International conference-Remembering Nanjing – 2007

Note from NanjingOn the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Tragedy November 22 – 25, 2007 This conference is for people from China, Japan, and other parts of the world, who have had different war experience and education in war. Its purpose is to open their hearts and listen deeply to one another. Report of the conference (in Japanese) 2007-Minagawa Click here Report from Mr. Tanahashi 2007 Click here Tsumura (in Japanese) 2007 Click here Message from Peter Click here Message from Master Joan Click here – From Mr. 陳敬 (in Japanese) – From Mr. Metzger – From Mr. and Mrs. Iwanaga (in Japanese)  

2007年-Cry from Belinda French

I have woken early in this morning crying for those people from near Mosul in Iraq who have just experienced a massive bombing, 500 people dead at the last count and 400+ injured. I think the people left in that community will need a massive prayer to help them bear this massive loss impossible to imagine. I know we may all be tired of hearing about bombing in Iraq, because Iraqi civilians are killed by explosives an average of 73 per day, (750,000 recorded, and there is no official recording system, since the invasion by the west 4 years ago) not to mention poverty due to loss of jobs and Continue reading

Taimyo for our Ocean

Dear Taimyo Practitioners: The time has come for August meditation! I would like to propose that we focus our attention on the “Ocean” !! The following is a site I would like you to visit, then reflect upon how we need to change our behavior. Click here (If you are not able to open this page, google- Our oceans are turning into plastic. It should be the first article that pops up.) This coming weekend, I will be in Whidbey Island (near Seattle), WA to lead a Taimyo meditation workshop with Paula Kerby, Lee Seaman, and Nicole Beauvois. Please join me in person or via email correspondence by practicing wherever Continue reading

2007 Greetings

Greetings from Japan! Akemashite Omedeto~! Happy New Year!! Bonne Année!!! The following is a poem I came across recently. It is really encouraging because it very much describes what I have been studying through Taimyo Kata: “People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they Continue reading

No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki-August 2006

Dear friends, Greeting from SFCA! Because of my recent illness, I was just behind the schedule of putting my 2006 version of “No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki” to Taimyo site. I just want to let you know that Taimyo network for World Peace is still alive and want to make a simple proposal by setting up the date of our meditation. How about performing at least an one hour TAIMYO meditation by yourself or with your friends in your own area/region on August 1st. In order to cure not only our past tragic events but also for many tragic events happening to the human race as well as to Continue reading

Discussion on Taimyo focus – 2005-06

from Pierre (In a message dated 12/18/05 5:26:11 AM.) Dear Ula: Fugaku and I had a very interesting conversation yesterday evening about the necessary separation of “religious faith” with other human affairs (at least politic, business and media powers :o). Pierre **************** from Pierre (In a message dated 12/19/05 9:07:28 AM.) Dear Fugaku, Thank you very much for this conversation. I have a very high idea of your influence and I am very worried by the way american governement is mixing up all those dimensions of human affairs. I heard that one american citizen has taken the american government to court in order to suppress the mention “In god we Continue reading

December 2005, Memorial of the pacific rim

Message from H.F. Ito December 7 and December 10 will be here soon. December 7, 1941, is when Japanese naby attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and December 10, 1937, is when the Japanese army in China invaded Nanjing in China (the “Nanjing massacre”). The truth about Nanjing, especially about the number of people killed, is fiercely debated even within Japan. However, there is no question that more that 60 years ago the leaders of Japan took the country in the wrong direction. The Imperial Army and Navy invaded China, Korea, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Indonesia at the sacrifice of millions of lives. Imperial Japan and the Japanese people before Continue reading