I am from Finland, now 45 years old and live in Savonlinna. When I was
12 years old, a girl, and we lived in Helsinki, we early one autumn
went to Japan and were there some tow weeks, after which shortly to
HongKong and then one week in Thailand. My life kind of got destroyed
by that visit to Asia and I did not know why and the effect lasted for
years and it still is somewhat. But lately I noticed that the problem
maybe connects to people whom Asians consider ghosts. When our family
was in Japan, we saw also a Japanese graveyard. It was wirhout trees,
just stones: stone pavements, stones on graves maybe something like
pots from claw to, I do not remember the last thing well enough. In
Finland we have always trees, lots of trees on graveyards, like in a
forest or park, usually big trees with lots of leaves sheltering and
in the winter time mostly without leaves but some kuusi trees
somewhere. My parents were atheists. We visited graveyard in the
Christmas and I wished well for the deceased which I thought of living
there under their graves, under the sea of candles. I wished that they
could have well in the life after death, according to justice so that
good things would spread and bad things would not be allowed to affect
widely, so that each of them could be "the smith of one's own
happiness". And so I propably wished when I saw the Japanese graveyard
too. Could it be that the ghosts longed for something there, something
in Japanese ways of living was maybe too much for them and so they
dies and now they longed for some fracturelessness and so they came to
me, year afyer year. But I think the moist important thing in that is
to have trees with real roots in the graveyards, sheltering, dropping
their leaves in the autumn, maybe some tree keeping them too - trees
quite near each grave, like for example three meters at most. But
those do not necessarily at least to begin with need to be big trees
but some Japanese natural bushes would do well too, but those must be
planted there ground bought there if needed. I guess that the Japanese
ghosts consider this of major importance!
With best wishes, Kaisa Hannele Tervola, Savonlinna, Finland, North Europe
Trees natural to that climate, culture and district teach them to be
wise and with wisdom of life, so that things go peacefully along their
natural ages old wise roads. AAnd the trees or bushes also tell them
that Japanese ways are expected - or they must move to live elsewhere
where they are in harmony with the culture and ways.
Harmony with the wishes of the deceased could make Japan stronger. Do
some foreigners with more skills in these matters oppose in order to
harm Japan?
My wisdom of life is very Finnish, not so very Christian. If that is
what the Japanese elderly or ghosts in Asia are looking for, one can
learn it from my blogs:
http://pikakoulu.blogspot.fi , http://quickerlearning.
playlists at http://www.youtube.com/
http://workandfreetime.
first post, http://todreamjob.blogspot.fi and
http://nopeaoppisuus.blogspot.
Especially http://Finnishskills.blogspot.
maybe also http://healthilymoral.
http://paratiisiteoria.
