I work for a hospital as a head nurse. Two years ago, I made a speech at the Kensho-Kai Monthly meeting about the death of my colleague Ms. Kanashiro.
She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer when she was 36 years old. This made her very sad because she was dreaming about having babies in the future.
Ms. Kanashiro had surgery to remove her uterus. This method lowered the risk for recurrence. I told her about Nichiren Daishonin’s Buppo and that Namyo- Ho-Ren Ge-Kyo- is the medicine for all of us to gain unbreakable happiness, but she refused to listen.
In February 2016, the cancer returned, and Ms. Kanashiro was hospitalized. In June, excess fluid was accumulating in her body. I told her again about Namyo-Ho-Ren Ge-Kyo, but she did not want to hear it.
When the cancer spread throughout her body, she realized that death was a reality, Ms. Kanashiro kept calling me in the middle of the night and asked me to chant Namyo-Ho-Ren Ge-Kyo- to calm her down. I told her about Buppo again. I explained that our soul is equal to the universe, and Nichiren Daishonin Buddha named this “Namyo-Ho-Ren Ge-Kyo-“.
By chanting Namyo-Ho-Ren Ge-Kyo- you are connecting with the Universe, and creating good luck. You are also offsetting bad Karma from your past life. Ms.Kanashiro listened quietly and wanted to start chanting with me! It was August 21st, 2016, and we had a Nyushin Gongyo ceremony (initial prayer with Gohonzon Sama (Nichiren Daishonin Buddha’s soul written in ink that he left to all mankind to obtain Unbreakable happiness) in the hospital room.
Ms. Kanashiro started chanting Namyo-Ho-Ren Ge-Kyo- every day until she died 11 days later. During those 11 days, her appetite returned and she was able to eat. She had not been able to eat at all for several days before that! She was so excited about this and shared Namyo-Ho-Ren Ge-Kyo– with her mother.
When she passed away, her dark skin turned to white, and when I wiped down her body, I was surprised that her hands were so soft!
There was a letter left for me from Ms. Kanashiro. It read:
“Although I was scared of death and was in a situation where I could not sleep because of the pain, by chanting Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo- with you, I was encouraged and became less afraid. I wish I could go to the Kensho-Kai hall with you and share Nichiren Daishonin’s Buppo with others.
Thank you for not giving up on me, and thank you for guiding me to Gohonzon Sama.”
One of the nurses told me what happened to Ms. Kanashiro the night before she died. The nurse saw Ms. Kanashiro trying desperately to hold her prayer beads, so she gently helped Ms. Kanashiro hold them and the prayer book. Then she started chanting in a weak voice. The nurse was amazed that Ms. Kanashiro was sincerely devoted in spite of her condition.
I have seen many patients on their deathbed and most of them were writhing in agony, and some became mentally disoriented due to cancer spreading to the brain. After their death, there were wrinkles between their eyebrows from the suffering. They died with their eyes and mouth wide open, and there were purple bruises on their bodies as well.
However, after Ms. Kaneshiro’s death, there were no bruises on her body at all.
It is the same phase that’s described in the Lotus Sutra;
Nichiren Daishonin says:
“When people who gain unbreakable happiness (Jobutsu) dies, their body becomes very light, softens and brightens.”
I was saddened by her death, but at the same time I was really touched that Ms. Kanashiro obtained Jobutsu and was thankful for this moment to see the proof! Also the nursing manager who was with me at the time was also surprised by the appearance of Ms. Kanashiro’s body.
Recently, I had a chance to hear the rest of the story from Ms. Kanashiro’s family and it gave me goose bumps! Her mom received a phone call from The Medical University and was told that their daughter volunteered to donate her body for medical research.
This program requires one to register while they’re alive and they must agree to provide their body unconditionally without compensation. After giving a body away for dissection, it will not come back for about 3 years.
The news from the University was a shock to her family. They refused to give away their daughter’s body but decided to respect her wishes.
In less than a year, The Medical University contacted them and asked them to pick up her body. When Ms. Kanashiro’s parents saw their daughter, her body was in its original condition.
Normally, corpses are preserved in formaldehyde, but Ms. Kanashiro’s body was preserved with a freezing method which requires cost and labor and on top of that, she had not been dissected at all!
The University told the family that her body looked like a living person and that made them nervous. Their hands trembled and none of the students or professors were able to dissect her. Also after the MRI screening, her cancerous tumors were gone!
To clarify this, the doctor showed the family her previous images with the Cancer.
Ms. Kanashiro’s mother was surprised to see her daughter in such a beautiful state! She thought she was coming to pick up her ashes.
I found out that some of the students who had attended and seen Ms. Kanashiro’s corpse, wrote a graduation thesis. This blew my mind and I could not move while I read it.
This is what the students wrote about Ms. Kanashiro’s body in their graduation thesis:
One student wrote:
“During the Anatomy class, I learned that there was a corpse that no one was able to put a scalpel to. This woman died from terminal cancer. Surprisingly, there was no cancer to be found in the MRI images that were taken after her death. During the class a professor told us that her body died and so did the cancer. Then why can we see cancer in other corpse’s images? It does not make any sense! Again, I would like to believe that the cancer disappeared, and healed. We were given the opportunity to see this phenomenon with this corpse. That is an undeniable reality.”
Another student wrote:
“This corpse is obviously different from the others that are preserved in formaldehyde. It seems like she still has life in her. When I was about to cut her with the scalpel, my hands started shaking and I dropped it on the floor. So did the other students and doctors. She did not look like a terminal cancer patient and what a bright and beautiful corpse she was. This is what [Becoming Buddha] looks like? As students pursuing a career as a doctor, how can we explain this mysterious event? Would the medical research give us an answer?”
And another student wrote:
In Anatomy class, there was a corpse that nobody dissected that was pure white. I was confident that I could do it but I couldn’t. Even though a considerable number of months have passed, why is this corpse still so beautiful? She did not look like the other dead bodies.
After the lecture, I had the opportunity to speak with the doctor about it. Her doctor told me that “My patient had faith and despite her terminal cancer, she did not take any drugs for pain. She was eating meals and chanting until the last moment. On the piece of paper that she showed me, Jobutsu was mentioned, and the same phenomenon appeared in her body. I cannot explain this”.
In the future, I would like to prove what Jobutsu is in the medical field.
Asai sensei commented on the speech at the November monthly meeting. The death of Kensho-Kai members are being talked about in the medical community.
When the time comes, many doctors will say “As per Nichiren Daishonin Buddha, there is good and bad when you are on your deathbed. We don’t know why, but this phenomenon cannot be denied.”
Through this case, I was shown how powerful Gohonzon Sama (Nichiren Daishonin’s soul written in ink) is. It will help us to achieve Buddhahood.
No one can deny this proof. I want to teach people how powerful Buppo is and turn their lives around. I want to show them what real unbreakable happiness is!
Thank you,
Nozomi Minamizono
From 2/5/2018 Kensho-Kai Newspaper
Unbreakable Happiness 