang some songs for her, and she read the following letter in front of everyone.

After my 55 day stay

After 55 days at the Kokohana Family I am proud to say that I have become a new person, my wounds from the past have been healed, and my life has been transformed. My time here represented a complete experience that helped me see the world from a different point of view where awareness and love were and will be my forever companions. I have received wise and essential guidance from Jiiji, and this was remarkably complemented by the support, care, love, and generosity from each of the members.

Every day had an extra surprise from each of you that made my days extraordinary. I appreciate the words in English that were said by each person, the greetings, the hugs, the delicious and nutritious food, the very unique enzyme juices, the kitchen tips, the books and pictures shared, the time in the fields, the customized food for me at Lotus Cafe, the clean clothes, the warm bath, the natural medicine when I needed it, the conversations, the acupuncture treatments, the English classes, the accurate and opportune translations, the smiles, the cats, the welcome serenades and performances, each of the fruits that I ate, the welcoming traditional Japanese baths, the care and dedication to each of your duties from which I learned so much.

There are many memories with not enough space and time to describe them. Nevertheless, I want the Konohana family to know that this place is a wonderland and an inspiration for the world, I wish everybody could have the opportunity that I had to live in a utopia. This family has given more love and compassion than all that I have received during my entire life, and for that I will be eternally grateful.

My time here has come to an end. However, I carry in my heart a new family of 100 members that I love and will remember forever. Thank you for making my soul shine and my days happy!

 
Can Humans Control the World?

Due to the appearance of the new Coronavirus the world is facing a great turning point which requires everyone to live by a “new normal”. However, is this “new normal” really how human beings are supposed to be: maintaining social distancing, avoiding conversations or contact with people, and protecting themselves with masks and disinfections?

The appearance of this virus has shown us one thing – human beings have become unable to live without money.

Now, everyone’s greatest concern is the economy. People are afraid that they will not be able to maintain their lifestyles due to the economic stagnation, therefore the Japanese government has compiled a great amount of supplementary budget and has begun paying out various subsidies as a temporary solution, even though they are expanding the deficit budget. Only a few months of economic stagnation have created such a huge demand for subsidies, which is to say, there are so many people who are barely making a living in the present era.

As long as beings alive, every life continues to participate in the activities of life. For examples, a bird needs a lot of energy, based on its body size, in order to live, so it keeps looking for food and feels compelled to eat. As for other animals, though the necessary amount of energy varies with each species, all of them keep eating to live, and plants spread their roots for water and leaves for light as well. Above all, all of them keep breathing, all of the time. Lives are compelled into activities to maintain their existence as long as they are alive, and every activity directly concerns their life.

However, the Coronavirus has revealed that only human beings are compelled into activities to earn money. Money is just a piece of paper or numbers on computers. Actually it doesn’t directly influence the life activities which maintain humanity’s existence, however the lives of modern people greatly depend on money.

Every living being is given a suitable position for their character in the great circulation of nature; which is woven by the sun, water, soil, air and wind, while living earnestly with each moment to maintain life. In such a world, only human beings began to seek an easier way to live using their high abilities. They began to ignore nature, even though they were made to live as a part of nature, and they went as far as to create an economic system that is completely out of sync with the principles of life. People began to accumulate for their own wealth and power, then got trapped in trying to maintain their lifestyles, which do not live in balance with the sun or soil but with their bank accounts. Though they have wished to have easier lives, they got trapped by what they have created for themselves, and now they have ended up living in a very difficult world which is not fair at all.

This is an abnormal state of life. However, people who live in such an abnormal world for such a long time believe this as normal. So, now the era has dispatched a messenger called the Coronavirus into the world. It is so small that we cannot see it with the naked eye but it has the power to make the world transform. What in the world is it going to highlight, and what is it going to tell us?

The Illusion that
“We Live on The Economy”

The World that No Other Lives Create

We life forms are alive not because of the money but the power of life. Modern people, however, live for money which is out of the principle of life, and are always pressed to earn money. This is an abnormal worldview which cannot be applied to other life forms, which constitutes how people continue to live under extreme stress. In order to reduce this stress, they drink, have fun in resorts, and consume a lot of materials which produces a tremendous waste. None of such activities have been necessary to live, yet have grown the economy beyond what is essential. As if children had become addicted to games, people all over the world have been obsessed by the magical power of money and cannot release themselves from it.

If you stop and rest your hands, then look up at the sky, feel the wind, touch the soil and listen to the whispers of the trees, you’ll find out how generous nature is, and you’ll feel that all of the animals and plants live in a boundless circulation of life. Life is naturally generous, however, when did human beings condition themselves to live in such a cramped way of life?

While economic activities have stagnated due to the spread of the new coronavirus, carbon dioxide emissions on earth have temporarily dropped. There are also some reports that the air and the water in the rivers around the world have become cleaner. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts that the world’s temperature will increase 1.5 degrees by 2030 compared to before the Industrial Revolution. Many scientists warn that in order to minimize the increase of super typhoons, heavy rain, drought, sea level rise, ecosystem collapse, and food shortages due to temperature rise; we human beings need to completely change our lifestyle over the next 10 years*.

From another point of view, it can be said that the earth is self-cleaning through the use of the Coronavirus to suspend human economic activities. Yet, people still dream of a V-shaped recovery for the economy and are making every effort to restore the world to its previously abnormal state. This is because they are afraid of the collapse of their artificial life support system, which is the economy made by human beings. All of these desires are accumulating irreparable distortions to the natural way of life, which goes against the principle of life. Now the world has become a place of great contradiction where people can no longer live if the economy stops, even though it is not the source of life’s creation.

* The IPCC warns that in order to keep the global temperature rise within 1.5℃, we must reduce the global CO2 emissions by 45% by 2030, and make it practically zero by 2050. Scientists emphasize that if the temperature rises above 1.5 degrees Celsius, we’ll fall into a vicious spiral of seawater temperature rise due to the melting of the Arctic ice shelf, the release of underground methane gas (which has 25 times more greenhouse effects than CO2) due to permafrost melting in Siberia, further CO2 emissions from increasing Amazon forest fires and so on. Eventually, there would be a transformation into a “Burning Earth” where the temperature will automatically rise and will unable to stop.

Do the subsidies solve the problems?

Under such circumstances, the Japanese government has begun paying out various subsidies including a supplementary income payment of 100,000 yen per person. However, will it really solve the current problems?

It is said that as a result of refraining from going out due to the new Coronavirus, discords within families and abuses have increased. Most people think that it happened due to the Coronavirus, but actually, it did not. It happened because there had been a seed which was previously planted in each other’s hearts, and the Coronavirus was just a trigger for the seed to sprout. When people encounter a problem, they usually don’t see the cause of the problem inside of themselves but think the problem came from outside and blame others without changing themselves. Then it finally grows into a conflict between nations, which leads to war. The government is supported by such blind people who govern their respective countries, and those countries create the modern world.

Even though uniform measures like subsidies are taken to solve the problems on the surface without confronting the root cause, they may be spent on drinking or other luxuries to relieve the temporary stress. Further, they may become the cause of another conflict within a family, like when one person spends another’s money, which will only compound upon the problems which have existed before the pandemic. If it becomes impossible to maintain one’s own lifestyle during a few months of economic stagnation, then such lifestyle had already been unstable before the pandemic. However, if that instability is made up for with temporary subsidies, people come to think that they will be supported again next time that they get in trouble, which will justify why they should not make a living for themselves.

Even those who have lost their means to live still have a vote, and the politicians want to get their support, not just by the ruling party but also by the opposition parties; therefore, all of the money distributed to the public is only for political gain. It is a way to not solve the problems caused by the pandemic but to maintain their own administration. They are adding more and more debt to the fiscal deficit, where in Japan there is now a debt of 1,000 trillion yen, which is quite outstanding in the world. If this were an individual, they would have surely gone bankrupt. Though the subsidy bill will definitely need to be repaid in the future, people who only chase immediate profits have chosen politicians who will meet their demands, and those politicians carry out policies on a level of consciousness. This is the result given to ourselves, who have chosen the social system called democracy.

No matter how hard you try to create a good country, it will never be a good country as long as the standard measurement of worth is using money. This is because it is not in alignment with the principle of life. While people are somehow trying to suppress the pandemic and solve their problems, there is a fact that they are forgetting: even though they may not come into contact with the Coronavirus, everyone dies in a way that accords with their lifestyle.

Attachment to “the Moment”

In this world, there is an absolute axis, time, that is common to all things. It never stops, never goes back, and travels from the creation to the disappearance of the universe. Time is, so to speak, a pillar. The pillar stands at the center, and a spiral movement of energy occurs around the pillar, then the vibration of the universe is realized as phenomena. This process generates life. Life is what perpetuates incarnation and passes along the pillar of time, which permits our journey from the past to the future. We are continuously being reborn, living, dying and being reborn again, as we weave an endless cosmic life story in the great circulation of life with all of the other lives on earth, the sun, the moon and countless celestial bodies.

It is a story far beyond human life, and each of us is a part of the story. If we expand our perception beyond the limitations of “my life is from birth till death”, we will know that our existence is the history of human beings, and also the history of life; and that life as a person with a body is just a blink of an eye. However, once a soul with such a great potential becomes bound to a body, it forgets that it is a part of a great life network and begins to cling to its vehicle.

Having a body and living as a lifeform means having self-consciousness. For example, plants also have self-consciousness. When it doesn’t rain, plants grow their roots to get water, and when they are still in a flowering state before they bear fruits, they produce strong medicinal properties not to be eaten by animals. But their self-consciousness is not so strong that they can run away when they are about to be eaten. Animals have stronger self-consciousness than plants. For example, zebras run away when they are about to be caught by lions. But if a zebra is caught and eaten by a lion, the zebra doesn’t leave any attachment to its form and so the zebra’s life will be passed on to the lion. Both animals and plants play a role in the great circulation of the ecosystem, as part of a larger life force, while they maintain their own life as individuals.

A long time ago, human beings also lived with nature as part of a great existence. As time went on, however, civilization emerged, and as people began possessing things and power, they came to be fascinated with them and began clinging to life.

Especially since the Industrial Revolution, it became conspicuous. By developing science and technology, they became captives to fulfilling their desires and expanded their egos, then they tried to control nature as they would like it rather than living in harmony with it.

A “Rich Country” with Advanced Medical Care

We, life beings, repeat life and death in the never-ending flow of time, weaving an eternal story. To be born as life in this world is, so to speak, to enter a school, and death is to graduate. It is a rule of this world to return to where we are from once we are born, and whether it is a little early or late corresponds to the proper destiny for each lifeform. What is important is not how long we live, but what we learn through our life and what is our spiritual state when we graduate. In order to know the true meaning of life, it is essential to know the true meaning of death. It’s only when we have a perspective which is not captured by life nor death that we meet the truth of living in this world.

In modern society, where people have become captives to desire and have put value only on living, medical care has become extremely advanced, and it has become a top priority to just prolong life using high and complicated technology, which is proof of the high abilities of human beings. People try to prolong their lives in a way that has never existed in nature, such as artificial dialysis or organ transplantation, which allows them to desperately hold on to life while accumulating enormous medical expenses and using a lot of energy.

It is said that it is more likely to become severe when smokers, or those who have underlying diseases such as diabetes, get infected with the new Coronavirus. People are afraid of infection and think of the new Coronavirus as a problem, but they don’t think why they have come to such a high-risk state. Originally, they should look back at the lifestyle that has led them to such a high-risk state, and change their mind-set which is the basis of their lifestyle. Modern medical care, however, treats only physical symptoms uniformly, and considers that the cure is completed when the symptoms disappear from the surface, therefore, it never leads to human beings changing their way of life. Meanwhile, the economy has accumulated enormous medical expenses, despite the fact that this has come to signify a “rich country.”

The more diseases are cured, and the more advanced technology is developed, the more humans come to think that they can control everything in the world. And now, humans are facing a situation which they cannot control due to the appearance of the new Coronavirus, and are greatly confused. Then they just consider the new Coronavirus as evil since it hinders their convenient way of life. But is it possible for humans to control the world in the first place?

A Message for Human Beings from the Universe

Can you shed light, or rain on the earth? Can you control the coming of the morning, the cycling of the four seasons, or the spinning of the earth?

Since the Industrial Revolution, human beings have behaved as if they were controlling the world with their own power. But if they see the world correctly, they will find that the world is not controlled by human power. Every day comes not because you turn over the pages of your calendars nor do you manage the schedule, but because the earth is spinning. The earth, the moon, the sun, and all of the other stars orbit the universe on a scale far beyond your everyday lives, thereby the world moves, and it makes you live.

What brings about order to such a huge world is time. Everything in the universe keeps going along this absolute pillar from the past to the future. If time were to go backward and the earth were to reverse, or the dead were to be revived, the world would lose order. It is because everything exists under this absolute rule without any exception that order is maintained.

In the first place, there is no freedom to live in this world. No one can control the earth or their own heartbeat. Who can control sleep, breathing or aging? You have been given life and are made alive according to the absolute law that can never be resisted, and there is nothing that you can do to control life. In spite of this, human beings have tried to control everything as they would like, while resisting being controlled by others. Therefore, those who cannot find commonalities with others will turn out to be controlled by what they have created.

Life has been given a proper position for each character in the circulation of the ecosystem, and plays as a unique function which are not meant to be free or equal. In such a world, human society has created a system of superficial freedom and equality called democracy, which believes that it is a right of everyone to assert their unbridled desires, generated by their ego, for the advancement of society. Then such a belief spreads like a drug as human society moves away from the principle of life. Originally, there was an order of prioritization, and the first priority must come first, not second or third. Today’s people live with backwards priorities, which are based on their desires. That’s why the world has gone crazy. The new Coronavirus has begun to expose the reality of such a crazy world.

If humans do not realize this message and continue their current way of life, the world will send more radical messages. People see the Coronavirus as a threat to their lifestyles, which cannot be suppressed no matter how hard they try to do it, however, if they see themselves from the earth’s perspective, they will find that you, human beings, are an extremely harmful threat which deprive the earth of its resources, harm other lives, destroy the ecosystem and continue to multiply no matter how much the earth tries to suppress you.

Now that the era has begun to say “NO” to humanity’s way of life, you now need to shift your perspectives from egocentrism to geo-centrism, which transcends ego and maintains life for all sentient beings.

 
We, earth life, are given everything necessary to live upon this world; and these resources are meant to be shared: the sun, the air, the water and the earth. Life is something that causes movement in the world. The sun and other elements existed before the emergence of life, and when life emerged, the elements began to transform into the biosphere, which connects infinitely and circulates as one life force. This is the natural world, which is absolutely communal.

In such a communal world, what human beings have expressed since the birth of civilization is far from the true state of the world: such as greed, competition, and harming not only other species but even their own species. Even with the vaccine of the new Coronavirus that the world is eagerly waiting for, countries neither collaborate nor share the information but compete with each other in order to develop a new vaccine before the other countries in order to make a business opportunity for their own benefit.

In fact, as humans develop new medicines, viruses and bacteria also evolve. It is said that as a result of humans having abused medicines, such as antibiotics for medical treatment and even for the livestock industry, resistant bacteria have spread in various places, and antibiotics will no longer be effective in the near future. If antibiotics can no longer be used, most modern medical care will no longer work. That is why we need to reconsider the true meaning of life now instead of just trying to prolong our lives. Now the time has come to return to the origin of life.

　
Let Go of Your Scale

No matter how far humans deviate from the principle of the world, the world will never waver and keep going toward the future.

The Milky Way galaxy, in which we live, encompasses a vast space on an enormous scale of 100,000 light years in diameter. While myriads of stars spiral each cycle throughout it, the whole galaxy also spirals around the central sun at a speed of about 200 km per second. It is a scale that far exceeds the scale of earth. The fact that it has kept its order with such a huge scale without wavering for more than 10 billion years means that it has an absolute axis which transcends human intellect and never wavers. In such an absolutely stable galaxy, the solar system spirals according to the laws of the universe, and under the order of the solar system, the earth spirals, so our daily order should also be according to this principle. No matter how far we humans deviate from the principle of the world, in other words, we are still coexisting upon an absolutely stable world in which we can return to the principle anytime as long as we so desire.

A speed of 200 km per second is an amazing speed on a global scale. On the scale of a galaxy with a diameter of 100,000 light years, though, it is slow enough that it looks like that it’s not even moving at all. In this world, there are incalculable scales under the absolute order that far exceeds human intellect, and it is impossible to interpret this world using the limitations of modern intellect. Although we are constantly influenced by the laws of such a mysterious world, we live according to our own perception of reality, and we believe that we are normal even though we are out of sync with the principle of the world. Because we live according to our limitations, we become greedy, compete with each other, fear losing what we have accumulated, and stifle in the worry that we have constructed according to our own mindset. This is all in spite of the fact that we live in a world of great harmony where everything is naturally shared and circulated.

Let go of your myopic focus.

And be free from yourself.

Once we do so, we will always be able to live according to the great scope of the universe, throughout which diverse beings circulate forever in great harmony as a chain of life.

When we live with this spirit, we will be released from anxiety and fear, no longer need to be greedy or compete with each other, and create a world of gentle vibrations. Then they will allow us to live healthy lives, not only for ourselves, but also for the earth.

Humans, by nature, are social creatures. Now, we are heading in the opposite direction from the principle of life, which is tearing us apart in order to survive. As the world is in great confusion, the future of the new era is not in politics, nor is it in the field of academics. It is in the absolutely invariant cosmic law, and when we let go of our self-limiting perception, and awaken to the great system of the cosmos, it will arise within ourselves. This is the guiding force for the next era.

So, it is important to live close to the soil. Because we are all children of the earth. The earth is the source of our lives, and living with the earth means to live with the rhythm of the great beings of this world: the sun, the moon, and the celestial bodies of the universe which give us life. This is the true form of life living on earth, and it awakens the true life force that sleeps within us.

We human beings have a choice: to be ignorant and just live according to the desires that come from our egos, which will lead us to ruin, or, to be precious beings that realize a utopia where people live together with the universe by learning from our mistakes while expressing the invariant cosmic law on earth.

Now that you’ve seen this message. If you become awakened to this consciousness, and set your course for living in a utopia, the path will surely open; as this is the future that humans have been seeking.

July 26th is the Mayan new year’s day. The Konohana family has held ceremonies every July 26th since the first ceremony in 2014 with the Venerable grandmother Nah Kin and others from the solar Mayan tradition.

This year, we chanted the 5th, 6th, and 63rd Katakamuna songs, as well as Amautsushimichi.

On this day, it had been raining heavily since the morning, and Jiiji gave a speech at the end of the ceremony.

Declaration of the Regeneration of the Earth

~ On The Mayan New Year’s Day, July 26th 2020 ~

Today is July 26th, 2020. I feel that it is very meaningful to celebrate this day with a ceremony for the Mayan New Year. We first met the Mayan people in 2014. They visited the foot of Mt. Fuji to pray for world peace and held a ceremony with us.

The earth that we live upon exists in the universe. How many people are there currently living on the earth who recognize that they exist in the universe? Actually, most people are trapped in their egos and just live according to their karma. Therefore, human activities are disturbing the earth’s ecosystem, that is to say, they are disturbing the great harmony of the universe, and it has been, even today, raining so much all over Japan. This year’s heavy rainfall which is rarely seen in recorded history shows the result of human activities. Moreover, infectious diseases like the Coronavirus are widespread all over the world. We human beings have been acting with an intent to be happy and build a better society, however, we must acknowledge the fact that we have received the current situation on earth as a result of how we have treated nature. This message comes from the universe.

On December 21st, 2012, we reached the winter solstice of the galaxy after 25,800 years, which is one spiral of the sun. The winter solstice on earth that we experience every year is the time when the light from the sun is the weakest, and also the turning point into a new season.
In the meantime, the winter solstice of the galaxy is the time when the spiritual light from the Central Sun, the center of the Milky Way galaxy, is the weakest. It has returned after 25,800 years. After we passed the summer solstice of the galaxy, which is the other side of a solar spiral, 12,900 years ago, the spiritual light from the central sun became weaker and weaker, and we finally arrived at the peak of spiritual darkness. With the birth of civilization around 6,450 years ago, which is the midpoint between the summer solstice and the winter solstice of the galaxy, we were already increasing in our intensity towards the peak of darkness. As civilization progressed into modernity, the world deepened into darkness.

Civilization is supposed to develop the natural resources of the world and bring about a rich and happy society. However, such an advancement to become rich and happy has actually formed the age of darkness. Now, we have reached the peak of darkness after 25,800 years, and we are facing a time to realize what we have created for ourselves. Accordingly, we human beings must acknowledge that the values that we have been living by were based in the age of darkness. Now, we have just passed the winter solstice of the galaxy and are living through the great turning point, which is compelling us to shift our consciousness from darkness into light. We need to change our perception and acknowledge that what we once considered right is no longer so. This requires that we embody the consciousness of enlightenment in order to truly go towards the peak of light.
Seven years have passed since we reached the peak of darkness on December 21st, 2012. In numerology, the number 7 means a “qualitative transformation”. Now, we are in 2020 which is the 8th year after 2012, and the era is surely qualitatively transforming. By looking at what is behind the darkness and waking up to the truth, what we do will bring light to this world and restore the earth to its original state according to its proper circulation. That is the most important thing entrusted to human beings, especially those who recognize this turning point, and the time has come that we are called to awaken to this momentous occasion.

This Mayan ceremony awakens us with the precious cosmic spirit inherent in each human beings. The light of the spirit comes from the Central Sun, the center of the galaxy, and it is always illuminating us. The seeds of light are already rooted in ourselves, beings of the cosmos. Let’s awaken the seeds, which will sprout as our collective enlightenment.
The current era no longer supports the pursuit of each individual’s selfish desire. Now, each one of us are called to establish a pillar of light within ourselves and respond to the call of the Central Sun, which is the center of the galaxy. Those pillars will become a bundle of light to surround the world, and now is the time for each one of us to awaken to that consciousness.
This means that we have reached the end of an era in which people are trapped by their egos, which obscures their true spirits with desire. Each one of us can be a catalyst to awaken to a high and precious consciousness.

It is the 27th year since we started to live at the foot of Mt. Fuji, and we’ve reached a time for qualitative transformation. We are living in an era which is increasing with natural disasters as a result of how we have lived in the past, therefore it is very important that we resonate with the Mayan people and share in the importance of the Mayan ritual on this day at the foot of Mt. Fuji, the most sacred place of a country that is the first to watch the sun rise on the earth. Each one of us should be aware of this, and cooperate with each other and harmonize just like the earth-life ecosystem while being independent in order to create a truly beautiful world. Today, we have begun this new directive through proclamation during this ceremony at the foot of Mt. Fuji. We are aware of our role, and uniting here at this moment means that we are taking responsibility for that.
With the awareness at this ceremony, we have started a wave that will wrap the earth, which will allow us to overcome many of the upcoming difficulties – and while they may be painful, we are hopeful. With this awareness, I hope that we will find the will to live and regenerate the earth into a planet that is harmonious with the laws of the universe.

Today, at this place, I hereby declare that a regeneration of the earth has begun. I greatly appreciate Venerable grandmother Na Kin and the Mayan people who suggested this ceremony to celebrate the Mayan new year. So everyone, let’s walk together towards the future with an awareness that each one of us is a galactic being in the universe!