Hi All,
This is a cross-post with a post I put up today on Healthy Pages Reiki Forum - just trying to gather info on this...
Just wanted to get some feedback on the idea of using Reiki symbols as meditation objects. I read all over the place how some people seem to think that once you have 'internalized' the main function of the Reiki symbol (like makiing a distant connection without actually invoking, visualizing or drawing the distant symbol) then you can pretty much dispense with it.
It seems to me that perhaps this is a rather shallow way of working with the symbols. Symbols - Reiki or otherwise are multi-functional and multi-dimensional it seems to me and to throw them away once you have mastered their most basic function seems a little short sighted (unless of course you have no interest in what else they might have to offer beyond their most basic function).
Does anyone else use them as objects of meditation at all and if so, what effects, realizations, energetic qualities have come up as a consequence? I am interested as I always tell my students that beyond the basic functions of the Reiki symbols which are pretty easy to master, there is a life-times journey of meditating on these fascinating and incredibly powerful symbols which can and will take you deeper into a journey of self-exploration with Reiki.
Most of course don't bother with this - meditation can be perceived as hard work when the desired results don't manifest almost immediately. I would in fact be more inclined to the view that the symbols are in the first instance meditation tools and only secondarily capable of connecting to different attirbutes and fucntions of the Universal Energy Field.
Any thoughts??
Blessings,
Steve
