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We now know a great deal more about story of Usui's life and his discovery of Reiki. Information emerging from Japan in the late 90s has clarified and simplified the story. Usui was a well-educated and widely travelled man who spent some years in a Buddhist monastary. While there he undertook the 21-day fast on Mount Kurayama. On the morning of the 21st day he reached a moment of Sartori (enlightenment)when all he had learned and experienced until then fell into place and became the Reiki system.
He taught thousands of people how to do Reiki but appears only to have taught a few to Shinpiden (Reiki Master) level, one of which
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was Chujiro Hayashi, who taught Mrs Hawayo Takata. She brought Reiki to the West, packaging it in a way that the people she was dealing with could understand. She dropped the Japanese names for many of the meditations and techniques but fully passed on what she learned, developing the teaching story of which there are many versions.
Takata taught 22 Reiki Masters (teachers) during her lifetime. Shortly before her death she told her students that they, too, could and should initiate Reiki Masters. From that time onward there has been a phenomenal growth in the Reiki community worldwide.
Often, people come to Reiki either through the search for a solution to stress or illness. They stay with Reiki or learn it from a desire for a deep personal spiritual practice.
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