i have been away... intiating and teaching a Reiki master high in the rockies.
usually i will apprentice one with me for over a good year, so as not to tire either of us...sometimes we need to be flexible. knowing " her highness" since college days, ( i actually recognized her royalty and gave her that name when she first appeared one homecoming in front of an inflatable castle!) i knew we could reach our goal in a bit more than a week's timelessness with our two focused hearts.
dianna's friend, mary ann, gifted us with her "cabin" in the woods - it was not the one "maybe with electricity,and hopefully without an out house" in my mind when i first was invited there as an alternative to be teaching at the zendo dada - it was a most gracious space in which our teaching was accomplished, besides the darkest (as in the night ) and most quiet space i have experienced, since my last astral projection. i was in the treetops of the aspen and pines...a far cry from the dirt and noise of nyc ( indirectly matched by the horror of coming home to find the owner of the gay bar that is about to open under my apartment has chosen a heavy rusty door with an axe embedded in it for a handle...still playing dungeons and [with your] drag ons? come out come out in the light wherever you are !)
little did i remember that in the master training, all are taken up in The Light, master and pupils together!
{i pause here to be a bit political, as it does come up in the teaching : there is no way in my mind that one can have this kind of Reiki experience, either by being initiated on line or by watching a video...the master-initiate relationship is a uniquely personal one and many so called masters, miss this point. i am also one of those old masters who honors the tradtional practice of keeping the "sacred" symbols out of print and unspoken in front of the unitiated...this is per chance the only place where i am "tradtional"!)
and "by george, she got it!" (from sun up till sun down...with a break here and there for laughs and reflections)
we were careful not to burn out , and when we needed to excelerate the intensive, we did...like the cow jumping over the moon.
i am aware that i am not so much the one who is making a master as i am the one passing on all that i am a ware of.
the greatest lesson came, in a sad (and yet perfect) way when i was to show princess dianna how to initiate another to the first degree... to a long time friend (who had run wild with me on the beach outside the edgar casey center) now wheelchair bound, and bound too in a rather unhealthy relationship, as i see it.
her partner took the time to make this visit all about himself, and without so much as even first asking to touch me, pounced upon my being and proceeded to do his brand of healing on me. ( i surrendered to Love, and surrounded myself with Light, so as not to be branded or cause a scene - never mind, i was told i had no choice, i knew other wise! he informed me that were i not to take his "offer" he would have had to leave the room because, as he put it, he was going to vomit from all the negative energy he was picking up from me!) [well, yeah pal... like i really wasnt looking forward to being around your manipulative personality again. ] and then this "healer" gave his feed back (without asking for permission) in the company of my pupil and friend , both of whom had already akwardly sat through his performance of power. not content with that alone, he went on mindlessly to down play Reiki as not being as potent as his healing.
my friend never got to receive her initiation, since it no longer felft right to remain there.
my pupil had her eye open the whole time, and we were able to use this experience as a valuable teaching...
of sorts!
going home lighter
having passed on the Reiki
a matchless teaching
A: when it drops out from the master's koan
{and please for anyone who is not a Reiki master, do not read this book pictured above...i bought whatever copies i found at the bookstore,when it first came into print, only to keep it off the shelf. while i understand the writer's intentions, her story alone at how she had to beat the information out of a master, and was never initiated as a one herself, is another one of those sad and valuable lessons, from my perspective.}
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