please could someone clarify the difference between a Reiki Master and a Reiki Grand Master , why is one called a Grand Master? is it to with years of service? numbers of attunments ? or is it a self given title? how does one become a grand Master? I have met many Rinpoche's in Nepal and Sikkim one in particular His Eminence Dinchen Rinpoche was a Reiki Master , but as a Rinpoche ie some one who knows they are following the boddhisaatve path they have re-incarneted to help humanity rather than acheiving self enlightenment would actually be a Grand Master and yet he was not, so how is a Grand Master determined?
Blessings Kalixx

I'm intrigued too. I'm a grand master but of jujitsu (it took 35 years from start to then) and this whole master/grand master bit makes me smile.
Best of luck finding out, most of them will be self proclaimed egotists.

Hello Kali, Prof. Akers,

I am a practising Reiki Grand Master for the last five years. Let me give you the jist of what that means. Its really simple.
A Reiki Master is one who is attuned to enable others to be Reiki Level III Practitioners.
A Reiki Grand Master on the other hand is attuned with another extra two symbols that enables one to teach Reiki and attune others to be a Reiki Teacher.

Professor, just because someone carries the title of Reiki Grad Master doesn't make them "self proclaimed egotists". To clarify this point further, let me add that being a Reiki Master or Grand Master is not about how "powerful" or "spiritual" one is but rather how they have a mastery over themselves. Self-Mastery i.e. This in itself is a very humble experience.

I hope this clarifies this issue.

Love Always  

Yes but who decides? Who moderates this level 3 stuff, is there a recognised international body?

Who is to say one has a mastery over self? Can't say that I've met many or any for that matter who can ever claim that, regardless of what they can or cannot do. But to those who have, I suppose good on you.

and I agree with the poster above me btw.

It reminds me of something that I saw once:



Credentials Please

If man calls you a saint, what does that make you in God's eyes?
If man calls you a bishop, what does that make you in God's eyes?
If man calls you the pope, what does that make you in God's eyes?
If man calls you a holy man, what does that make you in God's eyes?
If man calls you a doctor, what does that make you in God's eyes?
If man calls you a thief, what does that make you in God's eyes?
If man calls you a beggar, what does that make you in God's eyes?
If man calls you a liar, what does that make you in God's eyes?

Man gives you degrees. Man gives you titles. Man gives you recognition. Man gives you all of these things and you ask yourself who you are that you should receive these acknowledgments. You claim it would not be possible without Him and you claim that you are nothing without Him, yet you feel the need to preface your name with titles and decoration. You line your pockets with cash. You build grand buildings of worship. You call yourself many things and yet everything is forgotten. People continue to suffer. People continue to go hungry.

You ask yourself who you are that you should question receiving all these titles and degrees bestowed on you. You are the keeper of your soul. You are the keeper of your brothers and sisters. You are the keeper of this place you call home. You are the keeper of the sick. You are the keeper of the less fortunate. You are the keeper of the misinformed. You are the keeper of the innocent. You are the keeper of the lost. You are the keeper of all things unjust.

You are.


by the way, this is no knock on sandyz by any means, but just a general thing for us all to think about maybe?