results of what that does to you.
2025-09-24 15:13
00:00:04
This is extremely exciting, because it shows to me that the idea of reconciliation within the Reiki community has been on your mind
– also with you having been involved and that you actually got involved to the point
that you had Bert Hellinger personally make the constellation.
everybody was fighting in the Reiki community. And I wanted to understand what's going on.
2025-09-24 11:28
00:00:35
I put all my heart, all my love into it and fairly recently I realized that I can’t do it anymore and I want to reset.
Like the way you reset an electronic instrument. So ‚reset to factory settings‘.
Start new. Erase the disk. Start new. I'm tired. I don't want all this old stuff anymore. I want to be present.
I want to pay more attention to here, to now, to my unravelling, my development, my deepening my human experience.
And I had the feeling that I can do that only if I stop my job as the Vice Representative of the Jikiden Reiki Institute
2025-09-24 11:42
00:01:31
I went back. Instead of bringing my brother, I come back in red clothes with the wearing a picture of the Indian guru,
2025-09-24 22:40
00:01:42
So we started to teach, and as I said, my first student was my former wife.
2025-09-26 11:59
00:01:49
So that's it.
2025-09-24 11:37
00:01:51
'No, that's not my style. I came to a decision and I'm throwing myself to a degree into the unknown.'
So you're right. My style is I usually take the second step before the first.
And then, okay, sometimes when you do that you fall.
It's kind of natural. But I like that.
2025-09-24 13:14
00:02:16
So I started to doubt what I had learned from my brother.
2025-08-22 16:18
00:02:22
When I left, he said to me, 'So how are you? What have you done?' I said, 'Oh, I've done intensive enlightenment and some other
groups similar to that, with some bio-energetics and things.' He said, 'Good. When are you coming back?'
2025-10-26 13:25
00:02:41
So, I’m looking at him, I go, ‚I don’t know‘ and he starts to smile and he says, ‚Don’t worry, I’m back at the right time.‘
2025-09-24 20:54
00:02:53
It's dishonest to me. My name is 'honesty'.
Let me be frank with you. Honest.
2025-09-21 07:14
00:03:01
More of that later, because I met him.
2025-09-26 13:21
00:03:04
Because I've always seen myself as the link between East and West.
And it's a lot to carry.
2025-09-24 11:26
00:03:13
Because later – tomorrow, day after tomorrow – we’ll speak about Tokyo Yokoi, this new book.
2025-08-28 08:07
00:03:24
They may be purely personal matters within the family they've had.
2025-08-28 08:02
00:03:29
'What's going to happen now?' But I trust and I know that you can't escape from your destiny.
You can't avoid it.
It will catch up with you anyhow.
2025-09-21 07:20
00:03:44
What is to happen will unfold and we'll see
and we will just be here and watch it unfold.
2025-09-21 07:24
00:03:56
From '98.
From '98. Okay.
And how did ...?
2025-08-30 10:52
00:04:02
If people should ask me personally to tell them in one word what I think, I consider my calling
in life or in the sound incarnation is, I would probably say initiator, not teacher but initiator.
2025-09-21 07:32
00:04:23
In other words, there are some out there who continue to teach in your Raj heritance, let's call it.
And ...
I believe amongst them there were some Reiki teachers who had quite a lot of presence in the Reiki community, who were very successful.
Yeah.
You care to name them or ...?
Well, one time, this is now a '99, Hiroshi Doi was giving a workshop for, I think it was only for teachers in Vancouver, in Canada.
And I was ... I had planned at the time to visit old friends in Seattle, so I thought, since I'm very close,
I might as well go there and see what he's teaching, what he has to do.
I went there and joined the workshop and then at some point, somebody in the group said,
'Oh, please sensei, show us how to do an initiation.'
And ... I think, if I remember correctly, all the participants were all teachers of different linages.
And I saw him sitting there, he had his microphone and he went ... (mumbling in Japanese)
It means, (mumble) 'That's a problem.'
Something he mumbled, but I heard it.
And I know to read the body language of Japanese people who don't want to do something.
But the audience was all North Americans, they didn't know.
Again, he was going, 'Arghhh.'
And again, somebody else said, 'Yes, please.' And before you knew it, you had all the people cheering, 'Yes, yes, yes ... !'
So he couldn't say, no.
And then he showed some attunement process and I'm sitting there thinking, 'Oh my God, this is just what I learned from my brother.'
So, Hiroshi Doi was one of your early students then?
No, he was one of ... a student of ... one of my students' student.
So I'm his grandfather.
In that lineage!
I understand.
I don't know what he has done meanwhile, but I know some of the things he has done.
Meanwhile, for example, he became a member of the Usui Association.
Yes.
And received reiju or initiation from them, but he was not a teacher in that.
But he may have done other teacher trainings - I did too - with other people.
So, he must be teaching something that's perfectly wonderful.
2025-08-30 11:55
00:07:33
It sounds a bit corny maybe. The only thing I care about is the love in my heart.
Everything else is insubstantial. You come and you go empty handed.
You don't take your money, you don't take your wealth, your power, your fame, your ...
I don't care about any of those things, but I care about this,
what is going on inside that expansiveness in the heart.
2025-09-21 07:35
00:08:03
Ahh… This is a whole new chapter. I think we better do this a little bit later.
2025-08-30 10:18
00:08:10
And we are going like, 'Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai, what is that?'
'Who is that?'
And he said, 'Well, that's an association that Usui-sensei founded, and he was the first president of it.'
We're going, 'Ha ... ?! There is such a place, and there are people in it?'
'Yeah, yeah!'
He said, 'And my relative is one of the teachers.'
'If you want, we can organize a meeting with him, but if you want to see him ... (Kozo Ogawa)', he said,
2025-08-28 14:43
00:08:49
I went back home to Germany, but before ... I go back.
2025-09-24 22:28
00:08:54
I’m sitting there thinking, ‚Whoa! I learned the wrong thing. How do I deal with this?‘
So the Usui Association probably is not going to take me in. For sure not.
And then very soon we found out that they had rules, very strict rules.
One of the rules was, if you make your money with Reiki you cannot be a member.
Is this is still today a rule?
It's still a rule today. So that rules me out.
Even if I wanted to become a member, I cannot. Plus:
when you become a member and you are a teacher - if they teach you the upper levels -
then you can teach only in the Association, not outside.
And I cannot do neither the first nor the second, so I can never be a member of that.
2025-08-29 08:14
00:09:50
He called it Rajneesh Neo-Sannyas. 'Sannyasin' is a recluse in India, somebody who is on the path of enlightenment to leave society behind and
2025-09-24 22:28
00:10:06
for finding out who he is and then to share that with others.
2025-09-24 22:28
00:10:13
No, no, no! We don't pretend anything.
Pretension hasn't helped anybody. We look at the things as they are.
2025-09-21 07:40
00:10:23
But I’m not a position. I’m just a human, just like anybody else.
2025-09-17 17:50
00:10:30
I'm standing there going like, 'Huh?'
You know, we could have just had a nice chat.
2025-11-03 21:23
00:10:39
With a lot of authenticity.
2025-09-17 17:50
00:10:42
Generally in a reconciliation process, people tend to not wanting to look at the transgression, rather move on to ‘let’s forget it’ (and thus they just gloss the injustice over). This is true in the Reiki community, too and is one of the resistances against my work when I insist on looking at the past. Thus, my quote in ‘A02 Mission Statement’: “We want to be cautious not to tear up old wounds. At the same time, we do not want to gloss over wrongdoings of the past.” I found an interesting quote from George Santayana (Spanish Philosopher, 1863-1952) which is also on the memorial plaque in Auschwitz): “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
This also ties in with Arjava’s exclamation “can’t we learn!?” in context with his pacifism, his father’s war trauma.
2025-08-15 16:19
00:11:02
We want to shed light, we, the two of us, want to shed light on the past
in order to nourish the reconciliation process in the here and now
to liberate future generations from blemishes of the past,
We are committed to honouring, even celebrating individual uniqueness
2025-09-21 10:33
00:11:24
We want to be cautious not to tear up old wounds.
At the same time, we do not want to gloss over wrongdoings of the past.
It is a bit of a tightrope at times.
2025-09-24 14:44
00:11:39
The values my parents instilled upon ... well, at least upon me - I don't know about my brother -
2025-08-05 07:23
00:11:48
He is around. He is somewhere in Berlin. I don't have much contact with him.
2025-08-05 07:23
00:11:55
So, this was my last adventure in school.
So, as I told you earlier, I was kicked out of high school because I wasn't cooperating,
I wasn't doing anything, I was so lazy, cannot imagine.
And the reason for that really is that I've never learned to do something that
I don't like to do and to do something that I don't see the purpose of.
And in my adult life that's been very helpful. Fantastic.
2025-09-24 15:34
00:12:34
Please, I asked a question before addressing like finances, are you actually benefiting from the situation?
And I know there are a lot of people out there with many question-marks. Answer some of them.
Okay.
2025-10-29 12:07
00:12:52
As I told you, my basic longing is for harmony deep inside.
The confrontations that I cause ... I guess it's on the other side of the same spectrum.
So one end you have the irritation. On the other you have the harmony. It's still the same thing.
2025-08-31 15:17
00:13:21
The time I grew up in Germany there was lots of police presence. It was not a nice place to be.
I remember there was a politician from the Liberal Party that lived kind of close to where I grew up
and they had frequent police, what you call it, patrolling the streets and
several times they put us against my own garage, like this with the machine gun in the back and frisking us and all that.
And I thought, all I want is to get out of here. As far away as possible. I don't like this place.
2025-09-24 15:36
00:14:04
For me, I said it earlier, Reiki is Reiki is Reiki. It doesn't have a label.
There cannot be a Reiki that is better.
There cannot be a Reiki that is inferior.
2025-08-31 15:17
00:14:21
This is some kind of charisma. So okay, but still, what it is that pisses people off, that irritates them I really don't know. I can't say.
2025-09-29 08:53
00:14:32
I was hoping the relationship would last forever. It didn't.
2025-09-02 16:28
00:14:38
Very soon afterwards I was given a book by one of Toshitaka Mochizuki's students, Aoki Sensei, also from my lineage somehow.
In it he had an interview with one of Hayashi Sensei's students
which turned out to be Chiyoko Yamaguchi. But her name was not mentioned.
So, the first person I called when I read the book was Toshitaka Mochizuki. He said,
‚I don’t know who it is but I know Hiroshi Doi knows it. Why don’t you call him and ask him? He knows who that is.
2025-10-27 13:53
00:15:20
So, instead of running away I ended up in hospital. And then started to read.
The literature at the time was Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings. We're in 1976 now.
Yes, correct.
And Carlos Castaneda and this kind of things. And I started to think.
Started to exercise not only my legs and my lungs from smoking, but started to exercise my brain and my heart.
And I thought, oh wow!
This was the first encounter ...
2025-09-24 15:41
00:16:00
I think that the healing is very difficult, reconciliation is very difficult, if a victim doesn't accept the fact that in that(!) incident
I was being victimized, there was injustice done to me, my father beat me or did worse.
And healing very often includes that first step. In fact, I call this the 'heroism of the victim'.
2025-08-31 08:50
00:16:27
My impression was that ...
your appearance opened for the Yamaguchis their vision to the possibility that there is a huge audience out there in the world.
I communicated that to them.
I don’t know if it had that impact, like you say, but I communicated that to them and I said to … the first time when I met Chiyoko Sensei,
2025-09-02 06:39
00:16:56
In fact, one of the questions further down in my catalogue was: Tadao has a successor, his son. He's already nominated. You...
Has he? I don't know.
Is that not right?
It's a suspicion that is around, but I don't think anything has been publicly declared.
No, it would be normal. It would be the normal course of events. I would expect that.
Particularly if we are thinking of an institute, of an organisation, of an enterprise, which is being handed down
over generations, yes, I agree. If we are thinking of a spiritual leader, or something like that, then it's a different matter.
But that's a rabbit hole I don't intend to go down.
No, better not.
But the question I had actually is: okay, if Tadao has a successor, you were the Vice President of the… Who is your successor?
Yes, I don’t know.
You know, basically Japanese people are not very transparent. You may have noticed that.
So, there are many things I don't know. Even though I seem to be close.
But there are many things I don't know. Many things are not talked about.
They are not up for discussion.
2025-09-29 15:30
00:18:28
This is something many of us - me included, I have an opinion on that - are not necessarily supporting.
2025-10-28 13:10
00:18:38
Then, of course, it's always been women who got me into trouble in my life, always.
It's their fault. Nothing to do with me.
2025-09-24 15:58
00:18:53
So, because I don't see myself as a guru, I have a 'guru' t-shirt.
I wear it mostly, almost exclusively at home, just to give myself the illusion that I have something to say there.
Just kidding.
2025-09-07 18:47
00:19:13
One of the things that often leads to conflict in something like Reiki, in an association or in a group of people,
is when the founding fathers are not seen. We don't have that problem. We have them.
They are always here with us. Usui sensei. Hayashi sensei - always present, being filmed with us.
So I don't think there's a problem really. It's just really ego stuff.
That ego stuff we are going to have to look at and solve.
We cannot give the responsibility to somewhere in the past. We are making that. We are creating that.
And we therefore can also mend it again.
Can solve it. Exactly!
2025-09-03 08:31
00:20:14
So, I'm back there. I still go to the farming, now all in red clothes and the farmer is thinking,
'What the banana is wrong with this guy? Why is he wearing only red clothes?'
And then after about ...
September, 5 months or so, I'm waking up in the middle of the night, laying on my back, I never sleep on my back, I always
sleep on my right side, I wake up, I feel this very strong presence in the room, I think, 'What in the world is this?'
I open my eyes and I see Bhagwan sitting in a big chair,
kind of like this, that he looks at me, he says, 'Come back immediately.'
And then I went back to sleep. In the morning, I called the farmer, I said,
'I'm so sorry, I love you, I love your work ... but I can't anymore. I have to do something.'
Very quick. Boom, like that. My parents were like ... (astonishment),
because I loved it. So it was the first time I stopped doing something that I loved.
Now is the second time.
2025-09-25 13:53
00:21:42
So I was not the one who discovered Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai. That was Mitsui sensei.
Actually it wasn't only her, but we know that Takata sensei was in touch with the Hayashi Reiki Institute until the mid-50s.
We know that. So, I was by no means the first one who came across it.
I was just the first who talked about it. That was all.
2025-09-02 07:39
00:22:14
And I learned that from her, how to do traditional style treatments.
2025-09-29 17:56
00:22:21
This for me was fantastic. This is what I wanted.
2025-09-29 17:56
00:22:25
There was, of course, Arjava, the moment in, I think, 2017 when you were quite ... public.
When you released very controversial statements. I'm not even wanting to go so much - unless you want to delve into it - into the content.
But it certainly polarized a lot of reactions.
And I think it was involved ... or it may have caused even a development which ended in a, I believe, even legal stalemate
between the Yamaguchis and the Hyakuten Inamoto.
Can you share how you feel today about it and how can we share something with our audience to mend this?
2025-09-06 17:22
00:23:29
How can this conflict between these two parties, how can it be resolved?
Can be resolved by them talking to each other.
2025-09-06 17:22
00:23:40
So if people don't talk to each other and if they don't work things out between each other, there is nothing we can do.
2025-10-04 13:48
00:23:49
So now we come to reconciliation again, our subject.
2025-10-04 14:17
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And Chiyoko sensei used to say in their dialect in Ishikawa, where she was from, they didn't use to say,
'I give you Reiki or I do Reiki, but I switch on the Reiki.'
Like the light. She always said, this is like a light switch and the way it goes is on-off, like that.
It doesn’t really matter where you turn the light on. Whether you use this switch or this switch or that or this.
You put your hand on it and boom!
So, self-treatments obviously are important.
But: essentially, Reiki is compassion in action, is for you to share your blessings with others.
That's the traditional way of looking at it. It is not for you.
Now, why is it not for you? Because in the Buddhist way of looking at things, there is no separate self. It is an illusion.
And why should we encourage and strengthen that thing that doesn't exist?
The 'me! me! me! me! me! me!' This has to go!
It must go.
You must destroy it.
You must demolish that completely.
That egocentric thinking.
Don't support it. Cut it.
So, the illusion really is which has to go? The illusion of separateness?
The illusion has to go. You have to wake up from that dream.
You wake up by not supporting it.
By not taking more sleeping pills.
But wake up, shake up!
It's refreshing listening to you even to the point that Mrs. Yamaguchi was saying 'on-off', as you just demonstrated.
Of course, Hawayo Takata exactly used the same physical explanation and illustration and even the same words 'on-off'.
She used the same words, I heard from some of her students. I don’t remember who it was.
They said to me, 'Oh, Takata used to say the same thing.'
Yeah, yeah.
Exactly. But they had the same teacher, what do you expect?
And I think we're well advised to bear that in our awareness that, like you keep on emphasizing, at the end of the day there is
one source and there may be different ways of interpreting, presenting, teaching it, translating it into practices.
But at the end of the day, we are doing the same thing.
2025-09-02 14:18
00:26:49
I refused to go to the army.
I won, I went there all in a red robe wearing Osho's picture, saying,
'I don't want to go to the army, my master, my spiritual master is Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
He is against soldiers, he's against army. Here are all these books where he talks about this and that.'
2025-09-25 13:58
00:27:13
'What do you do when you meditate?'
Somebody of the secretaries before my court case, had told me that the main judge was deaf,
was a little deaf. So he said, 'You have to speak up!'
So when he asked me, 'What do you do when you meditate?' I screamed at him:
'NOTHING!'
2025-09-25 21:28
00:27:35
And then he asked me, 'What does your dad say about that?'
2025-09-25 13:30
00:27:40
When I asked about the dichotomy between Western Reiki styles and Japanese, or traditional as you call it, Reiki styles,
and you longing for a haven, and this longing was a fuel for the success of Jikiden,
Because … The follow-up question I have to that was, how far – unconsciously – was there the possibility of a …
a hidden … not a hidden agenda but a motive, a motivation for you to keep up the dichotomy between the two worlds,
because that field of tension was actually like a fuel, like an energy field from whence the success of Jikiden came out of?
Not at all. Not at all.
I always had that desire to bridge the two. Look in my personal life, same.
2025-10-29 09:01
00:28:51
And he said, 'No, no, it's okay. You can go out and we'll call you back in.'
I didn't even make it to the door, they said,
'Okay, okay, okay, we really don't want you,
2025-09-25 21:33
00:29:05
I feel it takes courage to be an optimist.
I see you nod. Please, please let me have your thoughts.
The basic trust in the benevolence of existence.
I have that. I've had that since I was a child.
2025-09-03 07:54
00:29:22
So, in this way, I totally agree with what you say. I'm optimistic.
2025-09-29 19:01
00:29:28
We'll see.
2025-09-29 19:01
00:29:29
I'll be right ... like Arnold Schwarzenegger, you know? 'I'll be back.'
I'm in no rush. Not at all. I love it here. I really enjoy it. Okay, all the struggles and ...
It's never boring. It's always ... We always have some project, some fun, some excitement, something changing. Nothing is ever boring.
2025-09-03 07:50
00:29:53
I was just thinking, how do you feel today when you reflect ...
you saw this relatively young man turning in a circle looking for his mission or for his calling, for his purpose.
And the day before yesterday you told me you resigned from your position, so in a way there's the reset thing.
So, looking back, have you fulfilled your mission, do you think?
2025-09-05 08:38
00:30:24
So, I went to Frankfurt from Düsseldorf and I remember standing at the passport control thinking,
'Oh man, I hope they're letting me out, I hope they don't know
that I'm supposed to do my social work, that they're not connected. I hope they let me go, they let me go.'
So, I was a bit shaky.
And then the guy looked at me and went: 'Out'.
So I'm in Czechoslovakia.
Only in red with this picture of Bhagwan and I took the subway somewhere and one lady sitting next to me,
she says, 'Oh, is that Karl Marx?'
(laughter)
They both have beards.
2025-09-25 21:43
00:31:11
I don't think you can ever not fulfil your mission.
2025-10-01 22:12
00:31:17
I'm not really concerned either. And I have no idea what I'm going to do.
And I'm not really concerned with that either.
2025-09-29 19:52
00:31:27
But this is, I think, the most important ability to nourish, to develop in your life,
to always reflect back, go back in and open your heart as much as possible.
2025-10-05 14:07
00:31:42
Can I do an apprenticeship with you?'
He looked at me and said, 'You know what? Do a conventional farming apprenticeship first.'
'Then you know why you shouldn't do that.'
2025-09-24 17:43
00:31:59
Gone! I had escaped.
I went there really thinking that I am never going to come back,
I'm going to stay here for the rest of my life with Bhagwan
trying to figure out who I am.
2025-09-25 21:47
00:32:17
So, as far as that is concerned, I could die now and in my last moment think, 'Thank you.'
I've done something good with my life.
I can go easily.
But I'm not planning that.
2025-09-29 17:30
00:32:33
I wonder whether you know the people on the picture.
2025-10-04 13:47
00:32:36
Some of them I know, yes, of course.
Some of them. The only one that I've met is of course, Doi sensei.
And we have Phyllis with her wife, Joyce.
Her I don't know.
And we have Hyakuten Inamoto at the back.
And this is a German gentleman, a scholar.
I don't know him.
Olaf Böhm, his name is.
2025-10-04 13:51
00:33:10
And the Vipassana retreat was to be my last 10 days of sitting, 16 hours a day.
Boy, was it beautiful, I loved it!
It was the closest I got to be in a monk that I ever got to.
But it was only close because Poona was a place where any button that could be pushed in you would be pushed.
Any situation was used to get you out of your comfort zone, to freak you out, to get ...
One of the first things was: the bathrooms were not for men and women, they were for everybody.
2025-09-25 22:02
00:33:58
He's a serious historian.
2025-10-04 13:47
00:34:03
I'd love to see such a picture and have Tadao Yamaguchi on the picture as well.
2025-09-06 17:20
00:34:10
The repetition of what I sense happens in Japan amongst Japanese Reiki teachers. It is like a repetition
of what happened almost in the 90s in the West.
2025-09-06 17:23
00:34:24
And part of the conflict, I am sure, is this: jealousy. Part of it.
But I'm also sure that not all of it is that.
2025-10-04 14:06
00:34:36
It's never just one is right and the other is wrong. There is no such thing.
2025-10-04 13:48
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Include the previous 2 captions (un-highlighted): "Also, it’s not our responsibility to do. It’s their responsibility to do. And if they don’t do it …"? I’m not entirely sure whether that argument I can accept, because it affects all of us.
To any culture, association who says, ‚This is our internal matter, leave us alone. You don’t understand anyhow‘, I say,
'Well, careful! You're integrated into a bigger self.' Particularly if you teach internationally in this case. You interact with others.
And also when you at the same time teach inclusiveness or non-separation, I mean, there's a lot of contradiction there.
That's why I'm saying, it's all too easy to say, 'Well, it's theirs.'
But maybe that's only a nuance because what I hear more importantly than my own nuance here is
that you're saying it would be good if people spoke with each other.
2025-09-06 17:21
00:35:41
No, I’ve learned this in my life that when people have conflicts with each other, I leave it respectfully with them.
They are to take care of it. And if they do, great [Gassho], nice, good job.
And if they don't, that's too bad.
But what to do?
But don't take those conflicts onto yourself.
2025-10-04 14:15
00:36:12
So if I have a friend whom you don't like, that's fine. If I have an enemy whom you like, that's fine.
2025-10-04 13:48
00:36:23
What people often overlook in a reconciliation process is, forgiving doesn't mean forgetting.
And ...
If I forgive, it doesn't mean I agree.
2025-09-07 08:27
00:36:36
There are no highlights in this video. Arjava's dedication to refuse the army and to do civil service is shown and he says some critical words about Sheela - Osho's most controversial secretary.
2025-08-17 16:11
00:36:36
So, from being fired at the main gate I went straight into Osho's compound.
And then went sitting sometimes in front of his door, in front of his window, at the gate to his house.
So that's the bodyguard job.
That was the bodyguard job. And we were also supposedly guarding him during the discourses.
2025-09-26 08:37
00:37:02
Let's say the only two left on planet Earth, what you're going to do, you're going to fight? Are you stupid?
So the two of you left, you're going to fight with them?
You've got to be joking. So think of it like that.
2025-10-04 14:47
00:37:19
So, people like us who work together in this very specific field, we all have stuff together that we need to work out maybe from the past.
The best thing is to work it out. Otherwise, you have to do it next time.
There's no escape.
So better to do it now.
2025-09-07 08:26
00:37:44
Ok, the essence. What is his essence? Maybe the easiest way to say is: Be here now - be present.
Don't act out of your past conditioning.
2025-09-26 10:22
00:37:57
We always think that we have free will and that we are acting out of the now but really,
why are you not putting your hands on the hot stove? It's not your freedom of choice. It's because you've experienced it,
So you're acting out of the past all the time.
2025-09-26 10:23
00:38:20
The mind that is ... The heart-mind that is in the present moment. And this is what Osho tried to teach us and this is what Reiki is for me.
This learning to keep the mind in the present, not to let it slip into the past or into the future. It's everywhere.
2025-09-26 10:25
00:38:43
You just want to share that. For me Reiki is that.
It is not about creating a big movement or making lots of money or having lots of students or becoming famous.
None of that has any substance. But the thing is,
Usui sensei's method comes out of enlightenment and leads to enlightenment.
That's the purpose. Otherwise we're wasting our time.
If it's just about curing a headache, take an aspirin!
It's not about that.
You can use also Reiki to help you with that. But that's maybe not the foremost purpose of the idea.
This is a side effect. Wonderful, fantastic!
Our kids grew up with 99.9% just hands on healing. It's wonderful.
But the real thing is what is happening to you.
How can you be yourself? This is what Reiki is to me.
And this is what Osho was trying to do with us.
And this is what any spiritual teacher who is worth their name wants to do ... wants to show you yourself ...
wants to put the mirror in front of you so you can see yourself.
Everything else is a waste of time.
2025-08-22 15:48
00:40:21
It was great fun, but Chetna wanted to go and start her own school in Japan.
And I thought, 'Okay, let's go to Japan, start the school. I will help her and then I will do my own thing.'
I wasn't sure what that 'own thing' was going to be.
2025-08-22 15:55
00:40:41
What I didn't understand then is that when you get touched with Reiki, somehow it touches your soul.
... it tickles. It tickles your soul.
Once your soul is tickled, you can't forget it.
2025-09-26 10:57
00:41:02
Nothing highlighted. Comment: Content (intimate relationship between teacher and student) might be promo-material for archive videos.
2025-08-22 16:37
00:41:02
This is anecdotal, very entertaining, historically important (Arjava meets the President of the Gakkai without realising who she was and getting the crucial info about the grave). Maybe for promo-material …
2025-08-24 08:41
00:41:02
So the door that had opened to the traditional Reiki closed as easily as it had opened. And then I found myself thinking, 'Okay, what now?
2025-09-01 07:44
00:41:22
So we're going to the school and suddenly I see a white Toyota van with big letters: R, E, I, K, I.
My heart goes trrrr! And I'm thinking in my mind, 'Oh my God, finally I got it.'
2025-09-26 12:52
00:41:41
So after that, it was kind of a key experience for me. I said, 'Okay, I give up.'
Enough! I stop.
I stop looking for it. I can't find anything.
I had looked in the phone book in Sapporo. We had six pages of Usuis.
In Tokyo, they had 30 pages in the phone book of Usuis! What you're going to do, call them all?
Impossible.
2025-09-26 12:53
00:42:13
'If you promise me that you don't tell where you got the number, I will give it to you.'
2025-09-26 12:26
00:42:22
'Okay, Usui sensei was born 1865, August 15th in Gifu Prefecture. He was married, had two kids.
He had a life of many ups and downs, big success, big failure. He was very warm-hearted. He was a good speaker.
People loved to listen to him. People used to hang on to his clothes when he was talking. Because he can't ... '
2025-09-26 12:54
00:42:50
And that he was very funny, that his students were laughing all the time.
2025-09-26 12:26
00:42:54
And in the tape that Takata sensei talked about the history, she also says that all the practitioners of Reiki in Japan died in World War II.
There's nobody left. So, now we found at least the single one surviving member.
This Mrs. Koyama, whoever she was.
But she had given us ... the name of Usui sensei's resting place. So I thought, 'Ah, okay, maybe, maybe I can find something'.
2025-09-26 12:58
00:43:33
I see you now three years or so, you've been teaching Reiki in Japan ...
I don't know at which point, but somewhere along the line it is said that it became apparent to you
that the Western lineage operating from Raj had some doubts. And ...
I find it difficult to formulate a question around this at this point, but we will get there sooner or later.
In 1994 ... maybe it's a good time to address it - you have to tell me -
because the question here revolves around you acquiring another Western line, because there was some question marks about Raj's.
2025-08-28 07:34
00:44:25
What to ask this person? What do you want to know about Reiki? Where are the missing pieces? Did I miss something?
Obviously, we wanted to know about Takata sensei, about Hayashi sensei, about the successorship, about the symbols, about the ...
Initiation.
Initiation, all the questions that you might possibly have.
2025-08-28 14:42
00:44:50
I've learned meanwhile that unless you document it, it means nothing.
2025-09-27 11:52
00:44:58
I was frustrated in the beginning when we talked to Ogawa sensei, because I thought that I learned the wrong type of Reiki.
I learned to do it wrong, not only the history but the practice. I learned it wrong.
And I would never be able to learn the right way because I already knew from my knowledge of Japanese culture
that the chances of being accepted into a traditional Japanese art as a foreigner are about this big.
2025-09-28 10:02
00:45:37
whatever comes out of those hands doesn't have a label. It doesn't have so-and-so Reiki.
It doesn't matter whether you learned it from this person or that person, if you learned it from a Japanese person, from an American
person, from an Inuit, it's always the same Reiki.
2025-09-28 10:03
00:45:56
What comes out of our hands is just the pure life force. And it's beautiful.
So, you can't have the wrong Reiki. It's not possible.
Or the better Reiki.
Or the better or accelerated Reiki. Reiki:
2025-09-28 10:04
00:46:15
So you don't have to wait for the waterfall to come to your house. Hopefully not. But you get the Reiki person.
This is kind of a typical Shinto type of idea. Where the ancient people, they used to go to a Shinto sanctuary when they were not feeling well.
2025-09-28 10:05
00:46:38
The Shinto shrine is built around a natural phenomena. A beautiful tree, a spring, a waterfall, a beautiful rock.
Where the people when they were not feeling well were going and leaning against the tree.
(Deep sigh.)
Suddenly feeling better. Because they were taking in that ... energy from the waterfall.
2025-09-28 10:05
00:47:08
How far is the Jikiden Reiki's archive, if there is such a thing,
prepared and willing to collaborate with other scholars?
So, it's not being done professionally at all.
So, most of my research is in here.
2025-08-29 08:16
00:47:31
The real value is in here, it's so intertwined with my life.
I don't even think it's so important, but one of the research projects is this, what we're doing now.
So, a lot of the information will go out to people who are interested.
Then we're good and then my office can burn down.
2025-08-29 08:15
00:47:57
And he taught her techniques, which are techniques that I've been teaching for many many years as so-called Japanese-Reiki techniques.
They come from Usui sensei and he started to teach them to Shizuko and Shizuko and taught them to me.
So, these techniques
- and I'm sorry that I answered this Japanese-style beating around the bush and coming to the point after half an hour, now is the point.
These techniques I included after I practiced them for a while in my teaching. For example, gassho meditation
focusing on the point where the two middle fingers meet, breathing exercise, cleansing and so on.
So slowly, slowly I included more things that I thought had been missing from what I previously learned.
2025-08-29 08:13
00:49:00
'My teacher doesn't want me to mention their name ... for reasons that I really don't understand.'
2025-09-28 10:28
00:49:12
Yes, I said to them that, 'Here we have a proper lineage. And I suggested you do it because it's quite different.'
2025-08-30 10:48
00:49:22
(Gossha)
Thank you. I am sorry. Good.
So it's not all what it seems to be.
Certainly not.
Sometimes there are personal mix-ups in between, things that maybe don't make sense to you,
but just because you don't know the whole story.
2025-09-29 07:50
00:49:45
Which aspect of it? It's my nature, you know, my nature is ...
to be truthful.
2025-09-29 08:10
00:49:52
Your introduction with the Titanic was pretty funny, because I saw only the tip of the iceberg when that book came out.
I didn't see what was coming underneath. And I was overwhelmed.
2025-08-30 16:55
00:50:07
The first reaction I had was I called my publisher. I said,
'I've had enough! I'm not going to do another book or anything. I've had it. These people are all crazy. I quit.'
2025-09-29 08:14
00:50:21
Yeah, I have a kind of exhibitionist nature.
(laughter)
2025-09-29 08:15
00:50:28
(laughter)
2025-09-29 08:08
00:50:30
Some of the objections were obvious pretences.
I read them and blatantly, there were reactions defending their own positions.
Very often, camouflaged under well sounding truisms or half-truths.
And some even direct falsehoods.
For which, actually, some of the authors even publicly had to apologize later.
2025-08-30 16:53
00:51:00
Truly, honestly from the depths of my heart. Nothing. Zero.
2025-09-29 08:08
00:51:05
Many times I have thought that I've completely wasted my life with something that is ... useless because the people are not listening,
they're not ready to listen, they don't want to hear, they like to have fairy tales and don't want to see what actually happened.
... People feel more comfortable with nice stories and all that. There are so many times I thought,
2025-09-29 08:56
00:51:33
And indeed you were right when I spoke to you the very first time. Apologies need to be addressed in person.
I fully agree with you.
And so did she.
It was actually a dilemma she had.
2025-09-29 14:23
00:51:47
In Reiki, the Reiki person becomes that natural phenomenon to transfer the cosmic energy.
And that cannot be by definition any different whether you do it or I do it or anybody else on earth does it.
The race, the age, the gender, the whatever, it doesn't make any difference.
No matter where you learned it, if you've learned it properly, okay, then it's always the same.
For me, it's like that. So I have great respect ... for Reiki.
Not for one special kind of ... type of Rei ... For me there is no 'type' of Reiki.
Reiki is Reiki is Reiki.
2025-08-31 15:16
00:52:41
So I got her phone number from Doi sensei.
And I went there ... Um! ... I called ...
We called her - not I - we called her soon after that. First carefully.
Chetna on the phone saying, 'Oh, I read the book.'
Yeah, doing the Tai Chi, the Japanese telephone Tai Chi.
So she said, 'Oh, I read your book and me and my husband would like to do training with you if you ...
Do you train people? What is your schedule?' ... and ... and ... (mimicking conversation)
'By the way my husband is a ... Foreigner!'
(laughter)
I was listening on the speaker phone thinking like, 'Oh, now the door (slam sound)! I will eat ...'
The Greeks say: you will eat the door. In the face.
But no! Tadao sensei was on the phone and he said, 'Well does he speak Japanese?'
Chetna said, 'Yes, he speaks Japanese.' He said, 'So? What's the problem? Come.'
2025-09-01 07:44
00:53:55
An astonishing Reiki constellation with Bert Hellinger reveals Usui's peace and Arjava's link to Hayashi. This shifts Arjava's mission and foretells his destiny even before meeting Chiyoko Yamaguchi.
B-Roll material!
Start MF with (excerpts of) this video?
2025-09-01 07:56
00:53:55
'What happens to somebody who has been doing a lot of Reiki practice for many years? What happens to them?
2025-09-29 14:49
00:54:05
I asked about ownership of Jikiden, succession and if it was a snow-ball system? All very juicy questions and some exclusive answers. And continued in A37. And money is being addressed – also as an author. also in A38 … Eye catching topics but not directly related to the MF. PROMO material?
2025-09-02 07:03
00:54:05
And you do it for yourself.
Do it out of the love you have for the subject at hand. And then it's beautiful.
Love speaks.
Love speaks.
2025-09-29 17:31
00:54:16
The question was, why is he now writing so much poetry and things which aren't directly related to Reiki?
So, that's one of the questions. Sorry, don't shoot the bearer of the news. I'm just putting it to you.
You can never do it right, you know? When you write about Reiki, the people complain.
And when you do something else, they complain.
2025-09-02 08:12
00:54:42
Really, just between us. I spent so much time with Osho, with meditation.
And he destroyed my ego.
I don't say I don't have one. I'm not saying that.
But he destroyed it in the sense that I'm aware when it is speaking.
I know when it's speaking. And then I'm there, I'm present.
So, it can't fool me like that.
2025-09-29 17:38
00:55:08
You have in your personal life experienced when this merger or this fusion between East and West
didn't work out, that the aftermath had also created some pain.
Probably on both sides, it's probably fair to say as it most of the time does when two people separate and so on.
Yeah.
How optimistic, if that's the right term, are you with respect to this particular separation?
Very optimistic.
Because I know that pain is a great revealer of truth.
So even if pain happens, I welcome it.
Whatever it takes, we are here to learn. We are here to ...
We said it earlier, if we had learned our lessons, we wouldn't be here. So we are here to learn.
And maybe we can learn as much as possible. So next time when we reincarnate here would be a little bit less.
2025-09-03 07:51
00:56:16
No. Me? Of course, any time, especially if I can meet my wife again.
Me, I know many people say, 'Oh, this is my last life or it would be nice to be ...' I don't want to finish this. This is so much fun.
2025-09-29 19:06
00:56:32
I'm not really stuck in the thinking something is right or wrong.
I don't think there is any such thing right or wrong.
If you have energy to do something, 'Good, go ahead and do it!'
2025-09-29 19:45
00:56:47
Though in this video it's origin (2017) is described and the healing of the rift between men and women is addressed, there seems little material for the MF.
2025-09-03 08:08
00:56:47
This is a very educative video! As such it may be great promo material for the archive videos. It does not contain highlights for the MF.
2025-09-04 14:49
00:56:47
and I had the intention to say, well, isn't this great? There is so much less difference between the Eastern and the Western tradition
than many of us think.
Because even in the Western tradition, the concept which you just described is alive.
And there are even Takata Masters who never got initiated into the third level with the same background.
And, you know, even of the very few who are still alive,
there are some amongst us who did not get the Masters initiation.
Later on in the development, particularly in the branch, in Usui Shiki Ryoho,
with or without the OGM - my history and practice is without -
but in Usui Shiki Ryoho, the Master symbol attained a present and a cherished value, which is part of my tradition and suits me very well.
I'm not against it. It's beautiful. I know where it comes from.
2025-09-04 16:11
00:58:08
So, these three. Each one is represented by a Sanskrit seed syllable.
Sanskrit seed syllable. A seed syllable is a syllable that has the ability to give birth to a Buddha.
And when you put these three together, love, light and power, the ultimate principle is what they call in Kurama 'Sonten',
which is the same as the Master symbol in Reiki. So, it's a very, very beautiful concept.
I have no problem with that at all.
Only thing is,
in the Usui Association, in Jikiden Reiki, it's not being used and in the Takata schools, it is used.
If you were somebody insecure wondering, 'What do I do? I read in your book, there is no Master symbol. What am I going to do now?'
I would tell them, 'You just keep using it the way you learn to use it.'
2025-09-04 15:47
00:59:14
And what is wrong with it? Nothing wrong.
There's nothing wrong. It's beautiful.
2025-09-29 20:28
00:59:20
... So liberating. Also what you just said, that 'If that is your practice, René, and if you cherish it, by all means, keep on doing that.'
What is wrong with that? It's beautiful. The concept is so beautiful.
2025-09-04 15:46
00:59:36
If you feel comfortable with what you do, you practice that.
2025-09-29 20:27
00:59:42
If you don't feel comfortable with what you do, look into your heart and find out
what it is that is lacking, or where you feel uncomfortable, what is it, and then fix that.
So, you can forget about all the philosophical nonsense and everything and just do your Reiki.
Just put your hands on your clients.
That's the important thing.
The differences are really insubstantial.
2025-09-04 15:43
01:00:15
So, for me, Reiki is like football.
And ... if we want to play football together,
we need to have different teams.
You cannot play with yourself.
You need different teams.
And if we want to have events, and if we want to have lots of fun, then we do championships.
It's not about one being better than the other or beating, but to play together, we need many different players and many different teams.
Reiki is the same. We need many different players and many different teams.
And all they do is they play football.
And let's not forget that.
They do Reiki. Let's really not forget that.
2025-09-29 20:34
01:01:04
That he was a ... 'he' ...
that symptom was able to push people into camps ... fighting each other tooth and nail.
Quite incredible.
And then I noticed that was going on everywhere in all aspects of society.
Then came Corona. You had people breaking up their partnerships, their families, because 'I am for ... You are against ...'.
And I am sitting there and I am thinking, 'How is it possible that we allow to be pushed apart like that, when really
we are all sitting in the same boat? How is it possible? How dumb are we to allow that?
2025-09-05 07:38
01:01:58
But we have to recognize that it is symptomatic for a development which, apparently, society needs. And in that sense, like earlier on
you said, crisis and illnesses can also be a blessing in disguise.
Otherwise it doesn't come up.
Otherwise it wouldn't happen.
Obvious! We need that and there's something we have a chance to look at.
And it's important to look at it because if we look at it, we can do something about it.
2025-09-05 07:37
01:02:30
Fear ... fear is obviously one of the factors which plays a role in this, in this splitting, in this, 'I'm right, you're wrong.'
2025-10-01 21:58
01:02:40
Everywhere is the same!
Do you have an answer?
No.
No, I don't.
Do you have a remedy?
Yeah.
Sit.
Meditate.
Understand yourself.
2025-10-01 22:01
01:02:59
When you understand yourself or really when you understand the non-existence of yourself, then that stops.
Then there is no enemy. What kind of enemy are we talking about?
Another human, an enemy? Are you kidding me?
2025-09-05 07:36
01:03:16
If you had the chance to look at the universe from - I don't know what to call it, I don't know enough - from another universe or another ....
galaxy or from another realm or something, what do you see? You see one beautiful, beautiful immensity.
But how could you think of that as not being one?
2025-09-05 07:36
01:03:43
between every particle or wavelength. So what you just described and you made an effort of saying is not just a spiritual concept,
It's actually a matter of fact and a description of law. That's a very scientific way of looking at life.
It's just what it is.
It's not a philosophy to me. It's just ... it's obvious.
Good.
2025-09-05 07:35
01:04:10
I had really, truly the desire to bring the people together from the beginning. That's why I'm so surprised
when I hear that people are saying, 'Oh, troublemaking, you want to make money, you want to be rich, you want to be ...' I'm like, 'Huh!?'
Zero!
And I was so concerned that I'm intending to bring the people together and instead they're falling ... they're growing apart more.
This is really the opposite of what I wanted.
When I said to him, 'Can we take a look? I want to see the dynamic.'
2025-09-05 07:34
01:04:50
And I think one of the problems that we have in the international Reiki family is because of that. It's actually money.
2025-09-05 07:32
01:05:02
I'm not saying you shouldn't charge for your teaching. If I wouldn't charge for my teaching, I would be very, very skinny.
I live from it. I have to charge.
But there is something about ...
2025-10-01 22:03
01:05:19
So the thing is to learn to access the collective wisdom.
High art!
A high art.
Which is our wisdom.
It's not mine.
People who are able to access that common wisdom, they seem to other people charismatic.
2025-10-01 22:06
01:05:47
But that's a nice way to start today by coming to recognize the potential in each of us.
The viewers as well as ourselves individually.
The potential to tap into that wisdom as you call it.
This is one side. The other side is when you tap into that collective source, you are more yourself.
But everybody has that potential.
And anyone who has had a deeper experience of the sense of who they are, they immediately realize that we're all the same.
That means there's nobody better. There's nobody ...
So that illusion of separateness, of ... That illusion evaporates.
It evaporates.
Finish!
2025-09-05 08:05
01:06:46
This morning when I sort of mentally ... and also was doing my self-treat ... and prepared myself for our conversation,
a Swiss Jesuit priest, Pater Brantschen, came to my mind.
He is a person who has been significant in my life, even though I've never met him personally,
but ... I would come to Switzerland and drive through the Alps, switch on the radio pondering some important philosophical or spiritual question.
I would switch on the radio and there he was, giving me the answer.
Or I went to my mother's house one evening, and he was in a TV show. It was very funny actually,
because the topic of that discussion, very serious, there were neurologists there and all kinds of serious academics.
The question was, 'Is there a life after death?'
There were also one or two people there who had near-death experiences, and they shared their experiences.
And this guy was sitting next to the moderator, this priest.
He's also - and that's maybe why I thought today of him, because he has lived in Japan for a long time -
he's a Zen master and the Jesuit priest.
And actually he has a meditation centre , where he was the founder of a meditation centre here in Switzerland, a very important one.
In this TV show, he hardly said anything and I suspect the moderator felt a little guilty,
So, right at the end he turned to him and basically asked him,
'Look, you're Christian and they have the concept of hell. Would you like to say anything?'
And this guy sat there for the longest time thinking, like you sometimes.
Just taking your time to let people suffer in their own juices.
(whispering:) Let them ferment.
On TV that was quite something. And then he sort of looked into the camera and said,
'I don't know whether there is a hell, but one thing I'm sure of:
There's nobody in it.'
He said - and this is why I'm mentioning him -
he said that ... in one of the talks he was casual and he said, 'If you slap a Caucasian, a European in the face,
his tears will be salty. That's true also if in Africa you slap an African, or if you slap a Japanese in Japan.
And if you cut them, the blood will be red.'
When you just spoke about the illusion of separateness and that in the essence,
we are more united than maybe sometimes in daily life our surfaces lead us to believe, that reminded me of Pater Brantschen.
And to me that is always an inspiration when I talk about cultural differences, which of course exist
- and of course you're a different personality to me - but if we're going a little bit deeper
and allow the possibility that separation is pretty much an illusion, we quickly come to that state which Pater Brantschen was describing.
Everybody's the same.
Beautiful, really beautiful, so simple, and yet so difficult to implement in your daily life.
2025-09-05 08:03
01:10:32
Because we are driven by desire, we are driven by our dreams, by our lust for power, for domination, for all that. It's incredible.
And our insecurities.
2025-10-01 22:08
01:10:46
After seeing that constellation, I relaxed because for you guys that haven't seen the constellation,
in the beginning of that, Usui sensei just looks around and he's very intrigued by the nature outside of the venue.
Then very quickly he just leaves and he says, 'I'm finished with all the stuff behind me.' And he goes out.
So when I saw that, something really relaxed in me.
And I realized that, 'Okay, here I don't have to do anything for him, he is complete in himself. He doesn't need me to fix something.'
2025-09-05 08:38
01:11:34
The funniest situations when you yourself have to laugh because you didn't expect it.
I like that. I enjoy it.
2025-10-01 22:17
01:11:44
Absolutely, but what you have to do is you have to reflect.
So don't take just any kind of rule that is imposed on you by someone, maybe by your culture, or by the way that your teacher thought,
or their teacher thought, or by something. Always question!
2025-09-05 08:49
01:12:05
Look inside. Now, when I'm told not to do this or not to do that, I check with myself.
2025-10-01 22:10
01:12:12
He said, 'For you it's important to always filter everything you hear from other people through the wisdom of your own heart.'
And when that suits you, when that is on the same wavelength as your being, then okay. Otherwise ...
out the window.
2025-10-01 22:43
01:12:36
This video may have little direct relevance to the MF - other than the highlighted 'nugget' (on 7:48) - but it contains educative material which is good for promo for the archive videos.
2025-09-05 08:52
01:12:36
I'm not here to say what you should or what you shouldn't do.
For me, it's always about when I'm confronted with a rule or a ...
... rule ...
a standardization or rule, I ask myself, 'How does that sit with me? Does it suit me?'
2025-10-01 23:00
01:12:57
Something that I would never touch, that is sacred to me!
That I would never change.
I would not change one bit of that.
I want it like that. I don't want it any other way.
I just love people.
2025-10-01 23:02
01:13:13
My heart is there.
2025-10-01 22:59
01:13:15
I admire your very strict consequence of following your heart even at dire cost.
Like you just described.
Especially then!
Of course, that's when the chips are down.
That's, that's when you have to do it!
2025-10-01 23:04
01:13:33
highly educative and great promo for archieve. Other than 'we agree to disagree' there is nothing of direct relevance for the MF.
2025-09-05 09:03
01:13:33
The prison begins in the moment that you think that you are in it.
2025-09-06 10:33
01:13:39
But if you're not in it, you're free.
2025-10-02 08:00
01:13:42
I'm completely free.
2025-10-02 08:00
01:13:45
I am free as the wind. Beautiful. I love that.
2025-10-02 08:00
01:13:50
They never ... They too, never come back in that same way. They are unique. As you are, you are absolutely unique.
This alone is an incredible statement: You are unique! Wow!
Each of us.
Celebrate that.
Wow.
2025-10-02 08:08
01:14:11
So, the past trauma and the past pleasure and the past in between those two, it makes us do what we do now.
2025-10-02 08:00
01:14:25
The free will happens when the mind - and mind in Japanese philosophies is these two: heart-mind -
when the heart-mind is in the present, the 'nen.'
That's important! It's not just the intellectual mind.
No, it's both.
We think, feel, and that happens from here.
When you can manage to arrest the mind, so the mental and emotional processes, and
we can arrest them in the present moment, then you're good.
2025-10-02 08:09
01:15:09
Very learnative material - good Archive promo! But other than the one gold nugget (01:22) there are no highlights, nothing direct for the MF.
2025-09-06 10:36
01:15:09
Okay, we are not concerned what other people do or think.
2025-10-02 13:07
01:15:15
Let them do what they want to do.
I'm not concerned with the unethical or different behaviour of other people.
What I am concerned with is with my unethical behaviour.
2025-10-02 13:08
01:15:32
Good educational stuff for PROMO and a 'hot' topic but no highlights for the MF.
2025-09-06 13:56
01:15:32
Also, many people like to have a leader, a captain of a ship,
who leads and takes decision. Which is understandable, too.
2025-10-02 13:18
01:15:44
It doesn't really matter whether the hands are like this or like this or like this or like this, doesn't matter at all.
It's all the same once the light goes on, the light goes on.
2025-10-02 13:20
01:15:56
One thing that I've noticed in my spiritual adventures ... I have met many spiritual teachers.
I spent many years with one of them, with Osho.
I noticed that while the master is there,
there are very few rules and the standardization really begins after the master is gone.
To somehow ... because the master keeps the, the 'master' keeps the attention,
keeps the attention in the space by her or his presence.
When they are gone, we substitute that by rules.
2025-09-06 14:24
01:16:46
So we need to have some kind of standards, but as little as possible.
To leave a lot of space for freedom. So for me, rules are rules or standards are ...
2025-09-06 14:18
01:17:01
That also created a lot of friction then with, as I said, with Jikiden youngsters coming out saying,
'We have the very original way of teaching,'
Which is of course a contradiction because it was ... 'standardized' may be the wrong word, but it was put in a certain form.
How can we ... What can you and I contribute,
that these developments where standardization is evolving into a burden, a liability and it doesn't surface anymore?
2025-09-06 14:18
01:17:41
The point is: Reiki is the way of .... not 'to' but 'of' enlightenment.
Not 'to' enlightenment!
So let's go back to that and work on that.
That's important. That's the only important thing.
2025-10-02 13:22
01:18:03
[laughs]
Okay, I'm not really ...
someone who likes associations much.
Sounds funny from somebody like me.
Who was the vice president of an association?
It's not really my thing, but I know that it's necessary.
And I know that it's good for people, and I know that people want to be part of something,
2025-10-04 13:23
01:18:33
I don't have a political mind. I can't. I can't do it.
2025-10-04 13:20
01:18:39
My question was also going a little bit in the direction of what would you say if your students, your Jikiden students came to you and said,
'I want to be a member of an inclusive organization and share my knowledge with other members of that association who come from
other Reiki learnings and traditions, and be collaborative with them?'
I always encourage people to do it, even though I didn't want to do it, because it doesn't suit me.
So, I always encourage them. And you know, in ProReiki, for example, a lot of the people who were involved in that
were my students and people who were close to me.
I always encourage them.
I think the idea is good. It's just a personal thing that I'm not good at political organizations.
2025-09-06 15:10
01:19:47
I just... It's not my style. I feel uncomfortable.
2025-10-04 13:20
01:19:51
We have all our churches, our religions that began with some charismatic leader,
somebody who had transcendental wisdom, beautiful teaching.
And no matter where you go, whether you go to Islam, or to Hinduism, or to Buddhism, or to Christianity, or to ...
Judaism, wherever you go, it's all beautiful. When you really go into it deeply, all of it is just fantastic.
But then with time, only the bones remain
and the real inside, the heart of it just starts to disappear.
It's always a danger when the organization becomes more important than the thing that is being organized.
How do you avoid that? I have no idea. I really don't know.
2025-10-04 13:29
01:20:53
I'm not my position or something. I'm a person.
I'm a human person and for me, all Reiki is good.
2025-10-04 13:30
01:21:02
I really don't care for labels, not at all.
2025-10-04 13:31
01:21:09
In the 25 years that I've been with them. Me, that I've been involved in Reiki since 92 .... So how many 33 years? 33 is a good number.
2025-10-04 13:43
01:21:22
Canon, the number of Canon, 33 words.
So I've been involved in Reiki for 33 years. I've had a lot of conflict as we discussed a little bit about.
I have not had a single court case and I'm not planning on ever having one. It doesn't interest me.
It doesn't interest me.
2025-10-04 13:46
01:21:45
Juicy, roumour mill stuff maybe for promo but no MF relevance (except repitition of the past, i.e. Phyllis' trademark efforts).
2025-09-06 17:02
01:21:45
When other people have issues with each other, just get out of there.
Let them deal with it. It's not your responsibility. Okay, we do our best to bring people together.
And the funny thing is that - we've already talked about it a few times - I seem to be a polarizing factor.
When all I want really is to bring people together. That's what I really want.
2025-10-04 14:46
01:22:14
You then thought, if that is the rumour, I'd like to clarify it. Please.
Absolutely, I never signed anything and I never will.
I stick to my truth, to what I heard from Chiyoko sensei.
And I didn't sign any papers.
2025-10-04 14:49
01:22:31
Rumours ...
it's always people talking about people and subjects that they don't know.
We're going to have to accept that that sort of thing happens. And that ...
it's unfortunate.
2025-10-04 14:51
01:22:48
One of the main underlying principles of that is,
in any kind of conflict, you always avoid casualties.
This must be your main objective, to avoid casualties! Not to have casualties, but to avoid them.
And that when you have your opponent in the corner,
you open the door for them so they can go out unharmed.
2025-09-07 08:45
01:23:22
I have always followed that.
2025-10-04 14:48
01:23:25
Other than the highlighted statement (3:53) there is little for the MF. However, this video covers a controversial, rumour filled topic and may be attractive for PROMO.
2025-09-07 08:44
01:23:25
So as far as I know, the Jikiden Reki teaching didn't change at all. Not at all from what I learned, it's the same.
Exactly the same, no change.
Jikiden Reki: The word 'jiki' means 'direct' or 'straight',
'den' means 'teaching' or 'transmission' and really means 'traditional'.
2025-10-04 15:09
01:23:50
The teaching is still exactly the same, nobody has changed it.
2025-10-04 15:02
01:23:54
"Arjava and René unpack the Western feeling that Jikiden looks down on other styles. Arjava disagrees, explaining that 'Jikiden' is simply an adjective meaning "as learned." (Description)
Very educative and good PROMO. But even though a confrontative "Jikiden people look down on Western Reiki" I see little value for MF.
2025-09-07 12:29
01:23:54
Granted, one must never forget that in the 90s, the Reiki world was very much dominated by the Western Reiki styles.
And within the Western styles, in particular the Reiki Alliance, and their way ...
They had no longer ... they've abolished what you might call the repeated Reijus and it didn't exist.
But in other schools such as mine, it continued to exist.
2025-09-07 12:56
01:24:24
But when I say that in my practice we have this, in my practice we have that,
I'm just talking about my practice, the way I do it.
And I'm not saying mine is better than yours.
So, my suggestion to anybody is that whatever you do,
whatever your practice is, you do that, this is your path.
You work on that and if you feel comfortable with that, don't worry about what other people do. It's totally insubstantial.
It doesn't mean anything.
There is no Reiki that is better than another one.
2025-10-04 15:56
01:25:03
So it's really ... The issue is always between right and wrong - moral ethics - better or inferior.
And we always play on people's deficits,
instead of encouraging people to see their perfection.
2025-09-07 12:55
01:25:33
This is what I see.
2025-10-04 15:27
01:25:35
And when I look at Usui sensei, I see somebody - maybe it's my projection -
but I see somebody who wants to show his students how to be themselves, not to be him.
I don't think he's somebody who wants sheep, who wants followers.
That's my impression.
And my thing is this, to hopefully be able to show people to find their own way
of really dealing with themselves in life and become good human beings. That's my point.
2025-09-07 12:55
01:26:15
So in the end, you can close your eyes and say, 'I've done my best.'
2025-10-04 15:27
01:26:20
We don't have a problem with the truth. People always ... often think because of my work,
I have some personal dislike or agenda with Takata sensei. Not at all.
I ...
know she had a job to do and she did that job.
And without her, like we said, we wouldn't be here. So, so far so good, wonderful.
But I also know that she adjusted some things in the teaching and in the history. And I have a problem with that.
I don't have a problem with her. For God's sake, I never met her. How can I have a problem with her?
2025-10-04 16:09
01:27:06
Reiki is ... I can only quote Koyama sensei again, 'satori no michi', the road of enlightenment.
That's the point.
Everything else is insubstantial.
And all the little ego quarrels here and there.
Okay, they are just part of the game. Without it, maybe it would be boring.
A few ripples on the ocean.
We need them.
2025-10-04 16:13
01:27:38
We need the two egos scratching, polishing each other.
So they become like two raw diamonds polishing each other.
So they become more luminant, more shiny, more beautiful.
That's the point.
Because the ego is being scratched off.
So look at it like that and we are all okay.
2025-10-04 16:16
01:28:06
This video has confrontational elements (Stine's photo). And 'reconciling ones' (repetitions from previous videos). All together educative and thus PROMO material.
2025-09-07 13:34
01:28:06
And in this little book, I think four or five times she says, Koyama sensei says,
'I think that Usui sensei's greatest achievement was that he didn't create a religion.'
When I read that, even though I read it again and again, every time I read it I was like, 'Phew, I agree.'
Because Reiki is for everybody.
On Usui sensei's memorial it says, 'Reiki will heal the world and its people.'
2025-09-07 15:58
01:28:43
So Reiki is for everybody.
And in Reiki, in the Reiki teaching you find concepts from all the four big schools of thought in Japan.
2025-10-04 16:34
01:28:57
That's just because Usui sensei took from the wisdom pot that he had, which is those four big teachings,
and took a piece from here, a piece from there, a piece from there.
2025-10-04 16:35
01:29:12
He did that very cleverly to include everybody.
2025-10-04 16:30
01:29:18
So he was very clever in putting things together and making it comfortable for everybody, for all his people.
And now that we are also involved,
there are Buddhist Shinto influences in Reiki, but it doesn't disturb us in the sense that we don't have to convert to Buddhism or Shinto.
But we can stay as we are. We can be Christians, we can be Muslims, we can be Hindus,
we can be Jews, we can be whatever and be comfortable practicing Reiki.
We don't have to subscribe to a certain view. We don't have to change our worldview.
Everybody can do Reiki 'who has been given a soul'. And that's what Usui Sensei said and that's all of us, everybody.
2025-09-07 15:57
01:30:18
This is for humanity. It's not for one group. It's for everybody.
Actually, I think that is partly why Reiki has been able to conquer the world quite literally is exactly that it has this nature
2025-09-07 15:56
01:30:34
And I think the worldwide spreading of Reiki would not have been possible if it had been labelled in any context with a specific religion.
So that is a gift coming from Usui which he's given to us,
which has liberated us and which holds the promise of reconciliation beyond the boundaries of culture
and the borders of race and the gender issues we have.
That's why I have such great hopes that if anyone can make peace, of course we start first with ourselves and in our families,
but we have something so beautiful in nature, then it should be us Reiki people to be able to come to peace with each other.
2025-09-07 15:56
01:31:27
So this would be my advice to anybody. Come to peace with yourself. When you are in peace, there is peace everywhere.
2025-10-04 16:30
01:31:36
Usui sensei made a beautiful contribution to that by creating something that can facilitate this finding
of the inner peace to anybody regardless of their religion, of their background, of their social status.
Fantastic!
So let's keep it that way and not put a label on it.
Reiki cannot be labelled.
2025-09-07 15:55
01:32:08
It was a difficult time when we met. At the time we met in Frankfurt when you asked me the first time.
It was time when there was a lot of conflict going on, and a lot of naughtiness coming my way.
And there was a point where I actually felt that I'm putting people around me in physical danger.
That sounds a bit odd to you when you hear it like that, but believe me, it was really like that.
And I felt that I had to get off the ether for a while. So for a few years I stopped giving interviews,
I stopped doing public things, and it was good.
2025-09-07 17:06
01:33:02
I think now is the right time, so it's good.
2025-10-04 16:55
01:33:06
Yeah, and I think indeed that the reconciliation process - and if I use that terminology, I don't coin it to only my activities, not at all -
there has been a lot of reconciling happening in the Reiki communities all over the planet.
2025-09-07 17:06
01:33:25
People think that I'm super wealthy, I have this big organization behind me, this big machinery.
But I'm a one-man show.
It's just me. I don't have a secretary. I organize my own flights, my own schedule, everything.
My email, my correspondence.
2025-10-04 16:57
01:33:51
So, a lot of this is not because I don't want to answer. It's just I can't. I have too much.
I cannot. I can't handle it.
The volume is way too big. It's just like that.
2025-10-04 17:00
01:34:10
Before I ask my last question, I'd like to quote, interestingly, Krishna Murti,
whom you actually mentioned right at the beginning of our conversation.
He said something on the question, 'What do you think about the Buddha?'
Here is what he said:
'I don't think about the Buddha because thought doesn't enter the field of understanding.
Thought doesn't exist where love is.'
2025-09-07 17:05
01:34:46
The 'lousy communicator' (6:17) is PROMO material but irrelevant for MF.
2025-09-07 16:58
01:34:46
Excellent PROMO material. Also for Germans - the only video spoken in German.
No highlights by TV and RV.
2025-09-07 17:16
01:34:46
I thank you very much for the love you exude, I can bathe in and I hope you feel equally or you felt equally comfortable.
2025-10-05 10:12
01:34:56
[Laughter]
2025-10-05 10:12
01:35:03
Though there are no words ... I think this is good PROMO.
2025-09-07 17:20
01:35:03
It's not jealousy! It's gratitude and thinking, 'Wow, how beautiful.'
2025-10-05 11:55
01:35:11
PROMO!
Excerpts can be included in the MF.
2025-09-07 18:48
01:35:11
Gesamtdauer: 01:35:11