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Tupten C.
One thing is that, frustratingly, the more important journey is toward a better question, not a better answer.
In Buddhist training a lot of time is spent clarifying the “view”. Where the “view” is the way things are. Monks will spend 20 years debating and studying the “view”. With the purpose of changing their questions. Changing the way they think about reality.
This is really opposite to the way we normally approach things. Normally, at least in my house, we come at things from the answer side. We argue that the answer is not adequate. Rather than that the question is faulty.
Personally, I do not think it matters what is Reiki. Just that it is, and that it works. (But, I still love to ponder it!)
For what it is worth, especially for the people just starting out on their Reiki journey, I will offer up my back of the weeties packet definition of Reiki.
Reiki is.
Ha! Just kidding.
My best one sentence definition of Reiki is to say it is a force of reality. That flows from a spiritual origin and is accessible by empowerment.
Posted by Tupten C.
One thing is that, frustratingly, the more important journey is toward a better question, not a better answer.
In Buddhist training a lot of time is spent clarifying the “view”. Where the “view” is the way things are. Monks will spend 20 years debating and studying the “view”. With the purpose of changing their questions. Changing the way they think about reality.
This is really opposite to the way we normally approach things. Normally, at least in my house, we come at things from the answer side. We argue that the answer is not adequate. Rather than that the question is faulty.
Personally, I do not think it matters what is Reiki. Just that it is, and that it works. (But, I still love to ponder it!)
For what it is worth, especially for the people just starting out on their Reiki journey, I will offer up my back of the weeties packet definition of Reiki.
Reiki is.
Ha! Just kidding.
My best one sentence definition of Reiki is to say it is a force of reality. That flows from a spiritual origin and is accessible by empowerment.