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Reiki Ryoho
Plain and
Simple Site
Index
Copyright 2000-2001 by Vincent Amador. All Rights Reserved.
Author's Note: SITE UPDATED May 22th, 2001. Welcome to the
newest addition to the Angelreiki.nu website. The
Reiki Ryoho
Plain and Simple
e-book is being written and developed to try to
bring some clarity to the profusion of the "new" old material coming
from Japan. This book continues to be a work in progress.
Introduction
This update takes a look at some of the changing information that
has been surfacing about Usui Sensei's relationship with the
Gakkai as well as additional information about attunements. Also
be sure to check out the newest web site, Reiki-Do. This site looks
at Living Reiki, BEing Reiki. Visit at
Index of Techniques
Level One Manual -
Shoden
Level Two Manual -
Okuden
Enjoy;
Level Three Manual -
Shinpiden
Vinny Amador
Supplementary
Information
Introduction
Tendai Buddhism
-
Usui was a Tendai
Buddhist
throughout his life.
This section
contains links and
other information
regarding Tendai.
Reiki practitioners have always had a certain curiousity and reverence about
it's founder, Mikao Usui. This curiousity surrounds the history of reiki, its
development, and the events and training in Usui's life that may have
influenced the development of Usui's reiki.
Mts. Takata began using teaching stories about Usui's past to try to help
western students. These teaching stories contained information that she
added about him being a Christian Monk, working in a university, and other
things. This was undoubtedly done to help her western students understand
Usui's life and search in the context of their cultural frame work so it would
be easier to understand.
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Unfortunately many began to codify these teaching stories as dogma
following the death of Mrs. Takata. Some stories began to take on a life of
their own, such as the story of the beggars being used to justify "energy
exchanges". Many began to lose the connection to the points that Mrs.
Takata was trying to make with her teaching stories. This was the "reiki
history" as it was known in the west.
The history was the history, until it was no longer the history.
Many began to channel wild theories regarding this and soon reiki was
channeled to be from Tibet, Atlantis, Egypt or Lemuria. It's 'original"
founders were said to be "ascended masters", "galactic brotherhood's", an
ancient Chinese named "Wei Chi", and many others.
(author's note: my
favorite theory involved the space aliens, I always love those,
especially the X-Files....)
While these channelings were interesting, they
lacked any historical evidence that might lead someone to take them
seriously.
It was commonly taught in the US that Hayashi Sensei was Usui's star pupil
who received the mantle of Reiki. It was also commonly thought that the
lineage was passed to Mrs. Takata. Because of this there was no
movement to explore reiki in Japan. It was not until quite recently that this
began to occur. The people exploring reiki in Japan began to uncover a
number of interesting things. Unlike the western practices of Mrs. Takata,
reiki was not an "oral tradition" in Japan. Usui and Hayashi both had written
manuals that they gave students and there were handwritten notes of
symbols and practices that students had been given that survived to this
day. There were historical "facts" that began to emerge such as Usui was
not a Christian Monk, he did not teach at Doshisha University, he did not
require payments or exchanges and on and on. What initially was a
startling finding was that there was an organization that remained in an
unbroken line from Usui. This was called the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai.
While this was a boon to find an organization that claimed to have the direct
lineage from Usui, the Gakkai is a tight and closed society of members and
do not freely share information regarding their art.
One of the first pioneers to look back to Japan to try to see if there was
evidence remaining of reiki's past that survived Usui was Frank Arjava
Petter. He found Usui's memorial stone with a lengthy description of his life
and virtue. He began to track down leads of surviving traditions in Japan.
Much of Petter's findings are written in his books. Recently Petter was
touring the United States teaching the new history and other techniques that
he discovered being practiced in Japan. Petter released much of this
information in his first book, "Reiki Fire".
Petter found that there were several remaining lineages in Japan. In the
west, it was thought and taught by the Reiki Alliance that Takata was "Grand
master" of reiki and that reiki was no longer taught in Japan. Both these
assertions proved incorrect. He discovered that Usui had made a number of
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masters besides Chujiro Hayashi. Some of these were Eguchi, Taketomi,
and Gyuda (also known as Ushida). These masters, like Hayashi, had
taught students and made a number of masters each. Additionally, Hayashi
had made 13 or more masters, and several of them were still living,
including master Tatsumi. There was not one reiki school in Japan, there
were many. There was not one history of reiki in Japan, there were many of
them. There was not one set of "true reiki techniques", there were several
styles. It is important to keep this in mind in evaluating the importation of
these techniques.
Another person that explored reiki in Japan was Dave King. Mr. King
received his material from a living surviving Hayashi Master whose name
was Tatsumi. This material was put together and called "Traditional
Japanese Reiki", and more recently "Usui-Do". Initially, those that received
this material were quite reluctant to share any of it and they continue to be
this way.
Starting about 1998, a new stream of information began to trickle from
various other individuals who were researching this in Japan. Frank Petter
released a second, and then third, book about the subject. Several western
masters made the acquaintance of a man practicing in Japan named Hiroshi
Doi. Doi was brought over in September 1999 and taught a seminar on
Reiki Reiho based supposedly on the teachings of the Gakkai.
This "new" material from these Japanese sources has been lumped
together under the name "Reiki Ryoho", "Usui Reiki Ryoho", or just plain
"Reiho". Some new schools have started calling themselves Usui Reiki
Ryoho International" or "URRI". In the west, the vast majority of lineages
and teachings come from Hawayo Takata, who was a master and studied
under Hayashi in the early 1930's. She called her Reiki, "Usui Shiki Ryoho",
or Usui System of Natural Healing. Tatsumi, another of Hayashi's masters
called his reiki, "Hayashi Reiki Ryouhou Kenkyu-kai", or Hayashi Reiki
Research Society. It needs to be noted that Hayashi continued to develop
reiki in Japan in his organization and he taught others after Takata. It should
be no surprise therefore that there are surviving lines of reiki in Japan, and
lines that differ from one another. However it should also be no surprise that
they are more alike that different and different from reiki as it evolved in the
west. There are surviving Hayashi lineages from Hayashi, and from the
Masters that he made during the course of his teaching.
This Reiki Ryoho material is mostly from the Petter and Hiroshi Doi sources.
Petter is originally a western Hayashi lineage master that began teaching
reiki in Japan. Doi Sensei was a western trained reiki master that also
studied with masters in Japan. It needs to be noted that despite Doi
Sensei's impeccable credentials, he is only Okuden (level II) in the Gakkai,
not a master. He has never been taught the secret teachings. (There are
three levels, Shoden, Okuden, and Shinpiden (master or secret level). Doi
trained with western masters and then went to japan and trained with
masters in some of the surviving Japanese lineages. It is said that he also
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trained personally with Kimiko Koyoma Sensei who was the 6th president of
the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai. His style that he teaches in Japan is called
"Gendai Reiki", or "Modern Reiki Method".
These techniques were greeted with a great enthusiasm by some, and a
great skepticism by others. The enthusiastic beamed that we had found
Usui's original art and the "lost" techniques. The skeptics tended to focus on
a number of significant issues. First, Japanese society has a far greater
emphasis on tradition, and clubs and societies in Japan tend to closely keep
their information among their members. The Gakkai and these other
organizations have existed for years with indifference to the western
practices, so why would they suddenly decided to reverse course and open
up. Second, the Gakkai itself has disclosed nothing. Most of the purported
Gakkai material comes from a level II student there (he is a master in the
western tradition), not one initiated in the Shinpiden or secret teachings.
Additionally, there is no one reiki in Japan. Some of the schools have
different information that is hard to reconcile and indeed little has seemed to
come directly from any of them, but rather through a number of
intermediaries. This is not to say that these were not original Usui
techniques, but rather that it is impossible to tell. Perhaps one day some of
these individuals and organizations that claim to have Usui's original notes
will deign to release them to the rest of the reiki world and then we shall
know with certainty. Until that time, these should be regarded as interesting
techniques that represent the evolution of Reiki in the various Japanese
lineages. Try not to focus on this in terms of correct, original, or right, but
instead as a parallel system to the Hayashi-Takata evolution that came to
the west.
Additionally, understand that while some might consider these techniques
and practices to be a welcome addition, they are not necessary to practice
reiki. A parallel from the martial arts might help explain this. Karate is a
martial art that was practiced in Okinawa. Originally, the kanji for karate was
two separate kanji; kara and te. "Kara" meant "China" and "te" meant hand.
The art originally came from Chinese Kung Fu. Over time, the kanji were
said to mean "empty hand", rather than "china hand". The art evolved.
Large flowery movements became streamlined, linear and more direct. It
was adapted by the masters to fit the needs of the Okinawans. The art was
taught to Gichin Funakoshi, a Japanese man, who brought the art to Japan.
These days there are many styles of Karate. Each represents an evolution,
and an adaptation for the people who received it. There is no better style,
just different ones. Hayashi made changes to reiki from Usui's model. The
Gakkai made changes from Usui's model. Many of the other masters made
changes as they saw fit for the benefit of their students. Hayashi taught
Takata, who made changes necessary to make reiki understood for
Americans. Reiki has flourished in America. Her art was streamlined and
flowed smoothly, and is the legacy we have today. As Karate is no longer
Chinese Kung Fu, perhaps Takata's gift is no longer exactly the same
practices that have evolved in Japan, and yet we are all brothers and sisters
of Usui's gift. Share it, enjoy it, be with it. If you find any of these from the
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Japanese line of benefit, then use them. If not, be grateful for the gift of reiki
that we have.
As The Reiki Ryoho information came out, it has been confusing to get a
comprehensive grasp on it. This is compounded due to the material coming
from several sources, and often there are multiple names for the
techniques. This is made more difficult due to the problems most
westerners have with understanding Japanese. To make it even still more
confusing some have been mixing in some of the Hayashi material that did
not continue on in Takata's practices. If you were not confused enough, still
others have been adding in Hiroshi Doi's Gendai Reiki practices as well.
Finally, there is information coming out now that Usui may not have founded
the Gakkai. There is only evidence that he started a clinic and school. The
Gakkai appears to have been founded by his top masters. Because of this it
is unclear which of these techniques that appear in this manual were really
his original practices. It appears certain that he taught the five hand
positions listed herein, byosen and reiji, hatsurei ho, and empowered
students with reiju. Other than that the rest is anyone's guess. Most of the
techniques listed in this manual are common to many forms of chi gung
(KiKo in Japanese).
In the spirit of it's sister publication "
Reiki Plain and Simple
- A
Comprehensive Guide to Usui Shiki Ryoho
", this e-book "
Reiki Ryoho
Plain and Simple - A Compendium of Reiki Ryoho Techniques
" is an
attempt to integrate, cohesively organize, and simplify the Ryoho material
that is now proliferating. What follows in this manual is representative of
areas of concurrence from the many sources that I have. When disparate
sources are reporting the same techniques it is likely that they were from a
common source, namely Usui's original practices. Differences in techniques
in the various sources of information may indicate that these are techniques
added later, or ones that are specific to that lineage.
Last, the issue of "what to make of all this" needs to be addressed. When
this material originally came out I was greatly excited. I remember thinking
"now we will finally know what Usui's original art was like". As I began to
explore this further I began to wonder what this meant in regards to the Usui
Shiki Ryoho that we had learned here in the west. It began to dawn on me
slowly that it meant nothing at all.
Recently I was having a discussion about the "new" old reiki ryoho material
with three reiki pals. One of them was holding the position that Takata's Usui
Shiki Ryoho was complete in and of itself and that while the ryoho material
was nice it was not necessary.
Another of my reiki pals was insistent that only the "new" old reiki Ryoho
material from Japan was worthwhile and that Takata's reiki was inferior. He
began quoting from Frank Petter's recent Reiki Letter he sent out from his
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