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With the freeing of information across the internet being made available to all, it has help created a curious psuedo-expert community. You name it, if one can type it into google, there'll be people regurgitating the information elsewhere. As if it is fact...
This is the second curious aspect of the internet. If people read something, particularly something that is wrote with some authority it tends to be automatically believed. If there is supporting 'evidence' (tongue in cheek) from other seemingly independent areas this solidifies the 'authenticity'. Indeed, the more people believe it, the more 'truthful' it is. Whether the original text is true, or even the supporting 'evidence' seems to not matter. Very few seem to check for themselves.
For a long time there has been a loose 'movement' online and in person, that chooses to write and speak derogatory about Takata, what she taught, and really much of what she achieved. Some of this is organized, some of it spontaneous. With many of the guilty merely repeating what they are told. Ironic really, when it is highlighted that some of the misinformation is coming from so-called authentic or original Japanese styles. Styles that themselves are merely modern creations. Ignoring Takata's Master students training, sometimes pre-dating these other styles actual creation by a quarter of a century.
It's purely business, not personal. I write, with my best image of the Godfather film. Typically targeting the western consumer base. The psyche of western consumerism is to go from one thing to another. Improving, upgrading, apparently getting better and better. Much like your car i guess. While one is jumping about from one foot to another desperately searching for that authentic, missing component, certain other styles are targeting that. I mean, if you love the Reiki experience, typically trained in Usui Shiki Ryoho in the west, but read non-stop online how inferior the style is, how wrong it is, how Takata done this or that, you will have likely defaulted to your western consumer impulses. And searched for that which is missing. God knows what that really is. I've been like this for sure. Can't blame you for being the same. Meanwhile, these styles, i mean - international businesses with smokey mirrors, are raking the cash in. There'll be no admission, likely no interaction from the styles, and 'famous' people guilty of this, they tend to boycott this forum. Seemingly not appreciative of our free expression.
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You have all heard, and read, of the so-called inconsistencies, even labelled as lies, that Takata is accused of teaching. While some things Takata said cannot be proved to be true, they also cannot be proved false. What always surprises me is that people in the West don't recognize Takata for what she was = a spiritual teacher. She did share something that falls under that description. Or, if you like it's more scientific equivalents. The label doesn't matter. We know what the Reiki experience is. Two thousand years ago it may have solely been described as one thing. Likely was, in a variation of experience.
Takata taught something that greatly speeds up ones own evolution toward self-awareness. The tactics she used to get points across was no different than many other famous teachers. Recently; Sri Nisargadatta, Papaji, Ramana Maharshi. Not so recently; Buddha, Jesus, etc. Did you know that with some of these teachers that the exact same teaching was slightly changed at times? This was to help the student/listener to understand clearly what was being said to them. It was/is the sign of an intuitive teacher, who realizes that the integrity of the parable means nothing, compared to the ability of the student to understand the teaching being shared.
Much has been made against Takata for doing exactly what spiritual teachers have done for thousands of years = Changing details in her teaching parables. If i made up a story, shared it with you, and the realizations from that fictional story helped foster in you understandings that helped you for the rest of your life, would that be a problem to you?
This is the second curious aspect of the internet. If people read something, particularly something that is wrote with some authority it tends to be automatically believed. If there is supporting 'evidence' (tongue in cheek) from other seemingly independent areas this solidifies the 'authenticity'. Indeed, the more people believe it, the more 'truthful' it is. Whether the original text is true, or even the supporting 'evidence' seems to not matter. Very few seem to check for themselves.
For a long time there has been a loose 'movement' online and in person, that chooses to write and speak derogatory about Takata, what she taught, and really much of what she achieved. Some of this is organized, some of it spontaneous. With many of the guilty merely repeating what they are told. Ironic really, when it is highlighted that some of the misinformation is coming from so-called authentic or original Japanese styles. Styles that themselves are merely modern creations. Ignoring Takata's Master students training, sometimes pre-dating these other styles actual creation by a quarter of a century.
It's purely business, not personal. I write, with my best image of the Godfather film. Typically targeting the western consumer base. The psyche of western consumerism is to go from one thing to another. Improving, upgrading, apparently getting better and better. Much like your car i guess. While one is jumping about from one foot to another desperately searching for that authentic, missing component, certain other styles are targeting that. I mean, if you love the Reiki experience, typically trained in Usui Shiki Ryoho in the west, but read non-stop online how inferior the style is, how wrong it is, how Takata done this or that, you will have likely defaulted to your western consumer impulses. And searched for that which is missing. God knows what that really is. I've been like this for sure. Can't blame you for being the same. Meanwhile, these styles, i mean - international businesses with smokey mirrors, are raking the cash in. There'll be no admission, likely no interaction from the styles, and 'famous' people guilty of this, they tend to boycott this forum. Seemingly not appreciative of our free expression.
. You have all heard, and read, of the so-called inconsistencies, even labelled as lies, that Takata is accused of teaching. While some things Takata said cannot be proved to be true, they also cannot be proved false. What always surprises me is that people in the West don't recognize Takata for what she was = a spiritual teacher. She did share something that falls under that description. Or, if you like it's more scientific equivalents. The label doesn't matter. We know what the Reiki experience is. Two thousand years ago it may have solely been described as one thing. Likely was, in a variation of experience.
Takata taught something that greatly speeds up ones own evolution toward self-awareness. The tactics she used to get points across was no different than many other famous teachers. Recently; Sri Nisargadatta, Papaji, Ramana Maharshi. Not so recently; Buddha, Jesus, etc. Did you know that with some of these teachers that the exact same teaching was slightly changed at times? This was to help the student/listener to understand clearly what was being said to them. It was/is the sign of an intuitive teacher, who realizes that the integrity of the parable means nothing, compared to the ability of the student to understand the teaching being shared.
Much has been made against Takata for doing exactly what spiritual teachers have done for thousands of years = Changing details in her teaching parables. If i made up a story, shared it with you, and the realizations from that fictional story helped foster in you understandings that helped you for the rest of your life, would that be a problem to you?
. The tide is changing though..
