Buck wrote:I believe it was Suzuki Roshi who is quoted to having said:
"In the beginner's mind there are endless possibilities, in the experts there are few."

I see my students as seeds
drinking up the information
and growing. Growing/learning
does not stop when they leave
class,RLL opens the door to
connect/share Reiki ideas. I
too am a lifelong learner &
I am always interested in where
did all the Reiki "curriculum"
develop/change. If we look at
Lineages we may find answers

This Post has SO MUCH info but I almost missed reading this.... I thought this topic was about lineages!!

great thread...I've been a little confused in the past about one teacher belonging to a variety of lineages, and yet keeping to to one particular 'style' during attunement...

and i've often wondered if some 'high profile' teachers who have multiple styles under their hat have been entirely honest about the lineages they put to paper as part of one style.. my inital training was in two differnt 'styles' up to master level, you could say it was a combination of two styles not mixed, but one style at one level, then a differnt style for the subsequent levels..... I was taught all levels by the same teacher and have the appropriate lineages ..

this weekend I have been initiated into jikiden Reiki......and as a result a very clear realisation has come to pass that, it doesn't matter what lineage or 'style' of reiki
one has been attuned/initiated to, as long as that lineage can be traced back to usui, and the attunement process applied correctly the ability to use Reiki will always prevail.

all any reiki attunement does is allow us to tap into a little more directly the source of All healing....which I've always known.

Quite a few reiki practitioners think reiki is different from other types of spiritual healing.....it's only different in it's application and accessibility....

I was reading again this morning how Mikao Usui tripped up and hurt his foot then placed his hands on it to heal.......Another lady I trained with a few years ago ( not reiki) had a similar experience when she was bitten by a poisonous insect, she placed her hands on her leg and a great white light flooded to the point of her bite and stopped the poison from spreading.............it is the exact same energy, no difference at all, it's just that Usui developed a very specific way of helping others access that very same energy.

One thing I do like about Reiki is it's very simple way people can open themselves up to the ability to heal via attunements..... it really is so very very simple...

Reiki is becoming a bit like religion now, in that there are so many different 'styles' or offshoots.........one divine source, with lots of different ways of accessing it.

In religion I wish there was a more 'universal spirit' which appreciated that all are respecting the same creative force.....In Reiki we too are all acessing the same creative force, just in many different ways.......perhaps we should start embracing the similarities instead of hunting down the differences?

Colin's idea of Reiki pure and simple, is resonating more and more......Reiki is reiki is reiki.....whether or not the recipe has added salt or sugar, cooked on the hob in a pan, or caseroled in the oven , the tasty outcome is always the same...

( excuse the waffle, I'm all loved up! ahaha)

HMM sounds like an energy overload could happen.