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Well, one of the things that define a religion is their set of belief systems and doctrine, we call it. And for Reiki I feel we actually have one, but nobody wants to call is that because it’s a very scary word. But… it’s a more simplistic kind of doctrine, like Reiki on, Reiki off and you know practice, that’s how you’re going to achieve any kind of further knowledge and so my grandmother’s little phrases that she used all the time, like «practice, practice, practice!» or «let Reiki teach you». This one has become one of my favorites, because every word for me has an implication, like «let» is about surrendering, let Reiki teach you, so you know, it’s like that posture of letting is more like an open arm-posture than (closes arms) «okay, come on, you know, just try and change me», you know.
1:26
Teaching is a kind of.. like implying that there is.. that there is teaching in everything.
0141-0145 (cough)
That there is something to be learned everywhere… and I feel that this attitude toward life becomes a part of what we might call «Reiki culture». But it also becomes a part of our doctrine in some way, I mean if we want to call it «doctrine»…
0201-0203 (cough)
because.. the posture of being a student is a really beautiful way to approach the world. And this for me is «let Reiki teach you» and then, you know, Reiki is this kind of.. we all, I think, go through stages of about how to define the word Reiki. Sometime it’s really specific, like Reiki are the hand-positions and the percepts or whatever, you know, you’re fighting with at the time
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2:45
And Reiki is also this energetic, so when you start to experience being led by an energetic field and understand that, you know, this Reiki is what has organized our world into these interlocking systems, inter-nested systems, and that we are part of that system, allows us to again find our placement and find our understanding of how being a part of a system is actually a more powerful place than trying to control the system, which was a part of the religious doctrine that we’ve all adopted in one degree or another.
3:35
So for me these two things that… I think that it’s not … so for me the value of the two different kinds of doctrine are that the doctrine of Reiki leads us into more of a natural flow and natural understanding of the order of the universe and religions often take us out of that order. And then we’re into this constant battle with what we know in our ancient being and what we want to do and then what we’re told to do is right and it’s just… it’s this age old dilemma… which I don’t like very much. So…
4:26
I take the good parts of religion because I think that when I do into places like a cathedral I just feel that the energy of all the sincere people who have been in that cathedral and received the connection with God… allows me to open to that place in myself and therefore allows me to contact the mystery, easily and.. more easy than if I were, say, you know, in a café in the middle of a busy city. So this space that we come into and who we are in these spaces become much more relevant to understanding our own spirituality…. Yah..
5:25