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At the beginning May 10th 1989 was the day when my mother passed away. She died at the age of 80. I was born when she was 40 years old and that was the turning point of her whole life. She had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease for many years, which caused depression to her as a side effect of the medicine, and whenever I saw her, she said “I am scared of death!” So I used to say “Death is not dreadful. It is maturity in life. It is a celebration.” My brother, a priest in the Catholic who was taking care of her, got mad at me yelling “Don’t say such a bad thing!” I stared at him to think in disgust, “What the hell do religions preach?!” Death is not a bad thing for me at all. These happenings made me confident that blood relation is completely different from heart relation. I used to develop some computer systems for I majored in computer science at university, so a concept of a certain software system occurred to me to fill my mind. That was “Death Program” It was a program of “attracting to death” Eighteen years have passed since then. The time has come when I start up in the development of “Death Program” not as a system engineer but as a writer who is standing now and here. The name of the system is “Death Program” but the book was named “Heartstrings” without a moment’s hesitation. The contents of both are surely the same as though the characters are different. It is nothing but my long-cherished sentiment. April 23rd 2006 Satoshi Nitta |
| Part I Death Essence Part II Death Practice Part III Death Conclusion |
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At the end Death is the conclusion of life for human beings. It means that a life has an ending. According to the law of cause and effect, there is an ending because there is a beginning. In other words, there is death because there is birth. It sounds logical but is it surely so? Then, why do we humans have to live with the fear of the unknown matter, death, which has not come yet? It is not logical unless death is known but not unknown, because the effect, death, is determined by the cause, birth, based on the law of cause and effect. Most of modern people would complain that “That’s why we know that we shall surely die someday!” However, it isn’t logical that “we shall surely die someday”. “Someday” is unknown and “shall surely” is known. Our time of death should be fixed if we know that “we surely die”. It is based on the law of cause and effect, which says that there is an ending because there is a beginning. Death must not be certain (not be promised) if we don’t know that “we shall die someday”. It is based on the law of cause and effect, which says that there is not an ending because there is not a beginning. There is no ending because there is a beginning. Or, There is an ending because there is no beginning. in the “motion space of light and sound” with the beginning and the ending are in permanent circular motion. It has been a challenge for human beings to find the key to the problem, which one is going to win, and the 21st century is sure to be the time to solve it. February 4th 2007 Satoshi Nitta |