On to the Level III Master Manual   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Home | Reiki Plain and Simple | Reiki Ryoho Plain and Simple | Reiki Do | | The ReikiXtras | Karuna Ki | Reiki and Angels | Site Index | The Reiki Plain and Simple On-line Book, this site and all its contents are Copyright 1998-2001 Ó by Vincent Amador. The author of said material allows it to be used For Free Use only. It is to be shared freely, without cost. You may print copies of this work for personal use or to be shared with students, provided that it is given in its entirety, and this copyright message remains intact with the work. This material is not to be republished on other webservers, websites, translated, altered or in any other way used without the express written permission of the author. This notice supersedes any previous notices. All rights reserved. Reiki Plain and Simple Ó A comprehensive Guide to Usui Shiki Ryoho The Reiki Plain and Simple On-line Book, this site and all its contents are Copyright 1998-2001 Ó by Vincent Amador. The author of said material allows it to be used For Free Use only. It is to be shared freely, without cost. You may print copies of this work for personal use or to be shared with students, provided that it is given in its entirety, and this copyright message remains intact with the work. This material is not to be republished on other web servers, websites, translated, altered or in any other way used without the express written permission of the author. This notice supersedes any previous notices. All rights reserved SECTION TWO - Learning and Using the Reiki Master Symbol Dai Ko Mio The Usui Master Symbol The Usui Master Symbol has several meanings. The most common is "The Great Shining Light". Another translation might be "Great Being of the Universe Shine on Me." In Zen practice, I have seen it stated as "Treasure House of the great beaming Light," and is symbolic of one's "Buddha Nature" and of states of enlightenment.   Usui developed reiki from his experience on Mt. Kurama. He had a satori, a moment of oneness, an awakening, to his true nature. In that oneness, his previous training came together for him in a way such that he developed reiki. The definition of Reiki can be read as "Universal Life Energy". This is the most common definition used in the Western World today. The Kanji can also be read to mean the Universal life energy/spirit coming together with us. In this meaning it represents our oneness with all. This is reiki. In reiki level III, we learn the Dai Ko Mio symbol. We are one with the great shining light, the universal life energy merged with our own. This does not come about by attunement, nor by a certificate paper, but through realization. There is nothing to attain, there is no goal to reach. The DKM is said to represent the Amida Sanzon, a triune of love, light and harmony. These three together represented the ultimate source in the same way that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost do. The DKM is the "Great Shining light". This is the source. Once you know the Dai Ko Mio, you can use it for any Reiki use, even in place of the other symbols. This is both because as a triune symbol it contains the others, and because it is the first step in moving from symbol reliance to just using the energy. Use it everywhere and anytime you might want to use the others. Use the name of it as a mantra to meditate concentrating on the Ultimate source of all, the great shining light and let it illumine you. Perhaps then you will realize that you are it. The Dai Ko Mio is a return to simplicity. The three other symbols together in one. Level one was the simplicity of Reiki, trusting in the source, and simply doing it. Level II is learning the ways the source manifests and expands our conception of what the source can do. Level III, with the Dai Ko Mio brings us back to the simplicity and the oneness. Reiki is in the doing and BEing. The realization is that there is no past and no future. With open hands, open minds and open hearts, our total focus and attention on the now. In this awareness, loving kindness and compassion *is* the expression of our awareness. We heal. The realization is that we are the great shining light, NOW, in this moment, in every breath, radiating to all. Healing is. Some might think this a bit esoteric, or philosophical, or mystical. It is actually very simple, but it cannot be reasoned to, it cannot be sought after, it cannot be found. It simply is. Reiki is. In awareness there is only now. It is simple, be reiki. On every breath, in awareness, now. You have all felt it. In attunements, in that moment, you know it, you are it. Be it. On every breath. SECTION THREE - Living Reiki, Being Reiki It is almost a universal experience that we feel reiki as spiritual. Many have come to reiki as part of their "spirituality". Some believe it will give them enlightenment. Many of us define ourselves as "seekers". We "seek", we chase this elusive whirlwind thinking that some "thing", some teaching, some messiah, some teacher is going to give us that missing piece that will finally grant us, or let us "attain" enlightenment. Many of us seekers are experience junkies, we seek experiences, we seek one spiritual "high" after another. We talk of our "path", we seek enlightenment. This is a trap, for all these searches take us away from ourselves, or put the responsibility for the realization of our true selves in the hands of others, or outside of ourselves. In seeking outside yourself you can never find. Enlightenment is where you are, where else could it be? You search for what you already are. Your focus determines your reality. Where your awareness is, there you will be. Reiki level III is living reiki, being reiki. We are reiki. If you see reiki as separate, something outside of yourself, you are seeing illusion. If your awareness is reiki, then you will *be* reiki. Be intimate with this moment, be reiki, simply be. You will not find this in concepts, memories, fantasies, images, searching, and projections. You will not find it in more symbols, more systems, trademarks, businesses, arguments over whose system is "better", "stronger", "heals faster", or is taught by the "best" teacher. If you are looking for reiki as a business, spirit guides, more symbols, faster healing, secret symbols, hidden teachings, energy exchanges, crystals, arguments over who is "right" and whose way is "better", you will not find them here. These are conditioning, duality, things. Reiki is one of many, many ways of seeing the truth, and that is healing. This is reiki. This is why it works. But don't expect reiki to do the work of removing the conditionings that veil awakening. Attunements do not equal enlightenment. Keep in mind that reiki is in the DOing and BEing. If what you are doing is not in oneness with reiki, but rather focusing your conditionings, attachments to outcome, desires and ego then might I suggest you refocus on simply being with reiki and letting it be as it is. There are many paths people take. Do not take the path, be the path. You are reiki. In this moment Realize it, and then express it. Whatever you do, do it as an expression of this. When you work, when you play, when you sit, and stand, you are awareness, you are reiki, you are healing. In this your loving, peaceful and true nature will emerge. You heal. Do not do these for any goal, but simply for the sheer joy of it. Be reiki because you love to be reiki. Be reiki as an expression of your being, your awareness. This is reiki in my practice, in my being. It is living reiki, being reiki. It is unlikely that you will see what is written above taught anywhere else in level III reiki. Others have different experiences, different practices. If you are a seeker, stop looking, be mindful and *be* where you are. In the search you look for what you think you know about and because of this you do not see what *is*, what is right in front of your nose, what you always were. Make everything you do an expression of reiki, of compassion, of your awareness in every moment, moment to moment. Do this not because there is anything to gain, anything to seek, anything to know, but for the love of it, for the sheer joy of it, as an expression of the oneness, awareness, awakening in your being. Reiki on every breath. (For those that are interested in this kind of being, I would suggest you visit light-mission.org There is material regarding meditation, mindfulness, Daily Readings sent via e-mail, private teachings, and a very kind and helpful discussion list.)