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He contacted also Buddhist monks as Buddha also did miracles during his life. But monks said that it for Buddhists it did not matter as the healing of the body was unimportant. Only healing the soul was important.
Because he could not find any answer it is said that he studied Chinese, Tibetan and Sanskrit and traveled to India and Tibet in pursuit of his search. Studying ancient writings he discovered some forgotten symbols which according to Buddhist monks were used to heal. Nobody knew how to use them and He went back to Japan.
Although he had studied many old writings and learned how to decipher them and could read Sanskrit the manuscript he had come across had been written by one of Buddha’s disciples 2,500 years and it was difficult to fully understand its contents. Feeling to have come to a dead end He felt desperate and told a Zen Buddhist monk who had become his friend. "I will go up to Mount Koriyama where I will fast and meditate for 21 days. If I am not back after that time tell someone to pick up my body because I will be dead.
He went the mount and took 21 pebbles with him. Everyday he threw a pebble away to count the time. One night he threw the last pebble away. It was a very dark night but suddenly he saw a light coming towards him. In it he saw the symbols strike approach and strike against his forehead with such a strength that he fell backwards and understood how to use them. Next morning he started back down and hurt one of his tees in a rock and it started to bleed and ache. Instinctively he touched it with his hands and the bleed stopped at once and pain was relieved. He approached a restaurant and asked for food. The owner recognized in his beard and appearance that he had been fasting for a long time and some offered him a light breakfast fearing that heavy food might be harmful to his health. He refused it and asked a regular meal and recovered completely from his fast. Then he saw a little girl with a swollen face crying for tooth problems. It was the owner’s granddaughter who was healed from her pain with the touch of his hand. Mikao Usui went to the Zen Buddhist’s to visit him and found him in bed with a terrible arthritis. Again Mr. Usui used his new gift and healed his friend.
Mr. Usui decided to use this healing force with the beggars of his town and started working as peddler selling vegetables to keep in touch with them and healed one by one and helped them to get jobs. He traveled to other places in Japan to treat the people and returned some time later. To his amazement he found most of those people as beggars again and he asked what had happened. Most of the answers were the same: "it is much easier to work than to beg." Only then he understood what some Buddhist monks had meant as they said that it was more important to heal the spirit than the body. He understood that "what easy comes easy goes", that people do not appraise free or cheap things as this world is measured in terms of money.
Mr. Usui moved to a bigger place where he could better take care of his clients. From those who could not pay he required services so that treatment’s value was fully appraised. He called his treatment "Usui shiki Rioho ( Usui natural healing system). It stimulates the body to heal itself through the natural way and respond better to medicines or other therapies.
He transmitted is teachings to Chujiro Hayashi who probably established the method of teaching and transference of the "healing gift" (Reiki attunement to new practitioners.
Reiki came to the West thanks to Howayo Takata, a Japanese-american woman, who taught it to 22, masters (most of them Americans. These masters in less than 20 years succeeded to spread Reiki throughout the world.
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