Usui Shiki Ryoho
Reiki Precepts
Just for today, do not worry
Just for today, do not anger
Honor your parents, teachers, and elders
Earn your living honestly
Show gratitude to every living thing
These precepts are passed down to us from Hawayo Takata. As she translated the system from Japanese and the Japanese culture, the phraseology comes from the Japanese language. Often students find these difficult, thinking that they would like to understand them or have them make sense. Understanding is not the goal. Living them is the practice. This does not engage the mind understanding but the living understanding of the concepts. Within The Reiki Alliance, these are considered to be our inherent code of ethics from the practice:
About Usui Shiki Ryoho
Reiki is a Japanese word translated as “Universal Life Energy” by Hawayo Takata.
She brought the possibility of a relationship with this energy to us through Usui Shiki Ryoho, a healing system founded by Mikao Usui in the early part of the 1900’s.
Usui Shiki Ryoho can be translated as “the Usui System of Natural Healing.”
Until the mid-1990’s, this was the most common translation and was used by nearly all of the various forms of hands-on healing practice that came from Hawayo Takata’s teaching. At this time, Phyllis Lei Furumoto decided to return to the Japanese title of the practice to identify the form of practice and the system that she taught: Usui Shiki Ryoho. This system honors the Spiritual Lineage of Mikao Usui, Chujiro Hayashi, Hawayo Takata, Phyllis Lei Furumoto and Johannes Reindl. Johannes Reindl is the current Lineage Bearer of Usui Shiki Ryoho. www.usuishikiryohoreiki.com
The Reiki Alliance is an international community of Reiki Masters practicing and teaching Usui Shiki Ryoho. We consider ourselves as stewards of Usui Shiki Ryoho by maintaining the time-honored form passed through the direct spiritual lineage of Mikao Usui, Chujiro Hayashi, Hawayo Takata, Phyllis Lei Furumoto, and Johannes Reindl. www.reikialliance.com
In 1982 masters initiated by both Hawayo Takata and Phyllis Furumoto were invited to Hawaii for a meeting. The group who came to Hawaii acknowledged Phyllis Lei Furumoto as Hawayo Takata’s successor. They decided to meet again in 1983 in British Columbia. During this meeting, The Reiki Alliance was founded to honor the system taught by Hawayo Takata with continued stewardship of this practice.
The TRA Student Circle welcomes students of Usui Shiki Ryoho to support one another in an international environment and deepen the experience of Reiki through expanded learning opportunities.
Important concepts of the practice:
- The practice is for one’s life or whatever time the practice suits and benefits the student. The teachings of the practice strengthen and deepen from daily and diligent practice of the student.
- Within the practice there are time and timing guidelines supporting the value of preparation for each step of studentship.
- Masters are recognized by their students and through this relationship the beginning teachings are passed on.
- The practice is a Japanese Healing Art through which a student can attain self-awareness, spiritual understanding, and daily experiences of healing.
For more information on Usui Shiki Ryoho, please visit the following websites:
Lineage Bearers
