"Last year I read countless Reiki books. I want to be perfect, and teach perfectly correct things. But different books say different things. I want to teach my students the truth, perfection. But how do I know the real truth?"
"The problem is," I commiserated, "even if you teach what you feel is real truth, many of your students will leave your class and teach what they feel is their truth, and it will be different to yours."
"Oh, I see." Vanessa paused.
"With Reiki," I continued, "everyone teaches their truth, or whatever their Gods, Angels, Ascended Masters and spirit guides give them."
"But Masters only give truth."
"No, Ascended Masters are the same as Reiki Masters. They became experts, Masters, only of their subject. It does not mean they all have the same knowledge. If you take 1,000 expert Reiki Masters they'd potentially all have different knowledge. 1,000 Ascended Masters also have potentially different knowledge they became a Master of."
"So if I want to teach perfect truth, what's the answer.".
"You can't if you read books. They differ on history, how deep a role Buddhism and other forces should play, and what Reiki's founder, Dr Usui taught. There's also interest in the teachings of Usui's Teacher, Morihei Tanaka."
"So how do I know what to teach as the truth?" Vanessa sighed.
"Perhaps, instead of teaching a "perfect" version of history etc, check your students' needs. During training students commonly develop gifts of healing cures, psychic intuition, or spiritual enlightenment. Perhaps become more perfect at techniques to help such students develop?"
"That sounds different. I'll meditate on it."
"In other words, each illness may need a different Reiki technique to achieve best outcomes. With psychic, if for example you see a student's team of spirit doctors, you teach best psychic surgery methods. Or of someone sees Jesus, you could help their Christianity. Whatever cure, psychic, or spiritual gifts each student needs, you need to teach the most perfect technique to help them develop."
"Thank you for you wisdom." Vanessa laughed.
I was left with this thought. If everyone stopped teaching what they want to teach, and started teaching what the student needs to know, we'd all grow our gifts faster, and help the world to be a better place quicker.