sakti-rising said on
>But in the East it is far more than someone who just trains apprentices.....it is someone who has trained for many many years( some say many lifetimes) in a particular discipline to achieve the status of 'Master'.
ies much much more.
Nonsense. Consider the Chinese "shifu"
or Japanese "sensei." They mean master or
teacher, without any implication of many
lifetimes. Acquiring any real skill probably
does require many years of practice, so of
course any informed student would choose a
master who has an adequate background of
training. But considering the Japanese
culture in which reiki practice arose -- no,
the word sensei doesn't mean more than a
teacher of apprentices. The same word
describes a schoolteacher.
Bruce
