Heaven or God ?
I just found those photos in the net and I do know not more than any fact of what the photo was telling us. —– may be the photo was genuine = straight record of the aftermath, showing the remaining gate of the Shinto Shrine.
A person who found the photos must be utterly amazed hence just up loaded to the net. As I have no information of original source, I have no idea whether the photo was taken by the professional journalist or just a passerby, let alone any fact whether the subject was intentionally picked up (such as the survey of all the Shinto Shrine — and the one / only one Torii kept standing — or one of many) or just a coincidence.
—– yet still, seeing one more photo, they convinced me that there IS something. Think, you were a person who encountered it on the spot. Even if you didn’t bend your knee there, you must felt a chill on your back and felt, something like Heaven or somebody like the God is there and showing their providence. (But don’t blame, why send a tsunami or ask why save only a Torii, not the city. 😀 )
This is THE basis of the Japanese Shinto. We don’t need a fishy sweet words telling the Next life. We are seeing and keep feeling it IS there. Unlike an intentionally created, invented idea of so-called God, the supernatural power, or Heaven IS a part of our native sentiment or so-called spirituality. (That’s why only few % of Japanese is christian. = To the Japanese, Disney like personified God is a joke that’s why no Christian, still almost all of them believe the Rule of a cause and the consequence / the punishment return by the Heaven = that’s their spiritual Ethos.) So, we don’t steal, nor riot because we know the heaven IS watching us, or living with us. We don’t need to be told and learn “The idea of Morality” = we have it. Idea was an invention in the brain. Japanese Ethos is a part of how we were born. (Well, ideally —– we have Yakuza too. (But you know, Yakuza’s own rule is as tight as in the army) And, if you know them, they ARE also nice people. Ha ha ha 😀 )
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