The secret of Reiki

Open the palm of the hand naturally and put the fingers together tightly. The thumb can be a little apart. Energy will scatter when the fingers are open. It is effective to open the fingers apart widely only when you intent to send gentle energy. Do not press the hand on a receiver but put is as light as a feather.

I usually shaking both my hands before doing healing works, because my hands though feel have no tensions usually quite stiff. So, shaking the hands help to relax both hands more. In addition, feather like touch is quite tricky, it is often you already feel touching the patient lightly, but the patients still feel not light enough. Just almost touch the patient’s body; you will get the feather like touch.:)

1. Both hands technique

It is commonly known to receive with the left hand and send with the right hand. It is not necessary to choose hands in Reiki –ho. Make full use of both hands. The whole body gets charged with Reiki from the point where the hand is put on. (Though it is also effective just holding the hand over, but pit the hand on if possible. People feel comfort with the feel of body temperature.)

Put your hands side by side when you send Reiki towards a wide area. Put one hands one on the other when you try to send strong Reiki.

Putting one of your hand on top of the other hand during a healing session is very effective to heal an area full of hibiki (sickness sensation). Sometimes I use this hand position to make healing process in certain area quicker. Well, though healing is a process, the quicker-the better, everyone want to be heal quickly.

2. Single hand technique

Single hand is easier to use depending on the place to heal. Either hand can be used and try to perform in a natural posture. For some places, the tip of the fingers can be used. Try to use both hands for paired places such as the lungs, the kidney or ears.

I rarely use only single hand if not necessary, because it is efficient to use both hands. Even for a special case, when a certain body area gives strong hibiki, I usually put my other hand on top of the other, to give strong reiki to the area.


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Reiki ho is a unique healing technique as it doesn’t require hard effort training nor concentration. But certain things still need your attention for maximizing result and develop your ability. Below are what you need to know in Reiki healing:

1. Simplicity
Doing Reiki healing is very simple yet it is very profound. What you got to do is just lay your hand on the sick area and let the energy flowing. Though it is simple, Reiki-ho is a profound technique for healing mind and body, you may discover more as you practice, the miracle of Reiki healing.

2. As you heal, you get heal
The important point in doing Reiki healing is you get heal when you heal. As anything else in the world, you can only receive when you give. Doing Reiki healing, you will become a path for Reiki to flow to your patients. Your body energy will be strengthened and smoothed. In no time, your mind and body get healed quicker than you doing Reiki healing for yourself.

3. Reiki healing is not a medical treatment.
Reiki doesn’t oppose modern medical science. Though it seems different, both ways are complementary to each other. You can’t deny what modern medical science has achieved so far, but Reiki-ho will increase your vital energy and immunity. Reiki-ho harmoniously works together with modern medical science.

However, it is illegal for a Reiki practitioner to give medical treatment unless he/she is license to do so. Only those with necessary license can give medical treatment, diagnose and give medicine, so what a Reiki practitioner job is helping the healing process by doing Reiki healing.

The last thing for you to concern is not saying to your patients such as these ‘ you do not need to go to the doctors’ or ‘don’t take medicine from the doctor’.

4. Reiki healing can be used with other techniques.
Reiki is a universal energy. It will harmoniously blend with other treatment techniques. If you have some religious belief, don’t worry, Reiki will unite with its essence and enhance it with no contradiction or opposition.


5. Developing healing ability by doing healing works.
This is what made it different with the other healing techniques. Doing Reiki healing will strengthened your vital energy within you and increases your healing ability at the same time.

6. From the root of sickness it will heal
Reiki heals you from the root. So, don’t panic if you don’t get immediate result. Reiki energy searches the root of the sickness. You can quicker the healing process by using it everyday in your daily life and do Reiki healing to other as often as possible.
7. Both you and your patients may feel something
Something interesting will occur as you doing Reiki healing. You may feel heat, tingling or a current of energy flowing within your body. Sometimes the muscles twitch or the internal organs make noise. It is a good sign for it shows you that Reiki is working. But if you don’t experience those sensations, don’t fell down, you will experience it later.

8. Automated energy balancer.
Reiki heals you by balancing your energy. If you need more energy, Reiki-ho will supply you with energy. If your body has over energy, Reiki-ho will balance it. So, you do not need to control how much energy should be given. Problems may start when you use your consciousness to control it.

9. Be Relax when giving or receiving Reiki energy.
The Reiki sender and receiver will receive an influx of energy. The energy will smooth your mind and body as well when giving Reiki to other person. Just feel relax and have no tension, enjoy the Reiki flowing, in that way you will help Reiki to flow smoothly.


You can learn a lot from sensei Hiroshi Doi book titled “ Modern Reiki Method”

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It is evident, a Reiki practitioner in modern world receive attunement and teaching only in one day or two day seminar. In fact, they can get attunement by subscribing to free attunement services on the internet. One day, they will realize that what they get is not enough, something is missing.

Technically Reiki-ho can be transferred to other person through a simple process called attunement. There are no differences among receiving attunement directly from a master or through distant attunements. But, distant attunement lack of emotional and psychological closeness with the master/teacher, which are necessary for making the student have better understanding about the lesson emotionally.

Furthermore, sensei Hiroshi Doi predicts that a lot of people will realize that attunement only the first step to become a real healer, the true healer develops its ability through continuous practice and self development.

The number regular of gatherings will replace incomplete seminars. As a student need more practice to develop healing ability and raising his/her spirituality, a one day or two day seminars will nor sufficient enough to cover all the teaching materials. In the future, the number of master/teacher will deliver its teaching in a regular meetings form.

Personally I believe, that Reiki will spread even widely, more people will use Reiki. Reiki will become a daily phenomenon. It is a healing method that the people in modern world needed as the cost of medicine in raising trend.

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Doi sensei wrote,

When I found out that I could not learn more than from Ms. Mitsui, I started seriously considering visiting the United States. In the meantime, I gathered as much information as possible for “the possibility of existence of Usui-sensei’s pupils in Japan”. In result I found out that Ms. Kimiko Koyama ran Usui Reiki Ryoho Society which was for members, and inherited this tradition since the establishment as the sixth president. I lost no time becoming a member of the society through someone and learned from Ms. Koyama. I was amazed how different it could be from the western style Reiki of Ms. Mitsui yet coming from the same root.

While practiced Reiki-ho, I learned from Ms. Mitsui and Ms. Koyama, I came across my third teacher. You may have heard about Alpan who learned from Bagwan-sensei in India and proposes Neo Reiki in Tokyo which is a unity of eastern and the western Reiki. My third teacher is Manaso who learned from Bagwan-sensei together with Alpan and teaches Neo Reiki with mediation in Kansai area of Japan and organizes “tours for Reiki learning through swimming with dolphins”. I learned entire Reiki-ho from the beginning at his school and again realized its prominence. I became certain about my instinct that “Reiki-ho harmoniously contains every thing I learned”.

Around this time, some valuable materials regarding traditional Reiki or Usui-sensei as well as the western style Reiki spontaneously came to me and gave me the answers to the questions I had. When I suffered very minor damage even though I happened to live near the seismic centre of Hanshin Earthquake, I felt if I was given a mission for living.

So I studied again what I learned from my three teachers, aiming at the unity of traditional Reiki and the western style Reiki. To be specific, I re-examined the eastern and western Reiki-ho as “ a technique to heal mind and body” as well as “a technique to raise your spirituality”. I constructed what I call “Gendai (modern)Reiki-ho” avoiding being mysterious, leaving unknown things as they are, and with a motto to pass on the effectiveness with the actual proofs. Also, I tried to make the techniques as simple as possible so that they can be used easily in daily life.

Although I did these for myself, I happened to have a chance to give a Reiki-ho seminar to two experts (Mr. Furukawa, Mr. Tsujimi) and since then more and more healing experts and people through them came to my seminars.

Fortunately this system received support from many people involved in healing, the masters I performed attunements on took a leading part and established “Gendai Reiki Healing Society” to spread the system.

Ever since I have come to know many people who are grouping together to return to the original spirit of Usui-sensei’s remedy being dissatisfied with the western style Reiki, or trying to spread their own theory for the unity of the eastern and the western Reiki. Neo Reiki mentioned earlier is also a new style of Reiki-ho based on the purpose of uniting the western and traditional Reiki., on the other hand there are people who pursue Chujiro Hayashi-sensei’s idea which was the starting point of the western style Reiki. Although Hawayo Takata sensei was the person who brought Reiki Ryoho to the United States, Hayashi-sensei had already tried to modernize Reiki based on his global view as a former naval cadet, and it seemed that he had transformed Usui-sensei’s Reiki into his own style when Takata-sensei learned from him. (The certification Hayahi-sensei issued has name of “Hayashi Reiki Kenkyukai).

There are some people who are trying to connect the power of esoteric Buddhism through Reiki-ho at Mt. Kurama where usui-sensei had the revelation to Tendai Buddhism.

It is not a matter of right or wrong but which way you take for yourself. I believe that many of enthusiastic Reiki senseis will make progress in the unity of the eastern and the western in various ways.

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Its been a while i starting this blog, i thought i can have so many friends who share the same interest with me, which is REIKI. Well, there are so many diseases out there and the cost of medicine is raising up. Considering this, how come you don't feel gratitude about learning REIKI.

So, the secret of Reiki is actually Gratitude, but Reiki practitioner today lack of gratitude to sensei Usui work. They create their own technique but never mention or saying that they owe to sensei Usui work. I also notice that modern Reiki practitioners lack of philosophical background, when confronted with any religious accusations, they can't defense themselves.

As a Gendai Reiki practitioner, i share the same concern with sensei Hiroshi Doi, who see that modern Reiki practioners need to know its historical background. This will protect them from philosophical misunderstanding and strengthening our trust to this Reiki technique.

I begin discussing and mentioning some of sensei Hiroshi Doi teaching in his book 'Iyashino Gendai Reiki ho' and hoping you guys have benefit from it.

Later on, i will make research about diseases, and give you some information about how to cure certain disease with Reiki, including the duration.

Meanwhile, the world is in a stage of transformation, the financial crisis is prolonged, i believe it is the will of the divine. If there is no financial crisis, the world will plunge into global warming in unstoppable accelaration.

The world is changing to A WHOLE NEW WORLD based on sharing and tolerance.

We can accelarate it by sharing love and harmony through Reiki.

Light, love and life for you

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While even the name of Reiki was not known well until recently in Japan, it spread quickly along with the New Age Movement, since the early 1980s in the western world. In the late 1980s it came back to Japan as a new healing technique.

A book called “The Reiki Factor” by Dr. Barbara Ray was published in the United States which defined “Reiki is science and a technique of using the light of source of every existence(Life Energy)”. A New York based journalist, Ms. Mieko Mitsui, translated the book into Japanese (title”Reiki Ryoho”) and introduced Reiki to Japan. When Ms. Mitsui gave the seminars as the first Japanese authorized Reiki teacher all over the country, many people participated and it became like a boom. I consider the role Ms. Mitsui performed at this time in Japan very valuable for Reiki recognition. The Reiki seminar with big merits by once attunement became escalated involving people who were half-in-doubt, as the merits were attractive such as “no need of strict disciplines”, “no need of effort”, “no need of concentration”, “Reiki is active throughout life by once attunement”, “Reiki healer is empowered as well as receiver”, “Reiki is active on who do not believe it”, and “Reiki energy flows automatically as much as necessary.”
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There was a woman named Hawayo Takata (1900 – 1980) who had recovered from sickness miraculously by Reiki Ryoho at Hayashi sensei’s clinic.

She was a second generatain American of Japanese descent born in Hawaii and in 1935 she came back to Japan as a widow with her two little daughters after she was diagnosed that her days were numbered with an incurable disease. She went to Hayashi-sensei’s clinic through her doctor to receive the treatment and she gained health after two months and completely recovered after eight months. She was deeply impressed with it and worked at the clinic for a year afterwards as Hayashi-sensei’s pupil before she went back to Hawaii with her daughters.

She received Shinpi-den when Hayashi-sensesi visited Hawaii in 1938 and started her Reiki clinic. She concentrated mostly on treatment until few years before her death at the age of eighty , whe she started attunement. For those few years she trained 22 teachers. These 22 masters(teachers) trained by Takata-sensei spread Reiki all over the world and over 3 million people received attunements in little over a decade, and the number continues to grow.

Takata-sensei passed away in December 1980. One year later, several Reiki Masters taught by Takata-sensei met for a week in Hawaii. In that year (1981), Phyllis Furumoto (Takata’s granddaughter)establish the Reiki Alliance to succeed the role of grandmaster Takata-sensei. However, Barbara Ray who had a different idea about Reiki, established The American International Reiki Association(renamed The Radiance Technique later). Takata’s Reiki was now divided into two major streams. In addition to the two groups, the United States now has some small to mid size groups of Reiki.

Outside of the United States, it spread to Canada, Britain, Australia, Germany, Singapore, India and so on. In India, a group of Osho(Bagwan Shri Rageneesh) adopted it from Ms. Furumoto’s group and spread it as Osho Reiki. There are indications of spreading in Taiwan and Korea through Japan.

In late 1980s, Reiki was imported back in Japan as well and is spreading.

Anyhow, Reiki became as it is now internationally owing to the three masters, -Mikao Usui, Chujiro Hayashi and Hawayo Takata. I believe I have included enough stories of them for your knowledge though there are numerous episodes and legends of each written around the life of Usui sensei’s awakening at Mt. Kurama.

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Doi sensei wrote

At this time Usui-sensei was renowned all over the country and admired as “the pioneer of restarting Hands-on healing” from other generations. The number of people saved by this Reiki power is said to have been several hundred thousand or over a million. It is on record that there are more than two thousand people who obtained Reiki Ryoho from Usui-sensei

Very few of those were allowed to learn all three steps of Sho-den(the entrance, Reiki 1), Okuden(the deep inside, Reiki 2), Shinpi-den(the mystery, Reiki 3 and master degree). At present only three of those have been found who are Juzaburo Ushida, Rear Admiral, Kan’ichi Taketomi, Rear Admiral, Chujiro Hayashi, Captain. The two admirals took a leading part for spreading Reiki Ryoho inside the marine.

Mr. Chujiro Hayashi(1879 – 1940) received the last secret of Reiki Ryoho and became an expert in 1925 after his retirement, and he worked actively at a Reiki Ryoho clinic he opened in Shinano-machi, Tokyo, following Usui-sensei’s will. He may have been the last person whom Usui-sensei taught Shinpi-den(the mystery, Reiki 3 and master’s degree) considering that Usui-sensei passed away in 1926. The clinic had eight treatment beds and sixteen Reiki Ryoho healers, and each patient was treated by two healers

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Usui-sensei studied under adversity and broadened his view by going to the western countries and China several times. As a result he was called a person of free will, and experienced a variety of occupations such as public servant, office worker, industrialist, reporter, politician’s secretary, missionary, supervisor of convicts and so on.

As he faced both sides of life and society through his experiences and continued his study of life, he started to search for “the greatest purpose of life”.

As a result of his devotion to his studies he came to the conclusion that “the ultimate purpose of life is to accept your fate and live in peace”. It means that “ Know your fate and accepted it and maintain the peace of mind and not to worry”. Fate is indicated as destiny you cannot control. In other words, “though it is necessary to try as you are, leave the rest in the hands of Providence and obtain the peace of mind”. This is what is considered as Usui-sensei’s first spiritual awakening.

Spiritual awakening is to know truth and reach eternal joy and there are steps to reach there. The first awakening is an intellectual awakening with your consciousness. In this stage, “it is understood in the head and not true awakening”. A true awakening is an intuitive understanding by Shinga (soul, higher-self) and to complete the unity with truth. Usui sensei went into Zen practice and trained himself for three years searching “the way to reach the state of mind of accepting our fate and living in peace” for true awakening.

After all the training, he could not attain spiritual enlightenment and asked his teacher of zen practice how he could attain a true awakening from now on”.

The teacher responded immediately, “Die one time”. As Usui-sensei was advised to “die” from his only hope for his agony for spiritual awakening, he decided that “this was the end of his life.” and started fasting on Mt. Kurama. It was March 1921. At midnight after three weeks, he felt a great shock in the center of the brain as if being struck by lightning and went unconscious.

It was at dawn when he became conscious after unknown hours, it is said that he was filled with refreshing feeling like he never felt before. When he felt the great shock in the brain, Reiki in the universe pierce his body and mind and resonated with Reiki in his body, and he felt the unity with the universe and completed his search of true awakening.

On the way down the mountain in high delight, he pealed his toenail on a rock and he put his hand on the toe by reaction. The pain was removed in an instant and it was healed immediately. This was the beginning of healing sickness and he eventually developed the technique of giving this ability to numerous numbers of people after his continuous hard study.

On top of that Usui-sensei was naturally selfless and open-minded; he became able to attain a state a state of perfect self-effacement anytime anywhere.

In April 1921, he developed the teachings and the system of instruction and established Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai (society), and he started healing sick people in mind and body by Reiki Ryoho as well as giving away the healing ability through open sessions. He continued guiding and providing the purpose of Usui Reiki Ryoho Society, which is not only to improve the healing ability but also to maintain health of yourself and others, as well as to improve happiness and prosperity of home, society, the nation and the world thereby improving yourself

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By Hiroshi Doi

As the story of the founder, Usui-sensei himself, is passed on as semi-legendary, it is not known much in detail. Especially when Reiki-ho went overseas, many stories were created while spreading from its base of the United States. The trustworthy record is the epitaph of “Usui sensei” in Bodhi temple(Tokyo). This was built in February in 1927, the following year after his death, by some of his over 2000 pupils. The following is its interpretation into modern days by myself.


What you can naturally realize through cultivation and training is called “VIRTUE” and it is called “MERIT” to spread a method of leadership and relief and practice it. It is people of many merits and a good deal of virtue that can be eventually called a great founder. People who started a new learning and founded a fres sect among sages, philosophers, geniuses etc. named from ancient times, were all those as mentioned above. We can say that Usui-sensei is also one of those people.

He started newly a method to improve body and spirit based on REIKI in the universe. Hearing of the rumor, people who would like to learn the treatment and undergo the cure gathered from all quarters all at once. Really, it was very busy indeed.

Usui-sensei, whose popular name is Mikao and whose pen name is Gyohan, came from Taniai-village, Yamagata-district. Gifu prefecture, and had forefathers named Tsunetane Chiba who had played an active part as a military commander between the end of Heian Period and the beginning of Kamakura Period(1180-1230). His father’s real name is Taneuji and his popular name is Uzaemon. His mother came and got married from the family named Kawai.

Usui-sensei was born on 15th August 1865, Having learned under difficulties in his childhood, he studied hard with efforts and he was by far superior in ability to his friends.
After growing up, he went over to Europe and America, and also studied in China. In spite of his real ability,however, he was not always successful in life. Although he was compelled to lead an unfortunate and poor life so often., he strove much more than before to harden his body and mind without flinching from the difficulties.

One day, Usui-sensei climbed Mt. Kurama, where he began to do penance while fasting. Suddenly on the twenty first day from the start, he felt a great Reiki over his head, and at the same time as he was spiritually awakened he acquired the REIKI cure. When he tried it on his own body and members’ of his family also, it brought an immediate result on them.

Having said “It is much better to give this power widely to a lot of people in the world and enjoy it among them than to keep it exclusively by his family members.” Usui-sensei moved his dwelling to Aoyama Harajuku, Tokyo in April 1922 and established an institute, where the REIKI cure was instructed openly to the public and the treatment was given, too. People came there from far and near to ask for his guidance and cure an they overflowed outside, making a long line.

Tokyo had a very big fire caused by a great earthquake in Kanto district in September, 1923, when the injured and sick persons suffered from pains everywhere. Usui-sensei felt a deep anxiety about that, and he was engaged in a cure, going around inside the city every day. We can hardly calculate how many persons were saved from death with his devotion. His activities of relief, in which he extended his hands of love over those suffering people against this emergent situation, can be outlined as noted above

Thereafter, his training center became too small to receive the visitors, so he built a new house in Nakano outside the city in February 1925 and transferred there. As his reputation getting higher, it was so often when he received an offer of engagement from everywhere throughout the nation. In accordance with these requests he traveled to Kure and Hiroshima, then entered Saga and reached Fukuyama. It was at the inn at which he stayed on his way that he caught a disease abruptly, and he passed away at the age of sixty two.

His wife got married, coming from the Suzuki family, and she is named Sadako and has a son and a daughter. The son’s name is Fuji and he succeeds to the Usui family.

Usui sensei’s natural character was gentle and prudent, and he did not keep up appearances. His body was big and sturdy, and his face was always beaming with a smile. But when he faced the difficulties he went ahead with a definite will and yet persevered well, keeping extremely careful. He was a man of versatile talents and also a book lover, knowing well in the wide range from history, biography, medical science, canons of Christianity & Buddhism, psychology up to magic of fairy-land, art of curse, science of divination and physiognomy.

In my opinion, it is evident to everybody that Usui-sensei’s cultivation and training were based on his career of art and science, and that became a clue to create the Reiki cure.

Reviewing the fact, I understand what the REIKI cure is aiming at is not only to heal the disease but also to correct the mind by virtue of a God-sent spiritual ability, keep the body healthy and enjoy a welfare of life. In teaching the persons, therefore, we are supposed to first let them realize the last instructions of the Emperor Meiji, and chant the 5 admonitions morning and evening to keep them in mind

The 5 admonitions in question are:
1. Don’t get angry today
2. Don’t be grievous
3. Express your thanks
4. Be diligent in your business
5. Be kind to others

These are really the important precepts for a cultivation, just the same as those by which the ancient sages admonished themselves. Usui sensei emphasized that “This is surely a secret process to bring a good fortune and also a miraculous medicine to remedy all kinds of diseases.” By which he made his purpose of teaching clear and accurate. Furthermore, he tried to aim at making his way of guidance as easy and simple as possible, so nothing is difficult to understand therein. Every time when you sit quietly and join hands to pray and chant morning and evening you can develop a pure and sound mind, and there is just an essence in making the most of that for your daily life.

This is the reason why the REIKI cure can very easily spread over anybody. The phase of life is very changeable in these days, and people’s thoughts are apt to change, too. Coul we fortunately succeed in spreading the REIKI cure everywhere, we feel sure that it would have to be very helpful in order to prevent people from disordering their moral sense. It never extends people nothing but the benefits of healing long term illness, chronic disease and bad habit.

The number of pupils who learned from Usui sensei amounts to more than 2000 persons. Some leading pupils living in Tokyo among them gather at the training center and take over his work, while other pupils in the country also do everything to popularize the REIKI cure. Although our teacher already passed away, we have to do the very best to hand the REIKI cure down to the public forever and spread it much more. Ah! What a great thing he did; to have unsparingly given people what he had felt and realized by himself!

As a result of our pupil’s meeting and discussion, we decided to erect a stone monument at the graveyard in his family temple so that we may bring his virtuous deed to light and transmit it to posterity; so, I was requested to arrange and epitaph for the monument. As I was much impressed by his great meritorious deed and also struck by our pupils’ warm hearts of making much of the bond between master and pupil, I dared not refuse the request, but described the outline.
Therefore, I do expect heartily that people in future generations would not forget to look up at the monument in open eyed wonder.

Ushida
In Februaru, 1927
Edited by Masayuki Okada,
The Junior 3rd rank, the 3rd Order of Merit,
Doctor of literature
Written by Juzaburo Ushida
The Junior 4th rank, the 3rd Order of Merit, the 4th class of services,
Rear Admiral

(Translated into modern Japanese Language by Hiroshi Doi, Ashiya City, on 1st January, 1998)
(Translated into English Language by Tetsuyuki Ono, Takarazuka City, on 19th June, 1998)

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As Hiroshi Doi sensei confused with so many stories about the history of Reiki-ho, suddenly he met with someone who introduced him with a secret society in Japan. This society maintains the original teachings of Usui sensei.

This secret society maintain their tradition hardly, they do not easily give teachings to someone. Only those who are invited by the current members may receive the teachings. They will remain silence to general public forever to maintain the purity of the teachings. However, Reiki-ho is already spreading everywhere around the world, and its purity is getting less and less. The society feels deeply concern and decided not to keep the teachings from general public anymore.

To teach general public about the original Reiki-ho, they invited sensei Hiroshi Doi to join their circle. From the circle Doi sensei able to learn a lot about secret techniques of Reiki Ryoho.

From this society also, Doi sensei managed to visit Usui sensei tomb. Surround with Reiki energy and magical feeling, Doi sensei found the truth about Reiki-ho.

To be continued:

Epitaph of Usui sensei
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