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ähm (2 knocks in the background) (pauses) 0008 I think in the beginning I was naive enough to think that my contribution to the world really was about creating «new Reiki lights», there are lots of expressions in different languages that Reiki masters use for their new students. And I believe that that’s true in the sense that, you know, we have the opportunity to be with people and to allow them to remember who they really are. At the same time..it is… we are students as well. And so for me, every initiation I give, every class that I give, allows me to reach into the part of myself that becomes more and more authentically human.
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And for me that’s really on some level the most profound change that happens in a Reiki class …it is my change as a human being. And that so many people have been initiated as a Master for ‘personal growth’ but what they don’t really understand is the most profound personal growth is when you teach. I don’t, you know, I don’t support people being initiated as masters for personal growth without teaching because for me it’s like that is the sacred tool of a master for themselves is to be able to stand in this place where you are at one time, it’s very paradoxical, at one time (0202) «THE Master» and «THE Teacher» of Reiki and you get to touch these people not just physically, energetically and perhaps spiritually in very profound way and in an intimate way and at the same time you open yourself up totally in surrender to the energy. So you are both the top, as you are.. and then you are a student.
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And this blend of a kind of paradoxical situation is the key to who we are as human beings. I believe that we of course can be masters of the universe but we also have to be part of the universe. So these paradoxical situations are very important and we learn that every time we teach. So I went from a place of just getting that this ‘task’ of mine was to first fulfil a family duty 03:09 (to carry on Reiki) and then to initate new reiki students, because that was my job, so to speak, and then this other piece where it became this wonderful practice of standing in as much presence as possible while surrendering all of myself. And this to me is the path of the master and really the contribution to the world. Yah!
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