When my e book The Inside Coronary heart of Reiki first got here out in 2014 it was an enormous success, primarily as a result of this type of e book concerning the system of Reiki had not been written earlier than. I wished to write down the e book from a standard Japanese viewpoint, explaining the essence of the system of Reiki, not making it nearly hands-on therapeutic. For once we look deep into the guts of the system of Reiki, we will begin to see that it’s all about rediscovering our True Self.
Mikao Usui, founding father of the system of Reiki, defined this in his personal phrases within the Shin-Shin Kaizen Usui Reiki Ryoho Kokai Denju Setsumei and the Usui Reiki Ryoho Hikkei, two booklets handed out by the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai:
Does Usui Reiki Ryoho solely heal sickness?
No. Usui Reiki Ryoho doesn’t solely heal sickness. Psychological diseases corresponding to agony, weak spot, timidity, irresolution, nervousness and different unhealthy habits might be corrected. Then you’ll be able to lead a contented life and heal others with the thoughts of Kami or Hotoke [Buddha]. That turns into the principal object.”
So we will see that the principal object of Mikao Usui’s instructing is to guide a contented life and to assist others with the mindset of Kami or Hotoke. These are simply completely different phrases for a similar factor: our True Self. Kami stands for rediscovering our innate divine being and Hotoke is our innate buddha nature. This mindset can also be identified throughout the Reiki precepts:
For as we speak
Don’t anger
Don’t worry
Be grateful
Be true to your approach and your being
Be compassionate to your self and others
As we speak means proper right here at this current second, not one thing we hope for sooner or later. We’ve to appreciate that every one of this, our True Self, is offered proper now. We’re already touching the universe 100% inside and outside, however as we’re all the time wanting exterior of ourselves we don’t see this. And due to this fact, we additionally don’t imagine it.
To assist us on this rediscovery of our True Self, Mikao Usui created a whole system which incorporates the Reiki precepts, meditation practices, symbols and mantras, hands-on therapeutic, and reiju/attunement/initiation. By training these, we will slowly begin to see that our inside nice vivid gentle, kami, buddha nature, is correct right here, proper with us and inside us, as we speak.
The Inside Coronary heart of Reiki – Rediscovering Your True Self explains these teachings in easy language that makes them simpler for the reader and practitioner to grasp. The extra we intellectually perceive the ideas throughout the teachings, the better it’s to apply in order that we will have the direct expertise that we’re Reiki. The extra we notice that there isn’t any must “channel” Reiki, however fairly that we now have to realize a direct realization that we’re Reiki, the extra we will take this consciousness into our each day life.
Mikao Usui said as we speak; he didn’t say on a Reiki desk or on a meditation pillow, no…he stated, as we speak. This reveals that the system of Reiki is rather more than hands-on therapeutic, for we cannot carry out hands-on therapeutic on ourselves or others all day lengthy. We’ve to work, drive our automobile, do our buying; we now have to reside our day-to-day lives.
Nevertheless, we can also shine the good vivid gentle of our True Self in each motion we take as we speak. This helps us to remain in a spot of compassion, because the Reiki precepts level out: a compassion which doesn’t change in response to circumstances throughout our each day actions. On this approach, we will deliver our apply into our day-to-day life. If our apply solely stays on a Reiki desk or a therapeutic massage pillow, we’re gaining solely a tiny fraction of the advantages it will probably provide. And if we see our apply as one thing achieved solely within the “Reiki/meditation space,” it is going to be tough to deliver it into all that we do.
The Inside Coronary heart of Reiki delves deeply into the Reiki precepts to assist readers acquire a profound understanding as to why they type the bottom of the system of Reiki. It additionally discusses the concept of Thoughts, Physique, Power, to assist practitioners grasp these important ideas and allow them to deliver the Reiki precepts into all they do.
Many individuals suppose the system of Reiki is barely about power. However we should do not forget that power follows the thoughts and that if we wish to deliver this apply into our each day lives, we now have to remain grounded and centered into our physique.
The e book additionally discusses the symbols and mantras intimately, as they’re additionally an integral a part of Mikao Usui’s teachings. They don’t seem to be magical symbols or mantras, however are signal posts to our True Self. The extra we perceive why they’re there and the way we will use them, the extra we will acquire that direct expertise of our True Self.
For instance, if we don’t perceive why these symbols and mantras are there and if we have no idea how you can use them accurately, then we won’t arrive on the place they’re pointing to. If you wish to go to Amsterdam however you have no idea how you can get there, otherwise you take the unsuitable practice, then you’ll by no means attain your vacation spot regardless of how lengthy you journey.
Due to this fact, Mikao Usui stated, As we speak. As we speak we now have to grasp why we apply the system of Reiki and how you can apply it accurately. Then it’s also attainable to reach at our vacation spot as we speak, to rediscover and arrive at our True Self.
Mrs Takata, who was instrumental in bringing the system of Reiki to the West, identified the depth of Mikao Usui’s teachings as effectively.
“When John studied with Takata, he made over 20 audio tapes of her lectures and classes. On one of the tapes she discusses travelling to Japan in order to teach her approach to Reiki. While there, she met some Japanese citizens who were actively practicing and preserving Reiki as they understood it in Japan. Takata regarded their approach as entirely valid, but inappropriate for the West. It was highly complex, required years of training and was closely intertwined with religious practices. She felt these factors would deter students in the West and hobble the spread of Reiki through the world at a time when, in her view, it was urgently needed.” – Hand to Hand by John Harvey Grey
As we will see, the system of Reiki was historically extremely complicated, took years of coaching, and it was intently intertwined with Japanese spiritual practices. This doesn’t imply that one has to turn out to be a Buddhist or a Shinto practitioner; it signifies that Mikao Usui borrowed his teachings from conventional Japanese esoteric practices and traditions.
The Inside Coronary heart of Reiki – Rediscovering Your True Self lets you perceive the connection between these conventional esoteric Japanese teachings and the system of Reiki. By way of this understanding we will go to the guts of our apply, to the guts of our True Self. And that is so wanted in our present world, in order that we will shine the sunshine of compassion on all that’s.
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