Monday, August 31, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
a quote
by Eudora Welty :
"People give pain,are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel ... but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make ."
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
halloween is coming !
PS: from http://japanese.about.com/
It's Halloween time! Like many other western customs (Christmas, Valentine's Day etc.), the Japanese easily adopt it, especially for commercial purposes. There are pumpkins displayed at the stores, and some people wear costumes and go to parties. However, there is no real custom for Halloween in Japan. I never experienced "Trick or Treating" with a cute costume when I was little...
I will tell you about Japanese ghosts, though the Japanese ghost is usually a thing of summer. The Japanese have their own ghosts, and there are a few terms to describe them.
Obake, Bakemono
Literally means, "transforming thing." "O" is an honorific prefix and "bake" is a noun form for the verb "bakeru (to change, to transform)." It can also be used more generally to refer to anything that is weird or grotesque.
Yuurei
According to Shinto beliefs, all people have a soul called "reikon." When a person dies, the reikon leaves the body and joins the souls of its ancestors. However, when a person dies suddenly by murder, is slain in battle, commits suicide, or when he or she hasn't been given an appropriate funeral, the reikon may become a yuurei to seek revenge. Many yuurei are female ghosts who suffered badly in life from love, jealousy, sorrow, or regret. Male yuurei are less common.
Yuurei usually appear in a white kimono (katabira), which people were buried in the old days, and have no legs. They also wear a white triangular piece of paper or cloth (hitaikakushi) on their forehead. They usually appear between 2 and 3 a.m.
Here is one of the famous yuurei stories "Bancho sara-yashiki (The Story of Okiku)" in Japanese and English.
お菊は青山鉄山の家に、女中として働いていました。ある日家宝である十枚の高価な陶器の皿を片付けているとき、お菊はうっかりその皿の一枚を割ってしまいました。怒った青山はお菊を殺し、その死体を古井戸に投げ捨てました。その後毎晩お菊の幽霊が井戸から現れ、皿をゆっくり九枚まで数えると、突然悲痛なすすり泣きを始めるのでした。それは何度も何度も繰り返され、青山を苦しめました。ついに青山は気が狂い、お菊の復讐は果たされたのでした。
Okiku works as a maid at the home of the samurai Tessan Aoyama. One day while cleaning a collection of ten precious ceramic plates, which is a family treasure, she accidentally breaks one of them. The outraged Aoyama kills her and throws the corpse into an old well. Every night afterwards, Okiku's ghost rises from the well, slowly counts out nine plates and then breaks into heartrending sobs, over and over and over again, tormenting the samurai. Finally, vengeance is wrought when Aoyama goes insane.
It's Halloween time! Like many other western customs (Christmas, Valentine's Day etc.), the Japanese easily adopt it, especially for commercial purposes. There are pumpkins displayed at the stores, and some people wear costumes and go to parties. However, there is no real custom for Halloween in Japan. I never experienced "Trick or Treating" with a cute costume when I was little...
I will tell you about Japanese ghosts, though the Japanese ghost is usually a thing of summer. The Japanese have their own ghosts, and there are a few terms to describe them.
Obake, Bakemono
Literally means, "transforming thing." "O" is an honorific prefix and "bake" is a noun form for the verb "bakeru (to change, to transform)." It can also be used more generally to refer to anything that is weird or grotesque.
Yuurei
According to Shinto beliefs, all people have a soul called "reikon." When a person dies, the reikon leaves the body and joins the souls of its ancestors. However, when a person dies suddenly by murder, is slain in battle, commits suicide, or when he or she hasn't been given an appropriate funeral, the reikon may become a yuurei to seek revenge. Many yuurei are female ghosts who suffered badly in life from love, jealousy, sorrow, or regret. Male yuurei are less common.
Yuurei usually appear in a white kimono (katabira), which people were buried in the old days, and have no legs. They also wear a white triangular piece of paper or cloth (hitaikakushi) on their forehead. They usually appear between 2 and 3 a.m.
Here is one of the famous yuurei stories "Bancho sara-yashiki (The Story of Okiku)" in Japanese and English.
お菊は青山鉄山の家に、女中として働いていました。ある日家宝である十枚の高価な陶器の皿を片付けているとき、お菊はうっかりその皿の一枚を割ってしまいました。怒った青山はお菊を殺し、その死体を古井戸に投げ捨てました。その後毎晩お菊の幽霊が井戸から現れ、皿をゆっくり九枚まで数えると、突然悲痛なすすり泣きを始めるのでした。それは何度も何度も繰り返され、青山を苦しめました。ついに青山は気が狂い、お菊の復讐は果たされたのでした。
Okiku works as a maid at the home of the samurai Tessan Aoyama. One day while cleaning a collection of ten precious ceramic plates, which is a family treasure, she accidentally breaks one of them. The outraged Aoyama kills her and throws the corpse into an old well. Every night afterwards, Okiku's ghost rises from the well, slowly counts out nine plates and then breaks into heartrending sobs, over and over and over again, tormenting the samurai. Finally, vengeance is wrought when Aoyama goes insane.
conversations with the trees
conversations with the trees in taiwan was short but precise ... as they all rush to tell me whts needed and wht i can do within my sleeps and how to heal the grids within the damages... i feel humbled and fortunate to be able to help in my ways for them all ...
thankyou my guides for protecting me and guiding me and teaching me wht to do as well ! Hugzs Hugzs !
Monday, August 10, 2009
perhaps its meant to b
a very strong thought came to me earlier as i read heidi's message to me . this is the worst hit for the northern side of taiwan since 50years as the typhoon attacked taiwan on 7-11aug, the dates we were supposed to fly out there. but all flights were cancelled and we have to defer it to 12th...
perhaps its meant to be, so that i can go over and heal that part of motherearth with the medicine from pa dave and the rest . so that the future generations of mother earth can be filled with bliss and harmony, health and happiness . perhaps its meant that i should head there at this moment for this is what i've been re-affirming for a long while, that i want and i am healing motherearth and her future generations ....
yesterday i dreamt that i was on a journey to travel to all parts of motherearth and putting in the medicines for her and as i travel along , i learn more and gain more wisdoms and humbleness too. and suddenly now, i feel that this is wht i need to do and that i know, the path has been set for me to follow ...to go with the flow, i cant explain how i feel or what i know what to do , but somewhere deep inside me, i am full of excitements and anticipations to do it .....
big ambition , yes, but not impossible ..... eheheheeh .may god be with me and my faeries folks and guides protect me and guide me along this journey of healings !
hugzs, ayako ^__^
perhaps its meant to be, so that i can go over and heal that part of motherearth with the medicine from pa dave and the rest . so that the future generations of mother earth can be filled with bliss and harmony, health and happiness . perhaps its meant that i should head there at this moment for this is what i've been re-affirming for a long while, that i want and i am healing motherearth and her future generations ....
yesterday i dreamt that i was on a journey to travel to all parts of motherearth and putting in the medicines for her and as i travel along , i learn more and gain more wisdoms and humbleness too. and suddenly now, i feel that this is wht i need to do and that i know, the path has been set for me to follow ...to go with the flow, i cant explain how i feel or what i know what to do , but somewhere deep inside me, i am full of excitements and anticipations to do it .....
big ambition , yes, but not impossible ..... eheheheeh .may god be with me and my faeries folks and guides protect me and guide me along this journey of healings !
hugzs, ayako ^__^
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