When Chujiro Hayashi taught his seminars...

During the time when Chujiro Hayashi taught his seminars, he would have all the participants recite Gyosei - Japanese style Waka poems. These are very short fixed form poems containing 31 syllables, and are said to be most expressive of the Japanese people.

This is the system of Reiki that we Jikiden Reiki Teachers teach nowadays, keeping closely to the original teachings that Chujiro Hayashi taught when Chiyoko Yamaguchi trained with him when she was only 17 years of age.

Of the thousands of poems composed by the Meiji Emperor, Usui sensei selected 100 of the most outstanding poems as a guide for our spiritual development.