In the 12-mat room of Indian summer, my mother told me a story.
The manager and his wife of the Sendai branch of a large company that her client could not have children.
I had heard about it from my mother and knew about it.
One day...the couple came to our house.
They were fishing or something.
They asked my mother if they wanted to adopt me.
She told me she thought it would be better for me but couldn't say yes.
I was listening to her story with very mixed feelings.
As I have mentioned several times, those who are born to master learning, those who are born to the arts, or those who are born as the reincarnation of Buddha or Christ do not need hardship.
Hardship is unnecessary for learning.
I had to struggle for 40 years for that hardship, and even more so because at the end of my business life, I encountered a villain who could not have been more evil and made me suffer greatly.
I wondered if I could have spent my life as the adopted son of the Sendai branch manager and his wife on the borderline between dream and reality.
4/1/2012 at Tenryuji Temple.
