The highest meditation – no I, no you
Speaking of oneness sounds grand, and precisely for that reason it is easily misunderstood. Some turn it into an almost rapturous state, others reject the word because it seems too vague to them. In Reiki, this topic needs a calm, very clear approach. Oneness is not a spectacular exceptional state in which personality disappears and only cosmic greatness remains. It is rather an experience in which the usual separation of I against world becomes more permeable for moments.
Such experiences can arise in deep meditation, silent treatment, or great inner gathering. They cannot be forced. As soon as the ego wants to make them happen, they are usually already missed. For exactly this reason, master meditation is not a field of performance, but a school of letting go.
**What Oneness Is Not**
It is not indifference. It is not the erasure of personality. It is not the claim that one is now beyond every conflict, every boundary, or every form of human difficulty. Whoever draws such conclusions often confuses a subtle state with an ideology.
An example: Someone experiences great vastness in meditation and afterward says there are actually no personal themes anymore. That sounds lofty, but is usually not mature. True experience of oneness often makes one more humble, not more boastful.
Another example: A person describes, in deep stillness, that the usual heaviness of self-observation briefly falls away. It has not disappeared, but is simply less sharply separated. Such quiet, unspectacular experiences are often closer to the truth of the topic.
**How Reiki Opens This Space**
Reiki works not only on the level of symptoms, but also on the level of experienced separation. When a person becomes calmer, more permeable, and less inwardly clenched, more vastness sometimes arises by itself. Oneness then does not have to be thought, but can be sensed.
Dai Ko Myo plays a special role here. As the master symbol, it provides maximum energy and opens a space of great vastness and dignity. In deep meditation, it can help the person become not only quieter, but more luminous, without losing themselves in images.
Cho Ku Rei nevertheless remains important. The power symbol calls the energy here and now and ensures that vastness does not turn into drifting away. Especially with subtle meditations, gathering is needed.
Sei He Ki can support when psychological states strongly occupy the meditation: fear, tension, longing for a special experience, or old inner unrest. The symbol dissolves states, including psychological states.
**How You Can Approach the Topic**
Not by hunting for experience. Better is a simple, long, silent practice. Sit, gather yourself, let the breath become calm, go into treatment or silent presence. If moments of greater vastness come, do not hold on to them. If nothing special comes, that is not failure.
An old Reiki master might perhaps say: The highest meditation is often not the one with the greatest images, but the one in which the ego stops commenting on everything for a moment.
It can also be helpful not to get up immediately after a deep treatment. Especially in the moments afterward, oneness sometimes becomes more tangible than in the active meditation itself.
**Practical Examples**
You sit quietly after a self-treatment and notice that the usual inner pressure to have to be someone becomes softer for a moment. It is not spectacular, but very wide. Such experiences are precious.
Or you walk in nature, treat yourself briefly with Cho Ku Rei and Dai Ko Myo, and notice that the opposition between you and the surroundings is less hard. Not gone, but more permeable. This too can be a form of oneness.
It is important not to put such experiences into language too quickly. Some truths become poorer when one explains them too hastily.
**What Should Be Avoided**
Spiritual exaggeration should be avoided. Oneness is not a title and not proof of mastery. Equally unwholesome is pathologizing this realm or rejecting it only because it cannot be cleanly broken down into everyday concepts.
The ground remains important. Whoever returns from deep meditation should become not less truthful in life, but more truthful.
An old Reiki master might perhaps say: If you touch oneness, you recognize it by the fact that less has to be claimed and more peace becomes possible in the ordinary.
Your answer belongs in your personal Reiki journal. It grows with every day and stays with you alone.
Speaking of oneness sounds grand, and precisely for that reason it is easily misunderstood. Some turn it into an almost rapturous state, others reject the word because it seems too vague to them. In Reiki, this topic needs a calm, very clear approach. Oneness is not a spectacular exceptional state in which personality disappears and only cosmic greatness remains. It is rather an experience in which the usual separation of I against world becomes more permeable for moments.
Such experiences can arise in deep meditation, silent treatment, or great inner gathering. They cannot be forced. As soon as the ego wants to make them happen, they are usually already missed. For exactly this reason, master meditation is not a field of performance, but a school of letting go.
**What Oneness Is Not**
It is not indifference. It is not the erasure of personality. It is not the claim that one is now beyond every conflict, every boundary, or every form of human difficulty. Whoever draws such conclusions often confuses a subtle state with an ideology.
An example: Someone experiences great vastness in meditation and afterward says there are actually no personal themes anymore. That sounds lofty, but is usually not mature. True experience of oneness often makes one more humble, not more boastful.
Another example: A person describes, in deep stillness, that the usual heaviness of self-observation briefly falls away. It has not disappeared, but is simply less sharply separated. Such quiet, unspectacular experiences are often closer to the truth of the topic.
**How Reiki Opens This Space**
Reiki works not only on the level of symptoms, but also on the level of experienced separation. When a person becomes calmer, more permeable, and less inwardly clenched, more vastness sometimes arises by itself. Oneness then does not have to be thought, but can be sensed.
Dai Ko Myo plays a special role here. As the master symbol, it provides maximum energy and opens a space of great vastness and dignity. In deep meditation, it can help the person become not only quieter, but more luminous, without losing themselves in images.
Cho Ku Rei nevertheless remains important. The power symbol calls the energy here and now and ensures that vastness does not turn into drifting away. Especially with subtle meditations, gathering is needed.
Sei He Ki can support when psychological states strongly occupy the meditation: fear, tension, longing for a special experience, or old inner unrest. The symbol dissolves states, including psychological states.
**How You Can Approach the Topic**
Not by hunting for experience. Better is a simple, long, silent practice. Sit, gather yourself, let the breath become calm, go into treatment or silent presence. If moments of greater vastness come, do not hold on to them. If nothing special comes, that is not failure.
An old Reiki master might perhaps say: The highest meditation is often not the one with the greatest images, but the one in which the ego stops commenting on everything for a moment.
It can also be helpful not to get up immediately after a deep treatment. Especially in the moments afterward, oneness sometimes becomes more tangible than in the active meditation itself.
**Practical Examples**
You sit quietly after a self-treatment and notice that the usual inner pressure to have to be someone becomes softer for a moment. It is not spectacular, but very wide. Such experiences are precious.
Or you walk in nature, treat yourself briefly with Cho Ku Rei and Dai Ko Myo, and notice that the opposition between you and the surroundings is less hard. Not gone, but more permeable. This too can be a form of oneness.
It is important not to put such experiences into language too quickly. Some truths become poorer when one explains them too hastily.
**What Should Be Avoided**
Spiritual exaggeration should be avoided. Oneness is not a title and not proof of mastery. Equally unwholesome is pathologizing this realm or rejecting it only because it cannot be cleanly broken down into everyday concepts.
The ground remains important. Whoever returns from deep meditation should become not less truthful in life, but more truthful.
An old Reiki master might perhaps say: If you touch oneness, you recognize it by the fact that less has to be claimed and more peace becomes possible in the ordinary.
Your answer belongs in your personal Reiki journal. It grows with every day and stays with you alone.
Speaking of oneness sounds grand, and precisely for that reason it is easily misunderstood. Some turn it into an almost rapturous state, others reject the word because it seems too vague to them. In Reiki, this topic needs a calm, very clear approach. Oneness is not a spectacular exceptional state in which personality disappears and only cosmic greatness remains. It is rather an experience in which the usual separation of I against world becomes more permeable for moments.
Such experiences can arise in deep meditation, silent treatment, or great inner gathering. They cannot be forced. As soon as the ego wants to make them happen, they are usually already missed. For exactly this reason, master meditation is not a field of performance, but a school of letting go.
**What Oneness Is Not**
It is not indifference. It is not the erasure of personality. It is not the claim that one is now beyond every conflict, every boundary, or every form of human difficulty. Whoever draws such conclusions often confuses a subtle state with an ideology.
An example: Someone experiences great vastness in meditation and afterward says there are actually no personal themes anymore. That sounds lofty, but is usually not mature. True experience of oneness often makes one more humble, not more boastful.
Another example: A person describes, in deep stillness, that the usual heaviness of self-observation briefly falls away. It has not disappeared, but is simply less sharply separated. Such quiet, unspectacular experiences are often closer to the truth of the topic.
**How Reiki Opens This Space**
Reiki works not only on the level of symptoms, but also on the level of experienced separation. When a person becomes calmer, more permeable, and less inwardly clenched, more vastness sometimes arises by itself. Oneness then does not have to be thought, but can be sensed.
Dai Ko Myo plays a special role here. As the master symbol, it provides maximum energy and opens a space of great vastness and dignity. In deep meditation, it can help the person become not only quieter, but more luminous, without losing themselves in images.
Cho Ku Rei nevertheless remains important. The power symbol calls the energy here and now and ensures that vastness does not turn into drifting away. Especially with subtle meditations, gathering is needed.
Sei He Ki can support when psychological states strongly occupy the meditation: fear, tension, longing for a special experience, or old inner unrest. The symbol dissolves states, including psychological states.
**How You Can Approach the Topic**
Not by hunting for experience. Better is a simple, long, silent practice. Sit, gather yourself, let the breath become calm, go into treatment or silent presence. If moments of greater vastness come, do not hold on to them. If nothing special comes, that is not failure.
An old Reiki master might perhaps say: The highest meditation is often not the one with the greatest images, but the one in which the ego stops commenting on everything for a moment.
It can also be helpful not to get up immediately after a deep treatment. Especially in the moments afterward, oneness sometimes becomes more tangible than in the active meditation itself.
**Practical Examples**
You sit quietly after a self-treatment and notice that the usual inner pressure to have to be someone becomes softer for a moment. It is not spectacular, but very wide. Such experiences are precious.
Or you walk in nature, treat yourself briefly with Cho Ku Rei and Dai Ko Myo, and notice that the opposition between you and the surroundings is less hard. Not gone, but more permeable. This too can be a form of oneness.
It is important not to put such experiences into language too quickly. Some truths become poorer when one explains them too hastily.
**What Should Be Avoided**
Spiritual exaggeration should be avoided. Oneness is not a title and not proof of mastery. Equally unwholesome is pathologizing this realm or rejecting it only because it cannot be cleanly broken down into everyday concepts.
The ground remains important. Whoever returns from deep meditation should become not less truthful in life, but more truthful.
An old Reiki master might perhaps say: If you touch oneness, you recognize it by the fact that less has to be claimed and more peace becomes possible in the ordinary.
Your answer belongs in your personal Reiki journal. It grows with every day and stays with you alone.
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