When I look at the world, what do I really see?
Out of this vast picture, what does my vision choose to focus on?
What awakens my senses?
Perhaps I see what I’m looking for, what I expect, and what resonates with my own vibration.

The world is abundant — everything is always present in it.
If I look for evil, I’ll surely find it; it will start appearing everywhere.
If I look for beauty, I’ll discover that I’m surrounded by it.

The world is constantly changing, because it’s alive.
Change is one of its essential qualities.
But when those changes frighten me, it’s easier to call the world “sick” than to examine my own sensors, filters, and wounds — to heal them and bring them into harmony with the world’s transformations.
Doing so makes me more alive in this ever-changing world.

Yet when I can’t accept change, and feel that it contradicts my idea of how the world should be, I call it sick — and that very attitude truly makes the world sick, and me as well, because I feel powerless to change it.

To accept and embrace everything that’s happening now requires a lot of love.
This world needs love. And it’s worth it!

D. Satori, 26.09.25

Exactly one year ago I experienced satori — or a quantum leap, or simply the Reiki Miracle.
In that space where I found myself, I saw and felt the reality of Phyllis Furumoto’s legacy coming alive into our time and circumstances, through the feelings and vision of contemporary Reiki artists.

In the years since Phyllis left our Earth in 2009, reality has changed beyond recognition. It wouldn’t be wise now to speculate whether she could have foreseen this, but the energy of that miracle guided me to bring it into form — and what has emerged is absolutely relevant today.

I am endlessly grateful to all the Reiki practitioners who were drawn to this energy and became its channels. Still not fully understanding what has happened, I continue to tend to it with care and attention — treating it like a child who is greater than its parents.

Happy Birthday, Phyllis Sensei!

D. Satori, 22.08.25

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

The work doesn’t end with the printing of the book. Now begins the time of insight.

The vision that had been imperatively guiding me for nearly a year — from the initial idea to its realization — continues to unfold and reveal its deeper meaning.

Today’s understanding feels like one of those precious gifts.

In several interviews, Phyllis spoke about the time after her grandmother’s passing, when she had to face new challenges in her new role as Grandmaster.
Eventually, she came to an important realization: all the Masters initiated by Takata were guardians of the tradition.
Not one of them was the sole bearer of a “right,” “wrong,” or “almost right” Practice.
It was all of them together: not just Phyllis herself, not just her and a few close Masters, but the entire circle — including those she disagreed with.
And in her treatments, she would turn to this full Circle of Masters for support.

This always felt simple and clear to me.
But now I see it as a profound lesson: Phyllis was able to connect with the greater whole that lived through these different Masters, instead of defending the uniqueness of her own “one true way.”
She opened to the whole, instead of narrowing herself to a single truth.

And now I realize, that our whole team — the artists, translators, editors, creative specialists — all of us together, on a unifying level, have created this beautiful act of service to Phyllis Furumoto.
Each of us carries different perspectives and understandings, different languages and cultures. Some of us live in countries at war with each other.
Our Reiki practice may also differ — and yet, here we are.

And here is this incredible gift: from the Community — to the Community.


D. Satori, 10.07.25

My search began, as I can now see, with the beginning of the war in Ukraine. I simply couldn’t find peace within myself because of how this war was reflected in me and because I was unable either to heal it within myself or to help anyone else. And I kept asking myself: if Phyllis were with us now, what would she be calling us to? 
Then the war in Israel began, and this inner conflict only grew stronger. I began to suffer physically. 

I must say that I was fortunate to meet Phyllis in person only twice: in 2013 at Usui I and in December 2017 at Usui III. But she did something to me that made me respond very strongly to certain calls to serve the community. 
So, in early 2019, when Phyllis’s condition became known, I created a Facebook group called Treatments to Grandmaster Phyllis Furumoto. It brought together more than 130 people, and now I realize what an opportunity it was for us to heal and reconcile with that trauma. 
And in 2020, a year after Phyllis’s passing, I organized an international group of 10 masters called Phyllis’s Legacy, and we met on Zoom for about three years, staying in awareness of the richness she had left behind. 

This time, I had to go through a long journey. In August 2024, while celebrating Phyllis’s 76th birthday, our group gathered on Zoom to listen to one of her messages together. And I remember how I suddenly felt breathless with the realization that I still hadn’t found an answer. 
But it was already very close. 
A few days later, I found myself in a bookstore. My eyes fell on a book lying on the counter. Without knowing what I was doing, I opened it and saw that it was an art book. On each spread, there was text on the left and an artwork on the right. 
In that very moment, I knew what I will do.

I reached out to Reiki practitioner artists I knew. I sent emails to fellow masters around the world, asking for help in finding such practitioners. I shared my idea with Joyce Winough from the Office of the Grand Master of Usui Shiki Ryoho. She offered me strong support — support that continued throughout the entire process.
I also turned to the sources: interviews with Phyllis Furumoto.
I needed to offer the artists quotes they could energetically connect with in order to create their works.

It was an unforgettable time!
Twenty-three Reiki practitioner artists were creating their works, in contact with the energy behind the project!
Later, in response to my post in the Lineage Bearer – Usui Shiki Ryoho group, Johannes Reindl reached out and offered to help with the German translation. He also suggested other translators who joined the large international team — from 12 countries! — and as a result, the project gained a multilingual dimension: eight languages!

I am endlessly grateful to my Reiki destiny for this gift from the community — and to the community itself!
Looking back at the time of my painful search, I now understand that what happened to me was much more than a personal answer to a personal question. It is a message to all of us from Phyllis Furumoto — who saw so far ahead and spoke of things that were hard to grasp or accept as real.

But now the time has come when this wisdom is becoming accessible to us – and I invite each reader (if that’s even the right word, because this book isn’t just for reading — it’s for something deeper) to discover the piece of wisdom that’s meant just for them.


D. Satori, 11.05.25