Lambs-Wool wrote: rzukic wrote:Very interested and refreshing post indeed! I must admit I have read it several times, with utmost respect. In order for me to take the most benefits out of it I hope you do not mind few questions (some of which might be off topic though)
1.How one reconciles the free will and the fate?
2.If my belief in any religious system (way or whatever we call it) is strong enough why do I have a need to supplement it with other system?
3.Is it really “dishonest” to accept only part of the reiki that we can understand in our own way
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thanks for the nourishing response
the question of free will versus fate has always been a very interesting one.. and any attempt to reconcile them or think deep about the relation, is in itself a big source of awareness and perception...
my logical mind starts with the theory of cause and effect... whenever i plan things in a closed chamber, i can clearly see where my actions are leading me to... i plan to reach my office, for example, at 9.00 sharp and there's a one hour drive in between my home and office.. my chauffer is ready, my car is good, petrol is ample in the tank, battery ok, bla, bla, bla... my planning (or my free will) extends upto the moment when i sit in the car and the car is on the way...
but this is the moment i m actually coming out from my closed chamber and i m now 'exposed' to eventualities... or better saying i m exposed to 'free will' of people other than me... when i reach half way, i find there is an accident in the middle of the road due to drunk driving of a young lad, road is blocked, rescue is engaged, but i have to wait... this incident was an 'effect' of that driver's reckless drivign and was an 'effect' of his choice of coming to road while drunk...
so i reach office half hour late, i.e., 9.30 and m immediately taken to task by my boss, who shouts the very throat of him, and being already irritated, and feeling myself non-guilty for being late, i reciprocate him equally, we have a firworks and there i go... i m fired...
i try to find a next job, but of no avail... economy down, things in turmoil.. i land into shoplifting for my petty needs, i m caught, and sentenced to jail... Ah, a long story...
so my free will of boarding the car with ample time ahead, has infact been violted by free will of that drunk buddy, and i come to know this is my fate !
talking generally, the life we live is a complex mix of elements within our perception and things even beyond that... the gesture of free will helps us to pick the path, and to take steps on it, but we have no control over the free will of events and of people and of nations... this is called our fate... so one's fate is decided by the free will of several others, and vice versa... this is a circular pattern
if everthing could have been decided by our free will, this would only be possible in a lab conrolled environment where many things 'remain the same', while in real life these thins dont remain the same..
ah, sorry buddy, i could give the reconciliation in such naive terms only
your second question is a very interesting one, and i enjoyed a lot while reading it and thinking over it...
humans are complex and diverse in their makeup... religions usually put foward a standard set of procedures and teachings, that have to be applied to all the people within that religion equally... this is something beyond imagination that one million people living a religion will have same mindsets, same lifestyle, same aptitutdes, and so this is, realistically speaking, also beyond imagination that every one of that million people will be 'wrapping' up religion around them in a same way... some will be doing it rigidly, some loosely, and some very sparingly.....
what i generally feel about religions that almost all religions have spiritual foundings and basis... and to take advantage of the religion completely, we have to go direct with the spirituality within the religion, but since we sometimes (and quite often times too
) choose to embrace religion sparingly, our needs of spirituality prompt us to find something to bridge the invisible hollow we have ourselves created by selectively picking up things within our religion....
and here is the point that why we feel needs to supplement our beleif system through other inclinations...
is this abnormal or unforeseen ? i dont feel so, whoever crafted a religion, would have in mind that humans, by their diversity of aptitude and flavours, will alwasy feel to taste things here and there, and the more a religion allows for such experimentation, while keeping the basics intact, the more that religion is dynamic
and by the way, 'stale' religions dont come up tests of sustainability often !
your third question
is equally intersting :
if Usui had himself issued 'commandments' that what we have to do, and what not, while using his system, then only it would have been dishonest on our part to not to go with those commandements while practicing his system...
the only commandments he has given to us is the percepts which he requires us to revise and live daily.... it would be somehow a 'dishonesty', objectively speaking, if we opt to pick just reiki treatments or reiki channeling from the system, and to leave the percepts since we dont feel them important...
but again, this is just my belief and my way of seeing the things bro
i float things as they appear to me, and i then listen to what others feel on that... this is where i get chance to make nose corrections to my beliefs, or to reinforce them through further study or thinking....
i greatly apologise to all here, if i had insulted someone's beliefs who have different version of reiki and reiki practice than mine... to give less importance to what others believe, has never been my moral
Cheers
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salman