Prayer of Homura (the fire)

With Concern of the effect of the typhoon, we started the"Prayer of Homura" which is the "otakiage", to burn the prayer plates at 9 AM with helps of volunteers of Kochi.
We took turns and burnt all 16,200 pieces by 2 PM on 21st October.

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Watching pieces with the wishes and the prayers written burns up and turning into smoke was very precious scene as like a seeing purification and sublimation itself.
A lady on the way of the pilgrimage from Australia joined us for a while. It was great to spend some moment together without any wall such as religion or race or so.

Purification of Wadatsumi（god of the sea）

Because of the weather we sailed out at 13:30, earlier than the schedule, for "Purification of Wadatsumi" which carries the "apology statements".

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It was almost impossible to leave the port with high waves dashing over the seawall, but with the help of everyone from Muroto Fisher Cooperative Association, we were able to take out a ship.
Mr. Masahiro Ogawa the Executive Committee President and Mr. Hori the volunteer from Kochi risked their life sailing into such a big wave, but did throw the statements into the ocean successfully.

The statements melted immediately from the moment they touched the seawater and disappeared in a second into the white waves.
All the bad feelings and grudges that everyone had has melted together, purified.

Prayer for realization of world Peace

Formal sanpai (visit) to Tosa shrine in Tosa Ichinomiya.

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I could feel the power built by each participant's heart from "Peaceful prayer plates" and "apology statements".
Ten female volunteers from Kochi put all the powers that gathered from all over Japan in order with love that asks nothing in return.

It is your support that we could hold "144,000 World Peaceful Prayer" successfully.
We could hold nationwide briefing sessions through this year because of those who supported us in each places.
We could gather a lot of "prayer plates" and "apology statements" because of everyone who cooperate and distributed them all.
And also, everyone who filled them in and raised funds.
"144,000 World Peaceful Prayers" is a big shining crystal of hope to the future, made by everyone who gathered their heart to it and cooperated.
Let me take this opportunity to say how thankful I am.
We truly appreciate your cooperation. Thank you very, very much.

Prayers that delivered to Mother Earth

For the event this year, an unexpected things happened: unseasonable huge typhoon.

However, Muroto City, Kochi, on 21st October, did not rain much nor heavy wind. Quite calm morning was there.

It exactly was "the calm before the storm".

Fortunately, the weather was not as bad as we expected and we could hold "the prayer of Homura" with the guide of Professor Ryosuke Shimada.

There were some names of the countries that I've never heard of written on the prayer plates.

I learnt there are still so many things that I don't know in the world.

We started the event with 13 of the staffs and the volunteers to sent the messages of peace to heaven by reading out one by one.

And when noon, the time of the opening ceremony comes close, it started to rain with few drops.

As the rain got intense, the tour participants arrived.

The weather was keep changing every moment.
The ocean in front of the venue was getting more and more rough, the weather was very unstable.

By the time we started the ceremony of Peace, the rain got harder and harder.

Although, everyone of tour participants, volunteers, and staff wearing raincoats, put an umbrella, got soaking wet, but still continued to burn the "prayer plates".

Then, a miracle of prayer occurred!

All the sudden, surprisingly, the rain stopped.

The rain strong as hard to look around and the storm strong as blow us all away stopped just like there was nothing.

The sky cleared up and we could see the beautiful big white statue of Kobo daishi (Kukai) very clearly.

For that time, we all rushed and finished all the burning.

By 2 PM we burned all the prayer plates and started cleaning up the venue, leaving only the main furnace.

When we cleaned almost everything up, it began to rain again.

Thanks to the prayers or so, the rain didn't pour while we were burning the plates.

With heavenly power, we finished the Otakiage: the event to burn plates safely.

By the time for "World Time of peace pray" at 15 o'clock, both rain and wind became stronger, but the main furnace remained burning and we chanted the words of the "144,000 world peaceful prayers" and prayed together.

With the weather, the situation on the day seemed to be the worst. But actually, the typhoon with the rain and the wind might had a important meaning for the event of "144,000 World Peaceful Prayer 2017"...

One of the participants said,

"The first rain was the rain of purification, and the second rain was the rain of joy."

Indeed, the feeling of the air were different between the first rain and the second.

That typhoon and two rain had a huge, great meaning.

The first rain was, the rain of purification.
Rain of purification and cleanse not only for ones who participated the event, but also for the energy of the prayer plates to sublimate.

And at the timing of the rain stopped, we all rushed and finished all the burning.

Then, the second rain came.

The second rain was, also, the rain of convey.

About 16,200 prayer plates of peace burned to ashes and smokes.

The ashes has carried away with rain into the ocean with the waves.

Then, it reached the Black Stream Current, which had been meandering sharp and had arrived off Muroto Cape that day.
In fact, if you look up on the marine chart of 20th to 25th of October, you can find that the Black Stream Current got very close to the venue by the Muroto Cape.

With the Current, now the ashes flows through the countries around the Pacific Ocean and the sea of the world, going around the earth!

Smoke that sublimed after burning rode updrafts, brought high to the atmosphere, and now traveling around the Earth!

Prayer plates were written to change consciousness of people, but moreover, it was to approach consciousness of the Mother Earth, the origin of mankind for the change. And after all, it was the whole meaning of this event.

From the consciousness of the Mother Earth to the consciousness of mankind.

In the first year, we weren't sure what's changing. But now, in the second year, gradually we're starting to understand.

The theme for next year, 2018 is "Prayer of peace for the Earth"

It sounds almost like philosophy, but we're looking forward to the change of the Earth and mankind for good.

Through Mrs. Ai Muranaka, we got some messages from "Messiah Major" after the event of peaceful prayers 2017.

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【After completing the Peace prayer 2017】

Now that we have finished praying for Peace in Muroto,
everything went well, I think.

All the prayers and apologies also settled well.
They did great job as a messenger of god despite bad weather.

"Prayers of the fire" flowed to the whole world with the wind of the typhoon,
and apology statements of the "Purification of Wadatsumi（god of the sea）" flowed in the Kuroshio Current.
These two will cleanse the negative power of the world.

Thank you everyone who wrote prayer plates and apology sentences from across the country, everyone who participated in the lecture, everyone who helped the event as staff.
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On September 22nd (Sat) and 23rd (Sun) 2018,
We will hold a huge event of "peaceful prayer" at the National Great Hall of Pacifico Yokohama.

One who wish no more war rises up and asks another to join.
Everyone is smiling.
One asks another to join, and smiling together.
Peaceful prayers gush from bottom of the heart of smiling, happy people.

We would appreciate your continued support in 2018 as well.

Thank you so much for your cooperation and warm support.

To 144,000 fellows of light, united from all over the world.
May the peace be in the world.