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This was quite exciting now to hear that you had ...
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I knew that Bert Hellinger is a friend of yours.
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But I didn't know that you actually had asked them to do a constellation with Reiki.
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And of course I had planned towards the end of these three days
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Start new. Erase the disk. Start new. I'm tired. I don't want all this old stuff anymore. I want to be present.
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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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It's dishonest to me. My name is 'honesty'.
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Let me be frank with you. Honest.
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What is to happen will unfold and we'll see
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and we will just be here and watch it unfold.
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It sounds a bit corny maybe. The only thing I care about is the love in my heart.
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Everything else is insubstantial. You come and you go empty handed.
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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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To look if he's okay, and if he's okay ... okay, good.
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If he has found a place ... My parents were amazing!
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They're like, 'if he finds a place where he is happy, we're good.'
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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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So when he asked me, 'What do you do when you meditate?' I screamed at him:
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'NOTHING!'
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And then he asked me, 'What does your dad say about that?'
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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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Gone! I had escaped.
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I went there really thinking that I am never going to come back,
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I'm going to stay here for the rest of my life with Bhagwan
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trying to figure out who I am.
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You start to look at that and start paying attention to it
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and start exploring that incredible spaciousness that is there inside that includes everything.
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That is just pure consciousness.
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Then for about a year or so I grew Osho's vegetables.
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Sometimes I would bring them to his house and bring them to the kitchen to be prepared.
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That was very nice, to grow his food. He had certain likes and things that he liked.
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He said, 'Make the garden so beautiful that the master can walk in at any moment and you don't have to feel shy.'
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When he said that, I had some kind of 'aha' experience.
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I thought, 'I'm going to make my whole life like that.'
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So beautiful, that the master or somebody like that, somebody who represents this clarity
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and this love and this beauty can walk into my life ...
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... and you don't need to feel ashamed.
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You don't need to feel ashamed. You can feel like, 'Okay, I did my best. With my mistakes.' I've been doing that ever since.
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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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My heart goes trrrr! And I'm thinking in my mind, 'Oh my God, finally I got it.'
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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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What comes out of our hands is just the pure life force. And it's beautiful.
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So, you can't have the wrong Reiki. It's not possible.
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Or the better Reiki.
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Or the better or accelerated Reiki. Reiki:
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Very beautiful. So this is what we do. We are the extended hands of some beautiful natural phenomena.
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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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(Gossha)
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Thank you. I am sorry. Good.
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So it's not all what it seems to be.
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Certainly not.
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Which aspect of it? It's my nature, you know, my nature is ...
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to be truthful.
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Either you say the truth, your truth - OK, your subjective truth - or you don't.
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There is nothing in between for me. I cannot say it a little bit.
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So, either you do or you don't do. I choose to do.
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Maybe I overreacted at times. Possible.
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I don't care. I don't care one bit. Fame doesn't mean anything to me.
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I said it already yesterday, the only thing that matters is the love in my heart. And even that is not mine.
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I don't give a fuck. Really, I don't care.
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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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And with the publication of the 'Reiki Fire' it was the first time in my life that I stood up for my truth.
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Maybe it came out too strong.
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Because it was a reaction to always escaping. Perhaps this is it, but I've also asked my wife many times
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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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And then pressure the publisher into not publishing another one, but the publisher was not playing this game.
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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 say, 'No, I'm not moving. I'm standing here. This is my truth. Now I'm standing here.'
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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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When I say I've had enough it's like ... I'm not ... overwhelmed or so. It's more like I've had enough like when you ate a really good meal.
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(laughs)
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So whatever happened ... (gassho) ... thank you. It helped me a lot.
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Yeah, nice. Okay, new beginning.
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We can leave that behind now.
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No. It's okay. We learned the lessons and we're okay.
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Let it go now.
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Nice.
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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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So, as far as that is concerned, I could die now and in my last moment think, 'Thank you.'
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I've done something good with my life.
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I can go easily.
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But I'm not planning that.
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And you do it for yourself.
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Do it out of the love you have for the subject at hand. And then it's beautiful.
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Love speaks.
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Love speaks.
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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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I've been trying to help Western people understand the Japanese way
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and trying to help Japanese people to understand the Western way.
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I'm in no rush. Not at all. I love it here. I really enjoy it. Okay, all the struggles and ...
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It's never boring. It's always ... We always have some project, some fun, some excitement, something changing. Nothing is ever boring.
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I'm not really stuck in the thinking something is right or wrong.
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I don't think there is any such thing right or wrong.
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We would see. So I can't really say anything about that. But I see your point. And this is something that Usui sensei,
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in his Kokai Denju, or the public teaching declaration, he addresses. So, from the very beginning of Reiki, that thing is there.
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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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And I am sitting there and I am thinking, 'How is it possible that we allow to be pushed apart like that, when really
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we are all sitting in the same boat? How is it possible? How dumb are we to allow that?
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'I don't know whether there is a hell, but one thing I'm sure of:
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There's nobody in it.'
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What would you today say to Phyllis? If you had to meet her today, what would you tell her, if she had to walk through the door?
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Who knows, probably I would just go and give her a hug and say, 'Okay, let's leave all this behind and start new.'
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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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But if you're not in it, you're free.
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I'm completely free.
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I am free as the wind. Beautiful. I love that.
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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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The point is: Reiki is the way of .... not 'to' but 'of' enlightenment.
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Not 'to' enlightenment!
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So let's go back to that and work on that.
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That's important. That's the only important thing.
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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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And for me, inclusion is not something that we need to strive to, but it is something natural,
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because I know that everything is connected to me. I don't have to make an extra effort.
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I know this whole thing is all one.
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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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And part of the conflict, I am sure, is this: jealousy. Part of it.
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'Reiki will heal the world and its people.'
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You are his hands now, so, go for it.
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