Week Three

Welcome back to week three of the Usui retreat 2013. If you have found yourself here without having passed through the past two weeks of exercises, consider them unnecessary and just begin right here. We are so identified with time and its implications that we miss the simple fact of timelessness. Nothing else exists except for this moment. In this moment you are exactly how you should be; You are perfect in your imperfection. Please stop hankering for the superlatives that rule your life. Let go of bigger, better, more beautiful and more spiritual and relax into this beautiful space, this silence, this presence, this eternal moment...

This is what Usui Sensei wanted to transport to his students and it is precisely what you find when you give treatments or when you initiate others into Reiki. In the loving touch of Reiki, all duality disappears and instead of it appears a stillness that has no beginning and no end. In this timelessness you are reborn into purity...

There is literally nowhere to go, nothing to reach, nothing to change or to improve upon. Everything is exactly how it should be and this in itself is the blessing of the Universe. Your whole life long you have experienced a thousand and one things. All of those experiences have added something to you, have given you more substance, and eventually have given you a deeper understanding of your self. Here and Now you are just right as you are...

Exercises for the Third Week

It is so lovely that you are here. Let us now spend the last week of the Usui retreat together in Silence and Celebration of your true nature. In the past week we directed our compassion towards others and that was beautiful in its own right. Yet a subtle duality was left, because we projected something outwardly. During this week I would like to suggest that all the energy we have gathered is used to go inwards, and to find the world inside yourself and yourself in everything that you experience.

In fact I would like to ask you to take the energy you have gathered in your entire life and to direct that energy towards your self. Look at your self with utmost intensity and let the compassion you have generated in your heart flow towards your self. You and the world are one. You are what you see, feel, hear, taste, smell and know. Now extend your deepest love towards that immensity and experience it deeply and humbly. To experience yourself in all your splendor is a very humble act. Look at your self with all the love and devotion, with the same humility and wonder that you look at your lover or your child at. Let this love, this humility and this compassion purify your heart once and for all.

Do this while you hear these words and let my voice take you home. Only you know where this home is, but you know it well. Remember it... now and every time you are tempted to do it in the next seven days.

Thank you for spending this precious time with me, with love and gratitude from heart to heart, your friend Frank Arjava Petter

Copyright � 2013, by Frank Arjava Petter