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We are all going to die. our health habits do make a difference but do not change the eventual outcome.
Illness is not a punishment and healing is not a reflection of goodness. The state of our bodies does not reflect our “worthiness”.
We are healed when we grow from our experience of suffering, when we can reframe it as an act of grace that leads us back to who we truly are.
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When I took my first degree Reiki class 20 years ago, my teacher taught me the practice as a self healing practice. This was what my daily practice taught me also, and much more.
When I took my second degree class I was taught ways that were for healing myself in a different way than before. Again, this is where my practice took me.
When I was accepted as a student for the third degree, as a master candidate, my teacher told me that “you will be called upon to heal yourself. This is the only good reason to take this step. This is ever the task, the work is you”.
And so it is …just as he said.
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“No self” according to Wu-Wei, and the illusion that there is one, is the source of our unhappiness. Waite’s version was “Natural happiness begins, when your stories end”. Whats it to do with Reiki?
Mikao Usui the founder of the Reiki practice, referred to “the secret method that summons happiness, the miraculous medicine that is effective against all kinds of illness.” Note that word “happiness” just keeps turning up.
So what is “no self”? The self is the story that the mind feeds us continuously, our past, most often painful, and its projected future, mostly fearful. When that stops, its “your stories end”. When that stops, the story self we identified with becomes something in the background, what happened in the past is no longer the driver of choices, and not the predictor of the future.
All these folks above, Wu-Wei, Waites and Usui were being matter of fact about being in the now, the place where there is no story, just “the now”, and its real life outcome …happiness!
And the point of happiness? It’s as if we’re wired to be happy. When we feel happy, even science had discovered the obvious, that our bodies operate at their healthy best. When we feel happy, we are open, creative, and engaged with people and relationships, with life itself.
And yet, we live life mostly hooked on suffering, because we believe our thoughts are real, and we identify with our unreal thoughts about ourselves.
That sounds insane, and it is!
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