Usui Reiki Ryoho Kyogi (Principles)
Secret method to invite happiness
Miraculous medicine to cure all diseases
Today only
Do not anger
Do not worry
With thankfulness
Work diligently
Be kind to others
Morning and evenings
With Gassho hands
Bearing them in mind
Chant them
Mind/body improvement
Usui Reiki Healing Art
Founder: USUI Mikao Sensei (1865-1926)
-As translated by INAMOTO Hyakuten Sensei
Reiki Principles
The ideals are guidelines for living in a gracious life and virtues worthy of practice for their inherent value and benefit. Healing the Mind Body Spirit by consciously improving oneself is a necessary part of the Reiki healing experience.
Clients must accept responsibility and have an active commitment to improve themselves.
USUI Mikao Sensei (1865-1926)
Usui Mikao is the founder of Reiki Ryoho (healing method). He attained enlightenment, and a healing ability as a godsend was bestowed upon him in 1922 at the age of 57 while he was fasting/ meditating on Mt.Kurama-yama in Kyoto, the ancient capital city of Japan.
He was born on August 15,1865 in the village of Taniai- mura(village) in the Yamagata-gun (country) , Gifu-fen (perfecture) in Japan.
He is descended from Chiba Tsunetane. His father's name was Taneuji, and was commonly called Uzaemon. His mother was from the Kawai Family.
April 11, 1922: Usui Mikao Sensei settled in Harajuku, Aoyama,Tokyo and set up the Gakkai to teach Reiki Ryoho and give treatments.
September of the 12th year (A.D.1923), there was a great earthquake and a conflagration broke out. Everywhere there were groans of pains from the wounded. Sensei, feeling pity for them, went out every morning to go around the town, and he cured and saved an inumerable number of people.
Due to his respected and far reaching reputation, many people from local districts wished to invite him. Sensei, accepting the invitations, went to Kure, and then to Hiroshima and Saga, and reached Fukuyama. Unexpectedly, he became ill and passed away there. It was March 9 of the 15th year of Taisho (A.D. 1926), aged 62.
"REIHO CHOSO USUI SENSEI KUDOKU NO HI"
Memorial of the merits of Usui Sensei,
the founder of Reiki (Reiki Ryoho)
February, the 2nd year of Showa (A.D.1927)
Composed by: Okada Masayuki, Doctor of Literature Ju-sanmi (subordiante, 3rd rank), Kun-santo (the 3rd order of Merit)
Translated by Hyakuten Inamoto Sensei
HAYASHI Chujiro Sensei (1879-1940)
*A captain of then Imperial Navy of Japan, enrolled in the 30th class of the Naval Academy in December,1899, and graduated in December, 1902.
*He was initiated into Shinpiden (Teacher's Degree) in 1925 after his retirement from the Navy, and opened his Reiki clinic at Higashi-shinano-cho, Tokyo.
* He was one of the directors of Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai.
* He made 13 Shihans (teachers), and two of them were women, namely his wife, Mrs. Hayashi Chie, and Mrs. Hawayo Takata, who brought Reiki to the West.
*He passed away by committing suicide.
Hawayo TAKATA (1900-1980)
* A Japanese-American born on December 24, 1900, on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.
* She was diagnosed with a serious gall bladder disease. She made a trip to Japan and was treated with Reiki by Hayashi sensei. She recovered completely in four months.
*Hayashi sensei visited Mrs. Takata in Hawaii in 1938 and initiated her into Shinnpiden (Reiki Shihan or Teacher).
*Brought Reiki to the West.
*Between 1970 and 1980, Mrs. Takata has initiated 22 Reiki Teachers (so-called Reiki Masters in the West).
*There are now tens of thousands of Reiki Masters and millions of people practicing Reiki throughout the world.
Komyo Reiki Kai
Komyo Reiki Kai, the system INAMOTO Hyakuten Sensei has created, presents Reiki as it was understood and commonly practiced in the 1930's in Japan. This system places emphasis on spiritual enfoldment through the practice of Reiki Ryoho, aiming for "satori" or enlightenment.
Komyo Reiki Kai Motto:
Go placidly in the midst of praise or blame!
(kissa ko) A cup of tea, a cup of enlightenment!
* Reiki lineage is a very important part of the Reiki system, but it is not everything.
* By lineage a Reiki practitioner is not noble. By lineage, a Reiki practitioner is not superior.
* By lineage, a Reiki practitioner is not ignoble. By lineage, a Reiki practitioner is not inferior.
* By deed, a Reiki practitioner is noble. By deed, a Reiki practitioner is superior.
* By deed a Reiki practitioner is ignoble. By deed a Reiki practitioner is inferior.
- INAMOTO Hyakuten Sensei (1940-Present)
USUI REIKI RYOHO LINEAGE (Japanese)Komyo Reiki Kai
*USUI Mikao Sensei (Founder of Usui Reiki Ryoho)
*HAYASHII Chujiro Sensei (early member of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai and Founder of Hayashi Reiki Kenkyi-Kai)
*YAMAGUCHI Chiyoko
*INAMOTO Hyakuten Sensei (Komyo Reiki Kai)
*MARQUEZ, Lilia V.
Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Mehmet Oz is a vice-chair of surgery and professor of cardiac surgery at Columbia University.He directs the Cardiovascular Institute and is a founder and director of the Complementary Medicine Program at New York Presbyterian Columbia.
Dr. Oz's research interests include heart replacement surgery, minimally-invasive cardiac surgery, complementary medicine and health care policy.
Japanese: 合掌 Gasshō
Gassho is a position used for greeting with the palms together and fingers pointing upwards in prayer position. Gassho is used in various Buddhist traditions and in numerous cultures throughout Asia. Gassho is an expression of respect, request , faith, thankfulness, prayer and devotion.
Because the two hands (duality) are joined together, it expresses the "One-Mind"
Source: Adapted from Glossary of Buddhism: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_terms_and_concepts
