Interesting discussion.
I'm not much into meditation in the traditional sense. I just don't seem to be that good at it and only end up frustrated. During healing work, however, I can easily enter a different consciousness...probably much the same as in meditation. I'm also one who believes that everything can be meditation if done mindfully. Full present awareness is all that is necessary to turn any "doing" into "being".
As for "throwing the symbols away". Well, I don't use them near as much as I used to. It doesn't feel like vanity to me and I really don't overthink it. It is what it is. Reiki for me has become far less about what I can/should do and more about being. And as Aronaya said...everything can be a practice...and healing can happen in many ways.
Now, here's a question that I just dig...
aronaya said
>If the meditative object is the projection, and the mindsource is the projector, which one are we trying to illuminate?
Lesley
