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‚As Learned‘, Not ‚Better‘
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‚We all do ‚Usui Reiki‘! Jikiden is just the name of the school, it’s not the name of the Reiki.‘
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I’m going to read out this question as I had written it down.
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I know you’ve addressed it. Just try and absorb it and see whether you want to add something or
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whether you say everything has been said already.
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The Jikiden system changed over time. You had to systemize it.
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The Yamaguchi’s had to systemize it.
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Yet Westerners feel, Western people feel that you personally and Jikiden insinuate that the changes they made were abbreviations,
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that you insinuate that the changes we made to the systems were abbreviations and alterations no longer
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resembling the original system as taught by Usui – Hayashi.
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The question now: Can you clarify this and what would Jikiden Reki need to develop into
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so that it would make a contribution to the reconciliation in the world?
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So as far as I know, the Jikiden Reki teaching didn’t change at all. Not at all from what I learned, it’s the same.
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Exactly the same, no change.
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Jikiden Reki: The word ‚jiki‘ means ‚direct‘ or ’straight‘,
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‚den‘ means ‚teaching‘ or ‚transmission‘ and really means ‚traditional‘.
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So, the …
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By definition, the traditional teaching can’t change, because then it’s not traditional anymore.
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This is maybe the strong point of the Jikiden Reiki, that it is what it is. It’s today and it will be tomorrow.
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The teaching is still exactly the same, nobody has changed it.
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There are things in Jikiden Reiki that people say Tadao sensei created. I’m not aware of anything.
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The Gokai, for example, people said that Tadao changed it.
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That tradition was there ever since Usui Sensei.
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All the pictures we have of him or Hayashi sensei when they’re teaching, always sitting in front of the Gokai.
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So, I’m not aware of anything that he has changed in the teaching.
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Of course, there have been some changes because the organization … When I came,
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I was student number 10, I know because we had to write our name, address, phone number, email and stuff into a little,
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it’s called MEBO, a membership book.
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So, I was number 10 and now there are about 40,000. So some things have changed, but not the teaching.
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Teaching is the same.
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Actually, maybe the word Jikiden – and maybe it’s worth to elaborate, because very often non-Jikiden practitioners,
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they have the feeling that Jikiden means ‚authentic‘, ‚true‘.
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You just said it means ‚directly taught‘ or ‚directly handed down‘. So maybe there is a bit of a misunderstanding and
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by implication people, Western people, feel they’re saying they’re better because they are authentic and things like that.
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Clarify that a little bit.
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Okay, good idea. It’s a bit unfortunate because of the language.
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When Chiyoko sensei was found by other people who had previous Reiki experience.
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They thought, ‚Ah! She learned from Hayashi sensei. It would be interesting to learn from her to see her point of view.‘
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Like me, the same. You would have been the same.
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Absolutely.
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All of us thinking, ‚Phoa, we can learn from the source.‘
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As close as possible.
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As close as possible and without all the additions and without New Age things and
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without misunderstandings because there was no language barrier in between, it was just between Japanese people.
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So, I can relate to that.
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So those people … I can relate to that.
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Those people asked her, ‚Can you teach? You know how to teach? You know how to give Reiju?‘
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She said, ‚Yes.‘
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And then they asked her, ‚So now when you teach us, what are you going to call this?‘
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And she said, ‚Reiki is Reiki is Reiki. I would call it Reiki.‘
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Then the people said, these were Japanese Reiki practitioners, they said, ‚Ah, sensei, you don’t really understand the point here.
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When you have a baby, you can’t just call it ‚baby‘, but you have to give it some kind of name.‘ And she said, ‚No, no, Reiki is Reiki.‘
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Like me, I mean, it’s my teacher.
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Then people were going like, ‚Oh, she doesn’t get the point what we are trying to say because
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she was thinking something completely different.‘
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At some point somebody asked her, ‚What is the difference
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between what maybe we may have learned and what you will be teaching in the future? How will you be teaching?‘
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And she said – she used an adjective – she said,
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‚I will be teaching jikiden‘, which means ‚what I learned from Hayashi, I will not add my own stuff.‘
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So when … If you want to Google the word jikiden minus Reiki, you find all sorts of Japanese martial arts schools who say,
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‚I’m teaching what I learned from my sensei.‘ Not my own technique, like, let’s say, Hiroshi Doi. No judgment.
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Hiroshi Doi creates his own school, he calls it, Gendai, contemporary Reiki.
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So that’s his choice. He’s comfortable with that. Chiyoko sensei said,
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‚I’m not comfortable with making my own school or cocktail, but I will teach what I learned as good as I can from Hayashi sensei.‘
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The good thing about the Yamaguchi family was that, like in my family, the same story, everybody was doing Reiki.
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So, the first was Sugano, Chiyoko sensei’s uncle.
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He was very wealthy and he sponsored his whole tribe basically by chronological order
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to do Reiki classes with Hayashi sensei.
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I did the same.
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So, first his parents, then his wife’s parents, then his brothers and sisters, then his wife’s brothers and sisters.
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And so pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa. And the last one was little Chiyoko at the end.
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They didn’t have only her who knew Reiki, but all the cousins and everybody.
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And when they created the curriculum, it wasn’t only her, but it was her sister, her elder brother and the three of them got together
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and went through their memory, what it was, exactly how did they learn what was structured and they created it according to that.
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So …
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Jikiden Reiki is not a different type of Reiki.
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Like people ask me, they say, ‚Oh, I hear you do Jikiden Reiki. I do Usui Reiki.‘ And I’m like, ‚No, please!‘
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We all do Usui Reiki.
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But Jikiden is just the name of the school. It’s not the name of the Reiki.
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Actually, it wasn’t even a name proper. Like you said, it was an adjective. Like when we were speaking, it’s how it was handed down.
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I think this is an important clarification.
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Yeah, yeah, beautiful. Thank you for asking that.
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So, when she said, ‚Well, you know, I’m going to teach jikiden, the way I learned‘
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then somebody in the room, I don’t know who it was, said, ‚That’s a good description. Why don’t you use it?‘
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That’s how they came up with Jikiden.
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That wasn’t you? It wasn’t you?
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No, no, it was not me.
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I don’t know. Somebody Japanese. They liked it. They went like, ‚Oh, hey, we got it. Good.‘
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Then they decided to use that. And because of that name, there are, of course, certain implications.
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Now, there’s always the question, ‚Does Reiki evolve?‘
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‚Does it change with the time? Does it adjust to the time, to the technology, to the modern man, to …?‘
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In Jikiden Reiki, that doesn’t work because they can’t call themselves Jikiden Reiki anymore, because it’s not.
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So if you call yourself ‚traditional Reiki‘, you cannot do distant … in their tradition because they didn’t learn that.
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Okay.
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Now, you mentioned, as a side-line, in Western Reiki or in the development that sometimes New Age things were being added.
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We all know that and the internet, of course, today is full of it.
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But what happened also – just as a comment really – was that some, I’d like to think, serious practitioners,
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instead of adding crystals and bells and things, they simplified things. Or one could say, they modernized things.
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And I think that’s one of the developments which have happened. We don’t need to judge it better or worse at this point in time.
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I see you want to comment this.
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We know that things change. The culture changes. The way … You change. I change. We change.
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We’re never the same. I understand that. For me, it’s always … I don’t know, maybe this is why people think I’m egoistic.
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I’m thinking, I’m reflecting back on me. What do I feel comfortable with?
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Do I feel comfortable with the teaching? Then I teach that.
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And if I don’t feel comfortable teaching, either I stop it or I change it.
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So if there’s some kind of discomfort, then somebody will change.
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That’s okay with me, but that’s their choice and they can do whatever they want. I’m not concerned.
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Fair enough.
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That’s how I see it.
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Of course I’m aware that maybe suddenly you have some mini enlightenment that you figure out a new way of doing something.
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Beautiful.
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I’m not against it.
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The point I’m making is that maybe call it something different.
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I agree. That would help the clarification.
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I think.
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I agree.
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