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Reiki, Golden Week and the Uesaku Festival
This is the Golden Week Holiday in Japan, a time of mass exodus and crowded roads (as well as crowded temples, shrines, hotels, restaurants, trains, buses, malls, supermarkets, convenience stores and cemeteries). Since, as you all know, I’m not traveling this year as I’m spending the bulk of the holiday with a paint roller glued
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Bushido – The Soul of Reiki
The Japan of Mikao Usui’s time was a vastly different place than it is today… in fact it was Dr. Usui’s generation that is largely responsible for transforming Japan from the feudal state it was into the democracy it has become. Yet, while a before and after snapshot would instantly reveal these vast differences, the
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Reiki Tanka
One of the regular practices of the Gakkai that has come to light is their meditation on the Gyosei, which I’d like to take a look at here. First, lets get a few definitions out of the way. Gakkai, Tanka, Waka, Hikkei, Haiku and Gyosei… to be precise. I’ll also get them listed in the
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