What Is Reiki ?

What is Ling Chi ? What is Qi Gong ?

Good question, although not easily answered in words. Reiki, Ling Chi and Qi Gong are more like a state of being, a state of being experience that is also hard to express in words. Words were created to share pictures of an experience so lets see where the words Reiki, Ling Chi and Qi Gong come from.

Qi Gong Ling Chi Reiki The word Reiki is a Japanese word. Ling Chi is the Chinese word that is represented by the same pictographs. Qi Gong is another Chinese word that has some of the same pictographs. The roots of the Japanese language is based on pictographs, pictographs that reach back to ancient China. The Chinese pictographs arrived in Japan about 3,700 years ago, about 1730 B.C. according to some historians.. The actual origins of pictographs in China are lost in Chinese prehistory, the basic thought is that some are at least 5,000 years old. I will mostly use the Chinese explanations as we are going for the Archaic roots to understand their original meanings. Five thousand years ago the archaic mind thought in a very different way then our present state of development. Man at that time was so intertwined with the movement of nature that when he expressed his experiences in language he naturally used concepts from nature. He expressed those experiences in pictures that he could use to communicate that inner information to others. We see pictures painted by the ancestors on cave walls and carved into rocks all over the planet. In America the North American Indian put pictures and symbols of their spiritual connection to nature on pottery, cliff walls, on their personal possessions and on buffalo hides for the people. The drawings and symbols are the roots of each cultures present language. The drawings in some countries, like China and Japan, became the pictographs that is the basis of their present language. The Chinese and Japanese of today remind me of our North American Indian tribes. Some tribes are losing their old original language. Their old language is what gave form and order to their lives. Contained in the roots of a peoples language is Psychospiritual concepts that expresses that particular groups unique cosmology. Cosmology meaning their ideas as to how the world worked around them and what their place was in that world. Social behavior, Spiritual beliefs and in a sense what their individual responsibilities were in relation to the whole is a part of that cosmology. The Chinese, Japanese and the North American Indians are presently influenced by the western mind set. When both the Indian and the Chinese try to express in English they are limited by the English language. In fact the western way of thinking even influences their present thinking patterns. The deeper connections of older texts are often lost to the modern Chinese and Japanese especially when trying to translated the deeper meanings into English. Page 1 of 22

Pictographs are interpreted by the mind in a different way then an Alphabet type language. The pictographs are more Psychospiritual in nature then a written language and they actually activate the right brain first. The right brain processes the information and then the information integrates into the left. The left then fits it into a context that in a sense they both can agree on. I want to caution you that we can become to right brain or left brain orientated like it is one or the other when in truth it takes both. Some people are more orientated in using one or the other but it still takes both to create context. If we go a little deeper in right left brain surgery operations where one or the other is like cut off changes become a little more complected, the deeper truth is thinking and feeling is taking place in structures that are beyond the brain. Man in trying to understand the world within and how he related with the natural world around him discovered many different energy systems. The different cultures created their own unique Cosmologies to explain their experiences with the Life Force energy. The Chinese Sages of old became aware of the rivers of energy when in meditation. With their awareness they drew maps of how these rivers flowed through out the body. The system of rivers has been translated into the English word meridians. Most Americans are aware of the meridian energy system as it relates to the pressure points in acupressure therapies and the locations where an acupuncturist inserts their needles. The meridian rivers were mapped at about the same time that pictographs started being used, about 5,000 years ago. Chinese energy work and Chinese Medicine is very complex and one could spend several life times studying what has been written in the ancient texts and what is being written now. I will share just some basics to get you started in understanding energy. The life force energy is called QI in China. In translation most books will spell Qi the way it is pronounced Chi. I seem to write it both ways. In Japan the Qi energy is called Ki like in Reiki or Aikido (A Japanese martial arts form). In Yoga the life force energy is called Prana like in Pranayama Yoga. Reiki, Ling Chi and Qi Gong have as a base this same pictograph that represents Life Force.

Ki Chi - Qi The present definition of Chi has a lot of variations depending on where it is used. Some of the definitions are spirit, breath, air, gas, steam, weather, universal energy including heat, light and electromagnetic energy. In Chinese Medicine and Taoist philosophy it refers to the energy circulating through the whole of nature, the human body, animals, plants, the sun, moon and other heavenly bodies.

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Rice

Curling Clouds

Two pictographs make up the word Chi, rice and above the rice curling clouds. Curling clouds above give the literal meaning Rice dispersed like air. It can mean the steam raising from a bowl of rice or the clouds blowing over a field of rice. If you would go back in time you would see how this is connected to the Psychospiritual concepts of the life force energy. Rice represented life to the early Chinese and Japanese just like corn represented life to the North American Indian tribes. The connection is much like the connection of the corn crop with the Hopi Indians cosmology of Spirituality. Rice and Corn being the representation of energy that sustains life for each individual culture. To really understand the pictograph you have to consider that first ancestor who was trying to express his experience of Chi to another person. I imagine he was saying Look at that field of rice. That is what chi is like. Chi is life force just like rice is food that maintains life. Chi is there for us to harvest. Chi comes to us like the wind. See that curling cloud. We cant see the wind but we can see the results of the wind on that cloud. Chi is like that, we cant see it, but we can see the results, we can feel it in our body like we feel the wind on our skin. Chi is like Spirit and air, we cant see them but we feel them moving us, we can feel and sense their influence. Chi creates change just like the wind makes changes. Chi is always in movement. Awareness of the movement of Chi energy is what Reiki, Ling Chi and Qi Gong is all about. The movement of Chi through the human body isnt limited to just the physical body. The Qi Gong masters realized that a balanced flow of Chi through the spiritual, emotional and mental parts of man was essential to physical health and conversely a sound physical healthy body with balanced Chi flow was the basis of improving mental and spiritual well being. In order to see the mental emotional connections of Chi we need to see that the Chinese language uses the pictograph for Chi in combination with other pictographs. I will not include all the pictographs but will quote an older book on Chinese Characters. The following references are from Mathews Chinese Dictionary, by R.H. Mathews, Shanghai: China Inland Mission and Presbyterian Mission Press, 1931. Revised American Edition Harvard University Press, page 73. I will refer to this reference in other places simply as Mathews. Page 3 of 22

(A) Manner, Demeanor, Temper, Force. Life-giving principle. This is the heading on terms that use the pictograph Chi, the concept of Chi, in conjunction with other pictographs. The following list will have different combinations for certain meanings and I will separate them with a comma. Cannot restrain anger, to give orders in a haughty manner by expression of countenance and not in words, a vigorous constitution, strength, smell, ambitious, spirited, temper, carriage, destiny, fate, bearing of a person, weak constitution, nervous system out of order, flame, brilliance, the influences will be harmonious, self-satisfied, natural endowment or disposition, moral courage, melancholy, with a sad air, habit, appearance, fate, luck, breeding, hereditary instincts, arrogant, proud, to vent the spleen, revengeful, energy, vigor, special characteristics of a handwriting, pervading influencesmoral or physical. Chi with other pictographs that are more outside physical in nature. Vaporization, breath, steam, successive changes caused by vaporization, climatology, the atmosphere as encircling the Earth, air valves, panting for want of breath, the breath of life, Asthma, air cushion, air-gun, gasoline, motor, spirit, 24 solar periods of the year, weather, meteorological reports, gas engine, airways, exhausted, dead, Chi is that which pervades the whole body, passion nature, to sigh, nitrogen, oxygen, coal gas, Taoist breathing exercise, silent grief, The dual powers, Yin and yang, positive and negative in nature. So Chi life force means and effects a lot of different things yet the bottom line is that Chi drives or powers all aspects of the Universe. Physical, mental, emotional and physical. Other pages on this site expand the energy perspectives. I think Chi is the energy that powered the big bang and is the energy that Einstein spoke of as the Cosmological constant that is powering the accelerated expansion of the Universe. I dont want to put my entire Awarenessing book on this site but I feel like I need to put about four more pages from a Chapter on Energy in order to complete concepts of the healing energy we access in Reiki and Qi Gong. Many people in other lands that are still connected to Mother Earth across this planet access this same energy in their own way and with their own cosmology of how it works.

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Life Force Energy from the book Awarenessing

We move about in an incredible ocean of light energy. The word light and the word energy are the same to me, and in essence is the creative force that we call the life force. You can expand the concept and realize that what we call physical matter is just another form of energy and light. The light energy is always in motion, changing, expressing and creating by what we could call a weaving of information. The result being what I call an objects unique being or isness. You are in essence a movement of light, you are the light expressing your own unique information to the rest of the Universe.

Information is in + form+ ation (action).

The action of form.

Information is energy in motion.

This sea of energy (information) is always influencing our state of being.

Early Man in trying to understand the world within and how he related with the natural world around him discovered many different energy systems. The energy was very subtle and was not easy to explain. The general definition of this energy cross culturally would be Universal life force. This energy is associated with more than just its application with man, all that exists can only exist because of this Universal life force energy movement. In Japan the Life force energy is called Ki as in Reiki (A Japanese Healing Modality) or Aikido (A Japanese martial arts form). In Yoga the life force energy is called Prana as in Pranayama Yoga. The Chinese word for this energy is Qi and is pronounced Chi. Chi has become the way most translators write the word in English. Some examples would be like Tai Chi or Qigong. The concept of a life force energy that permeates the universe is an accepted cultural cosmological concept in most Eastern countries and is therefore a part of most Eastern Medicine Philosophies and Eastern Spiritual Philosophies. Indigenous People of other lands still connected to their archaic roots have a similar cosmology of life force energy. In America some of the North American Indian tribes speak of this same natural energy in their cosmology and they use the word power for the life force energy. - their general view seems to be that power comes initially from a supernatural source or sources, and that it is best described as an astounding and electric-like energy that pervades the universe. Power is everywhere present and in varying degrees within everything. Fools Crow Wisdom and Power Thomas E. Mails

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Cosmology Cosmology meaning their ideas as to how the world worked around them and what their place was in that world. Social behavior , Spiritual beliefs and in a sense what each individuals responsibilities are in relation to the whole is a part of that cosmology. Cosmology The specific interpretation of the Native definition of Identity and Reason for Existence.

Cultural Cosmology affects the individuals personal belief system. In simplicity it is rules that have their authority based on political or spiritual figures that tells us what is true and what is untrue. The Western Mind The cultural acceptance of the life force energy concept I am speaking about runs into certain difficulties in the United States. This is due to both the cultural diversity inherent in the populace and in one manner of speaking the lack of a basic cultural cosmology. The results is a loose fitting cosmology based on the truth of the authority figures of different religions, scientific concepts and medical perspectives approved by the American Medical Association. Western Medicine Western Medicine is starting to recognize the concepts of energy as we are using the word and they have labeled it Energy Medicine. Many research programs have proved that Therapeutic Touch, Chi Gong, Reiki, Shiatsu, Acupuncture and other various types of Energy therapies do produce a wide variety of effects on many types of both physical and emotional health problems. Finding the mechanism of just how these various modalities work is the main problem to the scientific mind. The truth is that Western Medicine uses many techniques and drugs because they work, not because they totally understand how they work. Physics The world of physics has always concentrated on discovering the nature of the physical world and how it works. This is the same definition that we give to Cosmology so the authority of the world of science dictates in a large way what cosmology we have in the western world. Each discipline has in a sense their own language that makes it hard for an outsider to understand what the words mean. The word energy and light in Physics has always touched the edges of what we mean by the word energy. Light energy is more then the narrow band you see with your eyes, it includes cosmic rays, infrared, heat radiations and the longer wavelengths used in radar, radio, and television.

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Newton Newton, in his work Opticks, was pointing at the same concepts we have about the relationship of matter and light when he asked this question. Are not gross Bodies and Light convertible into one another, and may not Bodies receive much of their Activity from the Particles of Light which enter their composition? A few lines lower. the changing of Bodies into Light, and Light changing into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations. Newton Opticks, p. 374 Einstein Einstein was continually concerned with the organized unity of nature. His first great work was the Special Theory of Relativity that turned the then world of physics upside down as it connected time and space and gave light an opportunity to be both a wave and a particle. A logical outcome of Einsteins Special Theory of Relativity shows how Light, Matter and Energy are related it is the famous E = mc. E = mc means that the amount of energy contained in matter is equal in ergs to its mass in grams multiplied by the square of the velocity of light in centimeters per second. This shows how much energy is packed in to a small amount of matter. The formula is a key to understanding enlightenment, unfortunately man has used it for destruction with the development of Nuclear weapons. The Cosmological Constant The next step for Einstein from the Special Theory of Relativity was The General Theory. This work expanded the concepts from the first theory and the scientific world had to totally re-think their understanding of the Universe. In reality it cleared up observable phenomena that wouldnt fit in Newtons laws and opened the door for greater understanding. There was a certain problem in the General Theory. It has to do with limiting the movement of the universe, in simplicity the Universe would have to eventually stop expanding and collapse in on its self if their wasnt an energy available to balance gravitational attraction. Now Einstein the philosopher couldnt accept God creating this type of creation. Some how Einstein the philosopher had to nudge Einstein the scientist and it happened with a piece of mathematical juggling. A fresh new term was introduced into the field equation of the General Theory, the cosmological constant. The term and concept stirred up so many problems since the beginning that at one point Einstein called it his biggest blunder. But the concept continues to be called upon to contend with the latest discoveries. Accelerating Evolving In our present time the Modern scientific world is confronted with some problems associated with Energy as we are speaking of it. It seems that the Universe is not only expanding it is doing it at an accelerated rate. In order for this to happen we have to consider that some how there is an energy that pops in and out of existence.

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Unseen particles of energy do produce measurable effects to the energy levels of atoms and this means the cosmological constant is a real energy. In front of our noses The long-derided cosmological constant - a contrivance of Albert Einsteins that represents a bizarre form of energy inherent in space itself - is one of two contenders for explaining changes in the expansion rate of the universe. -the universe must be composed largely of an even more ethereal form of energy that inhabits empty space, including that which is in front of our noses. Scientific American January, 1999 Why all the Einstein stuff? The last three pages were written to open your awareness to the facts that: For thousand of years different cultures have spoken of and used an energy of some form that is connected with healing and with accelerating concepts of evolving. Present day scientist are forced to look at an energy that almost seems metaphysical in nature. This energy is all around us including the term Right in front of our noses. This energy is associated with physical matter, light, gravity, space and time. Light In the first paragraph of this chapter I wrote: The word light and the word energy are the same to me, and in essence is the creative force that we call the life force. I wrote that statement about eight years before I discovered the following statements about light, Prana (Chakras) and Chi on the inter net. The sages over 5,000 years ago told us about the light emited from the body. I know 6 year old children that see the light and I see it at times. Now we have scientific proof. Research Experiments :Preliminary research done by Dr. Motoyama in Japan has shown that a person emits very small amounts of visible light. The amount is so small that a photon counter is needed. Dr. Motoyama found that photon emission is higher at certain acupuncture points compared to a region of skin with no acupuncture point. According to unpublished research done by Dr. Motoyama in Japan, there is some indication that emission at certain acupuncture points is increased for persons with psychic abilities. Furthermore, this research showed that there is a possible link between specific acupuncture points and the chakras of the Yogic Tradition. We are planning future experiments using the potential probe in conjunction with the photon counter to elucidate the mechanism of light emission at acupuncture points. California Institute for Human Science,701 Garden View Court,Encinitas, CA 92024 Page 8 of 22

Ok, enough about proof lets get on with it. A Process If you remember that energy is not a thing but a process, a concept of what powers movement, change, transformation, then energy becomes a word useful to communicate and organize the thinking process.

Rei

Ling

Qi Gong

In the last section we explained the bottom pictographs that are a part of the pictographs for Reiki, Ling Chi, and Qi Gong. Chi and Ki as energy, energy that powers the Universe and the energy that powers the words Rei, Ling and Gong We will now take apart the pictographs and explain each part that makes the whole. All three have the pictograph Gong in common so we will start there.

Rei in Japanese is associated with Soul, spirit, ghost, departed spirit and magic. In order to fuller understand the pictographs we must go to the roots of the word. Words are a picture of an experience. The word and in this case the pictograph was created to express an experience to another. The roots of the word reach back into ancient China. The word in the Chinese is Ling. in the modern Chinese this pictograph is the same as the Japanese. If trace back through history we start getting a better idea of its total meaning.

This is going back in time and one starts getting a better idea but thanks to Dr. L. Wiegers work published in 1927 we have an even older version.

Yes that does look like two people praying, because that is a part of what action experience this pictograph represents. It actually means praying to heaven and dancing for rain. Lets break the pictograph down to its basic componants.

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A carpenters Square. Gong The pictograph is the word Gong or Kung and in this case it literally means A carpenters Square. We need to stop again and explain that just like some translators write Chi and some write Qi they also will sometimes write Kung and sometimes Gong, they are the same pictograph. Part of the problem is in how English is pronounced in relation to the Chinese. If you say Chi Gong and pronounce Gong like a Gong you hit, most will not understand you at first. Most Chinese pronounce it more like a cross of Gong and Kung. They use more of the G sound and then connect the uuuu sound. You will see it spelled both ways. I use both, sorry. Kung: It represents the ancient square. By extension, work, skill, any ornament requiring skill. For, says the Glose, the square gives the shape to all things; it forms the right angle that forms the squares, that form the circles, etc. Chinese Characters published by Dover books. Dr.L.Wieger,S.J. Kung (Kong) Labor. A laborer; a workman. A job. The time occupied in doing a piece of work. Williams

In order to expand the meaning of a Chinese pictograph we will again see how the pictograph is used in combination with other pictographs. The following references are from Mathews Chinese Dictionary Page 541 A workmen must first sharpen his tools if he wishes his work to be well done, an engineer, education for workers, well executed, time, leisure; labor as devoted to art, technical course, fine delicate drawings, skillful work, an artesian, a mechanic.

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Li Old

A tendon

Li literally means a tendon Li (Lih) Strength, force, power. Feats of strength. A unit of strength for testing bows, Williams Li Sinew; by extension, strength; The top of the middle-line (the sinew) is curved, to take less room. The two sidelines and the transversal stroke represent the fibrous sheath. -- It is the 19th radical of characters relating to effort of any kind. It forms Wieger

Put the two together and it is still Gong/Kung and basically means work and strength. The pictograph then means work, work that brings form and shape. When they are put together Mathews Chinese Dictionary puts it this way Merit, achievement; meritorious. Efficacy; good results.

Qi Gong (Chi Kung) Gong means Gongfu (Lit. Energy-time). Therefore, Qigong means study, research, and/or practices related to Qi. Chinese Qigong Massage by Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming, YMAA Publication Center Yangs Martial Arts Association. Going back to the roots we need to see what maybe the originator of the Pictographs meant to him. I imagine he said. The life force we experience creates who we are. You build your body with chi like the carpenter uses a square to build a house.

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The strength of our body movements is based on the strength of our tendons. The strength of our mind/Spirit/ body movement is based on the strength of our chi. To work with the chi one needs to be diligent and exact.

Words that are related to Qi Gong are words like contribution, achievement, meritorious, workstudy, power, force. Many of the terms relating to Qi work add the word fu. Most Americans would relate to Kung Fu as movies about martial arts.

Fu Fu is made up of A standing Man and A hairpin in his hair.

The hairpin represents a mature man. A mature man represents the results of time-studyachievement. Can also mean heaven. So we could say a man stands between Heaven and Earth.

Remember words are pictures of an experience. What is a Qi Gong Master? A Qi Gong Master must be a mature man standing in a field of rice with a hair pin in his hair looking at the wind blowing some clouds, holding a carpenters square and moving his tendons. We can become a little to literal but what I am trying to show you is a new way of thinking and experiencing. A new way of processing information. In reality I am actually asking you to return to an old way of thinking. Thinking from that child like place of curiosity and innocence when life around you was exciting and mystical, life was an experience of magic. That is the true place of a Sage. You see a Qi Gong master is a Magician, a Healer. Qi Gong is best noted in America for the slow movements similar to Tai Chi. Qi Gong is also a type of healing energy work. When I was in China the Qi Gong Masters worked in the hospitals doing energy work. A lot of their work is done off body much like Reiki people do. Some times their hands were up to four foot away from the client. The are working with the energy flows associated with Ling chi and associated with Traditional Chinese Medicine. Qi Gong is also related to early Martial Arts training. Some of the demonstrations I saw in China were had to believe.

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While in China I visited Taoist and Buddhist Temples. The Qi Gong masters there worked with the energy as it relates to health, longevity and Enlightenment concepts. The Qi Gong Master A Qi Gong master is one who studies and experiences ( in his daily life ) the natural laws that govern the flow of the life force called Chi. (Qi) Advanced Qi Gong masters access energies that would be considered outside the normal human experience therefore they seem very mystical. Some of their abilities even border on what we call the supernatural.

What is the purpose? What do they do with these abilities and why? Why would the average person want to study Qi Gong? The original purpose of energy cultivation (QI Gong) was based on spiritual principles. The above statement is true and I have read the same type of statement in books on Qi Gong when they are giving the history of Qi Gong. The purpose of Qi Gong in most books then shifts into health related concepts or Martial Arts. But if we remember that words are ways of relating experience and if we remember that words come from a far distant past relating an ancestors experience our mind can think in a different way. The individual became a true Qi Gong Master based on a true spiritual experience and that experience was based on experiencing the life force energy.

Energy Cultivation Opened the Door to Spiritual Understanding. The Qi Gong masters when working with Qi discovered that their were certain energy paths in the body that accelerate one towards Spiritual Enlightenment.

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What is Reiki ? What is Ling Chi ?

Ling Chi Reiki The complete pictograph for Reiki and Ling Chi literally means : Witches - Sorcerers praying and dancing for rain to fall upon the crop of rice. When I make this statement to people I get three different reactions. Some have their curiosity sparked, some just laugh and some get a shocked expression on their face. Those that have their curiosity sparked want to hear more, they have a greater understanding of Psychospiritual concepts. Some of those that laugh think this energy business is just a bunch of superstitious nonsense. Those that get a shocked expression on their face are those that are afraid of words, words like witch and sorcerers. You have to remember that we are translating experiences from people that lived three thousand years before Christ. We are translating into English that doesnt always have the right words to fit what they are talking about. Remember contained within the pictographs are Psychospiritual aspects that modern man has a hard time recognizing because of his Cartesian dualism. Those that know we are a part of nature and a part of the spirit world no longer have the matter-spirit dichotomy that blinds most of the modern western world. The eastern mind of the modern Japanese and Chinese have for the most part have also embraced the western worlds way of thinking. Thankfully a remnant of the old ways still exist all across the world where cultures still have some of their roots into the earth.

Chi (Qi - KI) The two bottom Pictographs rice and above the rice curling clouds we have already shown to mean energy, Life force. The energy that powers the Universe.

Gong: We have seen that Gong represents the ancient square and by extension, work, skill, study, work - time, creating, bringing into perfect form, building exact with integrity. Page 14 of 22

GONG

Newer Wu

Older Wu

When we add two pictographs that mean man or human the pictograph Gong becomes the pictograph Wu. Yes the older primitive version does look like two people praying, because that is a part of what action experience this pictograph represents. I drew this one but it is like the one in Wiegers book Chinese Characters. Wu: The work of witches; magic, incantations. Two witches who dance to obtain rain. Chinese Characters. Dr.L. Wieger, S.J. Wu: Work of two people, sorcery, shaman, sorcerer Chinese Characters, A genealogy and Dictionary, Rick Harbaugh Both a book and web site Zhongwen.com Wu: A wizard or witch; a medium. Magical arts, Dancing and posturing in order to induce the descent of the spirits. Mathews Chinese Dictionary, by R.H. Mathews, Shanghai: China Inland Mission and Presbyterian Mission Press, 1931. Revised American Edition Harvard University Press. Magician, shaman, wizard, witch and sorcerers in this context means those leaders among the people who could help change things due to their knowledge and connection to the spirit worlds. In this pictograph they are using the example of prayer for rain. Notice that in the older version the two figures are different. One is facing right, one is facing left. I think this is to show that the one praying has their two natures balanced. The Chinese term would be Yin/Yang is in balance. The figures are in an attitude of humble prayer.

Kou : Mouth

3 Mouths The round being the primitive form.

Three mouths is noise of voices, it seems to represent singing, chanting or praying. In the ling pictograph it could mean that the rain is falling in big drops. I feel that the ancient ones were picturing three mouths to show praying in a strong way, crying out to heaven for help. The three mouths not only mean crying out and prayer but they are in line with the number three that in the Chinese symbolizes the three powers, heaven, earth and humanity connected and becoming one. When man comes into balance with the earth and the heavens then he can do the work of Spirit. Spirit responds with mans needs pictured in the next part as falling Rain. Ling : To fall as rain, drizzling rain or dew.

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This part of the total pictograph is the same Chinese word, ling. It is made up of several other pictographs. I : Heaven, cover, the primordial unity, source of all beings.

Kun (Yi) : Through, found in characters in which it has a symbolic signification. Connects down, connects side to side in balance.

Chiung : Cover, void space,

Or

Now it starts getting a little tougher.

The more modern one does look like drops and that would go along with the thought of rain but then according to the older concepts it would mean light, like a candle or lamp. Two strokes making straight lines is the number of the Earth because it makes the pair with Heaven. The number of the two principles Yin and Yang. I would really like to research this with someone that has more knowledge then me but for now I will express my feeling sense of how it goes together. First we will look again at meanings of the total Pictograph Rei and Ling.

This first reference is one of the best books on the meanings and history of the Chinese pictographs. Chinese Characters published by Dover books. It is a republication of the second edition published by the Catholic Mission Press in 1927. The author is Dr.L.Wieger,S.J. Father Wiegers translation:
Ling (with out the Chi): To offer to heaven Jade, or certain dances, in order to get rain. It was the first thing asked from the magicians and sorcerers by a people whose life depended upon rain. By extension, spiritual, mysterious, supernatural power or effect, transcendent, marvelous. The next definition of ling comes from Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming. Ling: The spirit of being, which acts upon others. Living only exists in high spiritual animals such as humans and monkeys. It represents an emotional comprehension and understanding. When you are alive, it implies your intelligence and wisdom. When you die, it implies the spirit of the ghost. Ling also means divine or supernatural.

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Ling is often used together with Shen (Ling Shen) to mean "supernatural spirit." It is believed that Chi is the source which nourishes the Ling and is called "Ling Chi," meaning "supernatural energy power, or force. From: The Root of Chinese Chi Kung The secrets of Chi Kung Training, Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming, YMAA PUBLICATION CENTER, YANGS MARTIAL ARTS ASSOCIATION (YMAA) 38 HYDE PARK AVENUE, JAMAICA PLAIN, MASSACHUSETTS 02130 The spirit of a being, which acts upon others, Spirit, spiritual, divine, Supernatural, Efficacious Mathews Chinese Dictionary Mathews Chinese Dictionary has a very long list of Ling combinations that can expand the meaning even more. I will use part of them to make the connections we need to consider as healers. Elixir of immortality, efficacious medicine, a spiritualistic medium, to act as a medium, a spiritual body, the soul, the Holy Ghost, spiritual nurture, a God who answers his worshipers, spiritual beings, departed spirits, theory of the immortality of the soul, ones ancestors, intelligent, bright, clever, a coffin containing a corpse, gate of a Confucian temple, a spiritual dwelling place, refined Mathews Chinese Dictionary page 586

Tianlingai : Heavenly spiritual cover. A term used in the Chinese Martial arts for the cavity on the top of the head. Tianlingai is also called Niwangong in Daoist society and Baihui in Chinese Medicine. Baihui (GV-20): Baihui (Hundred Meetings) is the cavity or Qi gate on top of the head which allows the brain to communicate with the Qi of nature. Qi can reach the brain easily through this gate to nourish the brain. Chinese Qigong Massage Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming, YMAA PUBLICATION CENTER, YANGS MARTIAL ARTS ASSOCIATION (YMAA) 38 HYDE PARK AVENUE, JAMAICA PLAIN, MASSACHUSETTS 02130 The books written by scholars has helped us see that it is pretty obvious that Ling has a lot more going on then just rain. The spiritual connection is obvious. The next concept would be to talk to the people who live the language. One of the easiest places is Chinese Restaurants. Some of the owners and workers have been in the United states for quite awhile and they remember the language before the Chinese Government started making changes to bring their language the same across the whole of China.

If you are a Reiki therapist and want to research the pictograph for Reiki at what we could say is a grass roots level show the top Rei portion to a Chinese person but use the Chinese word Ling. You will find that some of them will react just like an American does when you use words like Witch or Sorcerer. The reason is that even to them it is a symbol of spiritual mystery.

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Some examples of my research in Chinese Restaurants. What I was doing was going to the people, the people that live and experience the language, that is where the real truth is about any language. Remember words are descriptions of an experiences. Waitress one comment. That word is hard to translate. It means like when you know ahead of time that something is going to happen and it does. It also is like when something happens to you and you dont understand why and later it comes to you and you understand why it happened. I really liked the last part of this one because in a way that is a lot of what Kiemotion is about. It is about understanding the why of our past experiences and especially when they were traumatic. It is about coming to completion with the past. The first part is of course those premonitions that tell us something is about to happen, we say someone is Psychic when they have those abilities. Waitress two comment. The word talks about a person that is, (pause) it is hard to say, like a Magician. People that can tell your fortune. Tell you things. The first waitress owned the word. Notice she explained it from attributes of the individual figuring things out. This waitress put the word as some one else doing it for you. The connection probably based on the pictograph Shih that is similar. Shih wizards that use stalks to divine They are referring to casting of yarrow Old stalks when consulting the I-Ching. Shih A busy Hostess Her face tightened and she said; People that talk to the dead. She wasnt too happy to see the pictograph so it was obvious she had some issues about mystical spiritual things. The word supernatural was used a lot and that seems to scare some people. Supernatural is really a wonderful word. New Shih

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Super size it !
Every one in America understands the term Super size it. It means to make it larger, or more of it. Folks that is what supernatural means, more of the natural. I have been called a mystic, a healer, a magician and some think I am some kind of a Guru but the truth is anyone can do and see what I do. It is natural to have supernatural abilities. An older dictionary I use has this definition of Magic. Magic: mastery of secret forces of nature, seemingly requiring more then human power, producing effects which seem supernatural. Magician: One skilled in magic, a master of secret forces of nature. Magic Lantern The first optical instruments that could project a slide picture on to a screen was called a magic lantern. The common man was so amazed that to them it seemed like magic, thus it was called the magic lantern. The creator of the magic lantern simply discovered how to use certain laws of light that occur in nature. Scientific knowledge was applied to create what we call technology. Was the developer a magician? When giving a Kiemotion energy treatment on the Jamez Pueblo, located in New Mexico, to an elder Grandmother of the Jamez tribe of Indians the Elder spoke in her language to the others. I was doing mostly off body energy with her sitting in a chair and then hands on joints to relieve Arthritis pain and after I was done many of the elders she spoke to came and received a treatment. The friend I was with later translated what she said, "This man is a magician and his hands are magic." In a Chinese computer repair shop in Houston the clerk asked me what I was doing in Houston and I told him I was an energy therapist and showed him the movement of energy down his arm with a sweep of my hand. His eyes got big and he called a fellow worker over to feel the energy. His eyes also got big and he asked me if I was a magician. The word magician is the one most people use that live in America. Am I really a Magician? In other circles they think I am healer, a Shaman, a Mystic, a light worker and some in fear think I work Voodoo. What I do is not so mystical, for it is a teachable format. What I do others can also learn to do for themselves and learn how to help others. The secret forces of nature is what science is all about. To study and understand how the universe works, then the forces are no longer secret. Yes you need to study and seek truth. You need to open your mind and your heart.

The Wayanas say that we all have a sort of invisible blindfold over our eyes and this keeps us from seeing those other worlds. To become a shaman, one must learn to remove the blindfold. A Wayana shaman Tales of a Shamans Apprentice. Ethnobotanist - Healing Medicine in the Amazon Rain Forest by Mark J. Plotkin PH.D. Page 19 of 22

The Psychospiritual power of the pictographs is experienced in Reiki attunements and in the use of the Reiki symbols in healing work taught in Level two Reiki training. One of the results of the first level attunement is warm hands. Look at the simplified pictograph for Ling. The top pictograph, Rei in the Japanese and Ling in the Chinese has been simplified into the pictograph you see here. The simplified pictograph representing Ling is two totally different pictographs. The simplified pictograph is an example of how the Chinese are losing the roots of the old language. I dont know how or who decides to simplify a pictograph but in this case it does retain an important component that applies to Reiki, Ling Chi and Qi Gong Simplified Ling Therapists. The simplified form is conflated with a rare character for warmth showing hand over fire. One of the sure signs that energy is flowing out the hands in a stronger flow is warm hands. Where the energy flows, the blood flows is a perspective taught in Qi Gong. I know the last sections have been pretty wordy so thank you for moving through it. I have said in several places that I need an editor. The next section will be a conclusion of some kind and I will try to make it simple. C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\My Documents\0 Word Perfect Files\09 Reiki\What is Reiki Ling Chi.wpd Fire that handeled can be

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What Is Reiki ? Conclusion

What is Ling Chi ? What is Qi Gong ?

Trying to keep it simple I will show three perspectives of why I wanted to tie Reiki, Ling Chi and Qi Gong together. First Perspective : Connecting to the Chinese Dr. Usi is the reason there are Reiki healers all across the planet. When seeking guidance on how to help others heal he had an experience with Spirit. It is interesting that out of all the different words or pictographs that he could have chosen to express that experience he chose Reiki. The same pictograph that is called Ling Chi in China. Ling Chi His connection with the Chinese was all ready established several thousand years before his birth when a priest brought the Chinese pictographs to Japan. Like I have said earlier The roots of a language are an important connection to a cultures cosmology.

The base pictograph Ki, Universal spiritual life force, is the energy that empowered his experience. You could say that was his Personal Attunement by Spirit. The same Spirit of the Reiki symbol is what empowers a Reiki Healer when he receives an attunement/empowerment ceremony. The Reiki symbols have been distorted through time mostly because of the keep it secret thing. In the early days you were shown the symbol and then it was burned. I was taught the symbols and then taught how they are made up of pictographs from the Japanese language. The obvious is that the will be the same symbols, pictographs as used by the Chinese since that is the roots of the language. I will expand meaning of the symbols from their Chinese roots in another section on this web site. The symbol meanings is another reason I wanted to connect Reiki to the Chinese. There isnt any modality of healing in China that I know of that is specifically called Ling Chi. The whole concept of energy healers connected to the archaic past that is like the concept of Reiki is the Qi Gong healers. Japanese Shiatsu is similar to Qi Gong Massage and Japanese acupuncture is the same as Traditional Chinese Medicine. A study of Qi Gong and Chinese Medicine will amplify any Reiki practitioners abilities. Remember gong meaning diligent study and practice is a part of what a Reiki person is and is a part of what a Qi Gong person is. Studying any aspects of Spiritual healing will amplify your path but I did want Reiki people to know that the Chinese connection will be very beneficial. I also wanted the Qi Gong people to know that the Reiki concepts will also benefit their Qi Gong practice.

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Second Perspective : Connecting all healers from the Archaic past to the present. The experience of Dr. Usi that changed his life was his seeking Spirit on that mountain. He humbled himself and opened to the experience. Patrick Zeiglers night in the Kings Chamber at the great pyramid gave him an experience that added a symbol to Reiki practitioners that is called Seichim. I had my experience after leaving the mountain in New Mexico when Spirit sent the one to show me the energy flow between my hands. The point is that when you open your heart in a humble way and seek change, it will happen. I believe this is what the Reiki pictograph is trying to show us.

The base of the pictograph for Rei is Wu. Wieger and Harbaugh both gave the definition of Wu as two people and used the terms to describe the people as sorcery, shaman, sorcerer, magic. Mathews Chinese Dictionary used the terms in the singular Wu : A wizard or witch; a medium. Magical arts, Dancing and posturing in order to induce the descent of the spirits. I believe the pictograph is showing us two different perspectives of what it takes to work with Spirit. The first perspective is the work of an individual seeking balance and help from heaven. the This older primitive form of Ling is showing two forms facing each other, the right side of one and the left side of the other. I believe it is the Yin/Yang balance that needs to take place in the individual. meant by the Chinese two straight lines. The top line is heaven, the bottom line is Earth and the Kun line that is known to have symbolic signification is connecting heaven and Earth and shows the balance and connection of the two natures contained in one human. the whole person, one spirit, in an attitude of prayer.

The three mouths not only mean crying out and prayer but they are in line with the number three that in the Chinese symbolizes the three powers, heaven, earth and humanity connected and becoming one. When man comes into balance with the earth and the heavens then he can do the work of Spirit.

Ling : To fall as rain, drizzling rain or dew from heaven is the blessings and particles of information coming to the seeker.

Third Perspective : Putting it on the Line for the people. Dr. Usi did it and so will you.

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