今年の業務も後一日を残すのみ。明日は御用納め。

毎年の事ながら、この時期になると一年を振り返り、「今年はどんなんだったかなー・・・」などと考える。ところが近年、一生懸命振り返ってはみるが、何をして一年が過ぎたのかよく判らない。アッという間に一年が過ぎ、などと皆がよく云うが、本当にその通り。過ぎ去った時は本当に早い。

多分、時の流れに身を任せ・・的な日々を送っているから、結果的に何をしたのか良く判らない、などと云う情けない事になってしまっているのであろう。

でも結果をみれば、総じて先ず先ず。市況の厳しさは相変わらずながら、経費削減と危機意識の効果か、売上は微増ながら収支バランスは何とか取れた様だ。また、個人的にも特に何か、と云う事無く、総じて平穏無事。

欲な事を言わず、この平穏無事に感謝、感謝。先ずは生きて居る事に感謝しなければ・・・。

と云うのが、実は一昨日、私の高校の時の恩師が亡くなった。それもおん歳６９歳。現役の町長で、元気も意欲も満々であったのに。聞くところによると業務中の突然死で、それこそアッと云う間もない状況であったとか。

その訃報を聞いて以来、死と云うものが小生の頭の中を駆け巡っている。先生は最後に自分の死を持って、私ら生徒に教えを説かれたのかも・・・そんな気がする。

「朝に道を聞き、夕に死すも可なり」、そんな言葉があったように思うが、まさにその通り。一分先の命を保証できる人は神以外には存在するまい。まことに儚いと思うが、儚さ故に日々充実した時を過ごさないと、この世に生を受けた意味がない。

一年を振り返って、何をしたのかよく判らない。こんな事ではどうしようもない・・・。来年はもう少し計画的に物事を進め、年末に、「やった、やった」と云える、意識明瞭な日々を送ることに努めよう・・・・。

There is only one day left in this year’s work. Tomorrow is the end of my business.

As is the case every year, I look back on the year and think, “What was it like this year…? In recent years, however, I’ve tried my best to look back, but I’m not sure what I’ve done over the past year. People often say that a year has gone by in a blink of an eye, and it’s true. The time has passed really quickly.

Probably because I’m living my days in the flow of time, I don’t know what I’ve done as a result of it.

But if you look at the results, as a whole, first things first. Although the market conditions remain severe, the company seems to have managed to maintain its balance of payments despite a slight increase in sales, perhaps due to cost-cutting and crisis awareness. In addition, there was nothing in particular for me personally, and I was generally safe and sound.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this peace and safety, without greed. First of all, I have to be grateful to be alive…

In fact, the day before yesterday, my mentor from my high school passed away. She is also 69 years old. He was a sitting mayor who had a lot of energy and drive. I heard that he died suddenly in the middle of his work, and it was in no time at all.

Ever since I heard of his death, the thought of his death has been running through my mind. Maybe the teacher had his own death at the end to teach us students… I feel like that.

I think there was a saying, “It is possible to hear the way in the morning and to die in the evening”, and that’s exactly what it is. There is no one but God who can guarantee a minute’s life ahead. I think it is truly ephemeral, but there is no point in being born into this world if you don’t spend your days in the fullness of your ephemerality.

Looking back on the year, I’m not sure what I’ve done. There’s nothing I can do about this… Next year, I’ll try to be a little more organized and have a clearer mind at the end of the year where I can say “I did it, I did it”…

今年の漢字「暑」。

毎年、今年の漢字が発表されると、私なりのコメントをこのブログに乗せてきたが、今年はピンと来るものが無く、筆が進まない。

今年の漢字が「暑」と決まった途端の第一印象「何それっ・・」、第二印象「暑って嫌いなんだよなー、書き難くて・・」。第三印象、「昨年の「新」は良かったのにな・・」。後は何もなし。

これではコメントにならないが、でもそうなのだから仕方が無い。

The Chinese character for this year is “hot”.

Every year, when the Chinese characters for this year are announced, I have put my own comments on this blog, but this year, I couldn’t find anything that stuck with me and I couldn’t move forward with my writing.

As soon as the Chinese character for this year was decided to be “hot”, my first impression was, “What’s that? Third impression, “Last year’s ‘new’ was good… Nothing else.

This doesn’t make it a comment, but it does, so it can’t be helped.

前回のブログに書いた、我が家の付近にねぐらを構えている子狸くん、とても元気になったよ・・・。バンザーイ！。

元気なところを写真で紹介したいと思うが、元気に走り回っている為シャッターチャンスがつかめず、残念・・・。それにしても獣の自然治癒力って凄いね。トボトボとしか歩けなかったあの狸が、4・5日で走り回るまでに回復していた。

小生など、２ケ月以上前に捻挫した手首（回転椅子から落下）が未だに完治せず、かなり違和感が残っていると云うのに。

そう云えば、天風先生のお話しにも同じ様なのがあった。ヒマラヤ山脈の麓、カンチェンジェンガ（ヨーガの里）で修行中、師匠のカリアッパ先生が、突然天風先生の手を剃刀で切り、同時に傍に居た犬の前足を切った。そして、どちらが先に治るか競争させたらしい。結果、遥かに犬の方が早く治った、とのこと。

ケガひとつ治すのに、医学を修めた人間よりも、遥かに能力の劣る犬のほうがよっぽど早くに治す。これは何なのか、その事を、身を持って教えてくれたと云う話しです。

所謂、気にするから治らない。病は忘れる事によって治る。病を治すのは医者でもなければ薬でもない。死に至る病以外のあらゆる病は、全て自分で治すのです。この世に生きとし生ける全てのものは、皆自分自身で自分を治すのです。如何なる動植物にも、自然治癒力（自然良能力）と云う力が備わっており、その力によって回復させるのであって、医術や薬が治すのではなく、そうしたものは自然治癒力の補佐をしてくれるに過ぎない。従って、その力が十分に発揮できるような状態にして置くには、普段からその事を心がけ鍛錬しておく必要があるにです。

そして、その方法をお教えしているのが財団法人天風会です。そうー、心身統一法がそうなのです。

今度の日曜日は、香里天風会の越年会（忘年会）です。普段通りの日曜行修の後、天風先生の講演テープ「安心立命の人生観」を拝聴します。2時間ほどの長いテープです。一度立ち寄ってみませんか？。老若男女どなたでも結構です、興味のあるかたはお気軽に来てくださいませ・・・大歓迎です。

As I wrote in my last blog, the little tanuki who has a roost near our house has become very healthy… Banzai!

I’d like to show you a picture of his health, but I couldn’t get a chance to take a picture because he was running around so vigorously… The natural healing power of animals is amazing. The raccoon, who could only walk in a limp state, had recovered to the point of running around in four or five days.

The wrist (falling from a swivel chair) which I sprained more than two months ago still does not heal completely, and a considerable discomfort remains.

Come to think of it, there was a similar story in Professor Amakaze’s story. In the foothills of the Himalayas, while practicing in Kanchenjenga (the village of yoga), his teacher, Kaliappa, suddenly slashed Tianfu’s hand with a razor blade and at the same time cut the front leg of the dog that was by his side. Then they made them compete to see who would be cured first. As a result, he said, the dog healed much faster.

A far less capable dog can heal a single injury much more quickly than a medically trained person. It’s a story that has taught me firsthand what this is all about.

So to speak, it doesn’t heal because it cares. Sickness is cured by forgetting. It is not the doctor or the medicine that cures the disease. Every disease, except the deadly ones, heals itself. Every living thing in this world will heal itself, and every living thing will heal itself. All plants and animals have a power of natural healing, and they are healed by this power, not by medicine or medicine, which only supports the power of natural healing. Therefore, it is necessary to keep this in mind on a regular basis in order to be in a state where the power can be fully demonstrated.

And it is the Tenpukai Foundation that teaches you how to do that. Yes, that’s what the Unification of Mind and Body Act is.

This Sunday is the year-end party of the Kori Tenpukai. After the usual Sunday practice, we’ll listen to Dr. Amikaze’s lecture tape, “Anshin Ritsumeikan no Seikoku no Seikoku,” which is about two hours long. Why not stop by for a visit? Anyone, young and old, male and female, if you are interested, please feel free to come and see us.

今週火・水と東京出張。火曜に会議と二つの忘年会を掛け持ちでこなし、翌朝ボーとした頭で商談するも、今ひとつ乗りが悪い。こんな時は「何もしないのが仕事」と心得、午後は遊ぶ事にした。ところが根が仕事人間の小生のこと、空き時間のつぶし方をしらない・・・。それなら真っ直ぐ帰阪すればいいものを、貧乏性の私には、それも何となくもったいない。そこで思いついたのが、ハトバスでの都内観光。

「３時間くらいの都内観光は・・・」と尋ねると、「お台場コースがよろしいのでは」とのアドバイス。ガイドさんの案内に従い、早速ハトバスに乗車。何と50名は乗れる２階建てバスにお客は5人。でも、バスは一路お台場へ・・・。都内観光を兼ねて約40分でお台場着、そこで１時間の観光を楽しみ、再度40分かけて東京駅まで帰る、正味２時間３０分のハトバ ス都内観光であった。

お台場に降りるや「自由の女神像」が出迎えてくれた。ニューヨークへ行くまでのことはない、お台場で十分と云った感じで、それは立派な女神像であった。

お台場に造られた人工海岸。でも東京湾の一部で、海は海。しかも意外に水は綺麗で、エッここが東京と云う感じ。

磯には普通に海藻が生え、ニイナ（貝）もいっぱい居た。

お台場から観た高層ビル群。

巨大ショッピングビルの中に在ったミニ水族館。実物はとても綺麗で、つい写してしまった。

これはお台場とは全く別。

今朝、出勤途中に狸を発見。家を出て50m程の所で子狸がヨボヨボと歩いていた。幾ら近づいても逃げる気配ひとつ無く、ただヨボヨボと歩くだけ。よくよく見ると足の裏が傷ついている感じで、爪の間から血がにじんでいる。従って、痛くてまともに歩けない。車が来ても自転車が来ても逃げることすら出来ない状態にある。動物病院にと直ぐに思ったが、入れる箱もなければ時間も無い。ただただ、誰か暇で親切な人が通りかかり、介抱してくれる事を願いつつ、意を決して駅へと向かったが・・・。

実はこの狸、以前から同じ場所でしょっちゅう見かけていた。ただ、出会うのは何時も夜で、しかも、結構なスピードで元気に道路を横切っており、この道路を獣道と間違っていた様であるが、何故に足の裏など傷つけたのか？。もしかしたら誰かが剃刀で、、、。だって、野生動物が足の裏を傷つけるなんて、一寸考えにくい・・・。

Business trip to Tokyo on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. I had two year-end parties and a conference on Tuesday, and the next morning I was in a daze when I had a business meeting, but it was not a great success. In a time like this, “doing nothing is work”, I thought, and decided to play in the afternoon. I don’t know how to fill up my free time…. If that’s the case, I should just go straight back to Osaka, but it’s somehow a waste for me because I’m poor. That’s when I came up with the idea of sightseeing in Tokyo by pigeon bus.

When I asked him how about a three-hour tour of Tokyo, he advised me that the Odaiba course would be a good choice. We followed the guide and boarded the pigeon bus at once. A double-decker bus with a capacity of 50 people had 5 customers. However, the bus went one way to Odaiba… It took about 40 minutes to arrive at Odaiba, where we enjoyed an hour’s sightseeing, and then another 40 minutes to return to Tokyo Station, which was a net 2 hours and 30 minutes of sightseeing.

As soon as we got down to Odaiba, we were greeted by the Statue of Liberty. It wasn’t until I went to New York that I said enough in Odaiba, which was a fine statue of a goddess.

The artificial beach at Odaiba. But it’s part of Tokyo Bay, and the sea is the sea. Moreover, the water was surprisingly clean and I felt like I was in Tokyo.

The seaweed grew normally on the shore, and there were a lot of nyina (shellfish).

The skyscrapers seen from Odaiba.

The mini aquarium was located in a huge shopping building. The real thing is so beautiful that I took a picture of it.

This is completely different from Odaiba.

This morning, on my way to work, I found a raccoon dog. About 50 meters away from the house, a cubs was waddling around. No matter how close we got, there was no sign of escape, just a wobbly walk. If you look closely, the soles of your feet feel bruised, and blood is seeping from between your nails. Therefore, I can’t walk decently because it hurts. We are in a situation where we can’t even run away if a car comes by or a bike comes by. I wanted to go to the animal hospital immediately, but I didn’t have a box to put it in and I didn’t have time. I went to the station, hoping that someone kind and free would pass by and take care of me, but…

As a matter of fact, I had seen this raccoon in the same place many times before. However, it was always at night when we met him, and he was crossing the road at quite a high speed, and he seemed to have misunderstood this road as a veterinary road. Maybe someone with a razor blade… Because it’s a little hard to imagine a wild animal hurting the soles of its feet….

早や師走。何時も思う事ながら過ぎ去った時は早い、でも結構一分は長い。状況と感じ方によって物は違って見える。「百万の人が居れば百万の正義がある」とか、云われてみると全くその通りと思う。故に、余り頑迷に自己主張をしていると嫌われる。

そんな思いから、今年はもう少し大人のブログにしようか・・・等と考えていたが、やはり結果は同じ。相変わらず、同じ主張を繰り返してしまった。でも、とり方によっては、それだけ一貫していると云う事であり、それが私なのだから仕方がないか・・・。

それにしてもマスコミって凄いね。個人情報保護法は対象外で、公的な人のプライバシーはある程度制限され、事と次第によっては公開されても仕方ないらしいが、何の意味があってあんなくだらない芸能人の裏話や、聞きたくもない嫌な事件ばかりを追いかけて、事細かく報道するのか・・・。全くあきれるばかりである・・・。

例えば、社会面のニュースは、明るいもの建設的なものを５０％以上、殺人やイジメなど暗く嫌なニュースは５０％以下と定め、それに違反すると罰則があるくらいにしないと、今のマスコミではどうしようもない感じがする。

最近ニュースを聞いていて楽しのはスポーツくらい。後は、政治にしようが社会面にしようが聞くに堪えないようなニュースばかり。こんなニュースを日々観たり聞いたりしていると、間違いなく人間はマイナス思考が強くなり、怒りぽくて取り越し苦労の上手な、消極的人間が知らず知らずの内に出来上がってしまう。

で、そうした人間が事件を起こし、またニュースになる。政治家は、天下国家を考え、国民を見て政治をするものと思っていたが、最近は何よりもマスコミを意識して政治をしなければならないらしい。

戦前の様な報道規制や言論統制は論外だが、マスコミと云うのは、もう少し社会的影響の大きさを意識した経営であって欲しい。視聴率さえ取れればOKとする、今のマスコミ界に人は居ないのであろうか・・・。

It’s early in the month. As I always think, the time goes by quickly, but a minute is quite long. Things look different depending on the situation and how you feel. When I hear people say, “If there are a million people, there will be a million justices”, I think it’s absolutely true. Therefore, if you assert yourself too stubbornly, you will be disliked.

This year, I was thinking of writing a more mature blog… but the result was the same. As usual, I repeated the same claim. However, depending on the way I take it, it’s just that I’m consistent, and that’s just me…

The media is amazing, though. It is not subject to the Personal Information Protection Law, and the privacy of the public is limited to some extent, and it seems that it is acceptable to disclose it depending on the situation, but what is the point of reporting in detail, chasing only such a trivial backstory of an entertainer or a disgusting case that you don’t want to hear… I am completely baffled….

For example, I feel that the current mass media can’t do anything about it unless the news on the social front is set to be at least 50% bright and constructive, and 50% or less dark and disgusting news such as murders and bullies, and there are penalties for violating these rules.

Recently, the only thing I enjoy listening to the news is sports. The rest is just news that I can’t stand to hear, whether it’s political or social. Watching and listening to this kind of news on a daily basis will undoubtedly make you a negative thinker, an angry and passive person who is good at getting things done, without knowing it.

So, those people make a case, and then they make the news again. I used to think that politicians play politics by thinking about the nation as a whole and looking at the people, but nowadays it seems that they have to play politics with the mass media in mind more than anything else.

The pre-war press regulations and speech control are out of the question, but I wish the mass media would be managed with a little more awareness of the magnitude of its social impact. Isn’t there a person in the mass media world today who thinks it’s OK as long as it gets ratings…?