Yujiro: Welcome to another exciting episode of Carving the Divine TV! My name is Yujiro Seki and I’m the director, …
Kannon and the System of Reiki
According to the Japanese teachings of the system of Reiki, one of the symbols/mantras is connected to the Japanese Deity …
Vale Sakai Ajari
Buddhist monk Yusai Sakai, known for twice achieving “sennichi kaihogyo”, the 7 year practice of he Marathon monks, died of …
Frans Stiene’s Shugendo Training in French Alps
This last week senior Reiki Teacher at the International House of Reiki, Frans Stiene, travelled from Australia to the Shômudo …
Was Usui Mikao practicing Pure Land or Tendai?
Some people say that Usui Mikao, the founder of the system of Reiki was a Tendai lay monk while others …
Mind, Speech and Body and the System of Reiki
Body, speech and mind in perfect oneness,I send my heart along with the sound of the bell.May the hearers awaken …
The Background of the Reiki Precepts?
The Reiki Precepts are the foundation of the system of Reiki. They are: Do not worryDo not angerBe humbleBe …
Echoes in the Mountains: Locating Usui’s Experience in the History of Japanese Mountain Asceticism
USUI Mikao臼井甕男 (1865–1926) is celebrated as the founder of Reiki. While the story of his reception of reiki 霊気 (literally, “numinous energy”) is well-known, …
Frans Stiene’s Japan Journal
As some of you know I just spent a week in Japan deepening my own personal spiritual practice with a …
Liberating the mind
All attachment and aversion come from what we have mentally created. We have made an image and that is our …