Reiki Is Not a Word

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How often have you seen information about Reiki that starts with this: Reiki is a Japanese word meaning universal life energy. What is wrong with that sentence? First of all, there are no Japanese words. The Japanese language is written in pictograms, not words. I hear someone saying, “Picky, picky, picky.” And I completely own it. I am picky, picky, picky. But that doesn’t make a pictogram a word, or even a reasonable equivalent. A pictogram is a stylized picture. Even the most florid word is linear compared to a picture. Words define; pictograms suggest. And they can only be understood in context. The definition ... More. More

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