1996 "Transcending Time and Space" Idaki Shin Spain concert

Idaki Shin message

"Transcending Time and Space"

I would like to express my sincere appreciation to His Excellency, the President of the Junta de Galicia Mr. Manuel Fraga, to the Honorable Mayor of Santiago de Compostela Mr. Xerardo Estevez, and to all people concerned for their heartful support and understanding, which made this evening’s concert possible.

I also express my deepest gratitude to the Japanese audience here who dedicate themselves to creating a global environment on this planet where our future generations can live happily bringing about a state of "Love and Peace" and who came all the way to Santiago de Compostela in pursuit of vital encounters.

Moment by moment, I live in such a way that I constantly meet people and communicate with them deep inside my body, thus liberating them, allowing them to live their authentic lives.

In my improvisation concerts, each member of the audience that I feel in my body differs in condition: Some are hurt and filled with sorrow. Some are suffering too much to breathe, and make me feel and experience internally their ailments and pains as they are. Some are earnestly seeking for hope or love and striving to realize them.

As the improvisation progresses, I feel these individual lives move towards uniting with each other into oneness and repeating the process of their regeneration in pursuit of eternal life. Then, their lives finally meet and unite with space, and spread out into the vast universe. My concert ends when the light of life shines all over, radiating from deep inside each of us.

May all of you be blessed with great happiness, spirituality and supreme bliss. Thank you very much.

Message from President Manuel Fraga Iribarne of Galicia

Dear Mr.Saito

Let me give you my most heartful welcome to this millenarian city of Santiago de Compostela, where we will enjoy your music with great satisfaction. I am sure that Compostela will attract your heart as well as the heart of all who accompany you, just as it has attracted, for many years, the soul of thousand pilgrims who visit the tomb of the Apostle St. James every year. I hope you will have a good memory of your stay in this open city full of growth, which unite tradition, spirituality and progress in harmony. With my best wishes, I salute you cordially.

Manuel Fraga Iribarne President of Xunta de Galicia