I had a seminar in Linz organized by Ms. Burgi this evening. Two interviews were planned out at my hotel.
The person in the below picture is from a radio station in North Germany and he traveled ten hours to come here.

As you see in the picture below, 1000 people came to this seminar. Ms. Burgi could do this just as I expected.

Ms. Burgi greeted as an organizer.

I usually introduce and ask Rasmus, Austrian, to give a speech in German-speaking sphere.

It was very hot and the air conditioning was not enough. Besides on that, there was fervor of audiences. I spoke enthusiastically sweating a lot.

During this thirty-minute break, everyone came to Rasmus to ask him questions. It is always like this whenever I give a seminar in the German-speaking sphere.

Although it was very hot day, everyone listened to my seminar till the end and gave a standing ovation when it finished.

I always ask Monica to interpret in the German-speaking sphere. She learned and taught at Kyushu University in Japan. We greeted hand in hand receiving applause by listeners.

Then there was an autograph session on the stage. I wonder it took about one hour.

And we had a “job well done” party as usual. It was already past eleven when we started.

 

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Linz is about two hours away from Vienna by car. We left our hotel in Vienna around ten o’clock for BAD ZELL resort where we would stay next.
This resort place is just like Japanese mineral spa recreation facility. Its component of water is radon that works for neuralgia and rheumatism.

At the fountain, the thank-you ceremony for the spring was held with about sixty participants.

People in the town were already waiting for me at a little space near the spring. Three musicians were also there to play a devout religious music along with a prayer led by a local priest.

Then I gave a short speech and a Qs and As session at a garden of a house like a meeting place.

After that people asked me to take a photo with me and I look happy in the below picture. I took a photo more than ten groups.

At the end I had delicious Weizen beer as my reward.

I was surprised since they prepared a beer made from hemp not only that beer. It seemed like that they read my books and knew that I was a supporter of hemp.

The woman on my right side who is drinking the same beer with me is a Diet member in Austria.

 

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Again I had an interview for a documentary film at their studio this morning. It was organized by a spiritual group and because of that there were about ten staffs there. I am looking forward to their completed film.

As you see in the below picture, they prepared an art work regarding water behind me.

Since yesterday the interpreter is a woman who has been in Austria for thirty years and is a musician.

In the afternoon we were headed for the venue for the seminar and drove away from the urban area of Vienna rapidly. Then we came far from town and found more fields instead. I found out that the seminar would be held in the next town about one and half hours away from town, although I thought it was “Vienna” seminar. When I started wondering if we could have enough people in such a back-country, Rusmos who was driving a car pointed ahead saying “Look, there is a sign board over there”. As he said, there was a big sign board right in the middle of the field!?

I was very surprised and asked him to stop there to take a photo. It was exactly the huge sign board of my seminar tonight.

After we drove further, we saw another huge sign board at a bus stop. We recognized three sign boards at other bus stops.

Thanks to this advertising, more than 600 people came to my seminar at a gym in this town, where the venue for this seminar just you see in the below picture.

I felt happy very much and gave a Karaoke time singing my favorite Edelweiss enthusiastically.

He is Tom, who is a friend of Burgi and runs a business of health food in this town..

After signing many autographs, it was past ten thirty when we finished everything and we had a “job well done” party. Tom, thank you very much.

 

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I flew to Vienna from Narita with Austrian airline yesterday. During this tour, till 13 June, I will travel with my son, Hiromasa, around Vienna, Linz, Lichtenstein, north Italia, San Sebastian) Spain, and Atlanta.

Today I had an interview with a state-run broadcasting program at a hotel. I have been to Austria many times before and the interviewer had studied about my work very well so the questions were quite polished. I was able to answer to those questions with delight.

The city of Vienna was beautiful as always and flowers were everywhere.

At that night, we all went to a beer garden located at a famous amusement park in Vienna for dinner.

Below is a distinctive Ferris wheel.

This is this beer garden’s prized draft beer.

Below picture shows my son, Hiromasa, and Ms. Burgi, who has organized my seminar in Austria for many times. She filled up venues with full of people in Vienna, Salzburg, Graz and etc.

We will travel with Rasmus from Liechtenstein up to north Italy.

People who had been at the next table happily talked to us and we toasted many times. He was there with his colleagues from Vienna postal office.

The second glass！

He started giving me a hard time but I did not understand what he was saying.

I knew I would win!

 

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 A woman in the picture below is Ms. Saya Takagi, an actress. Mr. Yasunao Nakayama who wrote”Makoto no hanashi (A story of Hemp)” brought her to our office

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Ms. Takagi’s record of skin diving is 53 meters and she has a natural agricultural farm in Shirahama, Chiba prefecture. She is really into organic life.
I always interpret the meaning of Chinese character for “performance” as “a person who extends natural heart”. So I think she is a real artist. She is brave enough to make an announcement that she is supporting loincloth recently.（Please refer http://umoja-lani.sblo.jp/archives/200803-1.html）
I am sure we will have a good relationship from now on.

The second person from the right is Mr. Nakayama who wrote about hemp and Mr. Yamaki is from peace boat on his right side.　Like attracts like. They are all nature lovers.
I have known Mr. Nakayama since 1999. When our monthly magazine, “HADO” was newly published in April, 1999 and the special topic was “hemp”. We started boosting exchanges since then. We even organized an association group once.
Ms. Ikue (Ms. Takagi’s real name) would become a goddess of hemp, who brought him back to us in the event, since I was just thinking that I would like to support the activity for restoration of hemp in full swing.

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Today was the last day of the Hado Counselor Seminar, which has been held for six days in total, twice a month since March. The ceremony to grant certification was held in our seminar room “Astoria”.

We started this plan with Mr. Hikaru Deguchi, who is a doctor in psychology, a grandson of Mr. Deguchi of Omoto-kyo, the chairman of the Mekiki group, and the head of the Japan psychological counseling association. Today 36 members of the inaugural class finished all classes and they received the Hado counselor certificate, the psychological counselor (beginner’s course), and the Shikon counselor certificate.

After that, we had fellowship banquet with the guests that the students brought and strengthened the fellow, brothers and sisters bond promoted in the last three months and were swearing their reunion in the near future.
I perceived that they were all truly pure-hearted. There was a joyful spirit like “I met a true friend” teemed over among them and that made them difficult to leave this fellowship banquet with full of Hado.

By the way, I was truly impressed with Mr. Deguchi’s skills to engage people’s hearts and minds and to bring people’s heart together and with staffs’ moves and coordination. I even thought I would like to be a student once.

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I had some time off from 2 May through 6 May during the Golden week. However, I was working at home anyway. There are many things to do updating this blog, finishing piled up manuscript, or planning a new business arising from the result of the world tour.
Today I came to my office after a long time. In such a time, a married couple, Lex and Sandy who are Hado instructors visited us from America. They came to our office to talk more specifically about our collaboration of crystal photographs and music that they organized and had been adopted by our institute.
They have multiple talents. They have been dubbing artists of cartoons for a long time. Speaking of cartoon, there are many Japanese cartoons in this industry. They have been doing this for more than ten years and maybe because of so they are very friendly toward Japan. They have done English-dubbed version of Lupin the 3rd, Goemon, Wizard Sally, Gandum and so on.
Moreover, Lex is also a musician and does any type of things like composing, arranging, or singing. They have realized how important water is about three years ago and established a production and distribution company for mineral water called H2Om and became my descendants. (www.H2Omwater.com）

They will stay in Japan till 12 May. I am very much looking forward to seeing how our collaborative work evolves.

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I had a day off yesterday for the first time in 38 days since 23 March. I would like to thank God for giving me strength for this heavy work load since I was once gloomy thinking that I would never be able to go abroad when I hospitalized last September. Thanks to another Kami-san (meaning God in Japanese while meaning Wife as well), I could have done this.

By the way, today a group of shooting team led by Emanuel, a French man, visited our office since they have been visiting all over the world to meet spiritual leaders for their documentary film called “Invocation”. They have already filmed some people like Dr. Ervin Laszlo, Dr. Fritjof Capra, and Dr. Dean Radin from Noetic Science or religious people from each country. And now they chose me and some other person in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-tbQ8Lof7A
They asked me following questions to me and you will see the objective for this movie from these questions.

１）What everyone has recognized today is that the earth is going to die a little by little, although we are not sure what we could do to fight against that fate. What we are doing instead is war or lives in a horrible situation where there are seven billions populations. Now we would like to ask you where you would think God is and what God is in the first place.

２）What do you think of the relationship between religion and God is? Do human beings need both? 
３）Thoroughgoing atheists assert that there is no god, there is nothing beyond this world. Is it possible to have such concept, “nothing” from scientific view point? Could we say that this being expressed as “nothing” is actually “something”, which is uncontrollable for us and does not affect on us?

４）Scientists have the view that human beings understand only 10%? of constitution of the universe (mainly hydrogen and helium). The mixture of the rest of 90% has not been understood and it is called “dark matter” or “hidden matter”. Is this “God” we call?

５）Is god a result of conscious change? Or is there something beyond this world and it has nothing to do with whether our unconscious or subconscious seek or not?

６）Are we finally at a transitioning phase and able to connect materialism and spiritualism? Is science coming close to the day they can meet “God”? What would be required to get to that point?

７）Is there really so-called “global mind”? Is this the closest thing to the concept of God from the scientific view point? Is the universe like a spider web of consciousness?

８）Are we affecting and making an impact on each other?Is it possible to prove at least at micro element level that we connect each other and everything is united ?

９）Do element, proton, and electron think themselves? Can we control elements that compose us or are we controlled by them?
Can we completely and scientifically agree with Darwin's evolution theory? Or is there anything like “intellectual design”?

１０）I think that all religions are ultimately connected to god and each religion has the same understanding and perception toward god. Now is it possible to think that we can still become one by respecting each other as “one people” under god even if we have different beliefs?

１１）What do you think is the difference between being spiritual and religious?

１２）Can people who do not believe in religion still believe in god?

１３）Do you feel that we are all connected in one way or another? Also, is this idea enough for us to become one as “one people”, “one planet”, or “one universe” beyond ourselves?

１４）How can we bring ourselves closer to God? Can human become holy being? It will be grateful if you could let us hear your explanation.

１５）Do you think that we downplay actual problems like dire situation, wars, or poverty since we are preoccupied with questions on? god's being? Can we not focus on helping each other by letting go of “concern” about god?

１６）It seems that god is something very serious and dramatic matter. But don't you think that god has also a sense of humor? If so, would you kindly share a joke about god or your favorite episode about god?

I was not asked all above questions but I spoke freely based on the idea that I am a messenger from God. I think the interview went well.
Mr. Emanuel said that he would like to complete this film before the presidential election. I hope that this film will be played in Japan too.
He also asked me to introduce some Japanese people that they should interview with. I mentioned about Mr. Haruki of Heitate Shrine, Mr. Sato of International peace training hall, and Mr. Hikaru Deguchi of Mekiki group (also a grandson of Mr. Onisaburo Deguchi). A group of Mr. Emanuel went out to interview these people from the 2nd to the 4th after that. Finally Heitate shrine and a great teaching would be spread out toward the world by this way. I truly understood that what my role is thinking of this and Takeuchi documents' publication in Spanish mentioned before.

I very much look forward to this film completed.

Mr. Emanuel on my left side and his filming staffs.

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