What the Original Japanese Buddhism Means

In foreign countries, religious rituals glorifying God are common, while those for ancestral spirits are rare. There are some countries that have no such customs. In Japan, holding memorial services for ancestral spirits have been practiced a lot since ancient times, compared with other countries, because the Buddhism in Japan, which originally came through the Eurasian Continent, valued ancestral spirits and spread all over Japan as such.

• glorify　讃える
• custom　習慣
• compare　比較する
• the Eurasian Continent　ユーラシア大陸
• value　重んじる

In the earliest Buddhism founded by Shakuson, the teachings of memorial services for ancestral spirits are very few. According to an episode, for example, when Shakuson spiritually saw the mother of Mokuren（目連）, one of his Ten Disciples, was suffering in Hungry Ghost Realm of Hell, he suggested to Mokuren that he contribute food to as many monks and people as possible and get the monks to pray for his mother so that she could rest in peace.

• the earliest Buddhism　原始仏教
• found　創設する
• contribute　寄付する
• monk 　僧侶

I think this episode is suggestive.

● the importance of contributing to others

●the importance and practical power of consideration by a lot of people

I feel that this just one episode caused Japanese Buddhist monks to perform funeral services and have a ceremonial dinner after the service. I also feel that the episode was used in its broad interpretation and as a result Buddhist monks came to live their lives depending on alms.

• suggestive　示唆に富んだ
• importance　重要性
• consideration　思いやり
• interpretation　解釈
• alms　施し

This is how memorial services for ancestral spirits, which didn’t exist in the earliest Buddhism, led to the present “funeral Buddhism.” It goes without saying that this is different from the earliest Buddhism founded by Shakuson. It’s the original Japanese Buddhism. I interpret this incident as a good thing for Japan as a whole. I feel that holy spirits of the World of Gods of Japan concerned themselves with the establishment of this system.

• funeral Buddhism　葬式仏教
• interpret　解釈する
• incident　出来事
• concern oneself with A　Aに関与する

The idea of worshipping ancestral spirits had existed before Buddhism was introduced to Japan. Though the present Buddhism in Japan has a  lot of problems, such as Buddhist monks enjoying luxury or exploiting people by the system of collecting money, it has surely contributed to the custom of directing people’s mind to their ancestral spirits periodically. The thing is it’s important never to forget gratitude toward ancestors and to direct your mind to them once in while. There are  various ways for doing this.

• worship　崇拝する
• introduce　紹介する
• luxury　贅沢
• explot　搾取する
• direct　向ける
• periodically　定期的に
• once in a while　時折

If some spirits related to you are in pain in this World of Reality, they will try to make you notice their existence. Therefore you need to direct your mind to them by holding memorial services before you are forced to notice them. Otherwise, you would be made to notice their existence in some way. Also, even if the spirits in pain give up informing you of their existence, your spiritual line will be clogged, which, in turn, will affect the life force, fortune, and mental stability of their descendants, including you.

•  related　関係した
• notice　気づく
• existence　存在
• be forced to~ 　〜せざるを得ない
• otherwise　さもないと
• inform　知らせる
• clog　詰まらせる
• descendant　子孫

A lot of people are going through difficulties in life, burdened with spiritual handicap. They are being tortured doubly hard. It is true that people, living in this World of Reality, world, have the hardships of life even if they hold memorial services correctly every day. Efforts are important in real life. But without spiritual handicap, they could overcome the hardships with a positive mind. There is a difference of heaven and earth here.

• difficulties　困難
• torture　苦しめる
• correctly　正しく
• effort　努力
• overcome　乗り越える
• positive　積極的な

生かして頂いて　ありがとう御座位ます

I Ka Shi Te I Ta Da I Te  A Ri Ga To U Go Za I Ma SU

Thank you so much for keeping me/us alive.

 

Enlightenment is Living a Life According to Conscience

December 8 is the day when Joudoue（成道会）ceremonies celebrating Buddha’s enlightenment are held around the world. Hearing that Buddha reached enlightenment on that day, you would imagine that he had his consciousness change or saw an invisible world suddenly on the day.

• celebrate　祝う
• enlightenment　悟り
• consciousness　意識
• suddenly　突然

But this is not true. According to my vision of it, he had an indomitable resolve on that day. He thought then “I’ll believe in myself in this world. I’ll follow the dictates of my conscience. I won’t depend on others.” He decided that he’d live his life obeying the dictates of his conscience wholeheartedly like a rhinoceros.

• indominable　不屈の
• resolve　決心
• dictate　命令
• conscience　良心
• wholeheartedly　脇目も振らず
• rhinoceros　サイ

What is the conscience he said about, then? It is consideration for others that everyone has by nature, which is like thinking “If I do this, it will benefit him,” or “If I do this, it will harm others.” Even the most brutal criminals have conscience common to general people. They just don’t follow their conscience. Consideration for others is what the Fundamental Being has shared with humans.

• considerarion　思いやり
• by nature　生まれつき
• benefit　為になる
• harm　害になる
• brutal　残忍な
• common　共通の

Shakuson（釈尊） decided that he would tell people the ways to eliminate people’s distress. He thought that to do this would benefit people in a true sense and that, in order to do this, he’d have to leave everything behind and devote himself to others.

• eliminate　除去する
• distress　悩み
• devote　捧げる

He said that the main cause of people’s distress is attachment. For example, attachment to a loved one causes distress when the loved one is gone. Attachment to property causes distress when you think you might lose it. Attachment to social status or personal appearance causes distress when they’re gone.

• attachment　執着
• property　財産
• personal appearance　容姿

Well, then, what should you do in order not to have attachment to these things? He suggests that people should enjoy those things with gratitude while they have them but at the same time, have the attitude of giving them to others anytime.

• suggest　示唆する
• gratitude　感謝の気持ち
• attitude　考え方
• anytime　いつでも

Strangely, as you live your life, depending on not others but your conscience, you will begin to feel hidden aspects of things. You will begin to understand various things somehow. In a sense, you will begin to feel the spiritual world correctly and see the true essence of things. A broad viewpoint will begin to develop inside yourself. Since the Fundamental Being that created the universe has the same conscience, these phenomena may be natural.

• hidden　隠れた
• aspect　側面
• various　様々な
• correctly　正しく
• viewpoint　視点
• phenomena　現象

You, a human being, will have difficulty acting according to your conscience even if you have decided to do so. But even if you’re disheartened, you can make up your mind every time. Try to live according to your conscience, and you will find the path you’ve walked a straight one, even with small adjustments, as if it were a path rhinoceros has walked.

• have difficulty ~ing　〜するのに苦労する
• dishearten　落胆させる
• every time　毎回
• path　道
• adjestment　修正

生かして頂いて　ありがとう御座位ます

I Ka Shi Te I Ta Da I Te  A Ri Ga To U Go Za I Ma Su

Thank you so much for keeping me/us alive.

Parents’ Faith Influences the Future of their Children

A long time ago, I saw a TV program made in a foreign country. It featured the secret of prodigies with high I.Q. It was a documentary program, where parents whose children were prodigies with more than 150 I.Q. were interviewed and asked to answer questionnaires for the purpose of finding out things in common.

• prodigy　神童
• quextionnaire　アンケート
• common　共通

Though there were nothing in common in the parents’ academic backgrounds or life habits, there was one thing in common among the parents who had children with more than 200 I.Q., an extraordinary number.

• academic background　学歴
• life habit　生活習慣
• extraordinary　並外れた

As young children begin to talk, they learn to ask questions, like “What is it?” ” Why?”  “How come?” etc. All of the parents with such prodigies would often take time to think about the question together with their children without ignoring the question or saying “I’m busy right now! ” or ” I don’t know.”

• learn to~　〜するようになる
• how come　どうして
• together with A　 Aと一緒に
• ignore　無視する

According to a mother in the program, one day she was asked by her four-year-old son “Why is the sky blue?” and not knowing what to say, she looked up the word in an encyclopedia and read him the items related to sky one by one. The son couldn’t understand the technical words, of course. But she kept reading it to him until he lost interest in it and stood up. In the program, she said “I’m a high school graduate, so I did it to study things myself with my son.”

• look up A 　Aを調べる
• encyclopedia　百科事典
• item　記事
• related　関係した
• technical word　専門用語

After graduating from an elementary school, her son skipped a junior and a senior high school and entered a university. His educational expenses were free and he was given living and housing expenses by the government. The other parents with prodigies would also answer their children’s questions as much as they could and think about the questions together with their children.

• graduate　卒業する
• educational expenses　教育費
• government　政府

What I felt after watching the TV program was:

1. Parents need to have great affections for their children.
2. It’s important to develop children’s ability to concentrate by having them bend an ear to what their parents are saying even if it is beyond their understanding and the ability to continue what they are interested in. These will be an important key for success in the academic field.

Doing these simple things would be of great benefit for your children,too.

• affection　愛情
• develp　養う
• concentrate　集中する
• academic field　学業分野

The problem here is whether children can form the habit of keeping listening to their parents’ explanations. Is this disposition innate or acquired? I feel it has something to do with the spiritual magnetism of their family lines.

• habit　習慣
• explanation　説明
• innate　生まれつき
• disposition　気質
• innate　先天的な
• acquired　後天的な
• magnetism　磁気

Watching the eyes of a child who is surrounded by spiritual beings emitting negative magnetism due to the clogging of the spiritual line of his family line, I find that his eyes are always moving from side to side without fixing his eyes on something. Every time a spiritual being comes into and out of his physical body, his mind is reset and his object of interest changes. Such children are very restless. They will have difficulty concentrating on study.

• surrond　取り囲む
• emit　放出する
• clogging　詰まり
• from side to side　左右に
• every time S+V　SがVする度に
• object　対象
• restless　落ち着きがない

If the parents of such children begin to hold grateful memorial services for their ancestral spirits and clean the spiritual lines of their family lines, the children will have stable states of mind.  They will become able to concentrate on study. That is, the correct faith parents have and the memorial services parents hold have great influences on the future of their children.

• grateful　感謝の
• stable　安定した
• correct　正しい
• faith　信仰

Children whose parents have wrong faith are pitiful, for they will suffer from a spiritual handicap. Their efforts won’t be repaid rightly. Though this is due to their own karma, they will have to go through tough times in this World of Reality. How many years and experiences will it take for them to realize this spiritual truth? It’s important to view things from the perspective of conscience so as not to go through bitter experiences.

• pitiful　かわいそうな
• effor　努力
• repaid　報いる
• pitiful  　哀れな
• experience　経験
• perspective　観点
• conscience　良心

生かして頂いて　ありがとう御座位ます

I Ka Shi Te I Ta Da I Te  A Ri Ga To U Go Za I Ma Su

Thank you so much for keeping me/us alive.

The More Spiritual Magnetism of Dead Children Remains, the More Time it Takes for them to Rest in Peace

It is reported that mothers who had their young children or babies die can see their children growing up in their dreams. Spiritually speaking, this is possible. Such mothers can recognize the children appearing in their dreams as theirs by instinct. This phenomenon is related in part to the cause of their deaths.

• report　報告する
• possible　ありえる
• recognize A as B　AをBと認める
• instinct　本能
• phenomenon　現象

In case children die by accident, their life energy remains in this world. Their physical bodies contain life energy given by God which, if they hadn’t died, would have been used. Though their physical bodies are gone, their spiritual energy is extant in this World of Reality. Unless the magnetism of their spiritual bodies is sublimed in this world, their spiritual bodies linger and they can’t rest in peace.

• remain　残る
• contain　含む
• extant　存在している
• sublime　昇華する
• linger　居残る

Strange to say, as long as their spiritual magnetism remains in the World of Reality, their spiritual bodies grow up as if their physical ones grew up normally. This is why bereaved mothers can see their children’s spiritual bodies in their dreams.

• as if S+V　あたかもSがVするかのように
• bereaved　肉親を亡くした

In every family lines, there are a lot of children who failed to be born into this world or died when they were very young. Dating back ten generations, you would see myriad young souls are feeling resentment. So, it’s important to offer gratitude to the whole of such souls related to you without identifying individuals.

• family line　家系
• fail to~  〜することができない
• date back　遡る
• myriad　無数の
• resentment　憤慨
• individual　個人

When the spiritual energy of dead children were given runs out, the development of their spiritual bodies in this world stops. And it depends on grateful memorial services for them whether they can leave this world smoothly or not. The more their spiritual energy the children had before birth is, the more magnetism to be sublimed in this World of Reality remains.

• run out　無くなる
• depend on A　Aしだいである
• magnetism　磁気

Because of this, there are some souls in this world whose spiritual bodies grow up to be the ones of adults. In other words, it takes time for them to rest in peace. There are exceptions, however. If there are many ancestral spirits resting in peace in a family line, souls, with the help of their ancestral spirits, can be lifted up to the spirit world in a short period of time.

• because of A　 Aのために
• in other words　言い換えると
• exception　例外
• lift up A　Aを引き上げる

Holding correct memorial services strongly influences especially the souls of children. Dead children whose spiritual magnetism is huge and lingers in this world would have been very active in society if they hadn’t died. Also, souls of children who died of disease leave almost no spiritual magnetism in this world, which means they had a plan before birth to be born into this world with a limited amount of spiritual energy. Since they have hardly any magnetism to be sublimed in this world, they can leave for the spirit world smoothly. Though their lifetime was very short, they savored their lives in this world on schedule.

• correct　正しい
• influence　影響する
• active　活動的な
• disease　病気
• savor　味わう
• on schedule　予定通りに

Whenever you suddenly remember about your dead child, his/her spiritual body is near you. Remembering him/her itself is a good offering for the child. You must not forget about your dead child as long as you live. You may feel sad, sorry, regret, etc. when you think of your dead child, but be sure to have gratitude to your child at the end. Remembering your dead child repeatedly sublimes his/her magnetism lingering in this world and leads his/her soul to rest in peace.

• suddenly　突然
• apology　謝罪
• be sure to~　必ず〜する
• gratitude　感謝の気持ち

生かして頂いて　ありがとう御座位ます

I Ka Shi Te I Ta Da I Te  A Ri Ga To U Go Za I Ma Su

Thank you so much for keeping me/us alive.

Portraits of the Deceased Cause them to Have Attachment to this World and Miss the Right Timing to Rest in Peace

There is a custom in Japan of putting a picture of a deceased person on the wall of the room where a family Buddhist altar is, but it is no good in fact. It’s better to put it on the wall of the living room, if you insist. Holding memorial services for the whole ancestors does good to the particular deceased person. In the spirit world, it is spirits of ancestors or relatives who take care of new-comers. Pictures of the deceased make the spirits who just died unable to put everything in this world out of their minds, so they’re no good.

• custom　慣習
• deceaced　亡くなった
• family Buddhist altar　仏壇
• insist　言い張る
• particular　特定の

After people die, their ancestral spirits are sure to come for them. So, if you want to console a deceased person who died recently, it’s advisable to hold memorial services for the whole of your ancestors with the use of two incense sticks. After this, by thinking about a particular deceased person, with the use of the third incense stick, you can console him/her as priority. The newcomer to the spirit world would be taken good care of by his/her ancestral spirits.

• come to for A　Aを迎えに来る
• advisable　賢明な
• incense stick　線香
• as priority　優先的に

For example, imagine there are ten ancestral spirits in a room. A newcomer comes into the room, who doesn’t know what to do like a baby because his spiritual body hasn’t adapted to the new surroundings yet. Even if a lot of gifts are sent to the newcomer from the World of Reality, he can’t accept or digest them yet. He needs help from other ancestral spirits. Gifts addressed to him can be accepted by only him. Therefore, gifts should be sent to the room without specifying an individual.

• adapt to A　Aに適応する
• specify　特定する

I know that the family of the deceased want to keep the pictures of the loved one on the wall of the roome where they hold memorial services, but the deceased must go to the next world. As long as there are some articles in this World of Reality that remind them of themselves, they’re strongly detained from leaving this World of Reality.

• as long as S+V　SがVする限り
• article　品物
• remind　思い出させる
• detain　引き止める

The reason that posthumous Buddhist names are given to the deceased is to make them determined to go on new journeys. In this sense, if you understand the true meaning of posthumous Buddhist names, or the importance of making the deceased give up the attachment to this world, you don’t have to pay a lot of money for it. But if you can afford to do it, it’s better to follow the tradition of your family so as not to cause troubles. Since families have their own relationships with Buddhist temples concerning grave yards or religious faith, you’d better not cause friction with others.

• posthumous　死後の
• determined　決意した
• attachment　執着
• relationship　関係
• concerning A　Aに関して
• friction　摩擦

Keeping pictures of the deceased where memorial services are held causes the deceased to have attachment to their antemortem figures and miss the chance to leave this world. Once they miss the chance, it becomes difficult to leave this world and rest in peace. So, the family of the deceased should stop wanting the deceased back and send them off. It’s ideal for the bereaved family to make the deceased leave their antemortem figures and keep on offering gratitude to them without forgetting about them.

• cause A to~　Aが〜する原因となる
• attachment　執着
• antemortem　生前の
• send A off　Aを送り出す

Between 49 days and a year after death, you should put away the pictures of deceased persons. On the anniversary of the deceased person’s death day or the birthday you can take their pictures out. Well, I understand it if you want to keep the pictures of a deceased person on the wall of a room so as not to forget about him/her, but when you look at the pictures, it’s important to have gratitude to the person and a positive mind because your sadness prevents him/her from setting out on a new journey.

• put away A　Aを片付ける
• anniversary　記念日
• so as not to~　〜しないように
• set out　出発する

After all, both human souls and the energy of holy spirits will return to the Sun God, or Parental God. As long as you stick to your burden, or circumstances, in this world, you can’t go back to God. Decisiveness is important in everything.

• after all　結局は
• stick　こだわる
• burden　重荷
• circumstances　境遇
• decisiveness　潔さ

生かして頂いて　ありがとう御座位ます

I Ka Shi Te I Ta Da I Te  A Ri Ga To U Go Za I Ma Su

Thank you so much for keeping me/us alive.

If You Want to Meet Your Loved One Who Has Passed Away, Keep on Sending the Magnetism of Gratitude

Human beings can’t avoid birth, aging, illness and death. Therefore, you cannot avoid parting from a loved one. You know it’s unavoidable, but once you are bereaved of your loved one, you’ll be very upset. You would be anxious to meet your loved one again. But you are not allowed to do it in this World of Reality.

• therefore　それゆえ
• part　別れる
• loved one　愛しい人
• unavoidable    避けることができない
• bereave　奪う
• allow　許す

Well, does the deceased want to meet you? I’m going to explain about this in terms of sun worship. Ancient people thought that human lives were like the movement of the sun. The sun is born in the morning and dies in the evening. The dead sun is born again as the morning sun in the other world, they thought. That is, they felt that, as soon as people die in this world, they would be born as babies in another world. Souls never die. This is spiritually true.

• sun worship　太陽信仰
• ancient　古代の
• movement　動き

Once you die, your soul goes to another dimension according to the level of your soul. It can be said that you are reborn in another world. In the new dimension, you’re not free for some time until you get used to it as if you were a baby. At first you will have difficulty adapting yourself to the new circumstances. You still cannot afford to think about your loved one you left in the World of Reality.

• dimension　次元
• adapt　適応させる
• afford　〜する余裕がある

As you settles down, you’ll come to want to meet the deceased you wanted to while you were alive, such as your parents and relatives. But, unfortunately, the souls who can meet you are only the ones belonging to higher spiritual dimensions than the dimension where you are. The deceased belonging to lower dimensions can’t come to meet you. It is rare but possible that you go down to meet such souls in lower dimensions after you’ve settled down and become free.

• relative　親戚
• belong　属している
• rate　めったにない

The reason why souls of the deceased don’t contact you soon after they die is that they are newborn babies who are confused in another world not knowing what to do. It takes time for souls to settle down in the spirit world. The length of the time differs from soul to soul. Enlightened souls can move freely the instant they lose their physical bodies. But in general, souls will be able to appear in people’s dreams about three years after they died. This length of the time is also different depending on how much their souls can keep calm.

• contact　連絡をとる
• newborn　新生の
• length　長さ
• differ　異なる
• enlightened　悟った
• the instant S+V　SがVするやいなや

The more you continue sending magnetism of sadness to the deceased, wanting to meet him/her again, the more the deceased can’t settle down. That is, the baby’s development stops. This is because the magnetism prevents them to grow up in the spirit world. Also, when the souls of the deceased have attachment to their children or spouses, they are likely to be reluctant to leave the Word of Reality. It’s like they have their hair pulled from behind.

• sadness　悲しみ
• development　発達
• attachment　執着
• reluctant 　したがらない

By throwing away even your name and everything in the World of Reality without hesitation, you can develop faster in the spirit world to become free and realize the meaning and result of your journey to the World of Reality. The appearance your soul takes on then, by the way, is that of your age that you liked the best while you were alive.

• throw away A　Aを捨てる
• hesitation　ためらい
• meaning　意味

If you really meet the deceased at least in your dream, send him/her only gratitude, or the magnetism of gratitude. You must not send the magnetism of sadness or distress because it delays the reunion. Should you commit suicide trying to meet the deceased, it is possible you can never meet him/her forever. Also, if your way of life is such that the deceased would worry about, the deceased will be concerned about you because of love for you, and as a result the development of his/her soul will stop.

• at least　せめて
• distress　苦悩
• delay　遅らせる
• suicide　自殺
• concerned　心配して

If you want to meet your loved one who has passed away, please live to the end of your days doing your best so that you can go to a higher dimension than the one where your loved one is. And it’s important that you keep on sending the magnetism of gratitude to the deceased as long as you live, for it is the best gift for your loved one.

• pass away　亡くなる
• do one’s best　最善を尽くす
• as long as S+V　SがVする限り

生かして頂いて　ありがとう御座位ます

I Ka Shi Te I Ta Da I Te  A Ri Ga To U Go Za I Ma Su

Thank you so much for keeping me/us alive.

Those who can Have Consideration for What is Invisible are Spiritually Virtuous

If you’ve been able to hold memorial services for your ancestors for more than one year, even with a few breaks, I recommend you to set a household shinto altar at your house to enshrine Kamifuda（神札）, a kind of amulet provided by a shinto shrine, in. That you can continue doing it means you have consideration for invisible beings, which is rare and valuable.

• break　休止
• recommend　勧める
• enshrine　祭る
• consideration　思いやり
• invisible　見えない

For example, when you share something with someone in neighborhood, you’re expecting at heart that the person will give you something in return in the future. But when you hold a memorial service or pray to God, you can’t see the object.  Therefore,

●　You can’t be sure if you could make yourself understood.

●　You can’t be sure if your deed is effective or not.

●　You may think what you’re doing is selfish or uselss.

• share　分かち合う
• in return　お返しに
• object　対象
• effective　効果的な

Sometimes you may worry about these. But this is the very reason why your deed is very valuable and admirable. In fact, it’s easy to do something for visible reactions. Anyone can do it. This is nothing but an expedient action for you to receive something in return. You may be able to hold memorial services for a short period of time as an experiment, even with concern about the possibility of their being meaningless, but you couldn’t keep on doing it long without your mercy or kindness. Many of you aren’t aware of your virtue. Some might think you’re able to continue holding memorial services because of your greed. But this is not true. Being able to hold memorial services for your ancestors shows that you’re a righteous person. The continuation is the proof. No one can deny the fact that you hold memorial services continuously.

• admirable　立派な
• expedient　功利的な
• mercy　慈悲心
• virtue　美徳
• greed　欲
• righteous　正しい

Those who only believe in something recognizable or perceivable may think that memorial services for ancestors are nothing but superstition and worthless. Such people are likely to take only expedient actions for themselves in everyday lives. They try to avoid worthless things .

• recognizable　認識できる
• perveivable　知覚できる
• superstition　迷信

More often than not, however, you are not aware that you’re taken care of by someone without knowing it nor that you’re annoying someone. Those who can’t care about what they’re not aware of will miss the chance to be happy or, even if their dreams come true, they will lose something important in exchange. This is a law of the universe.

• more often than not　しばしば
• annoy　悩ませる
• in exchange　交換に

Those who can take care of what is invisible and hiding are spiritually virtuous. They can’t see nor understand God. They can’t be sure of how effective their memorial services for ancestral spirits are, but still they hold memorial services and express their gratitude to God just because they are grateful for having been kept alive. What matters is this kind of attitude. Those who can practice holding memorial services for their ancestors are those who can be considerate of others in the real world, too. They are kind at heart.

• virtuous　徳のある
• graitude　感謝の気持ち
• grateful 　感謝して
• attitude　考え方
• considerate　思いやりのある

Many self-claimed professionals assert that since ancestral spirits have no power, worshipping gods is the most important. The true God would avoid such people who abandon the weak, their ancestral spirits, and try to make approaches to God, saying “God, please,” for they believe in the logic of the strong like animals. Their attitude is the proof that they’re not connected with the true God. God will approach on its own those who try to help the weak.

• assert　主張する
• the logic of the strong　強者の論理
• connect　繋げる

生かして頂いて　ありがとう御座位ます

I Ka Shi Te I Ta Da I Te  A Ri Ga To U Go Za I Ma Su

Thank you so much for keeping me/us alive.