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Boycotted but Persistent
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‚It was the first time in my life that I stood up for my truth.‘
‚Maybe it came out too strong, because it was a reaction to all my escaping in the past.‘
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I want to go there and I want to visit that place because …
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As I said, there was printed objection but there was a lot of other stuff happening.
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You were facing other criticisms.
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I cannot say it in any other way but … You respectively your work was boycotted at times.
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When you wanted to release the book at a book fair, I believe.
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I believe the proper jargon in legalese is that you were confronted with
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an ‚immediate enforceable injunction‘ at the time of your publication.
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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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But I would like the viewers actually to understand a little bit what happened to you.
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I mean you told me the story of that second book which was never released in English, the German one,
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yesterday when we took a walk. But that was even your second work but your first work was greatly boycotted and …
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I would like you to tell the story from your point of view.
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Okay, okay I will, but maybe we go back to the first question. I’ve been thinking now as you were talking,
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thinking what is it that maybe made people … mad.
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So, one of the things I know, one of my patterns is when I was a kid I always escaped when there was conflict.
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Always. When there was conflict I was just getting out of here thinking, ‚I’m not playing this, this is stupid, I’m not that stupid,
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I don’t need to fight, I’m beyond that.‘ Like that.
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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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because it’s not an isolated incident in my life that people get upset with me.
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And I always ask her, ‚What is it that makes people mad?‘ and she says to me,
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‚You irritate people!‘
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And I’m like, okay, I irritate people, but I don’t find that I’m so irritating. So, I don’t understand! I don’t know why!
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I keep asking her, ‚But how do I irritate?‘ And the she says, ‚You’re too intense.‘
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And I’m thinking, ‚I’m too intense? What does that mean? Am I intense?‘ I think I’m just a … normal or something.
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I don’t get it what it is in me that irritates people when deep down – from my astrological makeup Virgo with the ascendant Libra –
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I want peace! I want peace, I want harmony, I want to have it all nice …
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If you look at my family you see everything is like in your house here with your kids,
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everything is sweet and warm and harmonious and people are super respectful and no conflict
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and if there is conflict it’s … it’s done, it’s taken care of. Lovely.
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But in my life, everywhere, left right and center I irritate people – I don’t know why!
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I don’t know why, I don’t know what it is.
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You know, when I was in master training …
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The word ‚arrogance‘ and being arrogant is not unknown to me.
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I’ve been confronted with this labelling and criticism and I’m sure very often justifiably so, I’m not trying to gloss this over at all.
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But I remember when I was in training, I spoke to my teacher and he said,
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‚Well, you have to understand that if you’re a nail which sticks out you also get a lot of counter of wind.
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You can make yourself smaller than you are and then you don’t have that head wind.‘
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So today when I teach Reiki teachers, Reiki masters, this is an important discussion always: the readiness to actually expose yourself.
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And by the way, the metaphor of exposing yourself physically also, you know, to let your pants down and stand in front of an audience
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and let them have a deep deep look into who you really really are I think that’s part and parcel of what I might call being a master.
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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.
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Maybe we will find it out together. I don’t know. It’s been bothering me for a long time. I haven’t understood it yet.
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Well, one way of looking at it is, you know, you’re saying, ‚It’s bothering me. And I am asking my wife.‘ Of course …
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I know that you are a very reflective personality. I have read the terminology ‚ego-check‘ from you a number of times.
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But, when I ask myself – I have to speak about myself now – when I ask myself, well …
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People have said of me that I appear arrogant to them. Then I have to ask myself, ‚What does that do with me now…?
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Am I depend on their approval? Am I dependent on being popular? And they’re now not fulfilling my expectation? And my expectation
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is rooted in my own insecurity? In my own belief systems how I expect people to treat me?‘
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So maybe that would be the question then: What’s going on when you find that people are irritated and you’re saying, ‚I don’t get it!
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Why the hell are they irritated?! I’m a lovable guy, I’m actually so content with myself and I’m in touch with love
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and I’m happy to share my love with anyone, why don’t they get that?! Why are they irritated by that?
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Why are they irritated? I don’t know?
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So, what happens to you when you observe that? How much … What’s your feeling when you go to your wife and say,
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‚Bhakti, again somebody was so irritated! Why the hell are they irritated with me?!‘ What what’s your feeling then?
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(drawing ‚?‘ in the air)
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Question mark. You’re on the top of my head. I don’t get it. But that’s it. I don’t care, it’s okay.
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I just don’t get it. I just go, ‚Hah?‘
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So you’re saying it’s free of a disappointment, it’s free of a … own frustration, that they don’t bloody get it?
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Of course in the … let’s say in the historical research, there was lots of frustration
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because I spent a lot of my life researching Reiki and I see that the people don’t appreciate it.
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That is very frustrating and I’m going like, ‚Oh why am I …‘
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Many times I have thought that I’ve completely wasted my life with something that is … useless because the people are not listening,
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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.
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… People feel more comfortable with nice stories and all that. There are so many times I thought,
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‚I’ve wasted so much time with this! Why did I … For what?‘
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So there is frustration, a good measure of frustration. Of course. But as you said, I’m very reflective,
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I’m always looking at all the possibilities. What is going on? When this happens how do I react? How … you know, what is in it for me?
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That’s my whole business is this. And to look at the inner workings of the mind and the heart … and to find out how it ticks inside.
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I actually believe that it is a description of the path of the master to continuously do ego-check, to reflect,
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‚What’s the true cause of my frustration? It’s not that they don’t read my books or respect me! It’s my expectancy
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that they should damn well see how hard I’ve worked.,‘ So, I’m a bit of a junkie in that kind of situation.
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Yeah, but of course there are always … two sides to it. On one one side you have this, people are not appreciating the thing that I do,
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let’s say, I feel. And that’s not true, I don’t think that nobody appreciates …
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… because many people do. I know. And I thank them for that and that’s been the only reason why I continue.
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But that’s one thing and the other thing is:
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Why does this irritation factor … why does it keep coming back in my life? In all different … from all sides, personal …?
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There must be something in me that triggers that.
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And I haven’t been able to …
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A lesson you haven’t learned yet.
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I haven’t been able to put my finger on it yet.
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So, I’ll probably have more of that in the future
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Well I’m a strong believer and I rather think you’re similarly that as long as we’re here and around in this incarnation
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we are well advised to try and get rid of all of that.
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So if there is something …we’ll look at it.
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Translation: AI
Transcript: René Vögtli
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1:54 continues from A24 when I asked why he is so confrontational.