Enlightenment

    One of Usui Sensei's hopes  for the Reiki  was that it would be a tool for helping people obtain enlightenment or true and total happiness and wisdom of spirit. This aspect of Reiki is sometimes overlooked in the West in favor  of focus on physical well being .

 Just being attuned to Reiki will not guarantee enlightenment but practice and study of the Reiki principles and maintaining a seeking mind can help you with your personal path.  We usually define the word  "Reiki" as Universal Energy here is  another  definition taken from a Buddhist lecture on the Lotus Sutra by T. Makigchi from the 1930's  of the Word Reiki in regard to enlightenment. This source probably had no knowledge of the term as used by Dr Usui .

 
" Reiki" (Spiritual power/ability) is divided into 10
1. The ability to tell the reasonable law of cause and effect from an unreasonable one neglecting the causal law.
2. The ability to know the causal relationships ranging over the three existence's of life- past present and future.
3. The ability to keep himself in the state of enlightenment
4. The ability to realize the various functions of mind.
5. The ability to know the intellect of people
6. The ability to know the life condition of people.
7. The ability to foresee the future of people
8. The ability to know the causal relationships of people
9. The ability to realize the the life of the past existence and the way to enlightenment.
10. The ability to obliterate past karma.