00:00:32.388 –> 00:00:49.820 I already asked about succession, with Tadao in Jikiden Reiki and in your own … And within that question, or behind that question,
00:00:50.562 –> 00:01:04.711 there is a fear, there is a concern in the Reiki community that the hierarchy, if I may call it that, within Jikiden is
00:01:04.711 –> 00:01:11.879 very much developing into something we’ve already seen before, the OGM, the Office of Grandmaster.
00:01:14.342 –> 00:01:23.746 This is something many of us – me included, I have an opinion on that – are not necessarily supporting.
00:01:24.888 –> 00:01:38.874 So this fear of the structure within Jikiden paralleling, or repeating possibly, the development of the OGM. Can you relate to that?
00:01:49.913 –> 00:01:56.770 It’s really … it’s a tricky question, because we have in our history
00:01:57.728 –> 00:02:04.012 Takata sensei, who was really responsible for saving Reiki after World War II.
00:02:04.012 –> 00:02:08.668 If she hadn’t been there, we wouldn’t know about it, none of us.
00:02:08.901 –> 00:02:10.196 We wouldn’t be sitting here.
00:02:10.196 –> 00:02:13.902 We wouldn’t be sitting here. That’s clear.
00:02:13.982 –> 00:02:16.438 So, she saved it.
00:02:18.258 –> 00:02:20.247 Thank God, she did.
00:02:21.169 –> 00:02:26.439 But then when she … When she passed,
00:02:27.525 –> 00:02:29.942 somebody had to take over.
00:02:30.749 –> 00:02:39.106 It happened to be her granddaughter, kind of natural, daughter, granddaughter, son, husband.
00:02:40.199 –> 00:02:43.043 So, it happened that way. So, the …
00:02:47.214 –> 00:02:48.956 … business …
00:02:51.984 –> 00:03:00.859 the teaching, the business got mixed into a family business. And that’s always tricky.
00:03:01.952 –> 00:03:06.599 With Jikiden Reiki, obviously it’s the same, because it’s a family.
00:03:07.492 –> 00:03:16.279 So, this will be a challenge for those who continue with that, to decide which way they want to go.
00:03:17.901 –> 00:03:23.622 Do they want to be a family business? Do they want to be something else?
00:03:24.279 –> 00:03:33.344 It’s very, very tricky. It has to be considered cautiously. So I don’t know what they are going to do.
00:03:46.293 –> 00:03:55.477 We would see. So I can’t really say anything about that. But I see your point. And this is something that Usui sensei,
00:03:55.734 –> 00:04:08.116 in his Kokai Denju, or the public teaching declaration, he addresses. So, from the very beginning of Reiki, that thing is there.
00:04:09.423 –> 00:04:16.458 That dynamic is there. And he said that, ‚Okay, it’s been a habit in the past that somebody who has
00:04:17.038 –> 00:04:26.508 received a spiritual secret as a present from the universe is then using that for the well-being of the financial well-being of their family and
00:04:26.508 –> 00:04:31.480 I’m breaking with that tradition now. And I do a different thing.‘
00:04:32.594 –> 00:04:49.529 And the natural … ’natural‘ human way to deal with this kind of thing is exactly the opposite of what he talked about. Of course. Yeah?
00:04:49.529 –> 00:04:57.230 So if you have a bakery, of course you’re going to inherit it to one of your kids.
00:04:59.280 –> 00:05:05.068 But when you mix family business and spirituality, it’s tricky.
00:05:05.068 –> 00:05:06.714 That’s where it becomes very tricky.
00:05:06.714 –> 00:05:13.958 Very tricky! How you deal with that? And it takes, I think, great emotional intelligence to deal with that properly.
00:05:51.480 –> 00:05:59.236 So, I hope and I trust that whoever is involved there will find a good way to do this.
00:05:59.743 –> 00:06:06.480 And in Jikiden Reiki the same, I hope and I trust that they will find a good way to deal with it.
00:06:06.709 –> 00:06:15.974 And it’s in transition. You know, the same is true for the O-G-M. There is a transition with Johannes Reindl. Everybody is expecting,
00:06:16.181 –> 00:06:23.737 hoping that there is a transformation, a continuation which benefits us all.
00:06:24.337 –> 00:06:37.663 Like I mentioned, there is a great opening which I’m very joyful about, where he accepts basically every style and he is open to everyone.
00:06:38.056 –> 00:06:48.673 And from what I hear happening with you and Jikiden Reiki, there is a possibility of transformation happening. So let’s see how that continues.
00:06:48.673 –> 00:07:02.302 Yeah, we see how it goes. I have no idea. I don’t know. I can only wish for everyone to untangle this because it’s not easy to deal with.
00:07:02.302 –> 00:07:14.523 So for example, the people who followed Takata sensei, they were taught certain things that were not correct.
00:07:14.787 –> 00:07:20.573 Takata sensei changed – maybe for safety reasons for her own physical …
00:07:21.437 –> 00:07:22.009 Survival.
00:07:22.009 –> 00:07:27.282 … safety, survival. And in that respect that was good.
00:07:27.732 –> 00:07:33.587 But then somebody comes who questions all of that. Me. Of course they get upset.
00:07:33.744 –> 00:07:40.434 I understand that. I would have been upset if I was in their position.
00:07:40.434 –> 00:07:49.623 So when you mix the family business and the teaching, there are loyalties, very…
00:07:51.059 –> 00:07:51.859 Complex.
00:07:52.201 –> 00:07:54.044 It’s very complex.
00:10:32.380 –> 00:10:49.221 One of the things that often leads to conflict in something like Reiki, in an association or in a group of people,
00:10:49.221 –> 00:10:56.316 is when the founding fathers are not seen. We don’t have that problem. We have them.
00:10:57.551 –> 00:11:06.144 They are always here with us. Usui sensei. Hayashi sensei – always present, being filmed with us.
00:11:06.144 –> 00:11:12.723 So I don’t think there’s a problem really. It’s just really ego stuff.
00:11:13.009 –> 00:11:18.437 That ego stuff we are going to have to look at and solve.
00:11:18.437 –> 00:11:26.809 We cannot give the responsibility to somewhere in the past. We are making that. We are creating that.
00:11:26.894 –> 00:11:29.544 And we therefore can also mend it again.
00:11:29.544 –> 00:11:31.480 Can solve it. Exactly!
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3:55 Kokai Denju is mentioned also in A21 – Uusi’s vision statement which is anti ‚family succession‘ (OGM)
3:55 Kokai Denju is mentioned also in A21 – Uusi’s vision statement which is anti ‚family succession‘ (OGM)