Usui Tibetan Reiki - Introduction

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A comprehensive Guide to Usui Shiki Ryoho

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Usui Tibetan Reiki Manual

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Introduction

Welcome to the Usui/Tibetan Material. This Section consists of the Level IIIa Manual and the Usui Tibetan Reiki Manual. In most Usui Tibetan Reiki the material for Level I and Level II are consistent with the Traditional Usui Shiki Ryoho as taught in the Western Hayashi - Takata style. It is at Level IIIa and Level IIIb that the changes to the Usui Shiki Ryoho System become obvious.

The "Tibetan" material was originally added to traditional Usui Shiki Ryoho by an American, Arthur Robertson. Arthur Robertson was a student of one of Mrs. Takata's Masters, Iris Ishikuro. The style he created was called Raku Kai Reiki. Although the idea that Reiki is from Tibet has been widely popularized by such authors as William Rand and Diane Stein there is in actuality no evidence that Reiki was ever practiced in Tibet. Usui Reiki Ryoho was developed by Mikao Usui in Japan incorporating elements of Tendai Buddhism, Zen Training, and Japanese Ki Ko and most likely elements of Dai Rei Jutsu. It is my opinion that it likely shares common roots with the religion Johrei. In Tibet, there are hands on healing arts that might be considered similar to reiki. These are the Green and White Tara Empowerments, and the Medicine Buddha. There are some similarities in that they use empowerments and some hands on techniques.

The "Tibetan" Practices were incorporated into Usui Reiki and renamed Raku Kai Reiki. The techniques added included the Breath of the Fire Dragon (i.e., Violet Breath), the Microcosmic Orbit called the Hui Yin, the White Light Symbol from the Johrei Religion, and the Antahkarana Symbol. Others added in Reiki spirit "Guides" and Reiki Guide Meditations and a few other techniques. The symbols of Raku, "Tibetan Master Symbol", and the Fire Serpent were also added. The two schools most influenced by Raku Kai would appear to be Kathleen Milner's Tera Mai (tm) Reiki, and William Rand's Usui/Tibetan Reiki. The Usui/Tibetan Tradition has been popularized by William Rand and Diane Stein.

The Usui / Tibetan Schools often add a level IIIa in their curriculum. This means they are teaching four levels rather than the traditional three in Western Usui Shiki Ryoho. This level is generally taught as a "personal mastery" level, and a number of new age techniques are taught including Reiki Crystal Grids, Healing Attunements, the Antahkarana Symbol and Meditations, Reiki Guide Work, and other Techniques. If you would like to read about these please visit the Reiki Level IIIa Section of this manual. With the exception of Scanning and Beaming (which were part of the original Usui system) this material was added on by Iris Ishikuro, Arthur Robertson, William Rand, Diane Stein and others.

For those reading through my many meanderings, understand that I do not teach any of the "Tibetan" material, and it is provided here for your reference only. BEing Reiki is being reiki, in the moment, now, in every breath. It is without control, expectation, attachment to outcome, just doing and being what is, as you are, now, in this moment. In that light, using crystals to "strengthen" reiki, or as talismans leads to a focus on the external and control. Extra symbols are merely other "things" to focus on that do not enhance but distract and give the illusion that if you have more you have better. Reiki "guides" again lead us to look outside ourselves, to wonder what the "guides" want, to wonder and worry about what the "guides" are trying to tell us. We anthropomorphize our intuition, needs and wants and then look to that to tell us our answers. Special healing "techniques" lead us to believe that we are controlling what cannot be controlled.

Usui Tibetan Level IIIa (Master Practitioiner Level)
Usui Tibetan Level IIIb (Master Teacher Level)