Artwork by Masaki Hirokawa
Burial at Sea
水葬
About the Work
Death is not merely an act of creation but also a reunion with God and a fleeting mystery. When the soul, carrying its memories, returns to the primordial source of life, it merges with the countless memories of myriad beings, reborn as a single droplet. In that moment, the former self ceases to exist, becoming a fragment of someone else’s soul, nameless and unknown. Thousands, tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of millions of years later, when all cycles of reincarnation have concluded, we shall all be equally welcomed into a great light—a realm where loneliness and suffering do not exist. I still firmly believe that by quietly keeping our gaze fixed ahead and steadfastly moving forward, even through hardship, we will eventually reach eternal nirvana.
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