00:01:56.000 –> 00:02:07.850 So we’re going to the school and suddenly I see a white Toyota van with big letters: R, E, I, K, I.
00:02:08.000 –> 00:02:14.742 My heart goes trrrr! And I’m thinking in my mind, ‚Oh my God, finally I got it.‘
00:04:38.000 –> 00:04:46.217 So after that, it was kind of a key experience for me. I said, ‚Okay, I give up.‘
00:04:46.792 –> 00:04:48.692 Enough! I stop.
00:04:48.892 –> 00:04:53.142 I stop looking for it. I can’t find anything.
00:04:53.708 –> 00:04:59.000 I had looked in the phone book in Sapporo. We had six pages of Usuis.
00:04:59.425 –> 00:05:07.000 In Tokyo, they had 30 pages in the phone book of Usuis! What you’re going to do, call them all?
00:05:08.475 –> 00:05:10.350 Impossible.
00:05:22.542 –> 00:05:31.584 So then one day, I get a phone call from one of my earlier students. One of those people who had been eagerly waiting
00:05:55.575 –> 00:06:05.625 He later on founded the biggest Reiki school in Japan, Vortex, it was called. So Toshitaka called me and he said,
00:06:05.625 –> 00:06:13.533 ‚You know what? I have the phone number of somebody who’s been practicing Reiki for 65 years!‘
00:06:21.742 –> 00:06:29.950 ‚If you promise me that you don’t tell where you got the number, I will give it to you.‘
00:06:38.908 –> 00:06:52.592 So, he gives me the number. Then I talk to Chetna. I say, ‚Hey, you know, how about … Can you call this person now, this Mrs. Koyama?‘
00:09:36.901 –> 00:09:45.445 So in the end she agreed, she called. Then the number … The first thing that person on the other side says,
00:09:45.445 –> 00:09:54.642 ‚Where did you get this number?‘ I’m listening on the speakerphone thinking, ‚Oh boy, what a bad start.‘
00:10:24.558 –> 00:10:32.732 After a while – Mrs. Koyama understood that she wasn’t going to say where we got the number – she relaxed a bit,
00:10:32.732 –> 00:10:35.992 but all the time she just said, ‚What do you want from ME?‘
00:11:04.133 –> 00:11:12.842 Then Chetna said, ‚Ah, well, my husband is a foreigner.‘
00:11:13.867 –> 00:11:19.850 ‚I don’t care about Western Reiki, about Reiki that comes from another country.‘
00:11:20.208 –> 00:11:28.158 I’m thinking like, ‚Haw! What’s going on here?‘ That was the first time I heard the word Western Reiki.
00:11:30.000 –> 00:11:38.760 ‚He’s writing a book about the Usui sensei, because what is known outside is… We don’t think it’s right.
00:11:38.760 –> 00:11:43.717 It seems to be all myth and we want to make it right and fix it.‘
00:11:43.900 –> 00:11:45.998 ‚I’m not going to read it!‘
00:11:46.948 –> 00:11:50.658 I thought, ‚Oh boy, she’s very straightforward!‘
00:11:51.217 –> 00:11:52.593 And then she said,
00:11:52.593 –> 00:12:02.608 ‚I’ve been asked so many times by people from outside, from abroad, to meet and I always refuse and I will refuse you too!‘
00:12:23.444 –> 00:12:33.749 ‚Okay, Usui sensei was born 1865, August 15th in Gifu Prefecture. He was married, had two kids.
00:12:36.165 –> 00:12:44.431 He had a life of many ups and downs, big success, big failure. He was very warm-hearted. He was a good speaker.
00:12:44.531 –> 00:12:51.858 People loved to listen to him. People used to hang on to his clothes when he was talking. Because he can’t … ‚
00:13:13.000 –> 00:13:16.867 And that he was very funny, that his students were laughing all the time.
00:13:44.000 –> 00:13:58.533 But in the conversation she also told us that he was buried at the Pure Land Buddhist graveyard, temple plus graveyard in Tokyo.
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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 …
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 …