Thank You
Filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi passed away on April 10, 2020. I haven't written about it here yet, but I was one of the cast in his film "Hanagatami." I felt like I went back to my youth while we were filming in summer 2016. Mr. Obayashi was like a boy. When I first met him, he was already in his late 70s, but his soul was young. Even though he found out that he had stage-4 lung cancer right before the filming began, he was full of energy on the set. When I remember Mr. Obayashi
Giving Power Back to Ourselves
A time of chaos. Many people are in search of an answer. Looking for the right things. Looking to the government, experts, and well-knowns who are sending information out online. Everything is un-you. That's why you see an illusion that things that are not you have greater power. Right, you are just projecting an illusion. However, we are infinitely free. We are completely free as the decisions of the government or media reports can't even control us. So, actually it is so od
The Door to the New World
We are in the situation where we have to face a lot of different issues now. It's difficult and restless, isn't it? However, now must be the time to look at those issues and review a lot of subjects. We need to sweep all the piled dust thoroughly right now. Because we won't be able to step into a new era with all those unnecessary things. By the way, there is labor pain when a new baby is trying to be born. But we can't help not to feel it. It's unavoidable. It's impossible e
Embrace Them with Love
Viruses have consciousness. If we have that in mind, we can imagine that they are really tiny versions of us. It might be easier to understand that they are us in a different dimension? So when we are panicked and scared, they would be panicked and scared. If we try to kill them by swinging justice, then they would do the same. This is just a war created by the battling consciousness. Then what do you do when your friend is panicked and scared? You can gently say, 'Don't be s
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