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and you know, it would just be a Reiki space and that would be one way where we can actually share reiki with people in a general way. So I’m really excited by that and then as we started to really look at our plan what we realised is that this was going to affect our own practice and our own ideas about our practice. So we went to this marketing guy who I really still very much like and feel that he has a lot to give to us and we were talking about the mission statement and talking about masters and he took out the words … he took out some words where it was like all Reiki Masters and I went (pauses, looking right, left, frowning) “all Reiki Masters?” like I don’t think that’s our mission. And he said “well, why not?” “Isn’t your job to, as masters, to promote mastery? Like not just an individual coming to their fruition and fulfillment as a human-being but mastery, like this concept of mastery?” and I went (pauses) “well, that’s a thought” (laughs).
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And out of that came the realisation that actually this whole calling, and I believe that it came from Reiki itself, this calling really is about us, all of us, seeing that the life we are living and our connection to Reiki has a much larger purpose. And that it’s important for us to have a place where we all can call home. And that we feel safe there. And that we feel like we can be generous there. And we feel like that we are contributing to people
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So… I think that one of the things that doesn’t really serve Reiki is that people come to Reiki and all of a sudden their being is filled with this.. what they call unconditional love. This is a condition of human beings that I don’t actually believe in. So I just… (laugh)… but I get the state of being that they are talking about, unconditional love. It means that I can put my hands on a stranger and give them a treatment and at the end of that treatment I’m connected with that person. And I would serve him and fight for him and fight for his right to exist, because I know I’m connected to him.
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But the point is, we are all connected together like this, Reiki just gives us the possibility to experience it. And this is the key gift of Reiki, is that we experience these kind of profound connections. So, if we have that, then what’s a little difference of opinion?
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But when I went to other countries and I didn’t have knowledge of their language, I didn’t really understand their culture and their cultural priorities, I realized that I often offended people or as they say here in America “was kind of like a bull in a China shop”. I just, you know, blundered my way through being an American, not really understanding that I might be offending people.
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So there’s that part of me, being human. And then there’s the other part of me, which just is shy and sometimes not wanting to put myself on the firing line, which I think all of you can understand. So I have more courage these days and I also have more understanding about where other people come from, that I feel like everyone is doing their best. Everyone follows their path of Reiki and even though I may not like it or I don’t agree with it, I will fight to the death for your right to have your own path, because for me that is the gift of Reiki and the gift of this path.
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So it took me about four months to figure out if I was willing to do what she said and in the end I said yes. And this started a journey of myself that ended up, I thought I could go back and just be myself again. But in truth when I was introduced to Reiki and I started on the path of Reiki, not consciously, not choosing it but having it handed to me through my family, I realized that I could really never go back to what I call now an unconscious life, that somehow just this trip and this initiation into mastery and this push of my grandmother to begin to teach and begin to relay to people through Reiki the energy and through Reiki the practice, has started a process inside of me that was unstoppable.
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3:11
So I went… I finished the summer with my grandmother, I went back to the ski-area and worked, but it was mixed with Reiki already. And the next summer I decided to take a journey by myself and my one job during this summer was to introduce myself as a Reiki master, because in the US and Canada when you meet someone, the first thing they say is “What do you do?”, meaning what do you do for living. And I would always say “A Reiki master”. And then they would ask the question “Well, what’s that?”. But this is a little bit like saying hello in a foreign language and not knowing any other word in a foreign language. You know, you go “Bonjour” and then they start rattling off in French and you’re going “Wait, wait, wait, I can’t understand you” (laugh). Well, that’s kind of what I felt like when they asked me “well what’s that? What’s a Reiki master?”.
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And that winter, when I came back, I knew that I had to follow the path of Reiki. So… and it wasn’t winter, it was fall. So, I’m sorry. So I ended up back in British Colombia with my grandmother in October, in November, and just before she died in 1980. And then, when she did die and I was a Reiki master and I had figured out that I was going to live the rest of my life as a Reiki master, I had no grounding as an individual, as a personality or even as a Reiki student. I hadn’t practiced that long. So I took it on, as a good Japanese woman would do, as family duty. And….
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5:17
It’s hard to describe in words what that means, family duty. But it meant that I couldn’t quit because if I did I would let my family down. I mean, I so wanted to quit every week for the first ten years, because I would be challenged, I would be given things that I didn’t want to do, that I didn’t think I could do, put myself in places where it was… for me really, above my head, in every way. And finally, in the late 1980s or early 1990s, I can’t remember when, I just woke up one morning and thought “Okay, this is it. This is my life, I’m accepting it and forget about family duty because I can’t live this life as family duty. I have to live it as my own life.”
6:30
And this particular realization helped me in coming to this place that I referred to as the “Yes-place”, as the time, when I realized that I had to make all the decisions myself and that they couldn’t be somebody else’s decisions, that they had to be my decisions, and that if I did that and I didn’t like what was happening, I could make another decision. I mean it was fine for me to change my mind. And…
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Well I’m a little confused because I have another definition of global imperative, so I’m going to just speak in another way….
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When I found out I had cancer in 2009 I knew that it was a message from my body saying that I hadn’t been following a path, my path, and that I knew that because in the three years before that I knew that I needed to stop how I was travelling and what I was doing and to concentrate on something else but I could never find the something else, so as a human being I just fell back on what I knew. And…. having cancer has been the most wonderful gift. I tells me how I’m going.. and now that I have a metastasis it’s even a better gift: I know now how I’m going to die, I know that I don’t have 20 years, I have maybe 5 years if I’m lucky.
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1:25
I know that… and I just want you all to know that I’m happy to be a miracle trial also, but it gives me kind of a surety. It also wakes up the community. When I.. and it wakes me up because I thought to myself: “ok, so I can’t go back to the way I was”. And two years later after I finished all my treatments and so on, in that time I started to investigate and Reiki brought to me my next calling as a Reiki Master, as a Reiki Student and also as the Grand Master of this system and that is to
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…. prepare the system and perhaps the global community to serve our world, our global community of human beings and our global society
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2:34
I feel and I know that we have the potential to realize a different way of life for everyone, that we are preparing ourselves to become conscious, to become compassionate along with a kind of open creativity that
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accompanies consciousness…. Many people mistake the state of consciousness that I am talking about with loving and it’s not about loving at all. It’s not an emotion it’s a state of being. It means that our decisions come from not-habit but all the factors involved in that moment for that decision, whether it’s “I go to the grocery store now or later” or “I initiate this person as a master now or later or never” or
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“It’s time for me to practice Reiki”, “It’s time for me to have a self-treatment” 0357 ähm (pauses)
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4:11
Reiki has a very unique kind of leadership to offer. So this means that we have, we need as far as I’m concerned, to grow into that leadership ourselves, which means that it’s not a hierarchy it’s a circle. The power is in the circle. And I have always said to people “I am not the top of the line, I’m not the world expert, I am a student of Reiki that has a specific duty to this system”. But everybody has as their own gift, their own understanding that they bring to the system. But their sharing of this gift is not so imperative as mine. That’s the difference.
5:12
I have always seen myself as sitting in a circle of masters, first the masters that Takata initiated and now that that circle has grown so small I can count on one hand the number of masters now alive, I think…. I look to another circle, the circle that I call the Master Body…
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Are we able to sit together in a circle either virtually or physically and talk from our heart-mind (touches third eye), and to share our truth and to listen to the truth of others equally? Are we able to take the leadership when it’s important and then to give it to another person when it’s their turn to lead? 0618These are all 0620 (räusper) poss… all..in our, this..
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06:25
We have this potential and it’s right at our fingertips literally. And one of the things that I hope to bring to at least the system that I practice and hold is the possibility of them understanding that this is our next step to fulfilling what I believe is the calling of Reiki, which is to make a difference, not in a passive way but in a passionate way, to use all of our dedication, all of our passion for this practice and all of our energy as human beings so that we can bring to this planet understanding about the energy of money, that we can bring to it shared leadership and understanding of the value of every person’s human dignity, that we can bring to them the experience of being one, of laying our hands on people and knowing that we are one with this person whether we like them or not, whether we are afraid of them or not or whether we fall deeply in love with them or not. Those emotions don’t matter, it’s this intrinsic connection that we have as a species and every other species on this planet has this in their consciousness. It’s just that we have forgotten. And it’s so important that we start remembering. And I believe that that’s a huge gift that Reiki gives to us.
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Right now we hide this by good/bad, right/wrong, better than. Those are tricks of our human mind so that we don’t feel the pain of others, so that we don’t feel the pain of separation, so that we don’t experience this incredible vibrant joy of being connected. We have to reduce it so that we as an individual can live content to know that we are in control.
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Reiki has taught me that all of this is not our human birthright and that we have the capacity to meet and to take in whatever comes to us….

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Just recently there were a group of people who were speaking of this very thing “what is Reiki calling us to do?” … and what touched us all was this “Reiki is calling us to serve life”…