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A53 Too Much Standardisation, Too Little Reiki
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‚Think about what is really necessary.‘
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Should we try and make sure that I’ve gone through all the loose ends?
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Yeah.
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A few things.
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Let’s talk about standardization. What I wrote down was, there is an understandable desire for people to standardize things.
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We like to have orientation and an agreement also between us, what is criminal, what is permissible.
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So, standardization is not a bad thing per se.
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Also, many people like to have a leader, a captain of a ship,
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who leads and takes decision. Which is understandable, too.
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I think one of the challenges of people like yourselves is to accept that in many occasions in your life,
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you bore the responsibility to be upfront and give answers and tap into wisdom.
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But the challenge is to let go of that position in other situations and say, ‚I’m actually just a humble learner here.‘
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What do you say to people who would like to standardize and governing rules implemented into the practice of Reiki?
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So first of all, for me, Reiki is not a technique.
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Reiki is on-off.
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So I am generally speaking not very happy with the standardization.
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Because to me, the way that I experience Reiki is that – and the way I learned it – is that this is the switch.
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And you can switch on the Reiki in any electrical switch that there is in the body that means wherever you touch,
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you turn that thing on, you turn the Reiki on.
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And then the whole being lights up when you touch the body.
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It doesn’t really matter whether the hands are like this or like this or like this or like this, doesn’t matter at all.
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It’s all the same once the light goes on, the light goes on.
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One thing that I’ve noticed in my spiritual adventures … I have met many spiritual teachers.
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I spent many years with one of them, with Osho.
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I noticed that while the master is there,
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there are very few rules and the standardization really begins after the master is gone.
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To somehow … because the master keeps the, the ‚master‘ keeps the attention,
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keeps the attention in the space by her or his presence.
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When they are gone, we substitute that by rules.
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There I have a problem with this.
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I understand that we must standardize things in some way.
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Otherwise everybody will do something completely different and people will get confused.
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So you need some standards. Some standards are good.
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You know. If I say, ‚Oh, Reiki, poor Reiki teaching, we don’t need standards‘
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then the Reiki class with Arjava will be one hour on Wednesdays. And the group with René will be six days, full days.
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The people will say, ‚Now, what is better, one hour with Arjava or six days with René?‘
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So we need to have some kind of standards, but as little as possible.
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To leave a lot of space for freedom. So for me, rules are rules or standards are …
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Let’s go back to football or soccer, what you call it?
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We cannot play football all over the world.
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Like, I’m in Greece and you are here and we would say, ‚Hey, René, let’s play football.‘ It doesn’t work.
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So we need to have a pitch, the football pitch. We need to have the goals.
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We need to have the lines that belong on the football field. And in that field, we can move freely.
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But we need some kind of structure, otherwise we can’t play. With Reiki the same.
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So for me, as little as possible of standardization.
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Yes, I’m with you. Sorry, have I interrupted you?
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No.
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You know, the emergence of the OGM in the 90s with Phyllis and the standardization and the rules they had,
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that created so many frictions. that we have already discussed.
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Then we’ve seen the Yamaguchis and Jikiden Reiki emerging and also establishing certain ways how to practice,
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which Mrs Yamaguchi didn’t have before, in order to teach classes internationally.
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That also created a lot of friction then with, as I said, with Jikiden youngsters coming out saying,
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‚We have the very original way of teaching,‘
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Which is of course a contradiction because it was … ’standardized‘ may be the wrong word, but it was put in a certain form.
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How can we … What can you and I contribute,
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that these developments where standardization is evolving into a burden, a liability and it doesn’t surface anymore?
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What can we do? I mean, in your case, you are at the point where you actually left Jikiden Reiki or your position in Jikiden Reiki.
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So what can we do and share with our viewers so that this need for regulation, which we honor and treasure,
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can be given and yet how can we prevent that it becomes like a self-fulfilling prophecy of dichotomies and fighting and so on?
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I think the most simple solution is to go back to the roots of Reiki, ask yourself, where did it come from?
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And then we see, Usui sensei fasting to death on Mount Kurama and ‚Ting!‘ having this spiritual experience.
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Then he comes back down, he verifies his enlightenment with his teacher and the teacher says,
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‚Now my son, you must teach.‘ Because …
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In Japanese culture, if enlightenment is a dissolution of ego, of self, it can’t be for you because there’s nobody there,
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nobody left to be thinking of themselves. It’s great!
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‚Phoa! I’m enlightened. Now, wow! I’m so good, ohhh!‘
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The purpose is to teach, to share your happiness, your bliss, your transcendence, your beauty, your overflowing love with others.
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So let’s go back to this point, what Reiki is for. And that’s what’s important in Reiki.
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It’s not how you – exactly – how you put your hand or how you do this or that.
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The point is: Reiki is the way of …. not ‚to‘ but ‚of‘ enlightenment.
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Not ‚to‘ enlightenment!
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So let’s go back to that and work on that.
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That’s important. That’s the only important thing.
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Of course, the practice, the actual practice, is one of the tools that takes us there and that’s wonderful.
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That’s nice.
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So there must be some kind of standardization. But what did Usui sensei say?
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He said, ‚When you have a headache, you treat the head. When you have a stomach … you treat the stomach.‘
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Yeah, that’s all well and nice to say. But we’re living in the 21st century.
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Reiki in the meantime has become mainstream, one could say. You see it on criminal stories on television.
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You see it mainstream.
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And there is an understandable and, in my opinion, a healthy endeavour on the way to implement Reiki as a presence
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to everybody in society, that everybody has access.
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So questions come up like acceptance by the field of medical doctors, by medical aid companies, by politicians. The law is a question.
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We have the example of Germany who had a decision of the highest level of court, which was extremely helpful.
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And in order to build a bridge between what you just said and the realities of life today,
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it may, in a way, not be enough to say, ‚Well, hands-on, hands-off is enough.‘
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Of course, you need minimum standards. Something has to be organized.
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And I think everybody concerned with that, the professional Reiki associations all over the world, they are working on that.
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I agree, totally.
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So you have to have some kind of framework, which is like the football pitch.
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So you have to decide what belongs to a Reiki education.
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Obviously, the initiations, the Reiju, belongs to it. And if yes, how many are there? So this would be a good thing to decide.
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Then it would definitely, from my point of view, be good to say, in a Reiki 1 course, there are certain things you must learn.
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You must learn how to treat yourself. You must learn how to treat others.
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You must have practiced that.
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Hands on.
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From my point of view, Byosen, which is the essential practical application of Reiki, this is what one should learn.
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Then there should be some kind of minimum hours, I think, really not less than two days for Reiki 1.
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I do it in three.
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But okay, there is space. Some people maybe can do it faster.
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Then for Reiki 2, you have to learn distant healing. And you have to learn working on psycho-emotional issues.
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And you have to practice that with your teacher.
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So … These kind of things, technical things, I think are very good and should be somewhat standardized.
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I agree. Totally.
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And code of conducts, I believe, belong in there too.
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Code of conducts, of course,
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that we do our treatments fully clothed, that we tell our clients where and how we’re going to touch them and all that.
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That, of course. It’s clear.
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The easiest way to do that would be to have some kind of application form or release form that you give your clients to sign,
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where you state those things.
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Which is dictated by local laws that we need to adhere to …
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Absolutely! So I’m not saying, ‚Okay, now do whatever you want.‘ I don’t mean that. But make minimum standards,
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think about what it really needs, what is absolutely necessary, what a Reiki person has to have.
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So whoever goes to a Reiki treatment worldwide can be sure that certain standards are being met.
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It’s the same when you go to an acupuncturist or to the doctor or to the carpenter.
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Translation: AI
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