至誠 （2013年過去のノートよりコピー）

”Makoto" means truth or integrity in English, I was told by some one about this meaning in summer 2012 in the very polite manner.

The original idea comes from "Doctrine of the Mean ”(中庸 in chinese) which is the title of one of the four book of Confucianism.
Confucianism has influenced to many school of Samurai in Edo period, and the idea took place into the certain people.

"Makoto is something like god's will, it can be achieved by moral principal. "(it is my trial translation, in the definition of god may be different from western idea, it is called "Ten=supernatural being) 
Makoto is to follow such will, it is not in the human being.

Since then, I started to realize the word ”Shisei" (high integrity) is used by many people around me and started to be interested in. I feel this concept seems be agreed by any people as universal idea.

I have been Hagi-shi by accident Oct 27 2012, and today I am going to Setagaya. (Each place has Shinto shrine praying for the same person who was died for his belief. I may overstate, but, the following idea is really dangerous which seeking something real, but who cares. It is likely wrong assumption. However, yet, unselfish activities in order to bigger harmonized success would be great satisfaction to such achiever.
As for me, if I could have achieved something I believe true, even I may lose many, I would be proud of my high standard morality.

「誠」について、去年の夏ごろ丁寧に説明されたが実感としてわからなかった。

「誠は天の道なり。之れを誠にするは人の道なり」
誠とは、人間関係の相対の中で生きる原理ではなく、天の意思に遵うこと。

それ以来、至誠という言葉を使う人が周囲に多いことに気づき、興味をもつようになった。一年たって思うことは、このコンセプトは国家や宗教を越えて、普遍的な考え方だと思う。
去年の10月27日というタイミングで偶然、萩に行き、そして今年の10月27日に世田谷に行く。大げさに言えば、私は無意識に何かを求めているのかもしれない。誰にどう思われたっていい、自分が大事だと思うことをするんだ、という気持ちは、ある意味危険だ。通じるものが全くない思い込みの時も多い。でも自分の我を捨ててもっと大きな調和のためにする行為は、認められなくても自分の中での達成感は大きい。私の中ではそれはプライドみたいなものだ