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The ‘Master Symbol’ Has a Long History – or Does It?
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‚Forget the philosophical nonsense. Just do Reiki. The differences are really insubstantial.‘
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How did the Master symbol get into it?
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You already asked Phyllis, so I don’t need to say anything about that.
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Actually, I can’t remember. I don’t think I asked her.
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Because to me, that was not such a relevant question insofar that in my tradition, in her tradition, a Master symbol exists.
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There is an initiation, I take your point with all due respect, ‚onto‘ the Master level.
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But I agree with the sentiment of what you expressed, linguistic differences.
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So, for me, there was no big question to discuss this.
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And, in fact, my point of view is that in the Western development,
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and where the introduction of the Master symbol happened, whether that was still in the Eastern practice or only in the Western practice,
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is rather irrelevant to me personally, because it is here for us in our practice, and it serves us well.
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We should be careful to condemn those who have a different practice, such as yours.
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Again, my question was insofar a little bit loaded, because I partially knew the answer you would give me,
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and I had the intention to say, well, isn’t this great? There is so much less difference between the Eastern and the Western tradition
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than many of us think.
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Because even in the Western tradition, the concept which you just described is alive.
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And there are even Takata Masters who never got initiated into the third level with the same background.
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And, you know, even of the very few who are still alive,
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there are some amongst us who did not get the Masters initiation.
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Later on in the development, particularly in the branch, in Usui Shiki Ryoho,
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with or without the OGM – my history and practice is without –
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but in Usui Shiki Ryoho, the Master symbol attained a present and a cherished value, which is part of my tradition and suits me very well.
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I’m not against it. It’s beautiful. I know where it comes from.
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In the Kurama Temple, they have three main deities.
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One is Senju Kannon, the 1000-armed Bodhisattva of Compassion.
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Then they have Bishamonten, another one of the heavenly generals in Buddhism.
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And then Goho Mao-son, who is a Kurama own deity that came from Venus six and a half million years ago,
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when Venus was still occupied by men with big beards.
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So, it was before women arrived on Venus.
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And they represent love, light and power.
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So, these three. Each one is represented by a Sanskrit seed syllable.
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Sanskrit seed syllable. A seed syllable is a syllable that has the ability to give birth to a Buddha.
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And when you put these three together, love, light and power, the ultimate principle is what they call in Kurama ‚Sonten‘,
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which is the same as the Master symbol in Reiki. So, it’s a very, very beautiful concept.
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I have no problem with that at all.
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Only thing is,
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in the Usui Association, in Jikiden Reiki, it’s not being used and in the Takata schools, it is used.
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If you were somebody insecure wondering, ‚What do I do? I read in your book, there is no Master symbol. What am I going to do now?‘
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I would tell them, ‚You just keep using it the way you learn to use it.‘
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And what is wrong with it? Nothing wrong.
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There’s nothing wrong. It’s beautiful.
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This is the book where you address this.
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Of all the work you have written Arjava – I knew immediately the page where I had to open, in German, it’s actually page 110.
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I discovered it’s page 120 in the English version.
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You know it better than me.
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… that, to me, is like …
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That was a revelation when I read this!
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… So liberating. Also what you just said, that ‚If that is your practice, René, and if you cherish it, by all means, keep on doing that.‘
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What is wrong with that? It’s beautiful. The concept is so beautiful.
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I don’t want to talk about it now on film, because for some people, that belongs into a master class.
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So, I don’t want to disturb your tradition, let’s say.
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But it’s such a beautiful thing, yeah? It’s ancient. It’s a Buddhist concept.
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Very beautiful. Nothing wrong with that, yeah? Just…
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Actually, that was in your book ‚This is Reiki‘, which is where I found this.
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And what intrigued me also: We both have an affinity to India.
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And, of course, these three God beings, which you said, there is an Indian origin to it.
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In other words, Sonten, which pronounced in a different way, is then the pronunciation of the, what we call the Master symbol.
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But if you take these three deities, which you mentioned, there is, I believe, a Hindu context to it.
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Two of them for sure.
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Senju Kannon and Bishamonten are from India. Of course.
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But Goho Mao-son is not.
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That one is from Venus.
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That one is from Venus, not from India.
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Not from India.
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Like that. So, it’s all good.
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I’m very happy with how we got here.
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I don’t want to … Keep your thought if I interrupted you.
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You wanted something light. This was one of the very hot topics for many, many people.
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I’m extremely happy how we covered it. My question to you at this point is, how do you feel?
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Have we duly, respectfully addressed this question? Or is there something else you feel you’d like to address?
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No. I think we got it. Nice.
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Nice, yeah? So, the thing is that we, obviously, we have seen that the Western Reiki – not being a derogative term, just a
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geological distinction … geographical, sorry, geographical distinction – has developed differently from Reiki in Japan.
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And that’s okay with me.
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So … Just …
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If you feel comfortable with what you do, you practice that.
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And …
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If you don’t feel comfortable with what you do, look into your heart and find out
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what it is that is lacking, or where you feel uncomfortable, what is it, and then fix that.
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So, you can forget about all the philosophical nonsense and everything and just do your Reiki.
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Just put your hands on your clients.
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That’s the important thing.
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The differences are really insubstantial.
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So, I look at …
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I look at Reiki like … What do we speak now, American English? Soccer?
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Football.
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Football.
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I like football. I grew up in Germany, I like football.
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My son is a very good football player.
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Soccer, then.
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Soccer player …
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So, for me, Reiki is like football.
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And … if we want to play football together,
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we need to have different teams.
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You cannot play with yourself.
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You need different teams.
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And if we want to have events, and if we want to have lots of fun, then we do championships.
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It’s not about one being better than the other or beating, but to play together, we need many different players and many different teams.
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Reiki is the same. We need many different players and many different teams.
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And all they do is they play football.
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And let’s not forget that.
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They do Reiki. Let’s really not forget that.
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It’s funny that what I heard from what you said earlier, that there are so many people out there who think that
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I’m basically … I got into this because I wanted to make trouble. It’s the exact opposite!
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I didn’t want to make trouble. I long for harmony and for love and kindness.
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You like a fun championship with many teams playing and having a good time.
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I like, I like, yes. I like that.
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So it’s kind of funny, that on one hand, I’m here to create polarity, but really … I like that polarity,
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but I like it as one package.
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Yeah, actually …
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First of all, thank you for making … for celebrating the diversity with your analogy to the many football players and the teams.
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The last part you said, when you used your hands, I saw a ball, I saw the yin-yang, and I saw them dance with each other.
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Yeah, I was thinking of the beach again because we live by the beach. It’s the two sides of the beach.
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It’s the same beach that we’re on. It’s …
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Nice.
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Let’s play.
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Translation: AI
Transcript: René Vögtli
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