Venerable Simplicity

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Venerable Simplicity

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‚It was like going to visit your grandma.‘
‚She was like a walking encyclopedia of treatments‘

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And then I went to see her. It was just beautiful. She was so beautiful, unpretentious, warm,

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kind, simple, not an egoistic person at all.

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It was like going to visit your grandma. If you had a nice grandma!

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It was just like that, going for tea at grandmas.

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Plus, she’d been doing treatments for … I met her in 2000.

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She was born in 1921, so she was 79.

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She’d been doing Reiki from age 17. So how many is that? 62 years of practice.

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So you could ask her anything. She was like a walking encyclopaedia of treatments. I asked her, how many people she had treated.

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She said, I started with 17. One, two, three per day. Every day.

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Of course, she grew up four boys, so she had four boys. Tadao is the youngest of them.

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And those of you who have kids, you know what it’s like. They get hurt all the time. You’re doing Reiki all the time.

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We have two kids, and we were busy every day doing Reiki.

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Plus, she had her clients in the neighbourhood. And you could ask her anything. ‚What do you do with fibromyalgia, for example?‘

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She’d say, ‚Oh, I remember in 1952, I had this client, and I was doing this and that.‘

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It was incredible to learn with somebody who had this wealth of understanding of how the body works.

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About her there’s not a lot for me to clarify, that’s me asking. I understand she was very busy giving treatments. Did I hear you correctly?

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I mean, other than looking after her own family and presumably after herself, she had clients from the neighbourhood

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on a regular basis, two, three per day?

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That’s what she said to me. And the thing was …

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She had a stationary shop in Kyoto.

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So they were selling paper, brushes, pens, this kind of thing, stamps, maybe, I don’t know.

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The neighbours in the neighbourhood, people knew that she was doing healing.

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So the doorbell would go ding-dong. Somebody would come in and buy some paper and blah, blah, blah.

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And the next person would be somebody who had been injured. And she said, ‚Okay, come to the back room.‘

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And she would do the Reiki. And then suddenly it went ‚ding-dong‘, she got up and sold some stationary stuff and went back. Like this.

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So very organic, a part of her regular life. She didn’t advertise.

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Very much down to earth and practical.

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Very practical. This was her whole thing. And I liked that. And one of the main questions I had was,

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‚What happens to somebody who has been doing a lot of Reiki practice for many years? What happens to them?

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How are they? What do they become like? And is it good? Is it so good that I want that?‘

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Because I had seen some colleagues, Western colleagues, who I thought were a bit inflated, ego-wise.

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And I was thinking, ‚That can’t be! If that’s it, it’s not what I want. I want something different.‘ And in her,

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I found a different humility and humbleness. It was so beautiful. But simple. Super simple, not spectacular.

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She wasn’t like a goddess or like a great guru or somebody you would just melt in awe when seeing her.

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But she was like your grandma. So sweet.

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The question you had in your mind is actually one I encountered in the last few months often.

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What happens to senior Reiki teachers like ourselves when we get old?

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Or you mentioned Phyllis who got sick and eventually died of cancer.

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Coming back to her, to Mrs. Yamaguchi, you found somebody who was personifying actually the very opposite. She was…

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Careful, careful, careful! I wasn’t thinking of sickness also. Sickness is part of human life. And it’s not a punishment.

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When … People don’t die of an illness, people die when their time is up.

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So …

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Phyllis didn’t die of cancer. She died because it was done. Her life was finished.

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And then any excuse will do, whether you call it cancer or jumping in front of a bus or anything will take you out.

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What I meant with Chiyoko sensei was that she had the attitude, let’s say, the inner attitude that I wished I would find from

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a senior Reiki teacher, somebody who embodies the five principles, who lives them, and who is all heart.

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And that I saw and that I loved. And when, after the first five-day training, I looked at her, I remember, I said to her,

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‚You know, I’m very glad to have met a Reiki adult.‘

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Interesting.

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By that time it was 2000. I started in ’92. So I had seven, eight years of practice behind me.

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A teeny. And she had 60-some years of practice and I could see what it does. And I was happy with what I saw.

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It was nice.

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Beautiful. And it was so easy to learn in her … in her presence.

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Translation: AI
Transcript: René Vögtli