Milarepa wrote:]Yeah, i agree colin, it looks pretty well one-sided, and biased imo. To be honest, the writers seem to have misunderstood basic aspects of their own path. If i can be as bold to say, hehe.
It's interesting they rely so heavily on the supposed non-existence of proof Reiki works scientifically, when, still, scientifically there is not firm evidence even God exists. It's ironic, that folks in a spiritual path ned to use science to somehow try to invalidate another spiritual path. Now that's a paradox!
I have to disagree with them also when they say Reiki is not a prayer, but a technique. I always thought a prayer was a technique to interact with God.
take care
Wayne
hi Colin, Wayne
a refined input to the the papers Colin referred ! [applause]
almost translating the sentiment that those papers reflected, we too here have a feeling among my Islamic brotherhood that practicing reiki has a character of 'tampering' Islamic teachings vis-a-vis sometimes even alluding that invoking symbols is virtually close to 'shirk' (a fundamental sin where we ascribe something to somebody which Allah Almighty has the claim to be ascribed with)...
and when i read such sentiments i sometimes question myself how our religious faith is sometimes so easily lax or vulnerable? how we disown anything we find spiritual on the simple premise that it was not taught to us in our religion or that it does not 'fit' apparently to the religious teachings....
spirituality is a human attribute, a faculty that makes us 'fit' to be communicating with Divine... we are born with spirituality, like we are born with two hands and two feet to do work with... in one way, communication with Divine is a communication with oneself sometimes, since God is said to be seated right there in us too... and accepting that, we also realize that God is simply 'big enough' to be easily contained in 'us' only, rather He is big enough to be cumulatively contained within the whole universe... something that makes him 'GOD'
leaving aside that discussion about confusion of identities and boundaries, the topic in question here is whether reiki tampers with religion... i would say "not really!"... religion is a technique ( borrowing Wayne's eloquence) to communicate with GOD, and reiki is a technique that makes us more refined to do that... practicing reiki, is infact equivalent to making ourselves more 'fit', 'suitable' to practice what our religion tells us, and to brew the blessings with a greater possibility.
example sake, islam prescribes us daily five times prayers, a whole month fasting once during a year, a pilgrimage to Holy Cities once in a lifetime, etc. etc. and invariably all these things require good health and a working limbs and body... so if someone goes for morning or evening walk, exercise regularly, etc. to maintain body health, he is infact making himself more 'available' to reap benefits of religious orders/rituals.... same way, if we nourish our spiritulaity through practicing reiki, we would produce good platform for our mind/body/spirit to act upon relgious requirements and to comlement ultimate aim of any religion viz: connection with Divine !
spirituality is our own spark of Divinity, as Wayne puts it, and there are multiple ways to say this basic things... if you and i say the same thing in two ways, how come it becomes obvious that we are talking about two things literally
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take care
salman
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