Although some are slow
Still we will never fail
To reach our goal
If we hold within our hearts
Those thoughts of sincerity.
- Emperor Meiji

時遅きたがひはあれどつらぬかぬ
ことなきものは誠なりけり

Did you know that poetry is a part of the system of Reiki? It's true! Waka (Japanese poetry) has been practiced by Japanese Reiki practitioners since the early 1900s. These poems were a source of deep inspiration for Mikao Usui, the founder of the system of Reiki, and were used as tools for contemplation and spiritual growth.

This waka (Japanese poem) by Emperor Meiji offers a profound teaching about sincerity in the face of difference and delay: people move at different speeds, hold different views, and walk different roads. Yet this poem does not ask us to resolve those differences, it points to the one thing that remains constant beneath them all. Listen to this song and contemplate the words.

The poem reminds us:
— Sincerity is not dependent on perfect conditions
— People will differ, and that is to be expected
— What endures is not agreement, but integrity
— True makoto cannot be forced or rushed — it simply is
— The deepest constancy lives beneath all our differences

In the context of the system of Reiki and spiritual growth, this waka teaches us about 誠 (makoto): sincere, wholehearted truth. Spiritual practice asks us to return again and again to what is genuine within ourselves, regardless of how others move or what circumstances arise.

Emperor Meiji's words do not ask us to be faster, or to agree, or to have it all figured out. They simply remind us that sincerity, real, unwavering makoto, is always available to us. The question is not whether conditions are perfect. It is whether we are willing to be true.

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Can you give yourself Reiki while you sleep? 

Well, we are Reiki, aren't we? So we are spiritual energy and we are in spiritual energy. So that's all happening while we sleep.

Can you work with the practices, I guess is what you're saying?

I guess you could place your hands on your body with the intention of working with healing.I'll go to sleep with my hands on my body because it feels great.

So I'm, doing hands on healing but of course once I've fallen asleep, my hands will fall away. So yeah. I'm not really doing that any longer.If my intention is to always be Reiki, well I am always Reiki, but it's bringing my awareness to that and that's actually what we are learning when we practice the system of Reiki. Yeah.

To always be consciously aware of being Reiki. I could bring that intention to my sleep for sure. So it could be something that I could do before I go to sleep.I could think about this and set my intention to always be Reiki. That would be a great thing to do. Yeah.

A good part of your practice. It's just like being the Reiki precepts. Okay. Good Question.

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Did Hawayo Takata lie about Reiki?

She didn't, well, initially we did think she was lying. I wouldn't call it lying.

She was a good storyteller. Yeah. And people often thought she was exaggerating, made up all these great stories about the history of Reiki. However, as we found out more things recently, I would say that it might've sounded like a confabulation, but actually a lot of it was quite true, so that the founder, Mikao Usui was a Christian, if not a Christian, he was someone at one point in his life where he worked for a Christian school, ran a Christian school.

There's definitely aspects of what she told that probably had more truth in them than we realized.

And she was a great storyteller.

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Some traditions teach it.
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