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Reiki is older than any written account, but the modern story of reiki begins in the mid 1800's with Dr. Mikau Usui, a Christian Minister in Kyoto Japan. He was searching for the skill of healing. As he couldnt find any answers where he was, he travelled to USA where he studied Theology at the University of Chicago. During this time, he found no answers to his questions, other than religion heals the spirit, and not the body.
Dr. Usui eventually returned to Japan to study Buddhism, which had many references to healing. He learned Chinese and Sanskrit to enable him to further understand the scriptures in their native languages. He settled in a Zen Buddhist monastery in Kyoto and spent many years studying the sutras. Eventually he found a formula for healing, but it wasn't complete.
Usui then decided to undergo three weeks of fasting and meditation on the nearby holy site of Mount Kori-Yama to ask for guidance. He picked a spot and laid out 21 stones, to act as a calendar, and threw one away each morning. Early on the morning of the 21'st day, just before dawn, he saw a beam of light, which moved towards him, faster and faster, growing larger and larger. He got up to run, but decided to accept this as an answer from god. The lights struck his eyebrow centre, and knocked him down unconscious. In a dream state, he saw the Reiki symbols in white and gold. As each symbol appeared, he was given instructions how to use it. When he finally gained consciousness, and opened his eyes, it was mid morning.
Walking down the hill, he experienced one of what he called his 4 miracles.
Firstly he stubbed his toe, and as he instinctivley put his hands around his foot, he felt a tremendous heat, the pain stopped, and the toe was healed.
Secondly, on reaching the base of the mountain, he was able to eat a full breacfast at a service house, which was usually not achievable after 21 days fasting.
Thirdly, a young girl serving him told him that she had chronic tooth ache. He put his hands on her jaw, and again the pain was relieved
Finally, upon returning to the Monestary, he was told that the Bishop was unwell and in bed, suffering from severe arthritus. Usui sat in the bed, resting his hands on the Bishop, and the arthritus was healed.
Dr. Usui then decided to go into the world and deliver healing. He went fiirst to the beggers of Kyoto. He lived in the beggers quarters for several years. After a while, he began to see the same faces that he had healed, returning to scorn him, saying that they were no longer able to beg because of the heaaling that they had recieved. Usui was extremely disheartened by this and decided to leave the beggers quarters.
Eventually he developed the and he held to the belief that reiki should never be given freely, but should be paid for or exchanged in order for its healing to be fully apriciated.
