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Honourable Tradition or Enrichment?
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‚You don’t understand. It’s not for sale.‘
‚You have the great honour to be permitted to have it.‘
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I’m interested in this idea that your suggestion …
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There is a friend actually of Bert Hellinger’s by the name of Peter Koenig.
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He has developed what he calls the ‚Source Theory‘ or the ‚Source Consciousness‘
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whereby at the beginning of any project or of any company or organisation or even of a family for that matter,
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there is one individual – it can only be one individual – who has the inspirational seed, so to speak, and he calls that the Source.
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And I personally always suspected a little bit that you were actually the Source of the Jikiden Institute.
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I don’t know, I don’t think so, but I don’t know what impact that made.
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Well, that could have very big relevance, particularly if I think of the beginning of our conversation yesterday morning.
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In fact, one of the questions further down in my catalogue was: Tadao has a successor, his son. He’s already nominated. You…
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Has he? I don’t know.
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Is that not right?
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It’s a suspicion that is around, but I don’t think anything has been publicly declared.
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My bad! I‘ had listened to the rumours, so to speak, and taken that for granted, which would not be that unusual for that matter.
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No, it would be normal. It would be the normal course of events. I would expect that.
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Particularly if we are thinking of an institute, of an organisation, of an enterprise, which is being handed down
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over generations, yes, I agree. If we are thinking of a spiritual leader, or something like that, then it’s a different matter.
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But that’s a rabbit hole I don’t intend to go down.
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No, better not.
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But the question I had actually is: okay, if Tadao has a successor, you were the Vice President of the… Who is your successor?
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And the question of the Source and the succession of the Source is a relevant question for the well-being of actually the organisation.
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Or, to put it in other words, if that is not tended to carefully and in a nourishing kind of way,
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the writing is on the wall that the organisation is going to find itself in some dire straits.
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Yes, I don’t know.
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You know, basically Japanese people are not very transparent. You may have noticed that.
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So, there are many things I don’t know. Even though I seem to be close.
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But there are many things I don’t know. Many things are not talked about.
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They are not up for discussion.
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Who is then the owner of the Institute? What are the legal properties of the Institute?
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I have no idea.
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I’m not concerned. I’m not concerned with that. I mean, Tadao is the President.
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And I was, until recently, the Vice President, until my resignation. I have no idea where this is going.
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From now on, I really don’t know. And he has not officially appointed a successor.
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I don’t know what they talk about in the family.
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Because one – if we are on that subject – one of the critical views from the outside on the institution and on the school of Jikiden Reiki
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was that it had a, almost like a, almost like the flavour of a pyramid system, particularly if people say,
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any Jikiden teacher today when he gives a Reiki 1 seminar, some of the proceeds which he takes, anywhere in the world,
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is going back to the Institute.
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And also the idea of a teacher can only be taught by the Institute or a representative – which you were – of the Institute.
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And then he also asks to buy the precepts. That sounds very much like a money printing machine, like a snowball system.
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So that was one of the criticisms.
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Yeah, I can explain it. So …
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The Japanese system that’s used in all the Japanese traditional arts, the teacher system, or Iemoto system, that is like that:
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You have usually pre-practitioner degrees – like with the belts in the martial arts –
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you have pre-practitioner degrees and in Usui sensei’s time it was like that: The lowest was the sixth degree, then came the fifth degree,
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then the fourth degree and these were pre-Reiki 1, pre-Shoden degrees that people had received one initiation, one reiju and a lecture
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about Reiki and they were not allowed to practice. Why? Because they didn’t know how to do it.
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This was a safety mechanism, to get only people into the actual practice who have energy for it to do it.
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So then the next level, level 3 was Shoden and Okuden.
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So, Reiki 1 and 2 are not really Reiki 1 and 2, but are the third level and they are together!
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What is Reiki 1and 2 are one level – the first part and the second part.
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Then there’s Reiki 2 or the second level.
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The second level is divided into four different sub-levels. The first one, the lowest one, is the Shihankaku, the assistant teacher.
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And all of that is – the second level – is called Shinpiden, the mystical teaching.
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The second part of that is Shihan, the senior teacher.
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The third one is Dai Shihan. The Dai often is misunderstood as great or grandmaster or something like that. But here the Dai
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means ‚whole‘, that means the one who can teach the whole system, not Dai because he’s so great.
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It’s not about being great. It’s just somebody who has lots of experience gets the permission to teach (Japanese:) muho.
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And then on the top you have in the Usui Association is called the Kaicho, the president of the association.
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In Jikiden Tadao sensei, Chiyoko-sensei used the word Dai-hyo, representative, because they didn’t feel comfortable
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being called Mr. or Mrs. President. So they are the representatives representing the teaching to the world.
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Now, when you’re given a teacher’s permission in Japan, in the Japanese traditional arts, that permission is always limited.
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You never get the teaching permission for everything, even though you know how to do it, but you’re not allowed to do it.
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This is Japanese style. It doesn’t have to do with Jikiden Reiki. It’s just a traditional teaching.
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And the way that it’s done is that you are only permitted to teach a level if you are two degrees higher.
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So, like in the martial arts, you have all the different belts. After the black belt then come the
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Dan, the teaching degrees, which are comparable to all the different Shihan levels.
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So, if you have the first Dan, you cannot teach a black belt. You can teach a brown belt, because you’re two higher.
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If you have the second Dan, you can teach a black belt. And in Reiki is the same.
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Somebody who is a Shihankaku, an assistant teacher, can only teach Shoden.
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Somebody who is a senior teacher, can teach Shoden and Okuden, because it’s two higher.
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Somebody who is a Dai Shihan can teach Shihankaku, because it’s two higher.
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There’s only one person who can do more than that, which is the boss.
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The boss of the association can teach Shihan. And that’s it.
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So, this is not something that Tadao sensei created. That’s the traditional style.
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In the Usui Association, in Hayashi Sensei’s Association it was like that.
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That’s how it is.
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The Gokai, the precepts. This is difficult for us to understand.
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You say you have to buy the Gokai from the Institute.
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It’s considered in the Japanese way a great honour to be able to have that and sit in front of that.
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So, that’s a very different situation. It’s not for sale. I was once present when somebody who’s very wealthy said to Tadao sensei,
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‚Ah, this scroll I like. Oh, it’s beautiful. I want one. How can I get one?‘
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He said. ‚It’s not for sale.‘ This was not a teacher. It was somebody who did Reiki, Shoden and Okuden. She said,
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‚Give me any number, and … Any number. Anything. And let me know.‘ And he’s like,
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‚You don’t understand. It’s not for sale. You can’t buy it. You offer me a million euros. It’s not for sale. It’s only for the teachers.‘
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And …
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The tradition in the Usui Association was that the Shihans had to draw their own.
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But these were all highly educated people who’d been doing calligraphy from childhood, so they knew how to do it.
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Hayashi Sensei apparently had the…
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…
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Not habit, but made it a tradition in his school that he would write it and give it to his organizers in his handwriting.
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And Tadao sensei, Chiyoko sensei wanted to share that with people.
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One is, I cannot…
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My kanji are not good enough to draw the Gokai. I would be so embarrassed if I wrote them. They would look horrible.
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And kanji are… Calligraphy is art. It’s…
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So I’m glad I don’t have to do it myself and honestly, I…
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Every time I see the Gokai hanging behind me, I’m really glad I…
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Had the chance to get it. It’s an honour,.
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And I’m very glad and honoured that you gave me a photocopy, a big photocopy, exactly of that. Thank you very much.
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Not that, I didn’t give you one that we have in Hayashi sensei’s handwriting. Yeah, it’s another one, another version.
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We have come across many different editions now. This one, the one I gave you is actually a copy of in Usui sensei’s handwriting. But …
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In the picture of him.
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Yes, but because I guess the photo got wet at some time, at some point, the ink of his stamp, it’s …
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It ran out.
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That’s why you don’t find his stamp on it anymore.
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Let’s go back to this. This is hard for people to understand that you …
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… you …
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You see I struggle with the word. I want to say ‚you have to buy the scroll‘. It’s not like that.
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You have the great honour to be permitted to have it.
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Yeah? This is difficult for non-Japanese people to understand because it’s a lot of money.
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Exactly.
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But for somebody who knows that culture, they will just go … (gassho)
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Thank you so much.
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And presumably somebody who wants to learn a practice Jikiden Reiki wants to dive into that cultural aspect.
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I don’t want to harp on about that issue.
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