64. Absolute and Relative World – Reiki as a Bridge
Paradoxes and contradictions for Masters and lineage bearer
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In the relative world we compare. Not so in the absolute word where things are simply the way they are “just so”. Phyllis Furumoto holds this paradox:
My personality is in the relative world and the lineage bearer comes from the absolute. Reiki gave me a bridge.
Maybe instead of the metaphor of a bridge one could use a slide to highlight the ease of the transition from one side to the other. In everyday life one is much in the relative word. In a Reiki class the Master leaves the personality behind and accesses the absolute, so much so that:
My husband would say: “I need to come to your class because I need to see the best of you.” (laughs)
Braking speed limits, falling ill, etc. appear to be in contradiction to being Grand Master. But Reiki is not about escaping the world in the here and now, it is about having ever increasing access to the absolute. Drinking coffee or eating may help us sometimes to “come back” to the relative world, as a Sufi class illustrates.
Once we hold the paradox of being spirit in a human body and live fully while holding the knowing that we are all one, it is so much easier to be in the relative. Phyllis invites those who do not like or recognise her to accept that she does her best on her path.
That’s where we go when we’re Reiki Masters, that’s where we go when we give Reiki treatments, that’s where we go when we treat ourselves: to our absolute best.