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I present this work, together with the Flower of the Soul -after doing extensive research related to the culture and to the religion of the Japanese. I am very considerate of Mikao Usui as a great Master to which all of us who begin to practice egregora Reiki, know to be an educated, studious, deeply persistent and wise man. I resolved to write down the following information regarding his origin and his culture-Japan. Mikao Usui (1858-1930), contemporary of great Japanese masters like Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido (1883-1969), Tempu Nakamura (1876-1968) and others. Mr. Mikao Usui was a great influence in his time and he left a legacy for posterity. I could only honor him by studying his culture. A lot of histories have been told about Reiki, and it is not my intention just to tell one more. This work on the line of the “Expanders” of Reiki, was created with our hearts and where our heart is, is where the true essence lies that was delegated us by all of the Masters of all of the times.
THE BUDDHIST FUNDAMENTALS OF REIKI
“Buddha saw himself as a doctor and master
that pointed us towards the road of the true cure, the road of illumination.”
MOUNT KURAMA
Mount Kurama has been a sacred mountain since the beginning of time, well before the arrival of Buddhism and well before the arrival of Shintoism. The particularities of the place had been acknowledged since the most ancient of times when there were already many shamanic rituals performed. It is a place that has a very strong energy due to the old and extensive cedar forests that create a perfect atmosphere for meditation and for the search of the self. It is told in Japan that more than six million years ago, Maô-Son, the spirit of the Earth, the great king against evil, descended from Venus to come save humanity. Ever since, the powerful spirit of Maô-Son comes from mount Kurama and oversees the development and the evolution not just humanity, but of all the life forms on the earth.
The venerable King (Son) of the demons (Maô)
the initial presence, the Spirit of the place, and a powerful energy,
a force of nature, got together. This feminine energy was embodied in
the primordial tree, the first tree that appeared on the Earth and it
is in this form that she is worshipped. In the hill Kurama, the most
sacred Kami is Kami of the tree.
To this sacred ranch we travel to find a wood shrine where the sacred
tree is that still today is in the center of the celebrations of the
hill Kurama.
She is decorated with a ritual rope and it is a descendant in direct
line of the first primordial tree-every time that the tree died, one
of the branches was replanted to be reborn. The tree is a symbol of
life, in perpetual evolution and in ascension for the sky; she symbolizes
the cyclical aspect of the cosmic evolution: death and regeneration.
Above all, the leafy ones evoke a cycle, because they undress and they
cover again of leaves all of the years again. It is universally considered
as symbol of the relationships that settle down between the Earth and
the Sky. Therefore, the center sense, the center of the world. She gathers
all of the elements: the water circulates with her sap, the earth integrates
into her body through the roots, and the air nurtures her leaves, and
of her sprouts the fire when their branches are scrubbed against each
other. The sacred tree of the hill Kurama represents the primordial
energy, the fecundity and the genealogy of the Tree of the Life.
The cedar is a symbol of the greatness, of the nobility, of the force,
of the incorruptibility, because he never deteriorates, being a symbol
of the immortality.
In Japan, almost all of the mountains have their
own divinity worshipped by the local population.
Sengen-Sama is Goddess of the imposing sets up Fuji, it is worshipped
by the whole country and it is portrayed dressed with old and rich clothes.
It holds a magic jewel in her right hand and a branch of the sacred
tree Sakaki in the left.
THE KURAMA TEMPLE
The history of Buddhism in Japan has its beginning
in the VI century. The introduction of Buddhism in Japan was verified
for the first time, in the year 538, when the king of Pochi (or Kudara,
Korea) sent an ambassador to present a Buddhist image and a roll of
Sutras to emperor Kinmei's court.
The Buddhist religious history of Japan has, therefore, more than one
thousand and four hundred years. In that time, while the western civilization
was dipped in deep darkness, the oriental developed a movement with
surprising assets.
In China, in Tibet, in Central Asia, in India and in the countries of
the South Seas, activities in the fields of the intellectual, religious
person, architectural and cultural grew vigorously. The Buddhism bathed
the oriental world peacefully with its vast current of humanism and
the Buddhist temples of the time became centers of diamond culture.
The monk Gantei, disciple of Ganjin (founder of the temple Toshodaiji,
in Nara) in the year of 770, was taken by a white horse to the summit
of mount Kurama, the sacred place, where he became illuminated and accomplished
the essence of Bishamon-Ten, founding a Buddhist temple there, the temple
Kurama on the hill that was the place of his accomplishment. Bishamon-Ten
(Vaishravana in Sanskrit) is the guardian and protector of the Buddhist
paradise of the north. He has as a symbol a jewel but also a house and
a serpent and a lance. He commands an army of Yaksas, the wild spirits
of the nature or elementals.
The heads of state invoke him so that he protects their cities; it is
a defensive warlike energy. And with this energy, he defends cities,
houses and ownerships. Bishamon-Ten is considered also like God of the
wealthy and invoked when one want to attract the good luck for itself.
It is associated to the solar energy, yang. But Bishamon-Ten is also
worshipped like God of the cure, because a master can use the powerful
energies that he developed and he learned with a defensive purpose or
to combat, but also to use them to cure (beginnings of the martial arts
and of the gigong). Bishamon-Ten is King and General, being boss of
all the other Generals of all the other directions or cardinal point,
(the Buddhist Kingdoms), he has the means and the necessary authority
to decide on the way as it will invest their energies and it has the
indispensable wisdom to use them with cause knowledge. He can pass on
his powerful energy to the beings that invoke him and to cure them.
The bija, syllable vowel used as mantra in the invocations of Bishamon-Ten
is Bai, the same as the one of the Bhaishajya-guru (Yakushi in Japanese),
the Master of the Medicine, and Buddha of the Medicine. Bishamon-Ten
is the main divinity of Kuramayama and, consequently related with the
central divinity of Mandala of the Japanese Esoteric Buddhism that is
Dainichi Nyorai (Mahavairocana Tathagata in Tibet), great Buddha of
the Sun. Dainichi Nyorai is, the great day that has just arrived, Dainichi
in Japanese means Great Sun. However, in this context, one don't want
to designate the solar star and yes, to use him as symbol to designate
the Universal Light, the energy of the Universal Life, the Light of
the World. The most important and sacred writings of the esoteric Buddhism
in Japan are Dainichi-Kyo (Mahavairocana sutra) and Kongocho Gyo (Vajrasekhara
sutra).
MANTRA OF DAINICHI NYORAI
Visualize:
The whole universe is constituted of six elements.
My body, which is made up of these six elements, is Dainichi Nyorai's body.
I am filled with life to the fullest, perfect and limitless.
The five wisdoms are embodied in immense and infinite compassion
The immense compassion of Nyorai permeates me.
I am included in the immense compassion of Nyorai.
I am blessed, I am blessed.
Esoteric Tantric Buddhism (Mahayana) arrived
in Japan with the Japanese monk Kukai (Kobo Daishi, 774-835) and with
Saicho (Dengyo Daishi, 767-822), they had studied in China. Kukai was
student of Huikuo (Japanese: Keika, 746, 805), disciple of the Indian
monk Amoghavajra, that was the famous Indian instructor's student Vajrabodhi
for his time.
The two Indians lived in the temple Hahsingshan, in Ch'angan, current
center of the Buddhist association Shensi in China. After their teacher's
death, Kukai returned to Japan and he taught what had learned in China.
He became the founder of Shingon Buddhism that is a system of Tantric
Buddhism that uses mantras, meditation and mudras. Shingon is Esoteric
in the sense that their teachings and more internal practices should
only be transmitted by a Master for Disciples. Saicho studied in the
hill Tien-tai, in China. When returning, he founded the Tendai Buddhism,
with main school in Quioto. Tendai Buddhism makes use of the meditation
of style Vipassana and has Amida Norai (Amitabha Tathagata) as main
deity. In Japan, those two schools are known in general by the name
Mikkyo.
Until 1949, the Kurama Temple was linked to tendai Buddhsm. After that
date, it became Setta Kumara-Kokyo's headquarters.
The Kurama Temple was founded as the guardian on the north side of the
capital (Heiankyo) and is located halfway on the top of the mountain.
Kurama’s Temple original buildings were destroyed repeatedly by
fire. The main corridor was rebuilt by the last time in 1971. From the
time of its acceptance, the Japanese Buddhism was, in general, the Mahayana
Buddhism influenced by the Chinese Buddhism. Especially after the great
masters in the XII and XIII centuries as Honen (1133-1212), Shinran
(1173-1262), Dogen (1200-1253), Nichiren (1222-1282), the Doutrina Mahayana
formed the main current of Buddhism in Japan. In the history of the
Japanese Buddhism, the study of the original Buddhism began approximately
after the era Meiji (after 1945), emphasizing Buda Gautama's illustration
or Shakyamuni. About 796, the responsible engineer for the construction
of the temple of Mount Kurama, had a vision of Senju-Kannon and build
pagodas in her honor. Senju-Kannon is Bodhisattva of the compassion
(Chenrezi or Avaloktesvara in sanscrit, Kwan Yin in Chinese), whose
a thousand compassionate arms will constantly heat up the hearts and
to take care of those that suffer, any being, any action is out of the
reach of her compassion.
Kannon, the Divine Mother, is associated to the
moon, to Buddha of the west called Amida (Amithaba in sanscrit). To-mita
means “incommensurable”; abha, “splendor”-Buddha
of the Incommensurable Splendor - Buddha of the Infinite Light and Infinite
Life. They say that the sufferings supported by the beings condemned
to the hells touched Kannon so deeply that her head exploded in eleven
pieces that, happily, they were gathered by his spiritual father, Buda
Amithaba.
Avaloktesvara is represented by a statue with eleven heads, crowned
by Buda Amithaba's Amithaba means infinite light of the compassion.
Her bija is Hrih, that is the frequency for the activity of the compassion
in the heart.
Contrarily to Arhat (saint) that reaches the salvation thanks to a personal
ascension, without worrying with the other ones, Bodhisattva won the
ego she dedicates her accomplishment to their fellow creatures' good,
and ready to identify with the nirvana, her great wisdom and infinite
compassion they induce her to not resign at all to the world while the
other beings don't also reach the illumination.
In the road of the awakening, the bodhisattva is for the Buddhist an
image guides, energy and essence endowed with a certain number of qualities
that he wants to develop and to accomplish in himself, until becoming
also a Bodhisattva that will be able to, for his time, to guide other
humans on the road. It is a Buddha in his active aspect in the world.
The symbol Knows he ki meets drawn in the base of the it decrees of
Amida Buddha, in the Buddhist Temple of the hill Kurama, tends origin
Sanskrit and it’s mantra has for origin the bija Hrih. With Maô-Son,
Bishamon-Ten and Senju-Kannon are in presence of a triad the triad that
governs Mount Kurama, three fundamental poles of energy, Strengh-Light-Love,
that are emanations of the supreme soul of the universe, of the universal
source of life.
Together they constitute in their level a balance that reflects this
source and also constitute an intermediary stage among Spirit and it’s
creation, the Earth, Sun, Moon, Phisical, mental, and emotional bodies.
The spiritual communities of Kuramayana baptized
this triad of Sonten, the living Soul, Supreme Soul of the Universe
and the Glorious Light.
Sonten is the creator of the universe; it is him who allows the development
of our individual mind and it motivates the higher self, Atman, to wake
up in our hearts. The deities of Kurama have the following associations
and they are part of Mandala of Acala:
ENTITY SYMBOL DEIDADE KURAMA HINDU - NAME BIJA
SUN SHINE BISHAMON_TEN VAISRAVANA BAI
MOON LOVE KANNON YAMANTAKA HRIH
EARTH POWER MÂO-SON VAJRAYAKSA HUM
Like this, we have the Prayer of Happiness addressed to Sonten of Kuramayama:
Oh Sonten Bela as the Hot moon about the Powerful
sun, as the earth, spread your blessings on us, so that the humanity
can rise and we can increase our wealth and our glory.
In this sacred place, assure that the peace can defeat the discord,
the indifference can conquer the greed, sincere words can overcome the
deception and that the respect can surpass the insults.
It fills our hearts with happiness, it elevates our minds and it fills
our light bodies. Sonten, Big father of the Universe, Great Light, Big
Abattar, grant to us that are here gathered to celebrate you, to those
that are thirsty of playing your heart, a glorious light. We came back
to Sonten for all those things.
Like this, we arrived with the invocation of Sonten to the symbol then Koo Meow, of which emanate all the other symbols, bijas and deities, he is THE great Light, the one that refers the prayer of Sonten, “THE House of the Great Radiant Light.
Our gratitude to the Master that signaled bringing us:
Collaborator and Orientor SIMONE GOMES
Master Reiki, in the system Usui Shiki Ryoho - Formation in the levels I and II of Sekhem-Seichim Reiki - Formation in Applied Kinesiology - Formation in Reflexology
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