ZEN REIKI

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Giorgos Mylonas, Copyright, 2004

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ZEN REIKI CONTENTS

What is Zen Meditation Zen Paradox Meditation The Scented Ocean Zen Meditation: Who Am I? Who Are You? Breathing Meditation Buddha Breathing Technique Madness versus Silence Meditation Prajna Meditation: Emptiness Enso Infinity Meditation Nirvana Meditation Tanden Meditation Kensho (Enlightenment) Meditation Shikantaza No Techniques Meditation. Sand Meditation Awareness: Colours and Sounds Awareness: Beyond Colours and Sounds What is Zen Reiki Meditation Zen Reiki Symbols Zen Reiki Attunement Zen Reiki Tanden Empowerment Zen Reiki Enso Zen Reiki Kensho Zen Reiki Tao Clearing Zen Reiki Karma Clearing Zen Reiki Dharma Healing Zen Reiki Jiriki Osesshin Wisdom of Buddha Attunement

Zen Bodhisattva Initiation

What is Zen Meditation

What is Zen?... Sit in zazen, sitting position on your feet and legs, and close your eyes. Take some deep breaths and relax. Relax your mind and body. Release. Relax deeper. Breathe more deeply. Ask yourself: Either silently or whispering. What is Zen?... Repeat slowly and meditatively for as many times as you can. Observe whatever comes to mind Notice everything and relax. Repeat the question and wonder. Say Zen is what is not Zen is not what is Zen is Zen is notZen is. Repeat this some times in full focus. Again relax. I Am Zen, Zen is me I do not know me, I do not know Zen. Repeat this some times in full focus. Do this meditation for 20 minutes and open your eyes. Drink some water. Notice everything in your life. Do not analyse, do not draw conclusions. Live your day, live your life today. Do the above meditation for 7 days in a row.

Zen Paradox Meditation

Sit in zazen, sitting position on your feet and legs, and close your eyes. Take some deep breaths and relax. Relax your mind and body. Release. Relax deeper. Breathe more deeply. Say to yourself: Either silently or whispering. This is a World full of Paradoxes. White and Black, Night and Day, Yesterday and Tomorrow, Good and Evil, Right and Wrong, Pleasure and Pain One is the other and both are one I now enter the Paradox fusion, the Paradox understanding and the Paradox transcendence of the Great Bodhisattvas Beloved Bodhisattvas Bless Me, Bless All Sentient Beings and Bless This World Repeat a set of contraries: i.e. Black and white or night and day or right and wrong as many times as you can WhiteBlackWhiteBlackWhiteBlack Relax at a deeper state and be aware. Do this meditation for 20 minutes and open your eyes. Drink some water. Notice everything in your life. Do not analyse, do not draw conclusions. Live your day, live your life today. Do the above meditation for 7 days in a row.

The Scented Ocean

Sit in zazen, sitting position on your feet and legs, and close your eyes. Take some deep breaths and relax. Relax your mind and body. Release. Relax deeper. Breathe more deeply. Say to yourself: Either silently or whispering. My Heart desires to go to the Scented Ocean. Open your hands and palms high up in the sky. My Mind wills to go to the Scented Ocean. Touch your heart. Touch the ground. I Am now within the Scented Ocean, Greatest Blessings of the Buddha, We Are Now Forever Free - in this Scented Ocean, Infinity. Relax at a deeper state and be aware. Do this meditation for 20 minutes and open your eyes. Drink some water. Notice everything in your life. Do not analyse, do not draw conclusions. Live your day, live your life today. Do the above meditation for 7 days in a row.

Zen Meditation: Who Am I? Who Are You?

Sit in zazen, sitting position on your feet and legs, and close your eyes. Take some deep breaths and relax. Relax your mind and body. Release. Relax deeper. Breathe more deeply. Ask yourself: Either silently or whispering. Who Am I? Try to repeat 108 times. Now ask again yourself: Either silently or whispering. Who Are You? Try to repeat 108 times. Relax at a deeper state and be aware. Do this meditation for 20 minutes and open your eyes. Drink some water. Notice everything in your life. Do not analyse, do not draw conclusions. Live your day, live your life today. Do the above meditation for 7 days in a row.

Breathing Meditation
This is very simple technique but it greatly awakens and refines our consciousness. Watch carefully your breathing. Stop everything that you do at any point of your day or night, stop anything at any place and any condition and just observe your breath. Observe for 1-10 minutes and be totally aware. Say, What is the breath?... Who is breathing?.... I thank the Buddha and Infinity for this Great Gift, I am forever Grateful. Next continue whatever you were doing before. It is truly an enlightening experience! Try to do this whenever it comes to your mind, 2-3 times per day for seven days or more. The secret is to practice it unexpectedly, without a specific program, in the midst of everyday life.

Buddha Breathing Technique

Sit in zazen. Mentally or aloud say The Buddha is now Breathing. I am the Breath of The Buddha. The Buddha Breathes in me. Buddha Breathing is now beginning Start breathing consciously and as deep as you can. You can also focus on your crown, your forehead, your heart center, your solar plexus or your tanden (approximately one and a half inches below the navel and one and a half inches deep). Thank the Buddha and send your Love and Gratitude to him and to All Sentient Beings.

Madness versus Silence Meditation

This is a very powerful technique and should be done in great care. First Part: Start acting madly. Scream and jump around. Act like a mad human being explode, release, do anything crazy as intensely as you can. You can also dance or shake, say stupid things or scream and throw pillows around. Breathe heavily through your mouth. Act out as if you are in a movie acting out the role of explosive behaviours but care not to hurt your self preferably do this in an empty space with loud dance music. Do this for 10-15 minutes. It is highly cathartic on all levels You can also do Oshos Dynamic Meditations. (they are in CD format very easy to follow). Second Part: Sit in zazen and close your eyes. Relax and be silent. Act our as if you are a Bodhisattva, a Totally Enlightened and Awakened Being of Wisdom and Compassion. Empty your mind. Enjoy the Silence and relax at a deeper state and be aware. Enjoy the nothingness, simply suppose you are the Buddha. Think like the Buddha, be like the Buddha. Do this meditation for 15-30 minutes and then open your eyes to everyday life. Do the above meditation for 7 days in a row.

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Prajna Meditation: Emptiness

What is emptiness? What is the Void? Emptiness and void are everywhere, all around Zen is empty, Zen is emptiness, the void is Zen Focus on anything. On yourself, another person, or any object. You can preferably use a book, a glass of water or even better a candle and a flame. You can also do this with a stone, a rock or with sand. Relax. Try to see beyond the object, beyond the form: Try to imagine the emptiness. The emptiness behind, the emptiness beyond, the emptiness before. Do this for 10 minutes. Repeat for seven consecutive days. Alternative Meditation: Close your eyes and ask your self: What is the Void? What is emptiness? Observe whatever comes to mind Notice everything and relax. Repeat the question and wonder.

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Enso Infinity Meditation

Practice 1: Sit in zazen, sitting position on your feet and legs, and close your eyes. Take some deep breaths and relax. Relax your mind and body. Release. Relax deeper. Breathe more deeply. Visualize the Enso, the Circle, which is the Zen symbol of perfection, wholeness, totality and infinity. Keep this visualisation as clear as possible for as much as you can. Relax at a deeper state and be aware. Open your eyes and drink some water. Notice everything in your life. Do not analyse, do not draw conclusions. Live your day, live your life today. Do the above meditation for 7 days in a row.

Practice 2: Draw the Enso on a piece of paper and gaze at it. Focus on it for at least 10 minutes. Say Zen Attunement to the Enso Perfection, Enso Totality, Enso Wholeness, Enso Infinity, Enso Divinity. Repeat several times.

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Nirvana Meditation
Nirvana is the goal of Zen, the goal of Buddhism. It is the release into nothingness and into the All, the Infinite, the Absolute, the Transcendental Divine. Nirvana is Ultimate Liberation, Freedom and Blissful Eternal Life. Nirvana is the completion of ones Dharma, Life Purpose and the transcendence of all desire and karma law of rebirth, law of cause and effect. Close your eyes and meditate for a few moments into these divine zen truths, taught by Gautama Buddha. Take a deep breath, clear your mind and say to your mind Nirvana Experience, Transcend this plane of illusion Now, Nirvana is the goal of All Life Take a second deep breath, clear your emotions and heart and say to your heart / emotional center: Nirvana Experience, Transcend this plane of illusion Now, Nirvana is the goal of All Life Take a third deep breath, clear and awaken your spirit and say to your spirit Nirvana Experience, Transcend this plane of illusion Now, Nirvana is the goal of All Life Stay in this for 10-20 minutes and experience everything or nothing at all. Just note and observe. Be aware. Relax deeper and deeper, go higher and higher. Rest. Take a bath / shower. Repeat this enlightenment practice of nirvana for 7 days.

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Tanden Meditation
Place your right palm on your tanden and your left palm on top of the right. The tanden is your energy center, the healing center of the body, your centering point, a star of power within. It is found approximately one and a half inches below the navel and one and a half inches inside. Relax and center there. Bring your attention to this inner point of energy and power. Mentally ask from this center to be fully awakened. See it, feel it becoming awakened, alive, radiant, conscious, full of light, energetically brilliant and powerful. See and feel as this is happening, Breathe into it. Breathe deeper, more consciously, awaken it. Bring the inbreath into this brilliant point of power. Do a total of 20 breaths. Meditate on the energy of this center. Feel the energy, see it, experience it. Mentally say: The Great Healing Buddha of Brilliant Light is now bringing forth the Ultimate Tanden Empowerment three times. Feel and see the energies. Relax. Repeat for seven days this sacred healing empowerment given in great compassion by the Buddha.

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Kensho (Enlightenment) Meditation

Do a short and simple massage on the top of your head for 10 minutes. Be gentle and loving. Bring your hands in prayer position in front of the chest. Stay for 1 minute or for more. Visualise the Enso and say Kensho or Enlightenment three times. Raise them above your head and keep your palms together in prayer position. Visualize the Enso and say Kensho or Enlightenment another three times. Stay for 1 minute. Bring your hands back in prayer position in front of the chest. Again, after you visualise the Enso, say Kensho or Enlightenment another three times. Stay for 1 minute or more. Smile throughout the whole procedure you could also be laughing! this is quite normal! Be gentle and loving. Repeat the procedure three times for a total of four.

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Shikantaza: Meditation with no techniques.

Shikantaza 1: Sit in meditation posture and close your eyes. Meditate with no visualisation, no thinking at all. Just relax. Just be. Just breathe and just be the no one, the no thing, the emptiness, for 15 minutes.

Shikantaza 2: Imagine that there is not even one meditation technique in the world! There is nothing! You have to create your own spirituality and techniques and your own method to contact your self, the All, the void and the divine. What would you do? What would you think? What processes, techniques, methods and meditations would you create and follow? What would you say? Sing and chant? Visualise and affirm, pray and wish? Start by sitting in meditation posture and do or think nothing at all. Stay for 20-30 minutes. Repeat the next days. The rest will follow.

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Sand Meditation
Play with the sand! Create a pattern on the sand. Use a stick or your palm. Use your fingers. Relax and focus on the pattern, figure, picture on the sand. It can be anything simple like a circle, a geometric pattern, a number, a line, a drawing or anything. Meditate on this. Breathe into it. Think about its meaning. Watch any details. Watch any thoughts and feelings, any mental pictures. Close your eyes and visualise it. Then erase it. Meditate and think about the meaning of the sand and its relationship to Reality. What is the relationship between the sand and Zen?...

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Awareness: Colours and Sounds

This is a famous spiritual exercise to refine consciousness. Sit in zazen meditation position. Focus in anything. On yourself, another person, or on any object. You can use a book, a glass of water or a candle and a flame. You can also do this with a stone, a rock or with sand. You can focus on a colour or on a sound, any sound. Relax. Observe every detail and meditate on the colour or the sound. What is the relationship of this object / colour /sound to the All? To the Nothing? To Zen? To You? to Buddha? To a great Bodhisattva? What is this really? Really become one with it until there is no subject and no object, until you are one. Do this for 15 minutes. Repeat for seven consecutive days.

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Awareness: Beyond Colours and Sounds

This is another spiritual exercise to refine and expand consciousness. Sit in zazen meditation position. Focus in anything. On yourself, another person, or an object. You can use a book, a glass of water or a candle and a flame. You can also do this with a stone, a rock or with sand. You can focus on a colour or on a sound, any sound. Relax. Observe every detail and meditate on the colour or the sound. Now go beyond. What is beyond /behind / was before this object - colour - or sound? Imagine how it was before it was what it is and how it will be after it is what it is. Do this for 15 minutes. Repeat for seven consecutive days.

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What is Zen Reiki Meditation

How is Zen connected to Reiki, the healing art of universal life-force energy? Meditate on this for a few minutes. Now place your palm anywhere on your body and say or think Reiki. Feel the flow and the energy. After around three minutes place your palms on another part of your body and say Zen. Sense the feelings and the energy. Observe it all. After three or more minutes place them on another body part and say Zen Reiki. Keep them there for 3 minutes or more and feel the flow, the sensations, the energy and anything else or nothing at all. Start over again and repeat another two times for a total of three times and a total of nine hand positions.

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Zen Reiki Symbols

Meditate on each one of the symbols. Draw them on sand or visualise them or gaze on them for some minutes.

SOTI Healing the Paradox, Resolving Conflicts, Heals Contradictions.

TUKH Transcendence of the World, Nirvana, Enlightenment.

RUK Totality / Wholeness

OTZI Simplicity, Simplifying, Just Being.

KUT Gratitude

LAF Spiritual Expansion /Evolution / Refinement, Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge.

OLMI Joy, Children.

AP Life, Love, Light.

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SOMI Acceptance, Flow, Wonder, Miracle.

RUKMASH Multiple Viewpoints / Prisms / Truths / Realities

ONER Natural, Nature, Change and Stability

ONKI Buddha Healing, Bodhisattva Healing, Zen Healing

OOTZI FA Zen Reiki Master Symbol for Attunements

Draw each symbol. Draw the symbols with your right palm in the same way as you draw and use the reiki symbols.

Meditate on each symbol s energy. Meditate on its form. Meditate on its meaning. Meditate on its mantra / name.

Meditate on the 13 symbols for seven days or more.

You can dedicate a daily meditation for each symbol, 13 days in total in order to fully connect to them.

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Zen Reiki Attunement

Self-Attunement Sit in zazen meditation and draw the OOTZI FA symbol. Say Zen Reiki Attunement of the Great Healing Buddha and the Bodhisattvas three times. Draw the Ootzi Fa symbol three times on your forehead. Draw the 12 Zen Reiki symbols on your right palm. Bring your hands in prayer position in front of your forehead. Say Zen Reiki Attunement of the Great Healing Buddha and the Bodhisattvas three times. Stay in silence and relaxation for 20 minutes. Repeat for three consecutive days.

To Attune Another Person Sit in zazen meditation and draw the OOTZI FA symbol. Say Zen Reiki Attunement of the Great Healing Buddha and the Bodhisattvas three times. Draw the Ootzi Fa symbol three times on the students forehead. Energetically draw the 12 Zen Reiki symbols over both his/her right and left palms. Bring students hands in prayer position in front of their forehead and do the same yourself. Say Zen Reiki Attunement of the Great Healing Buddha and the Bodhisattvas three times.

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Stay in silence and relaxation for 20 minutes. Repeat for three consecutive days.

Distant Attunement: Visualise the whole process as if you were with the other person.

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Zen Reiki Tanden Empowerment

This technique awakens and expands the tanden to bring forth great blessings, vitality, joy and serenity plus much healing energy which will , rejuvenate the whole body, the energy systems, the organs, the meridians, the chakras and the cells. Draw the 12 symbols one after the other on your tanden below the navel. Keep the energy of each symbol approximately for one minute and say Zen.ReikiTandenEmpowerment. Bring your palms in prayer in front of your forehead and visualise that the brilliant star of power, your tanden, is energetically connected with a vertical ray on light with the Source of All. Stay in meditation, no-thought and relaxation for 15 minutes and repeat the process for the next two days.

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Zen Reiki Enso

Draw a Zen Enso on a piece of paper or use the one given. Draw with your fingers the 12 Zen Reiki symbols in the middle of the circle and say their names three times each. Place your right palm in the Enso and say Enso Perfect Infinity Healing. You can do the above sacred practice to heal yourself or another person. For another person think of his/her face or name while your hold your palm open inside the Enso. Keep your palm there for about 15 minutes. Repeat this sacred healing practice for another three days.

Zen Reiki Enso Home Clearing and Protection

With a colourful pen draw any of the symbols inside the Enso and then give it blessings and energy as if you were the Great Buddha of Wisdom and Compassion. Place this paper or card anywhere in your home. This creates and establishes a sacred temple of zen and reiki healing. It is a great clearing and protection method for yourself, your loved ones and your house.

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Zen Reiki Kensho

Draw the 12 Zen Reiki symbols in the air and say their names three times for each. Hold the energies for some time and sense them, experience. Close your eyes and ask to enter Kensho Enlightenment. Ask to be awakened to your Buddhic True Nature. Ask to really transcend, balance, clear and fully heal your Ego. Meditate on this for 20 minutes. Do this exercise for 7 days. You can also do this by gazing on the Enso or on sand. Or you could be admiring any landscape, the lake, the ocean, the sea, the mountains, the trees, the flowers, the sky, the stars.

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Zen Reiki Tao Clearing

Focus on the Enso. Place one hand on the top of your head and the other on your genitals. Ask for a Tao Clearing and give energy for about three minutes or more. Next, place one hand on the right side of your chest and the other on the left side of your chest. Ask for a Tao Clearing and give energy for about three minutes or more. Affirm I Am the Tao which is totality, wholeness, balance, harmony and the Path. Affirm for 108 times. Repeat this for three days.

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Zen Reiki Karma Clearing

Place your hands on any place on your body and give energy. Say Zen Reiki Karma Clearing and intend to cleanse this part of the body of any negativity and karmic tie. Do this especially for body parts which are or have been ill. You can also do this on another person. While you practice this clearing, do it as if you were the Great Healing Buddha of Wisdom and Compassion. This is actually a sacred and most powerful healing from a broader and clearer viewpoint, a higher consciousness healing Buddhic healing - and thus truly a quantum healing.

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Zen Reiki Dharma Healing

Place your hands on any part of your body and let the energy flow. Say Zen Reiki Dharma Healing and intend that this part of the body will follow its Dharma, purpose and function perfectly. Do this especially for body parts which are or have been ill. You can also do this on another person. While you are doing this clearing practice it as if you were the Great Healing Buddha of Wisdom and Compassion. This is actually a sacred and most powerful healing from a broader and clearer viewpoint, a higher consciousness healing Buddhic healing - and thus truly a quantum healing.

Technique 2: Place your palms in prayer position in front of your chest and say Zen Reiki Dharma Healing. Dharma is you Purpose, the Divine Plan, the Way Things Are and the Way Things Will Be. Close your eyes and focus on this for 10 minutes. Just be, just breathe and simply be.

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Zen Reiki Jiriki

Jiriki is ones personal power and energy. Place your hands on your tanden and affirm I now double and triple my Jiriki, my Personal Power, my Personal Energy Take 12 deep breaths into your tanden. Relax. Close your eyes and visualise yourself as a radiant golden sun of light. Keep this image, feeling and sensation as clear and as intense as possible for 10 minutes. Breathe into it, energize it, make it alive, real, true. Then you can rest. You can also do this for another person through visualisation and intention while having your palms on the persons tanden.

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Osesshin
This is truly powerful and soul awakening zen practice! This is a full week of continuous meditation. For seven days you sit in zazen and you only stop meditation to sleep, eat, read, etc. You can just breathe, empty yourself of all garbage and just be. Be aware, be conscious, be here. Continuously ask to find out who you are. Continuously search and inquire for the True Buddha Nature and for the Nature of Reality. You can also be meditating on symbols, colours, sounds and mantras and on the Zen quotes, sayings, verses and philosophy. It is best if it is done in natural setting, on the mountains or near the sea, etc.

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Wisdom of Buddha Attunement

Be in standing position with palms in prayer position in front of the chest. Face the east. Ask for the Presence of the Wisdom of Buddha. Take three deep breaths. Face the west. Ask for a Blessing of the Wisdom of Buddha. Take three deep breaths. Face the north. Ask to be Attuned to the Wisdom of Buddha. Take three deep breaths. Face the south. Ask to Be the Wisdom of Buddha. Take three deep breaths. Bring your palms in front of your forehead and give thanks. Repeat for seven consecutive days.

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Zen Bodhisattva Initiation

Be in standing position with palms in prayer position in front of the chest. Face the east. Ask for the Presence of the Great Bodhisattvas, the Enlightened Ones. Take three deep breaths. Face the west. Ask for a Blessing by the Bodhisattvas. Take three deep breaths. Face the north. Ask to be Initiated in the Powers of the Bodhisattvas. Take three deep breaths. Face the south. Ask to Be a Bodhisattva Yourself. Take three deep breaths. Bring your palms in front of your forehead and give thanks. Repeat for seven consecutive days.

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