What is a Path?
This is a question I have pondered upon time and time again, finding a path feels vital and essential, having a path is life giving, following a path brings meaning, as it weaves moments, thoughts and feelings of commitment, devotion and struggle, marking the passing of time.
Reiki is my life path, I see and question how often my mind strives towards the illusive comfort of a strait and comfortable journey, wishing for the relief found in the quiet yet empty and deadly stillness certainty. I ask myself, is this so for everyone, or is it just me?
I see how my Reiki path takes me many places, expressing a life journey that stretches me to the limits of my being, curving through the landscape of my choices, challenging the result of my experiences, listening to the call of my longings as it reminds me to be thankful for the gifts I give and receive.
At times Reiki feels like coming home, where I belong in spirit and in my community, before I know it, it turns into my refuge, and I retreat, move away from the world as I know it, then, miraculously, it turns, into a sanctuary, a source of peaceful knowing and unity. Each time I reach a place where I think I know, is when it all starts over again.
I have come to relax into the movement of this wondrous spinning wheel as it reflects my continuous dance with the mystery of a path in Reiki. The intimacy I find in this ebb and flow fills me with presence and wonder finding truth in the words of my Grandmaster who says that Reiki is a path
which embraces and sustains the blossoming of our divine nature.
which embraces and sustains the blossoming of our divine nature.
