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as we all know reiki make us step somewhere in the feeling of spiritual presence too... being reiki is universally spoken as being spiritual, as being one with universe, and being one with love, a love that has the capacity of permeating through our little ego and individualism...
there are several roads to the shop we immediately call spiritualism (thanks Wayne, i m happily borrowing your phrase)... and perhaps this later takes us on to something we call god, sometimes our higher self, and with several other names, as we feel comfortable to choose for.... religion is one just way that claims to take us to God or to a mind culture where we can prepare the flight strip to take off for a long flight to something more elevated...to something we could then call God...
while the exact mechanics of the working of reiki is still only guessed, and not known with any exactitude... we borrow the help of words, feelings, gestures, sensations to describe something that is perhaps more elevated, more gospel than these words or feelings could possibly describe.. to say that reiki exhibits as tingling, energy feeling, warmth, pull, push, etc. are just very primary way of describing it.. this description alludes to the presence of reiki, but does not complete the description....
we acquire reiki through symbols, and again symbols are highly shrouded in mist and mystery... when we meditate on symbols, we start coming to feel certain things that are again just description of the presence of symbols, and do not, in any way, give us clue what symbols exactly are... our mind smartly associates the symbols with things we know as nouns for power, protection, etc. but again symbols are always inert, non-describable...
we borrow help of words like light, wave, elevation, etc. to describe the energies represented by symbols, but don’t know, in any way, what symbols are.... as reiki masters, we are taught to tap symbols into aura, into body, into soul (substitute whatever belief you have ).. and we are told that symbols are inserted into our body, like buttons, like energy-switches, like anything, but again and again, we fail to know the real thing that symbols do in our body... and extending from this confusion, some masters say that they attune people by intending them to be attuned, and don’t need to specifically put symbols into the students, and quite amazingly, such attunements do work also.. it means that symbols are not perhaps what we take for, although, quite interestingly, symbols do what we intend them (and believe of them) to be doing....
do we have to make ourselves believe that all these confusions, innuendos, insinuations, are just there as a matter of chance... and are there just as there they could be ?? what if we could think for a second that so many mysteries of reiki remain unsolved even after hundred years of practice, only because it was in some 'master plan' to let the thing remain unexplained and undefined without any stirct boundaries or defintions...so that everybody entering the reiki domains, feels he or she has discovered something new, something unconventional, something not so far known.... does this not makes reiki a high ranking celebrity, who we desire to have access to... and when we have that, we try to explain in our very individual way....
if for a minute, i m allowed to make a jump, i m amazed that the same 'problems' lie with God too God is a concept that is still in debates from several hundred of years... people who try to experience God, always end up with something unique, something of their own... (i m not talking about followers of religions, rather i m talking about those who try to have a feeling of God, instead of just following a description of God)...
why we would come up so 'individually' in feeling God ? why God is different for everyone, even for two students of a same spirutal practice, even for the master and his student, even for the guru and the seeker, even for two brothers following one same religion...
sometimes we say mine reiki is mine, yours reiki is yours... can we equally say mine God is mine, yours is yours ?? and in saying so, saying sake, do we mean different things as said by you and as said by me ??
why this is the feeling that as and when we try to be rigid in defining God or try to give a visible description about God, we start going off track from the feeling itself of feeling God.... why God needs to be felt more than described ??
why is this coincidence (yet again ) that in all spiritual practices, folks come to a phase where they see themselves as god, they feel they have melted into some bigger presence, and yet their own presence is intact... how is that we view ourselves by sitting outside the picture and find that we are subsets of god, when on the same time, we are experiencing all this as an outside observers... exactly whom we are sitting outside ? of ourselves, or of the entire universe, and if later, are we god ourselves ??
reiki sure promotes the feeling of oneness, the feeling of connectedness.... it provides us an access to a superhighway which we need to go to a place in nanoseconds, and when we are there we exactly know that we are now no longer on the superhighway, but yet again, when we know we have to travel more, we come on-board this highway... and as this continually happens again and again, we start losing the feeling that we are on the highway, rather we start feeling that we are the highway ourselves, or put in other words, that there was no highway ever
why our presence, our identities, and our boundaries are like the pans of the 'hourglass' ? we start filling the other, when one is filled on its way and again we are back in the one we started with do this change from the eternal presence to this worldly presence and vice versa, in swift transitions, a clue to the nature of time and space ???
(admittingly, all these questions are boring themselves, and they did bored me when i studied philosophy some years back, but with reiki, these questions have just turned up as the most interesting questions for me now.... sicne when i m asking about God, i m, in a way, asking about the reality of my presence too
i would love if you read all above as lovingly as i have written these lines
take care
love
salman
PS : i m not sure if i had posted this entire passage in bebo or reiki-4-all refugees... in case, i thought i must point it also, as it was written about a year ago
as we all know reiki make us step somewhere in the feeling of spiritual presence too... being reiki is universally spoken as being spiritual, as being one with universe, and being one with love, a love that has the capacity of permeating through our little ego and individualism...
there are several roads to the shop we immediately call spiritualism (thanks Wayne, i m happily borrowing your phrase)... and perhaps this later takes us on to something we call god, sometimes our higher self, and with several other names, as we feel comfortable to choose for.... religion is one just way that claims to take us to God or to a mind culture where we can prepare the flight strip to take off for a long flight to something more elevated...to something we could then call God...
while the exact mechanics of the working of reiki is still only guessed, and not known with any exactitude... we borrow the help of words, feelings, gestures, sensations to describe something that is perhaps more elevated, more gospel than these words or feelings could possibly describe.. to say that reiki exhibits as tingling, energy feeling, warmth, pull, push, etc. are just very primary way of describing it.. this description alludes to the presence of reiki, but does not complete the description....
we acquire reiki through symbols, and again symbols are highly shrouded in mist and mystery... when we meditate on symbols, we start coming to feel certain things that are again just description of the presence of symbols, and do not, in any way, give us clue what symbols exactly are... our mind smartly associates the symbols with things we know as nouns for power, protection, etc. but again symbols are always inert, non-describable...
we borrow help of words like light, wave, elevation, etc. to describe the energies represented by symbols, but don’t know, in any way, what symbols are.... as reiki masters, we are taught to tap symbols into aura, into body, into soul (substitute whatever belief you have ).. and we are told that symbols are inserted into our body, like buttons, like energy-switches, like anything, but again and again, we fail to know the real thing that symbols do in our body... and extending from this confusion, some masters say that they attune people by intending them to be attuned, and don’t need to specifically put symbols into the students, and quite amazingly, such attunements do work also.. it means that symbols are not perhaps what we take for, although, quite interestingly, symbols do what we intend them (and believe of them) to be doing....
do we have to make ourselves believe that all these confusions, innuendos, insinuations, are just there as a matter of chance... and are there just as there they could be ?? what if we could think for a second that so many mysteries of reiki remain unsolved even after hundred years of practice, only because it was in some 'master plan' to let the thing remain unexplained and undefined without any stirct boundaries or defintions...so that everybody entering the reiki domains, feels he or she has discovered something new, something unconventional, something not so far known.... does this not makes reiki a high ranking celebrity, who we desire to have access to... and when we have that, we try to explain in our very individual way....
if for a minute, i m allowed to make a jump, i m amazed that the same 'problems' lie with God too
God is a concept that is still in debates from several hundred of years... people who try to experience God, always end up with something unique, something of their own... (i m not talking about followers of religions, rather i m talking about those who try to have a feeling of God, instead of just following a description of God)... why we would come up so 'individually' in feeling God ? why God is different for everyone, even for two students of a same spirutal practice, even for the master and his student, even for the guru and the seeker, even for two brothers following one same religion...
sometimes we say mine reiki is mine, yours reiki is yours... can we equally say mine God is mine, yours is yours
?? and in saying so, saying sake, do we mean different things as said by you and as said by me ??why this is the feeling that as and when we try to be rigid in defining God or try to give a visible description about God, we start going off track from the feeling itself of feeling God.... why God needs to be felt more than described
??why is this coincidence (yet again
) that in all spiritual practices, folks come to a phase where they see themselves as god, they feel they have melted into some bigger presence, and yet their own presence is intact... how is that we view ourselves by sitting outside the picture and find that we are subsets of god, when on the same time, we are experiencing all this as an outside observers... exactly whom we are sitting outside ? of ourselves, or of the entire universe, and if later, are we god ourselves ??reiki sure promotes the feeling of oneness, the feeling of connectedness.... it provides us an access to a superhighway which we need to go to a place in nanoseconds, and when we are there we exactly know that we are now no longer on the superhighway, but yet again, when we know we have to travel more, we come on-board this highway... and as this continually happens again and again, we start losing the feeling that we are on the highway, rather we start feeling that we are the highway ourselves, or put in other words, that there was no highway ever
why our presence, our identities, and our boundaries are like the pans of the 'hourglass' ? we start filling the other, when one is filled on its way
and again we are back in the one we started with do this change from the eternal presence to this worldly presence and vice versa, in swift transitions, a clue to the nature of time and space ???(admittingly, all these questions are boring themselves, and they did bored me when i studied philosophy some years back, but with reiki, these questions have just turned up as the most interesting questions for me now.... sicne when i m asking about God, i m, in a way, asking about the reality of my presence too
i would love if you read all above as lovingly as i have written these lines
take care
love
salman
PS : i m not sure if i had posted this entire passage in bebo or reiki-4-all refugees... in case, i thought i must point it also, as it was written about a year ago
