Usui Reiki Ryoho

Waka, or tanka, are short fixed forms of 31 syllables, said to express the spirit of the Japanese people. It has been written for over 1,000 years. The Emperor Meiji was celebrated as “Sage of Poetry”, and he composed some 100,000 waka poems. Mikao Usui recommended students read aloud one of these poems as the first step of spiritual work.

This weeks Waka is:

Friendship

To be friends
To show one another
One’s faults
Is the true spirit
Of friendship

The Sixty Nine Stations of the Kisokaido, Ota

Ando Hiroshige 1852