Simple as that!
So how does “being here now” play out in relation to the precepts? It means they truly make sense of “Reiki” in terms of a spiritual practice. It shows the precepts to be a master key to the Reiki practice and its ultimate healing outcome, the healing of the separated ego mind.
Each precept is a key to the lived experience of the now. In the now, there is no future to worry over, no past to anger about. Honour and gratitude are given naturally. What is more honest than being present, being here now? “Now” is the end of the source of all of humankind’s mental suffering.
Each precept is then an invitation to step out of ego based stories of past and future, to step into the natural state of existence that we are all born into, the heaven of our religions, our natural state of spiritual connection with all that is, into the very fabric of mystic order.
This is what “the secret method of inviting happiness …effective against all kinds of illness” relates to.
“Being in the now” is not fantasy, every child knows this way of being. What clearer context is there than this for the biblical quote “Unless you become as little children you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven”? The now is that “kingdom”. We’ve simply forgotten how to “be” there.
The Reiki practice was given form by a Japanese man of great spiritual insight enabling humankind with a way to remember. What the ego mind has made of that practice is something else, but that’s precisely the nature of what it does. Illusions are its tools of trade.
Undoing the ego mind is what the practice appears tailor made to do. The physical body follows where the mind leads. Simple as that.