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Poetry in Motion
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‚Again, the provocation in my nature.‘
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I’m jumping the gun a little bit. We’re leaving a little bit the topic of Reiki, but it was one of the questions I had.
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More precisely, some of the questions which were put to me when I did the research by the people out there, whoever they are.
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The question was, why is he now writing so much poetry and things which aren’t directly related to Reiki?
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So, that’s one of the questions. Sorry, don’t shoot the bearer of the news. I’m just putting it to you.
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You can never do it right, you know? When you write about Reiki, the people complain.
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And when you do something else, they complain.
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But it’s not really that I’ve been writing something else, suddenly writing a lot of poetry.
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I’ve been writing a lot of poetry for about 25 years.
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I just never had the time to put it together.
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So, this is the thing. What happened was this.
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After the ‚Reiki Fire‘, I kind of became very well known at the time, very quickly.
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And …
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Really, just between us. I spent so much time with Osho, with meditation.
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And he destroyed my ego.
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I don’t say I don’t have one. I’m not saying that.
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But he destroyed it in the sense that I’m aware when it is speaking.
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I know when it’s speaking. And then I’m there, I’m present.
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So, it can’t fool me like that.
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So, in any case, it didn’t go to my head, the fame or so. I don’t care one bit.
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But what happened was, many people started to invite me to come teach here, come teach there.
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I went literally all over the place. The only place I haven’t been is China, Iceland, Greenland.
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You know, a few places for work.
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So, I find myself sitting on the plane. Now, what am I going to do?
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Sitting on a 10, 12, 15, to Latin America, 15 hour flight.
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Watch one movie. Maybe watch another movie. And then read a little bit. And then what?
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So, I thought, I spent so much time. Why don’t I condition myself, train myself to do something creative?
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While I fly.
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There’s no phones, no disturbance. It’s really good.
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So, I trained myself like Pavlov’s dog when the bell rings (salivating noise).
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When the airplane goes up you …
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Yeah, when the fast new secret thing goes off.
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… I salivate.
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I start up my computer.
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And I write a text that I can finish while I’m flying.
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So, a short story. I’m going to publish two volumes of short stories sometime.
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Poetry. Something like that.
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I’ve been doing that for 25 years. And then came Covid.
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In the Covid times, I couldn’t work.
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We were in Greece. We were in a wonderful place at home.
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We have our dojo. We have olives there.
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We have nature. We can go to the beach.
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We were actually really good. But I didn’t want to get vaccinated.
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It doesn’t suit my philosophy of medicine.
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Whatever other people do, I respect.
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So, if somebody wanted to do it, I support it.
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You want to do it? You do it for your health.
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You’re worried for your health, you want to get vaccinated? Fine with me.
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I worry about my health and I didn’t want to vaccinate.
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It’s the same. Exactly the same. No conflict.
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So, however, that meant I couldn’t work.
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I couldn’t go to many countries because I didn’t have the certificate and I was not going to cheat or …
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I know places in India where I can get fake something.
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I didn’t want it. So, I just said, as long as I can’t work, I won’t.
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And I will not make a compromise either by teaching online because, for me, that’s out of the question.
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I don’t like it.
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I love people. I want to touch them. I want to be with them.
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And if I can’t, then I will not find a way around it. I will just not do it and wait until I can.
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So, I’m sitting there with nothing to do. Okay, I have my olives. I have my veggie garden.
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I have my family. So, I spent four or five years with my family.
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It was such a blessing.
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It was so nice.
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I’m really glad for that. So, thank you, Covid.
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For me, personally, it was fantastic.
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And!
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I finally had time to put my texts, my literature, my poetic stuff together and weave parcels, weave them into books.
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One of the problems was that I realized a few years ago I had like six or seven hundred texts that were written in the past 25 years.
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But they were all on different subjects.
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How to put them together? I have a friend who’s a documentary filmmaker from Italy.
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And he said, ‚Arjava, you have to find a red thread that leads through these … and then weave them together.‘
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So, I thought, okay, during Covid suddenly I had lots of time.
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Before I never had enough time to do this project.
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I thought, ‚What is there that is a repetitive thing in some of the texts?‘
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And I realized the first one was about love.
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A lot of the texts go like, ‚Doo, do, do, do, do, do, she said.‘
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And ’she‘ is sometimes my wife whom I adore, my muse, my goddess, my best friend, my everything.
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Sometimes ’she‘ is God.
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Sometimes ’she‘ can be Osho.
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Sometimes ’she‘ can be you who have shared some wisdom with me.
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So, ’she‘ was just a synonym for divinity, for transcendence, for beauty, for love.
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So, I realized there were lots of texts like that, ‚Blah, blah, blah, ’she‘ said.‘
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And I did a search in my documents and found all the – I put some keywords –
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all the texts that have to do with love. And that became the first of the poetry books, ‚Love Speaks.‘
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I didn’t write them recently. I just put them together recently.
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Then, I thought, ‚Okay, now after love, what’s the next important issue?‘
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I thought, ‚Oh, pain.‘
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Pain, hurt.
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So, I thought, ‚Let’s do a search and look how many of the texts have to do with some kind of pain.‘
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Pain, physical pain, emotional pain.
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Pain that you have with society.
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Pain that you have with others, with friends, conflicts, sickness, blah, blah, death, all that.
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And that became the second one called, ‚Promise me never to get hurt‘
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You can’t.
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It was provocative. Again, we are here, the provocation in my nature.
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Thinking about it since we discussed it this morning,
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I think partly has to do growing up with Osho, who was such a provocateur.
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I may have taken on some of his style of shaking people up.
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So, promise me never to get hurt, is not possible.
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But what I really meant was, promise me not to get traumatized by what happened to you.
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Retain your innocence.
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Even though you get hurt afterwards, you get out of it unhurt.
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Like that.
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And then the next one was called, ‚Night Walk.‘
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This was my nightly walks through the village.
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When I have philosophical thoughts.
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The one after that is called, ‚Longing for the Oneness.‘
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It’s all about the longing for unity, for oneness, for love, for all the nice things that we long for.
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And then the latest one is called, ‚Tender Awareness‘ which might be coming …
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…
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… might be delivered here, today or tomorrow.
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Yes.
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And then there are these books on short stories, two short story volumes.
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Haikus. I will publish some of the Haikus I’ve done soon. It’s almost done.
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But you, earlier on, you said there is an imminent project, which, and you said, maybe we discuss it later. This is a good time to …
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Yeah.
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One of the future projects, which is actually kind of complete …
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We’ve been asked many times to publish the poems of the Meiji Emperor,
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which were part of the Reiki practice because Usui sensei was giving them to his students.
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Because in Reiki, we don’t really have an ethical backbone, except for the Gokai, which are simple.
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But to add to that, he gave the poems of the Meiji Emperor.
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He was a prolific writer and Usui sensei chose 125 of those 10,000 or something poems and gave them to his students.
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And every president of the Usui Association then changed it a little bit.
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After Usui sensei’s death, they also changed some of the ones that he had because they were … patriotic.
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Politically inopportune to have them.
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Yeah. So they changed that because after World War II that was not appreciated anymore.
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Anyway, so we teamed up.
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We, my friend Patrick Lankau and Erie Luman, who is an incredible calligrapher.
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Wonderful.
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A beautiful person, both of them.
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A beautiful person, both of them.
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We teamed up and we thought, okay, let’s do an edition of the Meiji Emperor’s poems with her calligraphies.
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To die for!
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I mean, you see them, you just want to take one home and …
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And she gave an exhibition in Athens which you have pictures of which I would like you not to forget to show me later tonight maybe.
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I will. I will.
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This should be ready kind of as we speak.
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It will get published soon in German, English and Japanese. Three languages in one …
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In one book?
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In one book!
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Beautiful.
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Yeah, because we thought, ‚Okay, Patrick and me are German and many of our Reiki friends are German or German-speaking,
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good for them. But most of the people obviously are English-speaking and then a lot of the Reiki practitioners are Japanese.‘
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So we thought we can give some pleasure to everybody.
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Maybe we should have done Spanish too, but okay, maybe it’s a little bit too much.
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So that will come out shortly and you can look forward to that.
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And afterwards, I have written a Reiki book during Covid, not published yet.
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All about my practical experience with treatments.
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Thank you to our sponsors! This video depicts a segment of a four-day interview with Frank Arjava Petter.
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Translation: AI
Transcript: René Vögtli
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