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No Master Symbol – No Master Initation
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‚Mastery is given to you by your teacher when you are ready. You don’t need a symbol for that. You need your readiness.‘
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We are looking for some of the lighter topics to discuss. I’ve got a very easy, light one.
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One of the major differences between your, Jikiden’s and the Gakkai’s, Japanese practice and the Western Reiki style is
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that there is no initiation into the teacher’s level.
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I promised you an easy topic.
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In other words, no master’s initiation. Is this understanding correct?
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What do you define as teacher’s training?
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And the question of the master symbol is somewhere in the air. Where did this come from?
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Oh, an easy question.
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That’s what I promised. Easy … easy food.
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No conflict at all.
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No conflict in this at all.
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Nice. So, basically there is no initiation into a level.
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This is the … maybe the difference between the Eastern, the traditional approach and the Western approach.
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We think you are initiated into Reiki 1.
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You are initiated into a symbol. You are initiated into it and if you are not, you can’t use it.
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And you are initiated into Reiki 2, higher.
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But in the Japanese way of thinking, you are not initiated into a symbol or into a degree. You are initiated into Reiki.
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And that’s it. And that is repeated again and again because we have bad habits.
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And that habit is such: They believe that where your third eye is, somewhere in the centre of your brain, the pituitary gland.
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Where that is, they consider is the seat of the soul.
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And that seat of the soul is connected by an invisible channel to source, the collective soul.
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So, they don’t believe in an individual soul, but more like the Christian mystics like Meister Eckhart or St. John of the Cross,
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that we are in the soul. We are swimming in it like fish swimming in the soul sea.
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So we are all connected to source via this invisible channel.
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And when you are a child, when you are a child growing in your mom’s belly, that is given to you by the gods, by nature.
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And then when you are born, basically you are connected, perfectly connected.
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And all the channels that are there are beautifully open, in a way enlightened, but lacking awareness.
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So the realization always needs to have the thing plus the awareness of that,
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that you realize that you are that, that you are one with God, with the universe, but you don’t know when you are a child.
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You are just acting it, but you don’t know it.
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And then education sets in. And we are not talking about …
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school- or university education, but in general: society, your parents, your teachers, your siblings, your culture, your everything.
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And the more that you are educated, the more that inner channel plugs up.
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And the initiation, in Japanese we call it ‚Leiju‘ (Reiju) is just a cleansing of that channel from obstruction.
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And what is that obstruction? It’s ego.
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The idea of a separate individual self that is not one with the whole.
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You cleanse that. And because we are so used to and so – I don’t know, is there such a word ‚habituated‘ – thinking that we are
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separate, that needs to be repeated again and again.
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So it’s really, it’s a cleansing. It’s like what we said earlier, that ‚reset‘.
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Reset button. You get reset again and again and again and again with the hope that someday you get it.
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You understand that, ‚Ah …! I’m one with the universe. How nice!‘
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So it’s not that you’re initiated into a symbol or into a certain kind of level something. No, your obstructions are cleansed again and again.
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This has a self-cleansing mechanism, this inner channel.
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So just like when you go on a long vacation, you come back, you turn on your kitchen sink, it goes…
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‚Ohh, vuh, vuh, vuh, vuh, vuh ….‘ All this brown stuff comes out.
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The thing that cleanses that inner obstruction are your hands and that’s why the treatments are so important.
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Every time you put your hand on somebody, including yourself, it’s like opening the tap wherever in the house, in the kitchen,
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in the bathroom, in the basement, it doesn’t matter. And that keeps that channel clear.
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So, once that has been cleared, Hayashi sensei said three times in Shoden and then two more times in Okuden, you’re okay for life.
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But because we have bad habits, it’s good to repeat. And Hayashi sensei said,
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‚Good to repeat once a month for your students, to cleanse.‘ Because we easily go back to our old habits.
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So this is one thing, the difference between one approach and the other.
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We don’t think that you open chakras or there’s nothing to open. Everything is open, everything is perfect.
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You are as you are, you are just perfect.
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The nature or God or whatever you may call it is not stupid, doesn’t make imperfection.
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It makes René just unique and beautiful, perfect.
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So, you don’t need to open anything and you don’t need to force anything. Everything is right as it is … just need some cleansing.
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Like, I mean, in a way, like your body is beautiful as it is, but once in a while it’s good to take a shower.
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It’s simple. Like that.
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Now, the master …
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Can I just first interrupt you here?
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Because you said something about differences.
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In the Western Reiki style I learned, there is such a thing as – in the Reiki groups – to do the, we might call it re-initiation.
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It’s actually the first of the four initiations in the Reiki 1, which in my practice we are doing regularly too, with the very same idea behind it.
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We don’t call it Reiju, the Japanese name, but clearly to me the origin is the same.
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It must be, you know, that’s where it comes from.
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Yes.
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And in the Japanese groups we don’t have different initiations for different degrees.
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It’s always the same.
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Same, because we consider that you are not initiated into a degree, into a level higher, better, whatever different,
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but it’s always the same, You are initiated into Reiki.
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That’s it.
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So, of course, the origins are all the same. It comes from that.
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Now the master level.
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The master level … This has been one of those subjects, one of my favourite subjects, something that I’ve been talking about for …
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28, 29, 30 years almost.
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So, very soon when we talked to Ogawa sensei, and then later on when I talked to Chiyoko sensei,
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we found out that there is no master symbol in Jikiden Reiki, in the Usui association. They don’t have that.
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There is no such thing.
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And there is no need either for that because the mastery …
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the mastery … or the permission to teach is given to you by your teacher when you are ready.
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You don’t need a symbol for that.
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You need your readiness. You need to have done your homework. When you have done your homework, you are ready to do it.
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So, there is no magic that you need or no …
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What you need is the skills you have acquired by the work you have done.
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And when the teacher sees, ‚Ah, he has done his homework, he knows how to teach, he has lots of experience,
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has done lots of treatments‘, you are ready to go.
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I discussed it with a friend who was my daughter’s Kung Fu teacher.
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He was saying to me, ‚You know, when we do the tests for the belts, all the different belts, do you think
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that I would ask one of my students who is not ready to come and do the exam? Why would I do such a thing? I know who is ready!
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And when you come to the examination for the whatever belt, you are there because you have done your work, you are ready …
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The examination and the giving of the belt is just a …‘
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What do you call it?
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…. (whispering) Ahh! A moment of silence!
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‚An excuse.‘
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An excuse?
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An excuse!
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It’s also a ritual.
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A ritual.
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An excuse, a ritual.
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But the real thing is already done.
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So when your teacher says, ‚Hey, you would make a good teacher, how about that?‘
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He or she says that to you because you have done your homework, you are ready. You are ready to do it and that’s it.
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That’s all it takes.
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And the teacher initiation, again, is the same again as all the other initiations or Reiju are.
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Same, same, no difference.
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No symbol, no new symbol, no nothing.
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So the conferring of the ‚mastery‘, it happens because you are ready for it.
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That’s it. And now the question is, how does the teacher decide whether you are ready for it or not?
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This is a complex situation. I’ve discussed this at home so many times.
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One thing we know, not everybody is a teacher. We know that. It’s not for everybody.
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Some people have that teacher’s gene and some people don’t.
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In the traditional style, they considered that it was okay for somebody to learn how to initiate others just for their family.
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So they didn’t actually have to go out and become a teacher if they wanted to learn how to initiate and take care of their own kids
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and their parents and their husband or wife, that was okay.
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But how do you decide whether somebody is ready for teaching? Do you judge their spiritual development?
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Oooh?!
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I don’t want to do that.
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How do I know?
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In the Japanese belief, they believe, and ‚believe‘ is not quite the right word ..
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For them, reincarnation is a fact.
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Their mind-set, their … instead of belief, their worldview, their…
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Yeah, worldview maybe. Belief sounds intellectual. For them, that’s just how it is.
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You keep coming back to learn, learn, learn, learn, learn, learn.
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Thousands and thousands of times.
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And what we see – you and me, here –
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we see just one slide, one time-frame of what seems to be happening now, but I don’t see all your past lives and all the work you have done.
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So how am I going to judge your spiritual development? I cannot.
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Not possible.
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So in Jikiden Reiki, they have a way to do it, just putting a number on it, saying,
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‚Okay, you have to do so and so many treatments, you have to document it.‘
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And that’s how the possibility of becoming a teacher is decided.
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Not by your spiritual development, but by the practice you have had.
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So basically, the different teachers‘ levels in the Japanese system all depend on your experience.
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The more experienced people get more responsibilities.
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More experience gets more responsibilities. Like that.
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It’s nice. Nice way to do it.
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But there’s no master symbol.
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