Both Mikao Usui, founder of Reiki, and Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, trained on Mt. Kurama at approximately the same time. Is it a coincidence? Or were they both looking for something specific? I invite you to embark on a journey into the history of certain aspects of Japanese religions, legends and facts to find …
Lees dit artikel in het Nederlands Читать статью по русски Garab Dorje, the first Dzogchen master, has summarised his life long practice in three sentences: Directly discover your state. Don’t remain in doubt. Gain confidence in self-liberation. Chögyal Namkai Norby, another great Dzogchen master, explains these statements as follows. “Directly discovering your state” refers to …
We understand that the Reiki precepts are about the mind and that they describe the state of mind: anshin ritsume or satori = enlightenment=great bright light (Dai Komyo) = our True Self = Reiki. Thus with the Reiki precepts Mikao Usui has indicated the direction of our development on the Reiki path.The what of Reiki …
If you are familiar with Hatsurei Ho meditation, then you are practicing Reiki as a spiritual practice. This meditation is is taught in Okuden Reiki II of traditional Reiki, which means that it already presupposes the presence of basic skills and concepts of the traditional Reiki system. That is, you already understand that Reiki is …
5/30/2020 Anya van Til Being a mother of three I have seen my kids get hurt innumerous times. As a mother of course I had to help them. I should say that I have become better at this with time as I learned through practice all the do’s and don’ts. In the beginning I panicked just …
5/15/2020 Anya van Til At the time of lock down we are to do mostly distance treatments and online sessions.What does it mean for us?Many of us are facing the fact that distance healings are quite tricky. You don’t see, hear or feel your client. You do not perceive him or her with your senses …
3/24/2020 Anya van Til The Corona virus crisis is letting us see where we are exactly at this point of our lives and practices. Are we still having fears and worries? If yes, then this situation is providing us a powerful opportunity to keep practicing to streamline and strengthen our practice and bring it into …
3/1/2020 Anya van Til Last night I brought my 12 year old daughter to bed and had to comfort her. She was upset about some critique she got from her brother. Even though the critique was valid, she felt too upset to fall asleep.I had to help her out “It’s not about what someone says”, I …
2/5/2020 Anya van TIl “One of the essential messages of the Buddha is that it’s really important to get to know the experience of dukkha, or dissatisfaction. Not to know it intellectually, not to write a thesis about it, but to get to know it by meeting this experience directly. Until we know dukkha, we …
7/23/2019 Anya van Til It’s been tropical weather. So we have set up a swimming pool. Kids jumped in it immediately and were playing and having fun right away. It was a pleasure to see them enjoy themselves. I was standing there smiling, cheering them up to do things and once in a while I …
