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Discovery of Reiki CHAPTER 2

Mikao Usui was born in Japan on the 15th of August, 1865. Throughout his lifetime
he studied Buddhism, martial arts and other ancient Japanese meditation and
healing techniques. Mikao Usui also travelled to other countries like China, US and
countries in Europe, to pursue further studies and to acquire knowledge of
medicine, psychology and other religions.

Mikao Usui worked towards finding his purpose in life and achieving the state of
spiritual enlightenment. In 1922, he decided to go to the sacred mountain Kurama
near Kyoto, where he underwent a strict spiritual practice involving meditation and
fasting for 21 days. At the end of that period, he would either die or become
enlightened. In the morning of the last day, Mikao Usui experienced a strong
sensation, as if he was struck by lightning, and saw a white light fly over his head. It
filled him with a highly enjoyable state of vitality and spiritual energy and enabled
him to become enlightened. He also received the ability to access healing Reiki
energy and teach others to use it.

After his spiritual awakening, Mikao Usui understood that to be a healer and to
teach others was his life purpose. He opened a Reiki clinic in Tokyo, where he
passed his knowledge of Usui Reiki Ryoho healing system to his students and gave
treatments to other people.

How Reiki came to other parts of the world?

Mikao Usui had many students who learned Reiki, one of them being Chujiro
Hayashi. Chujiro Hayashi also opened a Reiki clinic in Japan, where a woman
named Hawayo Takata was able to learn Reiki healing. On returning to her home in
Hawaii, she opened a very first Reiki clinic outside Japan, adapted and established
the teaching system of Reiki and taught Reiki to Western students. The teachings
kept being passed on from the Reiki teachers to their students to this day. That is
how Reiki healing system came to the other parts of the world.

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