Please forgive me for being so late to thank you!
Thank you so much for participating in the International Peace Ceremony on September 25th. I am still feeling the emotions I experienced during the ceremony, and I am very happy with the wonderful comments and feedback from so many people.
On the day of the event, nearly 200 people joined us via Zoom and YouTube. Today, the number of people who watched the YouTube has increased to over 300.
Everything flowed smoothly. We thought it would take two hours, but the whole program was over in about one hour and 15 minutes. It was a symphony of prayers for peace and beautiful INs in many languages of the world. I felt we were supported by Goi Sensei, Guardian Deities and Guardian Spirits from all over the world. All of us participants resonated and echoed each other, building up each moment with the light of love in one heart, and together we made the planet earth resound with the vibration of peace.
Keiko Okamoto, Emi Yamauchi and Ryoko Takeshita from the Osaka Byakko group, the voice leaders and IN leaders in ten languages, Caroline who MC'd in English, the Byakko Osaka flag team (Yoshiko Koide, Keiko Asai and Kuniyo Murata), all of them collaborated with each other in great harmony.
Emi Yamauchi and Masataro Inoue helped me a lot with the technical operations, Kazuhisa Kataoka did the YouTube streaming, and the flag ceremony was run by the Osaka team, so I felt completely at ease and could concentrate on my role. The timing was perfect with each other among all of us, 10 native language voice leaders, Emi and Ryoko for the other languages, Caroline and me, and the flag team, we all just flowed naturally and rhythmically. Everyone beautifully fulfilled the assigned role with concentration and a lot of joy. We are a great team! I was calm and deeply touched by the powerful energy of love that was radiating with you, all dear participants, throughout the ceremony.
However, it was disappointing when I watched later the YouTube recording, and also when I heard from some people who participated on the day via Zoom and YouTube, to find out that the video did not flow as naturally as it should have. The technical matter is difficult to deal with. On my own screen where I was sharing my two videos, they flowed perfectly from beginning to end. There must have been a problem with the quality of the recording from zoom or online internet connection, because when I watched the YouTube recording, the video often blocked, skipped some images or overlapped with the next image. In the closing video, I found out that the video stopped for many seconds with the image of crickets. I wished that you could see the original video as they were.
Therefore, I uploaded the original version to YouTube. There are no voices reciting prayers in 10 languages as it was in the ceremony, but I would be very happy if you could watch these two videos again, silently offering your prayers for world peace and gratitude to the earth. If you do so, the videos will be further imprinted and pooled with your beautiful vibrations of love, and they will surely achieve more and more great work, shining light to people around the world. The people who will watch them in future will surely resonate with the message for world peace and spontaneously feel gratitude to our Mother Earth. I would love to share and spread these videos to as many people as possible. Please share them with your friends and families.
Opening video:
Closing video:
I created these two videos in July during a very hot summer when I was extremely busy with many different works. It took me a month to complete them with a precious help of an Italian friend, a professional web designer. First of all, I watched and selected from copyright-free websites many short videos and music uploaded by people from all over the world. Then my friend created the first version which we revised many times, re-selected and replaced some video clips and music, increased and decreased the number of seconds in each short video, added black screens to create a smooth trip between the universe and the earthly world, introduced prayers, etc. Thanks to this work, I understood that in even a very short video of this kind, there are a lot of works behind, of people who dedicated their passion, time and energy.
Of course, I was happy to see them becoming better and better at each step. My friend has a wonderful ability and sensibility (he is a spiritual person and I have taught him the Divine Spark IN). He put all the little video clips together creating a perfect and natural flow. I also received a lot of intuition from my guardian spirits. Every time I watched them, I dedicated love and gratitude to our beautiful Mother Nature with all living beings, and kept praying for world peace and for the reawakening of the divinity in all humanity.
Looking at the world today, we are continuously reminded of how much our prayers and INs are needed. As all the Byakko supported members did, I also received the beautiful letter, "To you, my dear, noble and precious Byakko member " from Masami sensei and it was a great encouragement for me when I was very busy preparing for this ceremony. Each and every word filled me with Masami Sensei's infinitely deep and incomparably beautiful love, and at the same time, I reconfirmed how urgently our prayers and Divine Spark IN are needed to save our dear planet Earth, all humanity and all living beings.
While feeling deeply the beauty of the sacred vibration of our prayers and the Divine Spark IN, I understood that this ceremony, built up with everyone's love and light, has accomplished a great work. Thank you all, so, so very much.
On a side note, on the ceremony day, it seemed that my physical element was used really a lot, and I was extremely hungry for lunch, dinner and after dinner, and I ate a whole lot of food!
Finally, let me also share some of the lovely comments I received. Many people said that they were moved to tears, as I was.
● Thank you very much for yesterday's ceremony.
Your teamwork was wonderful. The leaders from each country prayed in their own languages, and it was well coordinated. You must have spent a lot of time planning and rehearsing carefully.
(Note: To tell you the truth, we only had one rehearsal on the Saturday before the event, although I had emailed each of the ceremony team several times beforehand with detailed explanations and information. The staff and leaders were perfectly focused, and everyone knew exactly when and what to do with their full awareness, and we became a joyfully harmonized team in just one rehearsal. Sonoko)
Listening to the explanations in each language while forming the IN, I felt I could penetrate more deeply into my divine consciousness and this made me more aware of my mission in this lifetime.
The videos at the beginning and in the end, guided me to feel as if I were in the middle of the beautiful nature. It was a moment of relaxation and grandeur.
Then, the one-minute silent prayer (meditation) was a healing time to look into myself, to be connected with my Divine Self and expand my consciousness to the whole world.
In gratitude to Mother Earth, I said to all living beings on this planet, "I'm sorry for hurting you. Thank you so much for your many blessings. May all life be vibrant and happy." and imagined a future of our planet Earth in which all beings would be shining and exchanging pure love with each other.
It was a great joy to be able to pray together with so many of you, as we are all connected to the same Life. We are evolving together in a marvelous community with the same mission.
● People are usually unaware of how precious it is to live on the Earth. We human beings are constantly supported by the existence of every single being in the great nature. Everything on Earth is our very dear friend.
To pray is to proclaim life, that is, to reveal the truth of life. I think we can say that through offering our sincere prayers of love in this gathering, we experienced Oneness with all humanity and with all the Earth's life-form, declaring that we are One Life. I believe that the divine love emanated from many participants resonated with each other and echoed together on Earth as One Life. The feeling of sacred unity was so great that I felt it will continue to resonate throughout the planet even after the event is over.
● It was a precious time for me to be in the midst of beautiful images and music while watching the two videos, that filled me with love for the Earth. I enjoyed different vibrations of prayers in many languages, Divine Spark IN and Gratitude IN to the Earth in ten different languages.
During the flag ceremony, at the end of the prayer for every nation, we pronounced the kotodama "Shinsei Hukkatsu Dai Jyoju! (The divinity is reawakened! Greatly Accomplished!) " I felt a great sense of relief and hope.
The cooperation between the voice leaders from 10 countries and the Osaka Byakko group was wonderful, very rhythmical and smooth, which was great because I could keep my concentration. I believe that this ceremony has brought a great ray of light to the people in many parts of the world who are now searching for hope.
Thanks to the task I was given, I took some screenshots of the event, I payed attention to all the participants. And now, as I look at the images, I feel that strong energy is conveying even more clearly through still images than through video recording of the ceremony. This may be because the sincere hearts of the praying people are condensed in the captured moments of the ceremony.
● It was a special prayer gathering from many places on our planet Earth as ONE! It was so wonderful to be connected with everyone beyond time and space! Thank you very much. I was very moved. I became aware of the meaning of each movement when I performed the Divine Spark IN, and I was surrounded by a special energy, very soft and gentle.
● I had the privilege of attending this special peace ceremony, and I felt that we are evolving together in strong solidarity with the rest of the world! In the following morning the sky was so clear and blue, and I felt as if I and the whole world had truly been reborn.
● Dear everyone, I still feel the echoes of your beautiful, loving and light-filled prayers surrounding the Earth. I felt very strongly the power of kotodama, “Shinsei Hukkatsu Dai Jyoju!”. I am convinced that it has reached all people and all living beings in the world.
● It was wonderful and very powerful!
One prayer after another flowed naturally and very focused, and all the INs were just 'amazing'.
I felt that Japan, Italy, Europe and all other parts of the world were connected as one, and I didn't feel any distance between us at all nor any differences in languages. I was able to participate until the end without losing my concentration. I understood that many years of experiences of all the ceremony team members have made this event possible.
The one-minute of spiritual breathing and the meditation of gratitude to Mother Earth were also beautiful, and it was a wonderful and moving program. Congratulations!!!
● For some reason, this time I was reminded of the demonstration by the Aikido Doshu. The ceremony was exactly the same as aikido, smooth and fluid, effortless without any personal ambition or self-consciousness, despite the amazing art techniques being performed.
It was an honor to be a part of it. Infinite thanks and infinite glory!
(If you would like to have a look at the ceremony, the recorded video is available till October 28th: https://youtu.be/InV6-JPnE7o )
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