Right now, we are experiencing a profound inner dissonance, connected to what’s happening in the world, to all the armed aggression we see on this planet.
It touches our values, our sense of morality, and shakes the very basics of what we believe in —justice, human rights, good and evil.
Holding this conflict without wanting to grab onto one of the narratives offered by the information space is no easy task.
People struggle to withstand the pressure of intense, emotionally charged information pouring in from the media.
We react to what we are selectively shown, forgetting that reality is far broader and more complex.
Everyone involved is suffering — and yet, there are forces that use suffering to serve their own purposes.
And even those not directly involved are suffering:
Unable to withstand the flood of information, people long some kind of end, for clarity, for justice — and often it doesn’t matter to them what the cost is today, or what the cost will be tomorrow.
They just don’t have enough love to carry this, to hold all of it.
Having a point of view — that’s the easy part.
Even if it’s not truly your own — but it sounds convincing, it sounds so obvious.
And then, perhaps, you won’t have to make that difficult choice every day, every moment:
not to take sides, not to judge, not to close your heart.
Not to shut down your mind under the pressure of hate coming from different sides.
So what can I lean on, to stay true?
Mikao Usui began by searching outside himself — and what he found, in the end, was inside.
To deal with this inner dissonance, I turn to the words of Phyllis Furumoto from this book:
“World peace is going to include death, cruelty, and violence. It is going to include joy, rapture, connection, vision, being stuck in the past. It is going to include all of that because that’s who we are as human beings, and that’s what we are as a human race.”
“I see that it isn’t that the daily treatments aren’t enough – it’s just that I cannot be a passive bystander anymore. I have to put myself into the change, be the Change...
And each one of us needs to temper our spirit, to be able to be strong and clear, and discerning.”
“Mastery is ninety percent Absolute. It is learning about crossing this bridge into the Absolute and understanding that we are all one – that everything you do as a Master affects every Master of Reiki”
“The benefit of having Reiki practice is: when we are in this confusion, in this cognitive dissonance, in this tension, Reiki allows us to hold that with more comfort and wait until the time is right for reconciliation..”
And I realize:
I cannot build my Reiki practice as some kind of alternative to the violence pretending it’s not there, or shutting it out of my awareness.
As a human being and as a Reiki Master, I see myself as part of this world — this same world where all of this is happening right now.
And I take responsibility — to stay conscious, clear, and discerning.
D. Satori, 01.08.25