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The Best Reiki Is Yours!
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‚Self-treatments are important, but essentially Reiki is compassion in action, is for you to share your blessings with others.‘
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Because this is what I learned from Chiyoko sensei is important.
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I would make a cross-reference to Zen Buddhism where they don’t say that you meditate in order to get enlightened,
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there is no carrot hanging here in the future, enlightenment and … (panting)
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And you will never get there.
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You will never get there. You can’t because it is here.
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But they say the actual sitting is enlightenment, it is enlightened action.
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For me Reiki is the same.
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The actual practice is the enlightened action.
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The practice of Reiki. And we don’t do it for a purpose either.
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You do it in German, we have a good word for that ‚absichtslos‘, without intention.
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Without intention.
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Of course you have to have some kind of intention first.
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If I see somebody limping by here and I think, ‚Oh, maybe I can help this person.‘
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There is intention.
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But then when she lays down, when they lay down, and I put my hands, I leave all the intention.
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This is a very beautiful way … In my tradition we emphasize what we call ‚to the highest good‘.
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In order for the practitioner to realize the highest good is much more or maybe entirely different
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to what my good intention at the beginning may have been.
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It’s not about you.
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Simple. Like that. But some intention must be there. Otherwise, you’re sitting here and you see this guy limping by and you just go,
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‚My! What a divine limp that is! So beautiful. God is incredible. How he can make such a beautiful limp.‘
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Then you don’t have the intention to help. You must have that. But then you let it go.
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And the cross-reference again to meditative practice, I know what it’s like when you have an intention to get something that you don’t have.
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It’s torture. I’ve tortured myself for so many years.
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Twenty years or so I tortured myself with that, always trying to get to that carrot which by definition you can never reach.
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So I know it really well.
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You know, when you spoke about Chiyoko sensei, about how she practiced, practiced, practiced over so many years.
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And now you’re saying that your future book will also emphasize the practice.
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I know that for example my wife would greatly applaud.
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She stands sometimes somewhat critical to my investing so much time in the videos we make right now and work with associations.
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Because she is a great defender of exactly that. Practice, practice, practice.
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Maybe you want to … because you did mention in the break that it is worthwhile, re-emphasizing the importance,
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including the question which Jikiden has been criticized for,
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that in Jikiden Reiki there is too much emphasis on treating the man with the limp, other people, and not giving self-treatment.
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Please elaborate on that.
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Yeah, that’s a misunderstanding really.
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Obviously the self-treatment is very important.
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It’s very important and you do it, and you do it in a non-formal way.
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Which means when I’m sitting here, let’s say I know that my stomach is a little bit upset or so, I just sit like that.
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Or maybe I watch TV and I put my hand on my liver and my gallbladder like that.
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Or I sit like this after I injured my knee and that’s all.
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You go straight to … We follow Usui Sensei’s guidelines. He says when he’s asked, ‚How do you do this Reiki?‘
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He says, ‚Well, when you have a headache, you treat the head. When you have a stomach ache, you treat the stomach.‘
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And treating it, how do you do it? You put your hands on it.
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And Chiyoko sensei used to say in their dialect in Ishikawa, where she was from, they didn’t use to say,
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‚I give you Reiki or I do Reiki, but I switch on the Reiki.‘
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Like the light. She always said, this is like a light switch and the way it goes is on-off, like that.
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It doesn’t really matter where you turn the light on. Whether you use this switch or this switch or that or this.
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You put your hand on it and boom!
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So, self-treatments obviously are important.
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But: essentially, Reiki is compassion in action, is for you to share your blessings with others.
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That’s the traditional way of looking at it. It is not for you.
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Now, why is it not for you? Because in the Buddhist way of looking at things, there is no separate self. It is an illusion.
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And why should we encourage and strengthen that thing that doesn’t exist?
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The ‚me! me! me! me! me! me!‘ This has to go!
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It must go.
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You must destroy it.
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You must demolish that completely.
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That egocentric thinking.
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Don’t support it. Cut it.
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So, the illusion really is which has to go? The illusion of separateness?
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The illusion has to go. You have to wake up from that dream.
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You wake up by not supporting it.
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By not taking more sleeping pills.
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But wake up, shake up!
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It’s refreshing listening to you even to the point that Mrs. Yamaguchi was saying ‚on-off‘, as you just demonstrated.
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Of course, Hawayo Takata exactly used the same physical explanation and illustration and even the same words ‚on-off‘.
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She used the same words, I heard from some of her students. I don’t remember who it was.
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They said to me, ‚Oh, Takata used to say the same thing.‘
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Yeah, yeah.
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Exactly. But they had the same teacher, what do you expect?
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And I think we’re well advised to bear that in our awareness that, like you keep on emphasizing, at the end of the day there is
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one source and there may be different ways of interpreting, presenting, teaching it, translating it into practices.
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But at the end of the day, we are doing the same thing.
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If you ask me, I have done a book, we have it here, maybe you can find it, one of the pink ones.
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Two more down.
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Two more down?
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Yes, yes, this one.
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The ‚Reiki Best Practices‘.
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This is called ‚Reiki Best Practice‘.
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I remember when that came out. I did it together with Walter Lübeck.
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It was a great project.
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I remember when the first time somebody came to get it autographed by me – don’t remember where that was –
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I took the book, I hadn’t seen it printed before because very often wherever I live I can’t get the books so quickly, the readers get them first.
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So, before I could think about what I was going to write in their book, I wrote the best technique is the one that you don’t need anymore.
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And then I thought, ‚Oops, what did I just write in a book that’s all about techniques?‘
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So, Reiki is not a technique.
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The techniques take you there to that point where you throw them all out the window.
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Reiki is not a technique. Reiki is just put your hand on it, finish.
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End of story.
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The techniques… Like in India they say, ‚The master technician throws his instrument away.‘
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Or breaks his instrument because you don’t need it anymore.
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You’ve learned the lesson. So for me Reiki is like that. And I’ve always been advocating that.
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So when I give lectures, also when I was giving lectures in Jikiden Reiki,
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meetings and congresses, I was always pushing the thing that Reiki is all one.
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There is nothing better.
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How can your Reiki be better than mine?
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In the beginning in Germany or in the West when Reiki was spreading all over the world, there were some rifts
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between different Reiki schools and the direct Takata lineage to the Reiki Alliance.
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They had some kind of arrogance thinking we are the best and the others are no good.
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And …(groaning)
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I didn’t like that. I was having this allergic reaction every time I felt this arrogance of people thinking … ‚My Reiki is better than yours.‘
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‚Mine is bigger than yours.‘
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So. Many times in Jikiden Reiki congresses I’ve talked about this issue
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because I know that even in our own association people start to do the same thing.
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They start to say, ‚Ah, we are doing traditional Reiki and you are just doing Western Reiki and ours is better.‘
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That’s really against my deep understanding and knowing.
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Because this, I can only say it again,
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what comes out of here is absolutely pure, unpolluted and unpollutable life force and it will be that from any Reiki practitioner.
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And if you ask me what is the right way to practice Reiki, I would say, ‚The way that you do it is the right way.‘
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That’s it.
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For everybody.
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Your way.
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The way you do it that suits your character.
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Your kind of touch. Some people have more of a hard touch.
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Because it suits their character. For me that’s fine.
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I’m more soft.
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Okay.
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Somebody else, a woman is different from a man. It’s different from a young person. It’s different from an old person.
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Like Chiyoko Sensei’s hands, I remember. I can feel her touching me now.
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And this I like. She had this very distinctive, her own way of doing it.
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Beautiful.
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This is what I aspire to.
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And this is what I would like to pass on to people to find their own way to do it.
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Translation: AI
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