Pachamama wrote:Hi all.( god I'm sick of seeing my name all over this forum, but I can't help asking all these questions...)
Is there a fine line between being true to oneself and just being selfish?
Did Mikao Usui abandon his duties as a father and husband to go off in pursuit of spiritual truths? If he did, was this a selfish act or was he just following a deeper spiritual calling, urge?....is there a deeper calling than having the courage to be true to family commitments??
just for today, do your duties fully.... would this be hypocritical for someone to spout who had abandoned their own family duties?
apparently one or two descendants of Mikao's original students, did not pass on Reiki to their children....apparently their children had no interest..was this because their fathers had abandoned them in their pursuits of Reiki???? or was this more connected to the naval officers being involved in a war that was lost?
any thoughts ideas??
Hi Sharon
Phew! I thought I'd lost this post as I could see only Wayne's post that had come in while I was writing this (and I had also gone to pick up my car from the garage: ha ha - balance of spiritual and mundane, as I mention later!)
Great questions...keep asking them!
Yes, there is certainly a fine line between being true to yourself and being selfish!
I believe that we each have a purpose for being here (to experience certain things which aid our spiritual development). To enable you to experience some of these things it is necessary to do some things outside of the family unit.
Although many Reiki practitioners (and many people following a spiritual path in general) find they can only develop beyond a certain point, or develop more quickly, if they leave restrictive relationships behind, as you said there are also many who have family commitments that they also wish to stay true to. I think it is all a matter of finding a balance, not being in a rush to do everything at once but it is also important to have the support and understanding of those around you.
Whether Mikao Usui abandoned "his duties as a father and husband" later in life, I have no idea, although he was almost certainly alone when he went up Mount Kurama for 21 days
Also, Usui's grave is on a family plot that also has the graves of his wife, Sadako, his son, Fuji and his daughter, Toshiko, which may indicate that the family were still together. This may, however, have been for appearances sake because in Arjava Petter's book, Reiki Fire, when Petter's then wife, Chetna, interviewed one of Dr. Usui's relatives, the wife of his grandson, who told us that her mother-in-law, Dr. Usui's daughter, i.e. Toshiko, had left a clause in her will stating that his name should never be mentioned in her house.
I think that there a several possible reasons for some of Usui's descendants not passing on training in his Reiki Ryoho. I believe his son Fuji was a Reiki practitioner (not sure if he was a teacher as well though). There was obviously some sort of discord in the family before Toshiko died and I think that younger people, generally, after the war, in particular, became more interested in Western culture rather than their own, which they may have seen as old-fashioned and out-moded (although this does appear to be changing again e.g. Tadao's son, Yohei, is training to be a Shihan). This is also a reason why the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai may also soon be completely gone, because they limit their membership to the family of members, and very close friends, and they are apparently not getting many, if any, younger new members.
In Chujiro Hayashi's case, although his wife, Chie, carried on teaching until the 1950s, their children did not - possible due to the general change in interests of the younger generation but maybe also because of the stigma of their father committing suicide rather than fighting for their country.
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