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Dr. Mikao Usui
Dr. Mikao Usui
Mikao Usui
Dr. Mikao Usui rediscovered Reiki in the late 1800's.
Dr. Usui traveled to the United States and entered the
Chicago School of Divinity, where he earned his Doctorate
in Theology. However, he did not find the answer to his
question, How may you heal the body? He returned to
Japan and entered a Zen monastery. There he studied
ancient Buddhist, Sanskrit, and Tibetan texts for many
years. Dr. Usui felt like he had failed and expressed his
feeling to one of the monks. The Zen never say this is the
end "everything is a beginning." Do not give up your quest,
because everything known to man can be known again.
Finally in the original Sanskrit he found the formula for
healing the body in the ancient texts, but he did not have the
ability or understanding to use it. So he decided to Fast and
Meditate.
He traveled to the holy mountain of Kuriyama. He
climbed the mountain chose the spot for his meditation then
gathered 21 stones and piled them before him. Each day he
threw one stone down the mountain. On the final morning
just before dawn. Dr. Usui saw a beam of white light coming
toward him. His first reaction was to run. However he
decided to stay still. The light entered his third eye and he
lost consciousness. He reported that he saw millions of
rainbow bubbles and little known Sanskrit symbols glowing
in gold. As he saw each of the symbols he was given the names and uses for each as well as information on how to
activate the healing energy. Dr. Usui came down the mountain and experienced what is know as the miracles.
1. Coming down from the mountain he stubbed his toe on a rock and fell to the ground. His toe was bleeding. He
instinctively grabbed his toe after a few minutes, the bleeding stopped and the pain disappeared.
2. Dr. Usui had fasted for 21 days and then ate a very large breakfast without any adverse effects.
3. The innkeeper's granddaughter had a bad toothache for several days. Dr. Usui laid his hands on her face and
she immediately felt better.
Dr. Usui began to practice Reiki in the slums of Kyoto, where he healed the beggars at no cost asking only
that they start a new life. He worked for seven years in an asylum treating many illnesses. However he found the
same people returning who although healed of their physical ailments still chose to live by begging. Dr Usui was
deeply shaken. He realized that he had forgotten something very important in his healing work: To teach grati-
tude. Following this he thought out the Reiki principles: Just for today do not worry, Just for today do not anger,
Honor your parents, teachers, and elders, Earn your living honestly, Show gratitude to everything
Before his death, Dr Usui passed the teaching of Reiki to his closest associate Dr. Chijiro Hayashi. Dr.
Hayashi opened a clinic in Tokyo where he practiced Reiki. . Here Ms.Takata came for healing Hawayo Takata
was Hawaiian of Japanese decent. She was in Japan facing surgery for gallbladder disease appendicitis and a
tumor. On the operating table she heard a voice telling her " The surgery is not necessary"", She got up off the table
and asked the surgeon if there was another way for her to heal. He directed her to Dr. Hayashi's clinic. She was
completely healed in four months. She decided she would like to be trained in Reiki so she stayed in Japan and
became a student of Dr. Hayashi. Dr Hayashi knew a great war was coming and decided to pass the complete
teaching to two women. His wife and Hawayo Takata. (That is the story as it was passed on to me)