To understand Reiju, I will break it down:
Rei means: How to Give
The basic meaning of Rei is spiritual, while a deeper meaning could be called shamanistic. Te get a picture of the meaning, one could imagine a Shaman praying for rain and then the rains come down.
As Reiki Master I open myself up to this spiritual showering and it just falls down and through me. I have no preconceived ideas, I have no thoughts going on in my mind. It's a clear clean channel of light that whooshes through like many millions and billions of raindrops falling from the sky. This is the open secret of Zen.
Many spiritual teachings that are given within the Japanese tradition often use the image of falling rain to indicate different aspects of the teaching. During a Reiki session the receiver may too experience many different aspects Reiju.
One aspect may be that the energy showering down and through may be very simple and non-dual in nature; an indication that the universe is all one.
Another aspect can be compared to the imagery of the rain falling equally on all things without any judgement of preconceived notions of what a tree, shrub, flowering field, a forest, a lake, an animal, a human may need. It just showers and each takes exactly what it needs at that time.
The Zen secret of giving is to let it rain, no judgement, no labels, just an openness to the showering and the receiver takes whatever is needed.
Ju means: How to Recieve
The meaning behind Ju is to receive, hand down, give, impart, instruct, grant, offer, invest with, bless. Overall Ju is considered a very good word.
Other expressions of the word Ju are: To Cut, To Open, To Empty and To Receive.
A saying: "Before you Receive you must Cut" is a good way to look at Ju. So one can ask oneself, What is needed to be cut out or cut away to make space before something can be added or received into that space? Something has to be let go of and the magnitude of what is cut away can be compared to how much is received. It's all relative to the amount of letting go or cutting away.
In Zen tradition, this cutting away takes it into the level of the entire Mind, Body, Soul experience. One must truly let go of everything, even that "one" who thinks it's receiving. Everything must go, the Past, the Present, an idea of the Future, all preconceived ideas that we carry from birth that continuously weave and restructure in and out of our lives.
All these one must detach and cut away from before any true receiving can happen.
The attempt of taking steps to begin to cut away everything to receive begins the journey of becoming a truly open and perfect vessel to receive.
Making space within your temple to allow the real rain to shower.
Receive: Re: means Back
Ceive: means Take
Receive: to Take Back. What are we taking back you may wonder? Our original Nature, Our true oneness with the Universe, our true "self", our Buddha Nature if you will.
When we receive Reiki and Reiju flows we are taking back our own power, our own light. By taking back our own power we start to stand in our own light again, our "True Self". Many times in our lives as we grow and interact, we often give away our power to a a family member, a teacher or to someone else, thereby allowing our own inner strenth to be lost. But in receiving Reiju through Reiki we take that power back. We take back that which has always been there from the beginning. It never really left us.
In my practice as a Reiki Master while I assist both humans and animals; I often experience beautiful lovely deep awakening direct experiences of ReiJu. As a Practitioner for others I feel blessed and honored to be able to be availale to truly allow this raining to pour through me onto as well as being completely utterly empty and open to receive this gift, this joy, this love.
This is truly a Spiritual Blessings. May all souls wake up to their true potentials.
