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No Wrong Reiki
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‚The Reiki that comes out of my hands doesn’t have a label.‘
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I’m jumping a little bit into 1995.
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I’m formulating the question as I wrote it down without the knowledge I have now.
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In your research it turned out that Mrs. Koyama was actually a former president of the Gakkai.
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And you also got in contact with Mr. Oishi, who put you in contact with Mr. Ogawa, a Gakkai teacher.
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The second half of the 90s must have been so exciting discovering all this information and particularly also that the Gakkai existed.
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Tell us about it, and presumably you also made efforts to get in touch with the Gakkai.
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So what happened was this, I told you that Toshitaka Mochizuki called me
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and made the connection to Koyama sensei, but didn’t tell us who it was.
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Then another student of mine, she’s a called Akimoto from Tokyo, she called me and said,
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‚You won’t believe what happened to me yesterday. I was giving a treatment.‘ Not a Reiki treatment.
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She was doing Reiki treatments, all sorts of other healing modalities. She was doing colonic irrigations, i.e. cleansing the guts.
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She said, ‚Some gentleman came to me for a colonic irrigation, and while he was having his guts cleansed, he said to me, you know,
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there used to be this really amazing Japanese healing art called Reiki.‘
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And she says, ‚Yeah, I know, I teach that.‘ And he looked at her and said,
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(frowning)
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‚This used to be a secret. How … how did you … where in the world did you learn this? It’s not something
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that you can learn, you know, if you’re not connected.‘
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And she said, ‚Well, I learned it from my sensei, my German sensei in Hokkaido.‘
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It’s like, if you say, ‚Where did you learn to brew beer?‘ I would say, I learned it from …
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African tribesmen who live in Munich in the Alps, who brew beer.
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It’s like totally outlandish. This Mr. Oishi, he couldn’t believe it. He said,
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‚You know, that’s so amazing because my mom learned that from one of the founder’s direct students in the 1920s.‘
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One of the founders of the Gakkai?
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No, one of Usui sensei’s direct students.
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Okay.
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And in the 1920s!
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So, she called me and I had heard stories like that here and there, but I was getting more cautious with time.
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I thought, ‚Let’s see how this develops.‘
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We had heard a few times stories of people who claimed to have learned traditional Reiki from their grandparents or something.
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I was like, ‚Let’s see.‘
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Let’s see, I mean, you can… Let’s see some proof first.
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So when Mr. Oishi came for his next treatment, he brought this beautiful picture with him of Usui sensei with the big belly,
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wearing the kimono, the Gokai on the left side … The original was about this size. Something like this. And he said,
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‚Give this as a present to your sensei.‘
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So she called me and I’m like,
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‚Oh, this is too much …
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I can’t accept it.‘
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This was the original photography.
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(nodding)
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I thought, ‚I can’t accept it.‘ I said to Shizuko,
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‚Please tell him. I’m really very honoured for such an amazing gift and I think he doesn’t realize how rare this is.‘
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Because there exists only one picture of Usui sensei, with the John Lennon glasses, with the little beard.
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And kind of looking like he could be a missionary.
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I mean, very… I don’t know.
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So, I don’t think he realizes what a special thing that it is that is his family heritage, but don’t give that to me.
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‚I would be really, really honoured if you could give me … let me use a copy.‘
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I was already working on the ‚Reiki Fire‘. So, I said to him that
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‚I would really love to publish it, but my publisher has asked me to …
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I need the transfer of copy right from you.‘ And he gave it to me. I have that, of course. I’m never going to use it, but I have that.
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So I couldn’t believe it.
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Then he came again for another session, and at some point
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– and this is typically Japanese, they had created some kind of trust into each other and rapport –
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he said to her, ‚You know, Shizuko, I have a relative who is one of the shihans of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai.‘
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And we are going like, ‚Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai, what is that?‘
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‚Who is that?‘
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And he said, ‚Well, that’s an association that Usui-sensei founded, and he was the first president of it.‘
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We’re going, ‚Ha … ?! There is such a place, and there are people in it?‘
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‚Yeah, yeah!‘
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He said, ‚And my relative is one of the teachers.‘
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‚If you want, we can organize a meeting with him, but if you want to see him … (Kozo Ogawa)‘, he said,
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‚Let me call him and organize a meeting.‘
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So, she talked to me, Mr. Oishi called his relative, Mr. Ogawa, or Ogawa-sensei, who was one of …
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I think one of six shihans of 500 members of the Usui association at the time.
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Or it could have been one of five shihans of 600 members, I don’t remember which way, but same thing.
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Something like that.
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They made an appointment. By that time, I already had connected with Walter Lübeck, or he had connected with me.
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I asked him and all the other people who were doing Reiki to give me questions.
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What to ask this person? What do you want to know about Reiki? Where are the missing pieces? Did I miss something?
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Obviously, we wanted to know about Takata sensei, about Hayashi sensei, about the successorship, about the symbols, about the …
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Initiation.
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Initiation, all the questions that you might possibly have.
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So, I got all these questions from people. I wrote them down and I faxed them to him.
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So Ogawa sensei then received a five kilometres long fax that he was to answer.
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I still remember, they came in through the fax.
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(imitating fax machine noises) Endless!
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(imitating fax machine noises)
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I kept all those things.
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The old style.
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So then things became more and more complicated.
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Really complicated, because what he wrote about the history didn’t match the history that I had learned.
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And when we heard about the practice it didn’t match the practice that I had learned.
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Very soon I felt discouraged, cheated, let down, thinking that I have learned the completely wrong thing,
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and I will never be able to learn the right, ‚right‘ thing.
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I was not happy, because I was a bit heartbroken. So now, about 30 years later, I’m looking at my hands, and I’m going like,
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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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It doesn’t exist.
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Anyway, I thought then (groans), ‚I learned the wrong thing, and I’ll never … because I’m a foreigner …
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I’ll never be able to be accepted into a Japanese secret society. No way!‘
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And I was wrong!
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I guessed wrong, because with time, it happened but not in the Usui Association, later in Jikiden Reiki.
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Well, and in the Usui Association later they have even foreigners who became members.
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Yeah, but I didn’t manage to get it.
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Translation: AI
Transcript: René Vögtli
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