Reiki Symbols
A lot has been written about the Reiki Symbols, and much controversy has grown up around them.
Some people say that they are secret and should never be revealed to the un initiated.
Some say they hold great power, and others say that they are not the true symbols and the “actual” Reiki symbols are not used in Western Reiki, but instead kept secret by a small ban of monks.
All of this is makes for a great story and adds the feeling of mystery and secrecy to Reiki.
From my humble point of view, it appears that some people have started to look at the finger and not where it points.
A Symbol, any symbol is a “representation” of something. The word symbol actually means:
- an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance.
- A Symbol, in its basic sense, is a representational token for a concept or quantity
- A form or image implying or representing something beyond its obvious and immediate meaning
That’s what the dictionary tells us a symbol is.
So we can draw from that that the Reiki Symbols themselves do not contain any power. They represent each represent an aspect of Reiki or of Life.
There is a significance associated with each of the Reiki Symbols and the symbols and part of your Reiki 2 Attunement will define in communicate that significance “in a spiritual sense” so that when you draw, imagine or say the name of the symbol in your Reiki Healing the aspect of Reiki represented by that symbol will become manifest.
This use of the Reiki Symbols seems to give them their mystical powers. But they in themselves do not have mystical powers, they simply represent an aspect of Reiki which is easier to symbolise then it is to explain.
Reiki is a spiritual thing, when we try to explain that with our intellect we will find that the intellect can not actually conceive of what is represented by the symbols, it will try but it will only limit the infinite or “un finite quality of life.
That is one of the reasons for using symbols, any symbols.
The Reiki Symbols represent something that can be considered sacred………they represent life.
The are no longer secret, no matter how much some may wish they were.
They are actually quite beautiful and aesthetic in there own right.
I include here a brief description of each of the Reiki Symbols.