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I want to pay more attention to here, to now, to my unravelling, my development, my deepening my human experience.
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is it possible that we never learn? How is that humanly possible? Because I grew up with the
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So instead of saving my brother, I saved myself.
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I went back. Instead of bringing my brother, I come back in red clothes with the wearing a picture of the Indian guru,
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Very much like the situation I'm in now again, where I just really want to see
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who am I? And what is my purpose, and what is it that I really want to do?
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I refused to go to the army.
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I said, 'My dad, until three years ago, was screaming every night from his nightmares from the war. Do you have any other questions?'
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Sitting close to him was a psychedelic experience.
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You cannot imagine.
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I mean, you were seeing things that were not there.
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Because his presence had such an impact?
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His presence is overpowering! I have never felt anything like that before or after.
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Incredible.
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So, Osho, still to this day, is your guru?
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And then I forgot about it until one day in 1990 ... either end of '91 or beginning of '92,
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Raj, my brother, called me from Germany, saying that,
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'Hey, you know, Arjava, I think it would be good for you to do Reiki.'
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He was laughing and I'm thinking, 'Does he see something or realize?', because he's got psychic ...
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'Does he realize something that I don't see yet?'
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Anyway, we made an appointment. I came in the end of the year, end of December something.
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'92 I went to Berlin to learn Reiki in Berlin.
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I'm sitting and laughing to myself, 'What am I doing? I'm a German who goes ...
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who lives in Japan, who goes to Germany to learn a Japanese healing art, to take it back to Japan. It's crazy!
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So, I had to ...
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I had my good laugh there, thinking this situation is really ridiculous.
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But I went, I learned then Reiki 1, 2 and the teachers level in one week.
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I think probably it was four days or something like that.
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And I enjoyed what I learned and then took it back to Japan and the first person I initiated was Chetna.
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And Raj said, 'Nah, nah, there's nothing here. You've got to do it yourself!'
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I see you now three years or so, you've been teaching Reiki in Japan ...
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I don't know at which point, but somewhere along the line it is said that it became apparent to you
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that the Western lineage operating from Raj had some doubts. And ...
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I find it difficult to formulate a question around this at this point, but we will get there sooner or later.
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In 1994 ... maybe it's a good time to address it - you have to tell me -
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because the question here revolves around you acquiring another Western line, because there was some question marks about Raj's.
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It says, 'This is a declaration why I teach in public.' It's kind of Usui sensei's mission statement.
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It's quite dramatic. In it he says, 'In the past, when somebody had been given a spiritual secret by the universe as a present,
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it was the custom of them to use it for their family and for the financial well-being of the offspring.
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And I am breaking with this.
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I am stopping this because this is wrong. This is not the way it should be. And I will teach anyone!'
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'The Reiki that comes out of here doesn't have a label.'
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And it doesn't matter where I've learned it, and it doesn't matter where anybody for that matter has learned it,
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and it doesn't matter who their teacher is, and what their lineage is, as long as they have been properly initiated. It is all the same.
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Beautiful! So, you cannot learn the wrong Reiki, there is no wrong Reiki.
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You are the waterfall giving Reiki to the client. You are the big tree, the spring.
And he said to me that he made up the attunement process, that he never learned it.
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He learned Reiki 1 and 2 and maybe 3A, the Master symbol but the attunement, he said, he made it up.'
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And then when he came back, he called me and said, 'Arjava, come quickly. It's all different from what we have learned. The initiation
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process, it's all different. Come and re-learn with me.'
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So, I flew to Germany to do the teacher's training again with Ageh. I just looked at my certificates, January 7th or 9th or something of '98.
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Maybe I overreacted at times. Possible.
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Probably because, often I was making fun of them.
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And maybe that was not nice, but I was just making fun of them.
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I know that you mentioned Phyllis (Furumoto). I know that Phyllis was actually responsible; I didn't know that until very recently
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but she obviously knew it because part of her apology in the previous work I did is addressing the injustices she did towards you.
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One time when Phyllis was asked in person by a friend of mine what to do with my books, she said, 'Burn them.'
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That was in Germany. It didn't go down well because people had a bad reference to that.
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You can't believe the things that happened. They tried to buy the whole first edition of the 'Reiki Fire'.
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I liked it when you said, 'Ah, we were... I was conditioned in a certain way and indoctrinated and ... you broke that.'
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Yes, I broke that and I would do it again every time.
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And healing very often includes that first step. In fact, I call this the 'heroism of the victim'.
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But what I really want to say is that I've had enough.
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I've had enough of the conflict.
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I had enough of the violence in different ways.
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I've had enough of feeling victimized.
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I've had enough of this constant friction.
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And I have no grudge to anybody. I just want to leave it behind.
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So whatever happened ... (gassho) ... thank you. It helped me a lot.
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For me, I said it earlier, Reiki is Reiki is Reiki. It doesn't have a label.
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There cannot be a Reiki that is better.
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There cannot be a Reiki that is inferior.
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You must destroy it.
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You must demolish that completely.
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That egocentric thinking.
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Don't support it. Cut it.
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So, the illusion really is which has to go? The illusion of separateness?
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The illusion has to go. You have to wake up from that dream.
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You wake up by not supporting it.
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By not taking more sleeping pills.
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But wake up, shake up!
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I imported the Western Reiki into Japan and then I exported the traditional.
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That dynamic is there. And he said that, 'Okay, it's been a habit in the past that somebody who has
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received a spiritual secret as a present from the universe is then using that for the well-being of the financial well-being of their family and
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I'm breaking with that tradition now. And I do a different thing.'
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Absolutely, but what you have to do is you have to reflect.
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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,
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or their teacher thought, or by something. Always question!
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The prison begins in the moment that you think that you are in it.
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So we need to have some kind of standards, but as little as possible.
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To leave a lot of space for freedom. So for me, rules are rules or standards are ...
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It's always a danger when the organization becomes more important than the thing that is being organized.
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I'd love to see such a picture and have Tadao Yamaguchi on the picture as well.
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