what is reiki ling chi edited

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Ling Chi

Qi Gong

Reiki

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 likea state of being, a state of being experience that is also hard to express in words. Words were createdto share pictures of an experience so lets see where the words Reiki, Ling Chi and Qi Gong comefrom.

The word Reiki is a Japanese word. Ling Chi is the Chinese word that is represented by the samepictographs. Qi Gong is another Chinese word that has some of the same pictographs. The roots ofthe Japanese language is based on pictographs, pictographs that reach back to ancient China. TheChinese pictographs arrived in Japan about 3,700 years ago, about 1730 B.C. according to somehistorians.. The actual origins of pictographs in China are lost in Chinese prehistory, the basicthought is that some are at least 5,000 years old. I will mostly use the Chinese explanations as weare 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 ofdevelopment. Man at that time was so intertwined with the movement of nature that when heexpressed his experiences in language he naturally used concepts from nature. He expressed thoseexperiences in pictures that he could use to communicate that inner information to others. We seepictures painted by the ancestors on cave walls and carved into rocks all over the planet. In Americathe North American Indian put pictures and symbols of their spiritual connection to nature onpottery, cliff walls, on their personal possessions and on buffalo hides for the people. The drawingsand symbols are the roots of each cultures present language. The drawings in some countries, likeChina 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 arelosing 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 particulargroups unique cosmology. Cosmology meaning their ideas as to how the world worked around themand what their place was in that world. Social behavior, Spiritual beliefs and in a sense what theirindividual 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 mindset. When both the Indian and the Chinese try to express in English they are limited by the Englishlanguage. In fact the western way of thinking even influences their present thinking patterns. Thedeeper connections of older texts are often lost to the modern Chinese and Japanese especially whentrying to translated the deeper meanings into English.

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Ki Chi - Qi

Pictographs are interpreted by the mind in a different way then an Alphabet type language. Thepictographs are more Psychospiritual in nature then a written language and they actually activate theright brain first. The right brain processes the information and then the information integrates intothe left. The left then fits it into a context that in a sense they both can agree on. I want to cautionyou that we can become to right brain or left brain orientated like it is one or the other when in truthit takes both. Some people are more orientated in using one or the other but it still takes both tocreate context. If we go a little deeper in right left brain surgery operations where one or the otheris like cut off changes become a little more complected, the deeper truth is thinking and feeling istaking 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 himdiscovered many different energy systems. The different cultures created their own uniqueCosmologies 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 theirawareness they drew maps of how these rivers flowed through out the body. The system of rivers hasbeen translated into the English word meridians. Most Americans are aware of the meridian energysystem as it relates to the pressure points in acupressure therapies and the locations where anacupuncturist inserts their needles. The meridian rivers were mapped at about the same time thatpictographs started being used, about 5,000 years ago.

Chinese energy work and Chinese Medicine is very complex and one could spend several life timesstudying what has been written in the ancient texts and what is being written now. I will share justsome 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 Yogathe life force energy is called Prana like in Pranayama Yoga. Reiki, Ling Chi and Qi Gong have asa base this same pictograph that represents Life Force.

The present definition of Chi has a lot of variations depending on where it is used. Some of thedefinitions are spirit, breath, air, gas, steam, weather, universal energy including heat, light andelectromagnetic energy. In Chinese Medicine and Taoist philosophy it refers to the energy circulatingthrough the whole of nature, the human body, animals, plants, the sun, moon and other heavenlybodies.

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Rice CurlingClouds

Two pictographs make up the word Chi, rice and above the rice curling clouds. Curling cloudsabove give the literal meaning “Rice dispersed like air.” It can mean the steam raising from a bowlof 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 conceptsof the life force energy. Rice represented life to the early Chinese and Japanese just like cornrepresented life to the North American Indian tribes. The connection is much like the connection ofthe corn crop with the Hopi Indians cosmology of Spirituality. Rice and Corn being therepresentation of energy that sustains life for each individual culture. To really understand thepictograph you have to consider that first ancestor who was trying to express his experience of Chito 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 isfood that maintains life.

Chi is there for us to harvest. Chi comes to us like the wind.

See that curling cloud. We can’t see the wind but we can see the results of the windon that cloud.

Chi is like that, we can’t see it, but we can see the results, we can feel it in our bodylike we feel the wind on our skin.

Chi is like Spirit and air, we can’t see them but we feel them moving us, we can feeland 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. Themovement of Chi through the human body isn’t limited to just the physical body. The Qi Gongmasters realized that a balanced flow of Chi through the spiritual, emotional and mental parts ofman was essential to physical health and conversely a sound physical healthy body with balancedChi 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 languageuses the pictograph for Chi in combination with other pictographs. I will not include all thepictographs but will quote an older book on Chinese Characters. The following references are fromMathews’ Chinese Dictionary, by R.H. Mathews, Shanghai: China Inland Mission and PresbyterianMission Press, 1931. Revised American Edition Harvard University Press, page 73. I will refer tothis reference in other places simply as Mathews.

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(A) Manner, Demeanor, Temper, Force. Life-giving principle. This is the heading on terms that usethe 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 themwith a comma.

Cannot restrain anger, to give orders in a haughty manner by expression of countenance and not inwords, 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 influenceswill 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 ventthe spleen, revengeful, energy, vigor, special characteristics of a handwriting, pervading influences-moral or physical.

Chi with other pictographs that are more outside physical in nature.

Vaporization, breath, steam, successive changes caused by vaporization, climatology, the atmosphereas 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, gasengine, airways, exhausted, dead, Chi is that which pervades the whole body, passion nature”, tosigh, nitrogen, oxygen, coal gas, Taoist breathing exercise, silent grief, The dual powers, Yin andyang, 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 orpowers all aspects of the Universe. Physical, mental, emotional and physical. Other pages on this siteexpand the energy perspectives.

I think Chi is the energy that powered the big bang and is the energy that Einstein spoke of as theCosmological constant that is powering the accelerated expansion of the Universe.

I don’t want to put my entire “Awarenessing” book on this site but I feel like I need to put about fourmore pages from a Chapter on Energy in order to complete concepts of the healing energy we accessin Reiki and Qi Gong. Many people in other lands that are still connected to Mother Earth across thisplanet 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 thesame to me, and in essence is the creative force that we call the life force. You can expand theconcept 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 “aweaving of information.” The result being what I call an objects unique being or isness. You are inessence a movement of light, you are the light expressing your own unique information to the restof 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 aroundhim discovered many different energy systems. The energy was very subtle and was not easy toexplain. The general definition of this energy cross culturally would be Universal life force. Thisenergy is associated with more than just its application with man, all that exists can only existbecause 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 mosttranslators 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 cosmologicalconcept in most Eastern countries and is therefore a part of most Eastern Medicine Philosophies andEastern Spiritual Philosophies.

Indigenous People of other lands still connected to their archaic roots have a similar cosmology oflife force energy. In America some of the North American Indian tribes speak of this same naturalenergy 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 supernaturalsource or sources, and that it is best described as an astounding and electric-likeenergy that pervades the universe. Power is everywhere present and in varyingdegrees 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 wasin that world. Social behavior , Spiritual beliefs and in a sense what each individuals responsibilitiesare 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 havetheir 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 certaindifficulties in the United States. This is due to both the cultural diversity inherent in the populace andin 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 differentreligions, scientific concepts and medical perspectives approved by the American MedicalAssociation.

Western Medicine

Western Medicine is starting to recognize the concepts of energy as we are using the word and theyhave 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 awide variety of effects on many types of both physical and emotional health problems. Finding themechanism of just how these various modalities work is the main problem to the scientific mind. Thetruth is that Western Medicine uses many techniques and drugs because they work, not because theytotally understand how they work.

Physics

The world of physics has always concentrated on discovering the nature of the physical world andhow it works. This is the same definition that we give to Cosmology so the authority of the worldof science dictates in a large way what cosmology we have in the western world. Each discipline hasin 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 wordenergy. 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 ofmatter and light when he asked this question.

“Are not gross Bodies and Light convertible into one another, and may not Bodiesreceive much of their Activity from the Particles of Light which enter theircomposition?” A few lines lower. “the changing of Bodies into Light, and Lightchanging into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seemsdelighted with Transmutations.” Newton Opticks, p. 374

Einstein

Einstein was continually concerned with the organized unity of nature. His first great work was theSpecial Theory of Relativity that turned the then world of physics upside down as it connected timeand space and gave light an opportunity to be both a wave and a particle.

A logical outcome of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity shows how Light, Matter and Energyare related it is the famous E = mc². E = mc² means that the amount of energy contained in matteris equal in ergs to its mass in grams multiplied by the square of the velocity of light in centimetersper second. This shows how much energy is packed in to a small amount of matter. The formula isa key to understanding enlightenment, unfortunately man has used it for destruction with thedevelopment of Nuclear weapons.

The Cosmological Constant

The next step for Einstein from the Special Theory of Relativity was The General Theory. This workexpanded the concepts from the first theory and the scientific world had to totally re-think theirunderstanding of the Universe. In reality it cleared up observable phenomena that wouldn’t fit inNewton’s laws and opened the door for greater understanding. There was a certain problem in theGeneral Theory. It has to do with limiting the movement of the universe, in simplicity the Universewould have to eventually stop expanding and collapse in on its self if their wasn’t an energyavailable to balance gravitational attraction.

Now Einstein the philosopher couldn’t accept God creating this type of creation. Some how Einsteinthe philosopher had to nudge Einstein the scientist and it happened with a piece of mathematicaljuggling. 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 beginningthat at one point Einstein called it his biggest blunder. But the concept continues to be called uponto contend with the latest discoveries.

Accelerating Evolving

In our present time the Modern scientific world is confronted with some problems associated withEnergy as we are speaking of it. It seems that the Universe is not only expanding it is doing it at anaccelerated rate. In order for this to happen we have to consider that some how there is an energy thatpops in and out of existence.

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Unseen particles of energy do produce measurable effects to the energy levels of atoms and thismeans the cosmological constant is a real energy.

In front of our noses

The long-derided cosmological constant - a contrivance of Albert Einstein’s thatrepresents a bizarre form of energy inherent in space itself - is one of two contendersfor explaining changes in the expansion rate of the universe.

-the universe must be composed largely of an even more ethereal form of energy thatinhabits 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 isconnected 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 tome, and in essence is the creative force that we call the life force.” I wrote that statement about eightyears before I discovered the following statements about light, Prana (Chakras) and Chi on the internet. The sages over 5,000 years ago told us about the light emited from the body. I know 6 year oldchildren 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 hasshown that a person emits very small amounts of visible light. The amount is sosmall that a photon counter is needed. Dr. Motoyama found that photon emissionis higher at certain acupuncture points compared to a region of skin with noacupuncture point.

According to unpublished research done by Dr. Motoyama in Japan, there is someindication that emission at certain acupuncture points is increased for persons withpsychic abilities. Furthermore, this research showed that there is a possible linkbetween specific acupuncture points and the chakras of the Yogic Tradition. We areplanning future experiments using the potential probe in conjunction with the photoncounter to elucidate the mechanism of light emission at acupuncture points.

California Institute for Human Science,701 Garden View Court,Encinitas, CA 92024

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Qi GongRei Ling

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 thethinking process.

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 thatpowers the words Rei, Ling and Gong We will now take apart the pictographs and explain each partthat 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. Inorder 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 wascreated to express an experience to another. The roots of the word reach back intoancient 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 ofits 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 actionexperience this pictograph represents. It actually means praying to heaven and dancingfor rain. Lets break the pictograph down to its basic componants.

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Gong

“A carpenters Square.”

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 theyalso will sometimes write Kung and sometimes Gong, they are the same pictograph. Part of theproblem is in how English is pronounced in relation to the Chinese. If you say Chi Gong andpronounce Gong like a Gong you hit, most will not understand you at first. Most Chinese pronounceit 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 ornamentrequiring skill. For, says the Glose, the square gives the shape to all things; it formsthe 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 apiece of work. Williams’

In order to expand the meaning of a Chinese pictograph we will again see how the pictograph is usedin combination with other pictographs. The following references are from “Mathews’ ChineseDictionary” Page 541

A workmen must first sharpen his tools if he wishes his work to be well done, an engineer, educationfor workers, well executed, time, leisure; labor as devoted to art, technical course, fine delicatedrawings, 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, totake less room. The two sidelines and the transversal stroke represent the fibroussheath. -- It is the 19th radical of characters relating to effort of any kind. It formsWieger

Put the two together and it is still Gong/Kung and basically means work and strength. The pictographthen 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 Yang’s 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, work-study, power, force. Many of the terms relating to Qi work add the word fu. Most Americans wouldrelate 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-study-achievement.

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 lookingat 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 andexperiencing. A new way of processing information. In reality I am actually asking you to return toan old way of thinking. Thinking from that child like place of curiosity and innocence when lifearound you was exciting and mystical, life was an experience of magic. That is the true place of aSage. 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 typeof healing energy work. When I was in China the Qi Gong Masters worked in the hospitals doingenergy work. A lot of their work is done off body much like Reiki people do. Some times their handswere up to four foot away from the client. The are working with the energy flows associated withLing chi and associated with Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Qi Gong is also related to early Martial Arts training. Some of the demonstrations I saw in Chinawere had to believe.

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While in China I visited Taoist and Buddhist Temples. The Qi Gong masters there worked with theenergy 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 governthe flow of the life force called Chi. (Qi) Advanced Qi Gong masters access energies that would beconsidered outside the normal human experience therefore they seem very mystical. Some of theirabilities 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 personwant 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 whenthey are giving the history of Qi Gong. The purpose of Qi Gong in most books then shifts into healthrelated concepts or Martial Arts. But if we remember that words are ways of relating experience andif we remember that words come from a far distant past relating an ancestors experience our mindcan think in a different way. The individual became a true Qi Gong Master based on a true spiritualexperience 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 inthe body that accelerate one towards Spiritual Enlightenment.

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Ling ChiReiki

What is Reiki ? What is Ling Chi ?

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 curiositysparked, 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 ofPsychospiritual concepts. Some of those that laugh think this energy business is just a bunch ofsuperstitious nonsense. Those that get a shocked expression on their face are those that are afraid ofwords, words like witch and sorcerers.

You have to remember that we are translating experiences from people that lived three thousandyears before Christ. We are translating into English that doesn’t always have the right words to fitwhat they are talking about. Remember contained within the pictographs are Psychospiritual aspectsthat modern man has a hard time recognizing because of his Cartesian dualism. Those that know weare a part of nature and a part of the spirit world no longer have the matter-spirit dichotomy thatblinds most of the modern western world. The eastern mind of the modern Japanese and Chinesehave for the most part have also embraced the western worlds way of thinking. Thankfully a remnantof the old ways still exist all across the world where cultures still have some of their roots into theearth.

Chi (Qi - KI) The two bottom Pictographs rice and above the rice curling clouds we have alreadyshown 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.

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Newer Wu Older WuGONG

When we add two pictographs that mean man or human the pictograph Gong becomes the pictographWu. Yes the older primitive version does look like two people praying, because that is a part of whataction experience this pictograph represents. I drew this one but it is like the one in Wiegers bookChinese Characters.

“Wu: The work of witches; magic, incantations. Two witches who dance to obtainrain.” Chinese Characters. Dr.L. Wieger, S.J.

“Wu: Work of two people, sorcery, shaman, sorcerer” Chinese Characters, Agenealogy 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 orderto 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 peoplewho could help change things due to their knowledge and connection to the spirit worlds. In thispictograph they are using the example of prayer for rain. Notice that in the older version the twofigures are different. One is facing right, one is facing left. I think this is to show that the one prayinghas their two natures balanced. The Chinese term would be Yin/Yang is in balance. The figures arein 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 lingpictograph it could mean that the rain is falling in big drops. I feel that the ancient ones werepicturing three mouths to show praying in a strong way, crying out to heaven for help. The threemouths not only mean crying out and prayer but they are in line with the number three that in theChinese 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 otherpictographs.

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 thenaccording 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 fornow I will express my feeling sense of how it goes together. First we will look again atmeanings 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 publishedby 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, YANG’S 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, one’s 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, YANG’S 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 agrass 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 likeWitch or Sorcerer. The reason is that even to them it is a symbol of spiritual mystery.

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OldShih

NewShih

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 iswhere 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 thatsomething is going to happen and it does. It also is like when something happens toyou and you don’t understand why and later it comes to you and you understand whyit happened.”

I really liked the last part of this one because in a way that is a lot of what Kiemotion is about. It isabout understanding the why of our past experiences and especially when they were traumatic. It isabout coming to completion with the past. The first part is of course those premonitions that tell ussomething 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 figuringthings out. This waitress put the word as some one else doing it for you. Theconnection probably based on the pictograph Shih that is similar.

Shih “wizards that use stalks to divine” They are referring to casting of yarrowstalks when consulting the I-Ching.

A busy Hostess

Her face tightened and she said; “People that talk to the dead.”

She wasn’t too happy to see the pictograph so it was obvious she had some issues about mysticalspiritual things.

The word supernatural was used a lot and that seems to scare some people. Supernatural is really awonderful word.

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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 ofit. 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 Ido. 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 humanpower, 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 wascalled a magic lantern. The common man was so amazed that to them it seemed like magic, thus itwas called the magic lantern. The creator of the magic lantern simply discovered how to use certainlaws of light that occur in nature. Scientific knowledge was applied to create what we calltechnology. Was the developer a magician?

When giving a Kiemotion energy treatment on the Jamez Pueblo, located in New Mexico, to an elderGrandmother of the Jamez tribe of Indians the Elder spoke in her language to the others. I was doingmostly off body energy with her sitting in a chair and then hands on joints to relieve Arthritis painand after I was done many of the elders she spoke to came and received a treatment. The friend I waswith 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 andI told him I was an energy therapist and showed him the movement of energy down his arm with asweep of my hand. His eyes got big and he called a fellow worker over to feel the energy. His eyesalso 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 othercircles they think I am healer, a Shaman, a Mystic, a light worker and some in fear think I workVoodoo. What I do is not so mystical, for it is a teachable format. What I do others can also learnto 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 universeworks, then the forces are no longer secret. Yes you need to study and seek truth. You need to openyour mind and your heart.

“The Wayanas say that we all have a sort of invisible blindfold over our eyes andthis keeps us from seeing those other worlds. To become a shaman, one must learnto remove the blindfold.” A Wayana shaman

“Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice. Ethnobotanist - Healing Medicine in the Amazon Rain Forest”by Mark J. Plotkin PH.D.

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Simplified Ling

The Psychospiritual power of the pictographs is experienced in Reiki attunements and in the use ofthe Reiki symbols in healing work taught in Level two Reiki training. One of the results of the firstlevel attunement is warm hands. Look at the simplified pictograph for Ling.

The top pictograph, Rei in the Japanese and Ling in the Chinese has beensimplified into the pictograph you see here. The simplified pictograph representingLing is two totally different pictographs. The simplified pictograph is an exampleof how the Chinese are losing the roots of the old language. I don’t know how or who decides to simplify a pictograph but in this case it doesretain an important component that applies to Reiki, Ling Chi and Qi GongTherapists. The simplified form is conflated with a rare character for warmthshowing hand over fire. One of the sure signs that energy is flowing out the handsin a stronger flow is warm hands. Where the energy flows, the blood flows is a perspective taughtin Qi Gong.

I know the last sections have been pretty wordy so thank you for moving through it. I have said inseveral places that I need an editor. The next section will be a conclusion of some kind and I will tryto make it simple.

C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\My Documents\0 Word Perfect Files\09 Reiki\Whatis Reiki Ling Chi.wpd

Fire that can behandeled

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Ling Chi

What Is Reiki ? What is Ling Chi ? What is Qi Gong ?

Conclusion

Trying to keep it simple I will show three perspectives of why I wanted to tie Reiki, Ling Chi andQi Gong together.

First Perspective : Connecting to the Chinese

Dr. Usi is the reason there are Reiki healers all across the planet. When seekingguidance on how to help others heal he had an experience with Spirit. It is interestingthat out of all the different words or pictographs that he could have chosen to expressthat experience he chose Reiki. The same pictograph that is called Ling Chi in China.

His connection with the Chinese was all ready established several thousand yearsbefore his birth when a priest brought the Chinese pictographs to Japan. Like I have said earlierThe 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 hisexperience. You could say that was his Personal Attunement by Spirit. The same Spirit of theReiki symbol is what empowers a Reiki Healer when he receives an attunement/empowermentceremony.

The Reiki symbols have been distorted through time mostly because of the keep it secret thing. Inthe early days you were shown the symbol and then it was burned. I was taught the symbols andthen taught how they are made up of pictographs from the Japanese language. The obvious is thatthe will be the same symbols, pictographs as used by the Chinese since that is the roots of thelanguage. I will expand meaning of the symbols from their Chinese roots in another section onthis web site. The symbol meanings is another reason I wanted to connect Reiki to the Chinese.

There isn’t 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 ofReiki is the Qi Gong healers. Japanese Shiatsu is similar to Qi Gong Massage and Japaneseacupuncture 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 isand 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 toknow that the Chinese connection will be very beneficial. I also wanted the Qi Gong people toknow 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. Hehumbled himself and opened to the experience. Patrick Zeiglers night in the Kings Chamber atthe 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 oneto show me the energy flow between my hands. The point is that when you open your heart in ahumble way and seek change, it will happen. I believe this is what the Reiki pictograph is tryingto show us.

The base of the pictograph for Rei is Wu. Wieger and Harbaugh both gave the definition of Wuas 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 withSpirit. 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 ofone and the left side of the other. I believe it is the Yin/Yang balance that needs to take place inthe individual.

meant by the Chinese two straight lines. The top line is heaven, the bottom line is Earth and theKun line that is known to have symbolic signification is connecting heaven and Earth and showsthe balance and connection of the two natures contained in one human. the whole person, onespirit, in an attitude of prayer.

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

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

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