Ten Commandments of Life

1. Fully and unconditionally love yourself.
   Recognize your Divinity.
   Honor yourself.
   


2. Unconditionally love and accept others.
   Recognize their Divinity and honor them.
   


3. Take responsibility for your actions.
   You always have a choice;
   how you feel, act or what you say.
   Act, don't react.
   


4. Be a Master of Divine expression.
   Live the Universal Laws of Love, Peace, Truth.
   


5. You create your life
   (by your choices, feelings and actions).
   Live in joy.
   


6. Let go and allow.
   Listen to and follow, unconditionally,
   your small quiet voice; your spirit.
   


7. Be thankful and humble.
   Give thanks for what you have and receive.
   Be grateful.
   


8. Your sustenance comes from inside you.
   Trust.
   You will always be provided for.
   


9. Your body is the temple of your soul.
   Nurture and care for yourself.
   


10. Live in the present moment.
    Life can only be experienced now.

by Adonea (C)1990

What can be treated with Reiki?

Reiki is both powerful and gentle. In its long history of use it has aided in healing virtually every known illness and injury including serious problems like: multiple sclerosis, heart disease, and cancer as well as skin problems, cuts, bruises, broken bones, headache, colds, flu, sore throat, sunburn, fatigue, insomnia, impotence, poor memory, lack of confidence, etc. It is always beneficial and works to improve the effectiveness of all other types of therapy.

A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance and has many benefits for both client and practitioner, including altered states of consciousness and spiritual experiences.

If a client has a health condition, and wants to be treated with Reiki, it is recommended that they do so under the supervision of an enlightened medical doctor or other health care professional. Reiki will improve the results of all medical treatment, acting to reduce negative side effects, shorten healing time, reduce or eliminate pain, reduce stress, and help create optimism.

~ Reiki: The Healing Touch

BEing Reiki

Many come to reiki as part of their "spirituality". We chase this up one side of the street and down another; we are "seekers". We seek union with the god that we have conceptually created for ourselves so that it can save us, we seek experiences, we seek one high after another, we seek our "path", we seek enlightenement.

We pursue this in crystals, and meditations, gurus, healing systems like Reiki and Karuna and Seichim, philosophy, theories, "ascended masters", "guides", "channeling". But I will tell you that this is a trap, for in seeking outside yourself you can never find. Enlightenment is where you are, where else could it be?

Usui's Reiki was one of many, many ways of seeing the truth, and that is healing. This is reiki. Reiki can heal, can releive pain, but don't expect reiki to do the work of removing the conditionings that veil awakening. Attunements do not equal enlightenment. Removing your suffering is up to you. Your reiki will be an expression of you, of your life, your BEing, and it will reflect the oneness and connectedness with all that you are. The more ego there is, the less it will reflect this. It has been said that reiki works best when ego is least. It has been said be a "clean bone" for the reiki to pass through.

Usui shared reiki with us. He left a set of tools to heal. Do not let those tools, symbols and techniques become a stumbling block for you. Attachment to these symbols, tools or systems as a concept or belief system is just as seperate and as limiting as any belief system. BEing Reiki is transcending these forms to BE the essence that is healing. When you are reiki you have no need of these things or systems, it is your BEing.

Do not try to understand how reiki works. Its explanation will elude you like sand slipping through clutching hands. Just be reiki.

I like using pneumonics. They help others and myself to remember things easily. One of the cutesy little pneumonics I use is "when ego goes, reiki flows". A simple phrase for a simple idea. Reiki *is*, and in that moment, miracles happen, don't stand in the way.

It is often said that reiki is driven by "intent". In being reiki, our intent is pure. That is, it is untainted by goals, levels of reiki, attachment to outcome, the need to prove that it works, need for the other to heal. A wonderful phrase I heard describes it best, "great effort, no goal." In this our practice is pure, in this we are in the moment, in the now, without judging, comparing, attaching to outcome or measuring our "achievement" in healing. Our intent is pure, free of non-attachment to the process, to the outcome, to technique, or to symbols. Just *be* Reiki, in that moment.

Wei wu wei, doing by not doing. If you attach to reiki as a concept, it is just as seperate and as limiting as any belief system. In the end, you see that there is no healer, no healee and nothing to heal. The reiki principles are instructions to be mindful, to "be". They heal, as does the energy. There is a lack of control, of ego, in them. There is a lack of attachment and desire in them. "For today only, anger not, worry not. Be Grateful and Humble. Do your work with appreciation. Be kind to all beings."

Some ask what my opinion of the so-called "add-on" techniques is. There is no right or wrong way, there is only what you do, or do not. You can really only BE reiki, and in that moment respond to what is in that moment. The rest of this is ego, conditionings, sleep, concepts and speculation. Why get so involved with these that you argue?

Keep in mind that reiki is BEing Reiki. If you are focusing on your conditionings, attachment to outcome, opinions, desires and ego then might I suggest you refocus on simply being reiki and letting it be as it is, in the moment. Respond in the moment, moment by moment in using reiki. Reiki *heals*. Do not get so caught up in all the opinions that you forget this. Do not fall into the trap of thinking that more is better.

In the search, the path so many move from one healing system to another. Reiki is taken and this did not "fix us". Usui/Tibetan Reiki is taken. That didn't fix us either. Now Karuna Reiki(tm) or Karuna Ki is taken. We still are not fixed. Now Seichim, SKHM, Rebirthing, Pranic Healing, Polarity Therapy, Therapeutic Touch, and still no fix. Realize that more is not better.

Each adds another system of belief, conditioning that covers your eyes and blinds you from the truth. Not my "truth", not "your truth", not any relative truth. Just the simple truth of *what is*. It is the search itself that prevents you from seeing it. As long as you seek, you will not find. In all honesty, will one more symbol, system, technique, hidden teaching ever give you what you believe you lack? Nothing out side of you ever can.

Where is this seeker?, and what is it that is sought? You have been seeking for what you think you are looking for, and when you find it, it was not it. Your path may lead you to think that you are on the way somewhere, to better sex, or money, being more in control, to be a better "self", a "better" healer, enlightenment. But all of that is illusion.

Using reiki to try to "manifest" things that you desire is illusion. You are not on the way anywhere, and there is no where to else to be. All you have is this moment, the only time you can do or be anything. Be Reiki, Be compassion, be loving-kindness, on this breath, in this moment. Try not to think of any of this as "right" or "wrong". Reiki is in the BEing.

There are many, myself included, who have searched and searched. There are countless people who take reiki as just another thing on their search. We have taken multitudes of classes in many different systems moving from thing to thing like a bee from flower to flower. In this we are the blind following the blind, teaching the blind, leading the blind. It is said Reiki came together for Usui after a Satori. He saw how all his many experiences and healing practices fit together and taught a simple system for others to follow. There is no one in the west that I have ever met that has become awakened by learning Reiki, yet there are countless who add all and sundry to the system.

Consider this carefully. Look at what it is you expect from Reiki. Will learning another symbol give you what you want? Will learning another system give it to you? What if they promise "ascension", "galactic healing", meeting your reiki "guides", the secret lost symbol, the lost teachings, secret channeled material from the ascended masters? Will you *be* complete then? Will you then have what you want? Will you finally be happy? What is it you seek? Will any of these things give to you what you seek? Or are they simply additional things to keep you asleep, more conditionings, more dead ends, that others have convinced you that you need to be whole.

My friends there is nothing out side of you that can give you what you want. Reiki is a tool, a pointer to the way. Use it or not. But do not expect it to do the work for you, no one can heal you but yourself.

Reiki is in the simple. Reiki is not so much something we do, it is something we are. In the moment, as the expression of what it, as love, compassion and kindness we reach out, we touch, we heal. In the moment when you stretch out your hand to heal where there is no self, no other, you *are* reiki. We can cloud our minds with attachments, things, techniques, endless debates over right and wrong, but we have all been down that road before. We know exactly where it leads.

And so in closing, I leave you with this. Simply place your hands together in gassho, and say these words. For today only, anger not, worry not. Be grateful and humble. Be kind to all. Be mindful and live these. Place your hands on self or other and let go. Let go of outcome, of worry, of conditionings, of need, and simply be. The rest takes care of itself.

May this be of benefit.
In metta, Vinny Amador

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Dr Usui Explains Reiki

Explanation Of Instruction For The Public ~by Founder of Usui Reiki Ryoho, Mikao Usui

It is an old custom to teach a method to only my descendants, for keeping a wealth within a family. Especially, the modern societies we live in wish to share happiness of coexistence and co-prosperity. So I don’t allow my family to keep the method to ourselves.

My Usui Reiki Ryoho is an original, there is nothing like this in the world. So I would like to release this method to the public for everyone’s benefit and hope for everyone’s happiness. My Reiki Ryoho is an original method based on intuitive power in the universe. By this power, the body gets healthy and enhances happiness of life and peaceful mind. Nowadays people need improvement and reconstruction inside and outside of life, so the reason for releasing my method to the public is to help people with illness of body and mind.

~exerpted from the Usui Reiki Hikkei - Usui Sensei's original handbook
© Universal Copyright 1999, 2000 Richard Rivard - please share freely

Thoughts On Reiki

My friends there is nothing out side of you that can give you what you want. Reiki is a tool, a pointer to the way. Use it or not. But do not expect it to do the work for you, no one can heal you but yourself.

Reiki is in the simple. Reiki is not so much something we do, it is something we are. In the moment, as the expression of what it, as love, compassion and kindness we reach out, we touch, we heal. In the moment when you stretch out your hand to heal where there is no self, no other, you *are* Reiki.

Enlightenment is where you are, where else could it be? Usui's Reiki is one of many, many ways of seeing the truth, and that is healing. This is Reiki. Reiki can heal, can relieve pain, but don't expect Reiki to do the work of removing the conditionings that veil awakening. Attunements do not equal enlightenment. Removing your suffering is up to you.

Your Reiki will be an expression of you, of your life, your BEing, and it will reflect the oneness and connectedness with all that you are. BEing Reiki is to BE the essence that is healing.

And so in closing, I leave you with this. Simply place your hands together in Gassho, and say these words. For today only, anger not, worry not. Be grateful and humble. Be kind to all. Be mindful and live these. Place your hands on self or other and let go. Let go of outcome, of worry, of conditionings, of need, and simply be. The rest takes care of itself.

May this be of benefit.
~Vinny Amador

Questions and Answers by Hawayo Takata

Here we have a treat! The following questions were taken from a lecture given by Hawayo Takata in 1975 which was held at the Trinity Metaphysical Center in Redwood City, CA. Reverend Beth Gray, pastor of the center, presented questions from an audience compiled entirely of Takata’s Reiki students. The lecture was recorded by John Harvey Gray with Takata’s permission. Each one has been presented verbatim. Correct punctuation is attempted.

Takata often taught by telling stories. In her manner of teaching, which at first glance may appear simple, Takata presented fundamental teachings about Reiki that are truly profound and timeless.

For those of you not yet familiar with Hawayo Takata, she was the Japanese-Hawaiian woman responsible for bringing Reiki to the West. Takata received her entire Reiki training from Chujiro Hayashi, who in turn, received his training from Mikao Usui, the originator of the Reiki system of natural healing.

• Is the ability to Channel Reiki ever lost?
• Why is self-treatment sometimes unsuccessful?
• Must one wash hands after Reiki?
• What about reactions to Reiki treatments?

Source: LearnReiki.org.

Reactions To Reiki Treatments

Reverend Beth Gray: “Will you speak about reactions?”

Hawayo Takata: “Yes. Reactions are active. Now very few people will have a reaction after one treatment, but if they are very, very ill, they may. And when reactions come, don’t panic. But most people will say, ‘Oh, they made me worse.’

But when you feel that you have become worse, that means the whole body has taken effect. The pure, the (inaudible word), the Reiki is beginning to cleanse you. And so, the internal organs, the twenty-eight feet of intestines, will be cleansed, and you will start to have diarrhea, and fever.

Now, especially in the chronic arthritis cases, when you have lots of calcium in your body, if your body does not burn, or raise fever, you cannot get the calcium to dissolve. And so by treating it, and when your body temperature rises, you may have fever for four or five days. But all during the time, the calcium begins to dissolve. And it may come out through your urine, through your bowl. Sometimes it forms a great big sore anywhere. It could be on the knees, it could be on the elbow, a great big ripe tomato-like, and that’s filled with dissolved calcium.

And this patient asked me, ‘Mrs. Takata, what do you do (inaudible word), fork, knife, or a needle?’ I said, ‘No. We Reiki. We just treat. We are not surgeons. We are not doctors. So all we have to do is to treat, and we’ll leave it up to nature, and see what happens. But be sure to have a double bed sheet by your feet. Someday this is going to burst.’

And while treating, this became very, very raw, and then it burst. And, you know, the force of this ripe tomato was so hard that it splashed, not only the walls, but to the ceiling. He grabbed the sheet, put it on, and then I squeezed it, and then it drained for five to seven days. And before, the hole was that big, but before it completely healed, I told him, ‘Now that your swelling from your feet and your thighs and legs and all your arms have gone, and you can walk now without pain, please go to your doctor, and check with him and tell him about this.’ So, he did.

And the doctor was very, very happy. And of course, while the doctor was examining and looking at the hole, he squeezed it. And when he squeezed it, something like cottage cheese jumped out. And that was all the calcium that had gathered from the body.

Now, this man had 13 years of arthritis, and he was not an old man. He was only about 45 years old. But he was unable to work. He was bedridden ... bedridden. And pain, pain, pain. So, when you entered his home, on the door it says, ‘Please, do not slam the doors. The screen door has rattles, so please do not slam. Please, do not turn on the TV.’ Everything that (has) vibrations (she claps), even that hurt him more.

And so when he got well, he did get well to a perfection. And he lost … he was about 175 pounds, and he came down, and he minused, he minused about 35 pounds. And so he could wear his wedding suit at that time, and he went to the doctor, and showed him, and said, ‘This is where it came out.’ And the doctor said, ‘If this had covered the whole surface,’ he said, ‘I would not have believed it. But seeing is believing, and I’m very happy you had the sense to come when this was still (inaudible word).’

And the first thing I told him, I said, ‘Every Sunday, you used to argue with your wife. Your wife said, ‘Let’s go to church.’ And he said, ‘Oh, I have to go fishing.’ And he would say, ‘Today, I have to clean my yard.’ And then he always had some kind of alibi, but never went to church. And so, I say to him, ‘Now that you have gone to the doctor, and find yourself okay, the first thing you are going to do is to go to the house of God, and thank God. Take your wife down.’ It was only two blocks … that was the Episcopalian church.

And so I said, ‘Wear your shoes and your Sunday clothes, take your wife’s arm, and walk to the church, now that you can walk. And, you walk right to the altar, and then, bow your head, and then thank God for having mercy, and grace, and for the, healing.’ I said, ‘It was through God power, that you were healed, and, it was not (inaudible word), I only gave you the time.’ And then, the wife followed the diet. And so, in 30 days, 13 years of arthritis was absolutely gone. And so, that is another happy, happy story. But it ended it.

You have to remove the cause, and then the effect. No effect … if you remove the cause there shall be no effect.”