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The Dolphin Song
In Horace Dobbs’ book Dolphin Healing, he wrote the following memorial to Konoe Ishizaki, one of the co-founders of the Ki and Dolphin Healing Centre who was born at the Myoren-ji Temple in Kyoto, and died there on 9 August 1999.
At 10.00pm on 26 November 1993, two weeks before the Dolphin Healing Centre opened, Konoe had a vision in which the dolphins gave her the following message:
Good evening! The fact is that you were born here to
come and play a ‘life’ game. Be generous enough to
play with anybody whom you encounter and also with
those who say something nasty. You are all playfellows.
There are humorous people and there are people who
are not so humorous. Imagine that all of you are
enjoying the game together. Some play a role of
disliked person, some play a role of clown. Everybody
has a role.
Konoe was a channel through which dolphin love and joy flowed. She and her husband Kokyo passed it on to those who came to the Dolphin Healing Centre. Konoe was inspired by dolphins in many ways. She wrote Iruka No Uta (The Dolphin Song). Actually, she said the dolphins wrote the song, and that she was merely the channel. The question of copyright therefore did not arise, The song was free for anyone to use. For me, the melody has the timeless qualities of a traditional tune such as ‘Greensleeves’, or ‘Danny Boy’.
I was deeply moved when Kokyo Ishizaki sent me, after his wife died, a mini CD of Iruka No Uta. It was packaged with typical Japanese delicacy and included a misty picture of his wife as a beautiful young woman beneath a lacy parasol.
With this tribute to his late wife, Kokyo included a letter in which he told mc that despite the loss of his partner, and a certain resistance from the authorities, he would continue the work of the Ki and Dolphin Healing Centre. One of Kokyo’s wishes was that his wife’s dolphin melody should float freely around the world carrying with it her message from the dolphins of peace, joy and love.
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