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When i was very, very young, a new kid came into school. He'd moved over from Australia. He told us fantastic tales of eating turkey dinner on the beach at christmas. We thought he was barmy, but we were fascinated at this tanned, funny sounding kid, who spoke about somewhere so far away and strange, it was like another planet.
As the conversation went on, talk naturally turned to what we done at christmas. Our excited tales of mass snowball fights, big igloo den's, were quickly interupted by our aussie pal. Confusion all over his face, he asked us, "what the heck's snow?"
Everyone stopped chattering, turned to look at him, eyes wide, mouths open. "You mean you don't know what snow is?" Some of us even started laughing, in that immature way kids can do when something they don't understand appears.
So we started to tell him all about snow. What it's colour was, what it felt like on our skin, on our tongues. What kind of atmosphere it gave, that peaceful feeling, alomst on the verge of something exctiing. We told him how it was formed in the sky, how certain conditions need to be right to experience it on the ground. WE went into fantastic tales of what we could do with it, what we did do with it, embelishing our stories, like young bucks trying to gain importance by our outlandish antics.
Of course, we could have cut all of that excitement, all of that sharing of knowledge by simply saying it's energy (if we had of know that then). Cause it is energy of course. As is an apple, oil, car wheels, a computer..
So, knowing now that it's energy, would i have done either the snow, or my aussie friend any justice by saying 'its energy'? Of course not.
So how come we say Reiki is energy? Is it because we havn't begun to look beyond the most basic descriptive term we can give anything in existence? Is it cause we feel we shouldn't try to go beyond, cause our peers aren't? Cause it's somehow more 'complicating' to go any further?
Perhaps we should simplify our whole lives then, describe nothing, call everything energy. After all, should our life not be as simple as we're told Reiki should be? Somehow that wouldn't be practible i think.
Warmest wishes
Wayne
As the conversation went on, talk naturally turned to what we done at christmas. Our excited tales of mass snowball fights, big igloo den's, were quickly interupted by our aussie pal. Confusion all over his face, he asked us, "what the heck's snow?"
Everyone stopped chattering, turned to look at him, eyes wide, mouths open. "You mean you don't know what snow is?" Some of us even started laughing, in that immature way kids can do when something they don't understand appears.
So we started to tell him all about snow. What it's colour was, what it felt like on our skin, on our tongues. What kind of atmosphere it gave, that peaceful feeling, alomst on the verge of something exctiing. We told him how it was formed in the sky, how certain conditions need to be right to experience it on the ground. WE went into fantastic tales of what we could do with it, what we did do with it, embelishing our stories, like young bucks trying to gain importance by our outlandish antics.
Of course, we could have cut all of that excitement, all of that sharing of knowledge by simply saying it's energy (if we had of know that then). Cause it is energy of course. As is an apple, oil, car wheels, a computer..
So, knowing now that it's energy, would i have done either the snow, or my aussie friend any justice by saying 'its energy'? Of course not.
So how come we say Reiki is energy? Is it because we havn't begun to look beyond the most basic descriptive term we can give anything in existence? Is it cause we feel we shouldn't try to go beyond, cause our peers aren't? Cause it's somehow more 'complicating' to go any further?
Perhaps we should simplify our whole lives then, describe nothing, call everything energy. After all, should our life not be as simple as we're told Reiki should be? Somehow that wouldn't be practible i think.
Warmest wishes
Wayne
