Dear Colin
Colin wrote:
I think your views are very close to mine!
i m in the process of being 'entrained' when i m talking with personalities like you are sir
Colin wrote:
We hear and read about people being "attuned to Reiki", "attuned to Level 1", "attuned to Level whatever" and also that
"Reiki 2 allows you to channel 50% more Reiki" but does this really make any sense?
although it does not
but at least it sometimes serves good in creating a mental imagery of what we are doing in reiki...
it is a good help when people begin their path in reiki (but equally more hazardous, if they stick to what they started with
)
Colin wrote:
As Usui sensei realised when he had his experience on Mt Kurama: "I am in the Universe and the Universe is in me!" and Mrs
Takata said that the "true energy" is within at "the bottom of the stomach about 2 inches below the navel."
Usui also said that: "Every being has healing power. Plants, trees, animals, fish and insects but especially a human, as
pinnacle of creation, has a remarkable power. Usui Reiki Ryoho has appeared to make use of the healing power that humans
have".
well, personal healing potential vis-a-vis reiki empowerment is a very interesting subject to study and keep discussin about
i remember you were so kind to guide me on some points when we discussed the concepts 'being reiki' in bebo days.... and i
always carry a sweet memory of your thoughts expressed with a spontaniety of maturity and zeal alike...
on the particular, what i feel that if we say we borrow healing power from reiki, it might not appear convincing to my
thinking... and equally if we say that reiki enables us to utilize our own healing potential all the time, this could be the
other extreme..
when we are in reiki, we are in contact with a continuous 'signalling system' started by Usui Sensei and later handed down
to us through the lineage bearers... that system is constantly there, and keeps on triggering our own system without stops...
reiki is something (pardon my big words Colin
) that ignites a reciproacting response in us... opens our own energy
channels, improves our innate healing ability, and the sumtotal is what we say "reiki has a healing power"... if we go by
results, reiki sure has, if we go by the mechanism reiki enables us to do healing.....
a reason that i sometime vouch for 'permission within reiki' is also based on this fact... when we seek permission to do
reiki for somebody, we are not seeking permission rather in that act of giving permission, that buddy is conciously or
unconciously opening up his healing potential to be in tune with what reiki will do with them once in action...
but interesting thing is that even when we dont seek permission and give reiki anyways, the effects are still seen, and that
buddy can later endorse that he 'had' felt soemthing on that particular moment... this is where we feel that our picture and
explanation about reiki is half-complete... and we strive to find more onwards...
thats why reiki is continuous path, and learning is never completed in reiki
Colin wrote:
This would indicate that we all already have the power/energy/Reiki within us - we are not being attuned to anything
external.
yes, we have power and energy within us, but perhaps not reiki
the initiation gives us a mandate to access what Usui was
blessed with, and when we access it, we consciously or unconciously, knowing or unnkowingly, we revert to our own energy,
with a difference that our utilization potential has enhanced...
but seeing it in a way that reiki is 'external' to us, might also be not correct imo.. having reiki means we are having a
link to Usui's spirituality, as per the mandate he coiled in the symbols, but what his spirituality does to us per se ? i
feel, our divinity, our personalized spirituality tries to entrain with Usui's, and thus enhances itself manifold, and when
the sprirituality is triggered, the healing comes naturally along
indeed, when we try to see reiki as a helaing energy, or a healing modality, we might be taking only the half picture...
spirituality is akin to healing, but healing isnt not always akin to spiriutality... if we try to explain reiki as a healing
energy, this is mind boggling (to me at least
), but if i try to explain reiki as sprituality and then healing through
this, this makes my life easy
oh, i sound too authoritative here
let me be saved of this by floating your comments right away!
Colin wrote:
In my view, the levels of Reiki and the Reiki symbols are external things, so we are not being attuned to a particular Reiki
level or any particular symbols. However, the use of symbols (in various ways)in the initiation ceremony is important for the
purpose of helping a student become conscious of the power/energy/Reiki within and help remove any psychological blocks to
using that power/energy/Reiki.
initiation makes reiki accessible to a student, but not consiciously available immediately, since this comes with gradual
practice... we hear that with practice reiki flow has become better, reiki is channeled in 'bigger' amounts, etc. i feel this
is an 'over-simplified' version of whats actually going on
my views are that as we keep on practicing reiki, we are
transferring the already accessible reiki to consciously accessible reiki
the increased in flow of reiki can be taken in
terms of incremental awareness on our part of what we had from the day one of our initiation...
once you explained something called toitsu (i dont readily remember the phrase though) in which we practice enhancing our
perception of energy in focussed areas of our body... i feel that while praticing reiki more and more, we are doing the same
with reiki too, the difference being that we are not only gaining incremental perception of the existence of (energy) but
also of our spiritual presence, something that includes the former too
Colin wrote:
.........however, the symbols themselves transcend the levels of Reiki.
i feel the same Colin
sometimes when we have sort of 'graded' the system like first one is CKR, the Second (better ? ) one
is SHK, and then HSZSN, and so on, this might be just our categorization... what i feel is that HSZSN is the first symbol
always.. it is the basis of connection, and therefore the basis of reiki too... that it is taught or initiated in level 2,
does not necessarily mean that it comes after CKR or SHK always (although, in initiations, it runs so..)
and logically speaking, once connection is not there, what is CKR supposed to 'boost' ?
the beauty of discussions about reiki also rests in the fact that sometimes we open mouth with 'big' suppositions, which
invariably we have not tested in our self-lab, but once we have spoken about them loud, their visible analysis on our
conscious and unconcious levels becomes more profound, more deep !
Colin wrote:
The levels of Reiki are there to give some structure to what is taught to students so that they may progress at their own
pace, without having to take in everything at once. How those levels are divided and what is in each level has become fairly
standardized but it was not always so and the number of levels has changed a number of times since Usui's system was first
taught.
There were no fixed time limits between the levels. Usui sensei said he would teach Okuden "to people who have learned
Shoden, who are good students, well behaved, moral, honest and enthusiastic".
since others have echoed with the same 'logic' of having levels within reiki, i find it as a consensus therefore
like rome was not built in a day, reiki needs to be ingrined in us gradually, slowly and beautifully!
Colin wrote:
Due to distance, expense and other commitments, Chujiro Hayashi often taught Shoden and Okuden over five consecutive days
when he was travelling round Japan teaching.
The real way to progress in Reiki is to practice what you have been taught so far, whether that is Shoden only or Shoden and
Okuden over a few days (or, dare I say it, all three levels together!). The more techniques you have been taught, the longer
it will take for you to fully experience what each technique has to offer.
thats brilliant Colin
this should be in our minds to save ourselves from something 'spiritual materialism'
Colin wrote:
To my mind, this is the really important period where there needs to be a time to reflect on and practice what you have
learned, before taking the next step and deciding to teach others (or attending a Shinpiden or a Teacher course). Of course,
teaching is not everyone's cup of tea and not everyone wants to go on and teach, which is fine because Shoden is all you need
to practice Reiki in the majority of cases, with Okuden giving you some extra tools and techniques to help you offer a wider
range of help. Shinpiden gives you a deeper understanding of the spiritual nature of Reiki and how to pass the Reiki
experience on to others.
well, it might be something to consider again that can we merge level one and level two ? and technically speaking when we
offer level 1 and level 2 on consecutive days, is it 'equivalent' of merging the two levels ?
having said so many things about the 'rationale' of having levels one and two, is there any rationale of merging the two too
??
and again the following words have an answer already :
Colin wrote:
Back to attunements though. I think that once a student has received the first four attunements at Shoden (or Level 1) they
are now aware of the Reiki within them and become able to use it, thanks to the initiation procedure, however it was done.
Initiations at other levels may only re-enforce students consciousness of Reiki within, with the symbols emphasizing certain
aspects of that consciousness and allowing a deeper expereince of the techniques using those symbols.
Colin wrote:
They also have the ability to use any of the techniques they have been taught but, not only that, they would also be able to
use any of the techniques that they learn about themselves.
and on the same notes, a student, on becoming master, then might be able to 'relay' the things he has personally discovered,
when he initiates others ?
it is a big question, imo
what we have been lately discussing here on RLL is somewhat a concept that people making up the
lineage ladder, also keep on adding to it down to next member !
take care
salman
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