Hiroko Yoda
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But the thing is, after my mother passing, I wasn't seeking for spirituality.
I just, walking on the park, that was the only thing I could do.
But at that moment...
When I realized that I wasn't alone and I was communicating with nature, so to speak, and I realized that I was actually touching a surface of Japanese spiritual tradition.
So that moment was also the starting point to delve into my spiritual life.
tradition.
The Shinto is a very tricky word.
when you write, when you see the writing, the characters writing in Japanese writing, the Shinto, it means the way.
The way of kami.
The way of spiritual beings.
So it means lifestyle.
So it's, you know, that yaoyoro no kami that I keep saying, it's a foundation of the concept.
That term,
came from Shinto.
But it's much bigger than that.
We are basically in it.
And then, in fact, so are you.
Because spiritual beings, the kami, belong to nature.
They're avatars.
And there's no Bible.