Buck wrote:

chi_solas wrote:I believe it was Diane Stein who published
the symbols in her, Essential Reiki Book.

Kathleen Milner, founder of Tera-Mai, was the first Westerner to publish the symbols. She did so in print and in VHS.

Diane Stein published similar Reiki symbols afterwards, and her books grew to be more popular than Tera-Mai.

I see! I've heard of Kathleen Milner
her name being linked with another
Reiki Icon. Did not know she was the
founder of Tera-Mai. It pays to check
in on the Reiki Learning Lounge, you
never know what info you can pick up.

chi_solas wrote:...I never liked secrets.
I never liked belonging to organizations that
had secret hand shakes etc;

I think that one of the reasons the handshakes are secret is that some of them are so complex that no one can remember how to do them.

Buck what's the purpose behing the handshakes please? Is it to show rank/position?

Buck wrote:

Kathleen Milner, founder of Tera-Mai, was the first Westerner to publish the symbols. She did so in print and in VHS.

Diane Stein published similar Reiki symbols afterwards, and her books grew to be more popular than Tera-Mai.

Hello,

When did Kathleen Milner put the symbols into print? LuvSoulJah mentioned Mackenzie Clay and the symbols in 1992. I am looking at a copy of Mackenzie's second Reiki book published that year, One Step Forward For Reiki, on page 16 is a symbol combining a cross and two ckr's. Page 38 has a picture of the master symbol, and page 45 shows the shk.


EZRI

Milarepa wrote:Buck what's the purpose behing the handshakes please? Is it to show rank/position?

In a way it is for rank/position, but in the past, it was mostly to prevent those unqualified from receiving food and wages for work they did not do. I think that in modern terms we could say that the handshakes were used to identify who was in the union, and who was not.

amazing the power of words are too..... just reading about Reiki is making my hands radiate.... could boil a kettle with em... lol tea anybody?

LuvSoulJah wrote:amazing the power of words are too..... just reading about Reiki is making my hands radiate.... could boil a kettle with em... lol tea anybody?

Sure I'll have some green tea
Thank you

Body language has a lot of power.
Drawing the Reiki symbols in the
air over a client/student calls on
balance and harmony. Using my 3rd
eye to draw the symbols I can send
Reiki from here to there in a split
second. I just need an accepting
person to receive on the other end.

I understand that the Reiki symbols
where to be memorized. Most people
are visual learners. Photographic
memory and memorizing are different
so diversity within the Reiki world
would be limited to only those with
photographic memories or would that be
10,000.

LuvSoulJah wrote:amazing the power of words are too..... just reading about Reiki is making my hands radiate.... could boil a kettle with em... lol tea anybody?

hiy Benni, check out: http://www.reikilearninglounge.com/questions-answers-f8/is-it-my-reiki-t711.htm for another alternative look about why the hands could get warm, .

I've noticed that there are variations
of symbols used by different groups.
I've been told it depends on the
Japanese dialect being translated.

If u follow that link i started this thread with, u may find some answers !

LuvSoulJah wrote:If u follow that link i started this thread with, u may find some answers !

Yes the artical you posted was interesting
and there are many other similar articals
out on the web. It can be confusing to
someone who's just beginning Reiki today
compared to someone who learned Reiki many
decades ago who did not have access to the web.

When I refer to Reiki I'm talking about the
Reiki system. I focus more on the ULFE than
the dogma of the Reiki system

LOL (dogma).

Buck wrote:LOL (dogma).

Did you see the movie DOGMA?
All my favorite actors!!!
Bartleby (Ben Affleck),
and Loki (Matt Damon),
The latter 2 grew up
here in my home town.
Being younger than my
kids they were a few
grades behind them in
school.

lol I think Jay and Silent Bob stole the show there... acting wise

Concerning symbols and secrecy...

I don't think the symbols are secret tools and I don't think Usui-sensei kept them secret either. My reason for this is that with spiritual teachings like his.. it is only logical that a student gets a new technique/meditation/jumon/shirushi or whatever.. once he or she is ready. Only when you are ready.

Nothing is secret. It's just only handed to you when you are ready.

Unfortunately, somewhere in 'Reiki history' people started to forget about the spiritual values of the teachings. The meaning of the symbols (what they represent, what you should do with it, why they should only be handed to you after you have got enough experience with the jumon...) is part of it.

And that's why we think that things are secret.. or sacred. (The symbols are not secret nor sacred). Most people are not aware of the values and the reasons behind the spiritual teachings. That's fine of course. Besides.. one can only truly understand those underlying aspects if one experiences that spiritual path. Which is also perfectly fine, of course.

*Gasshō*
Frank