Milarepa wrote:

How can i put this. It's claimed (by someone who said they have/had it) that the 1970's Gakkai Koyami version is actually wrote in new Kanji, post 1946 kanji. save for the grammer is wrote in the old way. though i don't understand what that means.

These two claims don't match up. It's either two Hikkei, or well, hehe. Though it's one thing making a claim bout something, cause i can do that later on, .

Clever argument! It may be a Hikkei version before 70', or a new and modified edition. We don't know yet.

Milarepa wrote:

whoever is saying this is then claiming to have a copy of the hikkei pre-dating Koyami's 1970's Gakkai one.

How can i put this. It's claimed (by someone who said they have/had it) that the 1970's Gakkai Koyami version is actually wrote in new Kanji, post 1946 kanji. save for the grammer is wrote in the old way. though i don't understand what that means.

These two claims don't match up. It's either two Hikkei, or well, hehe. Though it's one thing making a claim bout something, cause i can do that later on, .

[this is part of a post I've just added to the Did Hawayo Takata feel the need to lie about Reiki history thread, however I felt it was directly relevant here also]

I agree, there are certain 'issues' re the 'Hikkei' itself.

Some people seem to think that the booklet in general circulation is a copy of an original document, given by Usui-sensei to his students.

This, we can be certain, is not the case. Why? Because (as Wayne mentions) it is written using the modern simplified form of writing system, which came into use 20 years after Usui-sensei's passing.(After WWII, there was a reform of the Japanese writing system and many of the kanji were simplified).

Now, on becoming aware of this fact, it seems many folks believe that the booklet in general circulation must simply be a tranliterated (from 'old form' to 'new form') version of an original document, given by Usui-sensei to his students. (No modification of the meaning/phrasing of the text, just a case of the same words written down in a simplified 'script')

Another belief is that the Hikkei was compiled in the 1970's by Kimiko Koyama, sixth kaicho (president / chairman) of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai – that she brought together (and transliterated) elements* from previously separate sources, to create the unified document we now know as the Hikkei,



Oh, and yet another theory is that it was Doi himself who was responsible for creating the whole thing - with the exception of the Meiji poetry !
["Conspiracy theory Rules O.K." ]




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*[ I.e, the The Gokai, the “Usui Q&A ', the Meiji poetry, the Treatment Guidelines]