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Mikao Usui, the founder of Reiki, was a spiritual and philosophical man. There is a great deal of controversy regarding the history and origins of Reiki. To understand this history, it is necessary to understand the man behind the healing. Usui-Sensei was born on April 15, 1865 in the small village of Taniai, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. At the age of three, it is reported that Usui was sent to a Tendai Monastery School. When Usui was 12, he began to study martial arts. This was the beginning of a longstanding appreciation for martial arts and training. He studied 'Yagyu Ryu', a martial art incorporating Samurai swordsmanship (Ken-Jutsu) and unarmed combat (Ju-jitsu). Usui went on to earn 'Menkyo Kaiden' in his 20s, this being the highest level of mastery in weaponry.

As a child and young man, Usui's life was difficult. He did not come from a wealthy family, was regarded as an eccentric and had a number of jobs. He married Sadako Suzuki and had a son, Fuji, in 1908 and a daughter, Toshiko in 1913. While working in diplomatic service, he had the opportunity to travel to China, Europe and America where he learned about Western cultures. Usui has been reported to have practiced as a Tendai Buddhist Monk (not living in the monastery) and in 1922 studied Zen Buddhist training for three years.

Reiki has its roots in the religions Usui had studied, Tendai Buddhism and Shintoism. A form of mystical Buddhism, Tendai nurtured spiritual teachings and Shintoism incorporated manipulating energies. Usui, as a swordsman and proficient in kiko (the Japanese word for the Chinese art of Chi Gung), combined his martial arts skills and spiritualism studies and training to create his vision of Reiki Ryoho. This term, literally translated, is Spiritual Healing and the term was used by other therapists of the time.

Usui- Sensei, as he is known (meaning master), was teaching at this time and had some loyal students. In 1921, it is believed he employed the five principals/precepts ('gokai') as adopted from the 1915 book " Kenzen no Genri" (Health Principles) written by Dr. Bizan Suzuki: " Just for today, do not anger, do not fear, work hard, be honest and be kind to others" into his teachings.

In March of 1922, Usui-Sensei climbed Mt. Kurama to perform fasting and meditation. On the last of his 21 days, it is said he experienced enlightenment in the form of a ball of light that spoke to him, giving him the opportunity to accept this light into his body, which could kill him but give him the energy to heal others. This is where Reiki was born. One month later, he opened a training center in Harajuku, Aoyama, Japan. "Unity of self through harmony and balance" was the motto for his teachings. Usui-Sensei administered his teachings to his students during a time of great modern change in Japan and it was important for people to retain historical spiritual teachings. It was here that he began his healing techniques. One of his students, an Imperial Naval Officer by the name of Dr Chujiro Hayashi, was responsible for bringing Reiki to the United States after Usui-Sensei's death from a stroke in 1926.

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A Potted History of the System of Reiki

Viewpoints about the system of Reiki and its past are numerous. On our new website we have many pieces about the history of Reiki and its teachers as well as modern teachers and their teachings. But let's look at a potted version of what has happened to the system since its beginnings in the early 1900s.

1860-1915
In 1865 Mikao Usui was born to a samurai family descended from the Chiba clan. He studies martial arts and reaches a high level called Menkyo Kaiden within the art around 1890[1]. Mikao Usui marries Sadako Suzuki and they have a boy, Fuji and a girl, Toshiko. He becomes a lay Tendai priest[2].

1915-1920
Suzuki san, Mikao Usui's cousin, studied with Mikao Usui formally from 1915 until 1920 (and communicated with him informally until his death). She states that the first teaching to his students (12 of whom are claimed to still be alive) were the precepts. He also gave meditations and mantras for his students to practise. She said that during this period he became well known as a healer even though his initial teachings were based on strengthening one's spirituality rather than direct healing. Mikao Usui used a reiju that was in fact a ‘spiritual blessing' for his students. This was the forerunner to what is known as an attunement today. The Reiju was not created to attune/empower or transform someone, it was merely intended as a spiritual blessing. What was taught at this time appears to have been based strongly on traditional Japanese cultural and religious mores without it actually becoming a religion.

1920-1926
A group of nuns, two of whom were called Tenon in and Yuri in, worked with Mikao Usui from 1920 until he died[3]. In 1922 Mikao Usui climbed Mt Kurama and practiced an austerity training culminating in a deeper or different understanding of his spiritual practices[4]. The Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai is created by Mikao Usui one month later in Tokyo[5] and is set up to cater to naval officers and other lay people. The symbols are introduced to the system to help those who had difficulty sensing the energy within them and in 1925 Mikao Usui moves to Nakano outside of Tokyo. A number of healing centers are set up[6]. Chujiro Hayashi, a retired naval officer and surgeon, studies with Mikao Usui in 1925. It is guessed that he may have written the first hand position manual for Mikao Usui. Some of Mikao Usui's students become well known such as Toshihiro Eguchi and Kaiji Tomita. In 1926 Mikao Usui died of a stroke.

1927-1933
Chujiro Hayashi practiced under the auspices of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai until 1933 when he opened his own centre. The Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai continued to practise in quiet and still exists today. Some modern researchers have said that Chujiro Hayashi never had time to finish Shinpiden (teacher level) and he and the other naval officers merely emulated the reiju used by Mikao Usui.

1933-1938
It is believed that Chujiro Hayashi began the first actual commercial centre where people would come for healing and practitioners would work on them. Chujiro Hayashi wrote that he had taught 13 Reiki Masters by 1938. From 1936-1938 Hawayo Takata, an American born Japanese woman studied with him and became one of these Reiki Masters. Other students of his were Chiyoko Yamaguchi (whountil recently taught in Kyoto with her son Tadao), his wife - Chie and Tatsumi. We understand that there are other practitioners trained by him alive in Japan today. Chujiro Hayashi's teachings were from the latter period of Mikao Usui's life and may have been adapted by him to suit a more technical and clinical approach to the system rather than a spiritual one.

1938-1980
Hawayo Takata took the system of Reiki back to Hawaii, US and set up the first non-Japanese Reiki clinic. It seems that what she taught technically was in line with her teacher's teachings. She did not teach the chakra system and neither did Chujiro Hayashi. Instead, her diary relates that she knew of and taught about the hara method. Her historical knowledge of the system on the other hand varied according to the time and occasion it was told in.

Chujiro Hayashi died in 1940 and his wife continued teaching in his place.

By the mid -1970s Hawayo Takata realized that she needed students to pass on what she had taught. She trained, in total, 22 students to teach the system of Reiki, as she knew it. Hawayo Takata died in 1980. During this period there were still people practising in Japan who were taught by Mikao Usui and his students. These students/teachers appear to have had no inclination to contact the strands of the system that were being practiced in the West.

1980-2003
After Hawayo Takata died her students began to set up their own practices and create Reiki groups and associations. Debate began over what was the true system of Reiki. A group called The Reiki Alliance standardized the Western system and taught what they called Usui Shiki Ryoho. Hawayo Takata's granddaughter was their head and the term ‘Grandmaster' was created to reflect her position. This term had not been used in the system of Reiki in either Japan or the West previously.

Barbara Weber Ray, another Reiki Master of Hawayo Takata, began her system calling it The Radiance Technique and claimed to have the only true teachings. These teachings appear to be influenced by her New Age beliefs.

Other students, including Iris Ishikuro and her student Arthur Robertson, drew more New Age concepts into the system of Reiki during the 80s. It was at this point that mythological Tibetan teachings entered the scene. People began to channel information from spirits and guides and the system of Reiki took on a new life quite different from its Japanese origins.

The Westernized version returned to Japan in the 1980s and these modern, western teachings became very popular there - just as they had in the West. It was not until the 1990s that research began to provide the fascinating facts that early teachings of Mikao Usui and his students were still being practiced in Japan. The new millennium has brought with it a gradual opening up by the Japanese. Amongst some of these older teachings that have come to the light are:

The traditional Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai has a member, Hiroshi Doi, who has taught Westerners branches such as Usui Reiki Ryoho and his own Gendai Reiki Ho.

Chiyoko Yamaguchi, a student of Chujiro Hayashi, teaches today, as does her student Hyakuten Inamoto.

Chris Marsh is slowly passing on Suzuki san's knowledge of the early teachings to the West as well.

All in all it is an exciting time to be involved with these teachings and to know that as practitioners we can continue to learn and upgrade our knowledge and personal experience.

[1] Suzuki san, born in 1895 and a cousin of Mikao Usui's wife. Suzuki san is still alive today according to her student Chris Marsh.

[2] Mariko Suzuki

[3] Dave King claims to have had contact with Tenon in and supplies this information.

[4] Memorial Stone of Mikao Usui in the Saihoji Temple, Tokyo.

[5] Memorial Stone of Mikao Usui.

[6] Frank Arjava Petter's research

About the Author

Reiki Master/Teachers Frans and Bronwen Stiene are authors of The Reiki Sourcebook and founders of the International House of Reiki and the podcast The Reiki Show.
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1986 Suzuki Samurai head light problem?

when i turn on the headlights, the tach drops to zero, headlights come on VERY dim (fade in like old flourescents). Never get above a very dim orange. Sometimes hear a "click" sound around carb area. Any ideas?

Are these the stock lights?
Think there may be a short somewhere?

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