39. Difference between Technique and Spiritual Practice
Technique needs 'recipe', spiritual practice needs practice
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Hawayo Takata responded to the American need at the time. She emphasised Reiki in context with physical healing. Her more expansive teaching is reduced to technique.
Technique has to be a recipe and if you don’t follow the recipe then you don’t get the results.
In a spiritual practice you are taught a practice. It is through that practice and your own development that you get the result.
Technique is closely linked with the hunt for evidence. Spiritual practice is more elusive and continuously brings up new questions. It is a challenge in the information age to hold the unknown until it becomes known. People tend to seek instant knowledge from “experts”. This can be contradictory to a spiritual practice.
I am not an expert, no one is an expert and you only get experts in technique.