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　I met Toshiaki Masuno at school the other day after an interval of one year. The word to tell to be really modest saw a posture of the joining hands that overflowed from the whole body again without the aspect changing. The thought that is a color color overflows from the gap of the heart. Would I grow up for this one year? How long did you acquire virtue? I have thought how long you would pray. A heart has begun to think about such a thing at a moment to see a figure of Toshiaki Masuno. 　A fifth grader would perform "Zen meditation Kiyoharu party" and was the head priest who had you come forcibly from the inside that was super busy with a mysterious relationship of sister A again this year. When I had you begin it last year, I would let the normal students who were far from the Zen meditation really sit down how or I doubted and thought how you would convey splendor of the Zen meditation. But it was felt that the face of students delicately changed when two days were over. It was a change so as not to be able to say how to be concrete.

 

  I had never met the student, but it is revealed that a form is set by the state that the head priest was well experienced in the second year this year as if it is what or gives students an invisible thing in no time. A pin and tense feeling of strain were made among students. I made sure of it and came back to the school with a sister. It was mysterious, and the heart was very calm.

 

  I wanted to let you still continue the posture of contemplation Kiyoharu society who continued till then when I wanted to tell Japan that there was the way which could fix the heart using ascetic practices and the hands and feet which said by letting you feel the world of the Buddhism that was the teaching that was totally different from Christianity.

 

  In the monastic order where I belonged to, I remember that I did training under the Italian training length not to accept Zen meditation as a thing of other religion at all. When I studied in Rome at 31-year-old time and I went wrong and learned spirituality theology in Gori Ann University (a school built in a forerunner in around A.D. 700 in Sophia University), Father Kadowaki could come to the university from the Orient thought research institute of Japanese Sophia University and experienced it with practice about "Zen meditation". I think that around 300 people gathered from each place in Europe. I remember that I was surprised at "how many days is it necessary to get realization?" and asked one from many foreign people in an interesting thing.

 

  When the Zen meditation is like the preparations for heart before the prayer, I remember that I asked you from Father Kadowaki then. When, in an experience of the Zen meditation that it was the first time, I felt that a Buddhism-like thing was reliable in own DNA. People who had 120 people became 30 people first in later sanzenkai of one week finally. It was very hard one week.

 

  Then there is the memory that I continued sitting down on earnestly for several years even after returning to Japan while learning original Zen meditation, shinzen, sitting with crossed legs, half sitting with crossed legs with Y father lived at the time of in Catholic priests of the Society of Jesus in Society of Jesus of Rome. I think that I was able to have "peace" if I express it by words when I say whether anything was useful, but think that it was the fight with the idle thoughts that are constant in the real memory to be concrete. It was the days when I was made to think continuation to be important.

 

  I start for my new post and prepare the place to sit in own room into the Kasaoka church and, before mass, sit down before giving a lecture. I think that it is important as such. I strongly sometimes feel the work of the spirit of a dead person even if I prepared for the sermon when I actually talk in mass and sometimes notice oneself who concentrates on it for the mass.

 

  On the contrary, I notice that I do a well big mistake when I have many cares. Because there is sometimes that I do mass while scolding oneself when concentration is not enough, and encouraging it, it is recalled that it was said to be it 30 years ago when it is important thing to really fix the heart before prayer.

 

  When I take away idle thoughts to some extent heartily and move to meditation, words are good, and only the Bible bites a heart. When I open up the Bible or I read the Bible and a master of ceremony (the thing which a point of three Bible read on Sunday and joint prayer, a prayer sentence were printed on), the meaning of the words sounds through three reading, combination prayer sentence, meeting prayer sentence, dedication prayer sentence, receipt prayer sentence and notices a thing different in.

 

  The world called posture of contemplation deepened a religious life and was able to see support Father important Kadowaki who told that I was introduced to lead in kurutsumuhaimu of Yotsuya, Tokyo on last month 20. I still remember that he/she talked with nostalgia.

 

Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi