The first time I met Hiisa was in Nagoya, with Renchan, in a tea house under a railtrack. He was introduced to me as Renchan`s boss, Hiisa, boss of the Peace Mafia.
And I think that`s where it all started.
Or perhaps with Renchan`s invitation, "Do you want to come to Tokyo?"
"
Sensou yori mo, Matsuri wo! Atarashii mubemento..."
No Wars, but Celebration!!
From the 5th of October this was the project we were working on, all of us every day all day, or rather from dusk till dawn, until the climax of the 22nd and a slow unforced come down of the 23rd and 24th of October.
I could hardly believe what was happening around me and with me, in me, and so I just let be, let the waves take me down the stream, as they were taking all the other souls. And so like this we were all hand in hand being taken by the magical energized flow of someone's beautiful great thoughts into the far away though brightly lit ocean of love and peace that we were going to become a part of and share it with the world.
I would have found it real hard to get my head around it if I was trying to get my head around it, the wondrous shift in my course, or just the sudden twist on my path. Maybe it wasn't my path yet. Maybe it was just a little curvy road leading towards my path to be, and that's why the point of meeting of these two was so sharp, because crossroads are usually sharp, aren't they?
Anyway, this is how I found myself sat in the the building of Japanese government, in the office of Kina Shoukichi, famous (and extraordinary and adorable and most of all and because of all, highly respectable) Okinawan musician and songwriter and now a member of the Japanese parliament. Rolling posters. Together with the rest of the crew Hiisa, Renchan, Hidechan and Aichan, members of the Nagoya Team.
After the whole thing was over, as I mentioned how much I respected Kinasan's ideas and what he is trying to do, Hidechan tried to explain the acting process to me. Hideto said that Kinasan does not think about these things. They just kind of come onto him, from the sky, vzuuuch, he gets enlightened. "But who thinks about the things then?", I asked. "No one." was the answer. From Kinasan the enlightenment spreads onto the rest of us and then we all work with it and for it until it goes back up, vzuuuuch, just like that. And it works. 'System with love' is Renchan's terminology. And that's exactly how it was.
I am reading a book called Love, by Leo F. Buscaglia. Dr Buscaglia was a professor at the Unversity of California and at one point he decided to open an extracurricular class on love. And he said something about a path with love, that if it is a path without love, then it's not the right one, it doesn't feel like the right one either, and thus you should find a different one. And that there are millions of paths. And that they all lead to no where. But that's not important. The important thing is to choose the one with love.
Isn't it beautiful?
