The Japanese art of energy healing

MORE THOUGHTS ON SEICHIM  

Many people trace their connection to Seichim back to ancient Egypt -  particularly Karnak - as in ancient  it was a place of learning, and a gathering place of scholars. People traveled  from all over  the globe to be initiated into the temples. It was here where Sekhem/Seichim was taught and practiced. 

As with all great truths it is likely that this energy made its re-emergence at this time in more than one place on the planet simultaneously.  So its practice in the Orient  was  translated into it's Sanskrit equivalent, Seichim.  I present the following information for your clarity only and to provide a basis of understanding of the various filters this energy has shown itself over the history of the planet.  Neither experience is better or ‘more powerful’ it was just appropriate for the conditions of that time & culture…  

 KWAN YIN 
 In the Orient Seichim is associated with the Eastern Goddess  of Compassion and Mercy, Kwan Yin.  According to tradition Kwan Yin had been an ordinary person who had followed the path of wisdom and service until after many incarnations she reached the supreme goal, nirvana. 
Pausing a moment at the threshold, she heard, rising from the world, a great wail of woe, as if all the rocks and trees, insects, animals, humans, gods and demons, cried out in protest that so virtuous a one should depart from their midst. Without a second thought this noble-hearted soul turned back, determined to remain until every being without exception should precede her into nirvana. 

Compassion pervades all worlds and resides in the heart of all creatures. A recent Chinese commentator explains that as "one moon imprints a thousand streams, and all the thousand streams reflect the one moon; one spring nurtures a myriad flowers, and all the myriad flowers are endowed with the wonder of spring[-time]."  

As the Kwan Yin Sutra states,  
when one turns to Kwan Yin, 
to the self within which images the divine self, 
a raging fire becomes a placid pool; 
chains that bind one's hands and feet are loosened; 
beasts flee, and snakes lose their poison. 

The more we are conscious in our higher natures and live as spiritual beings, the more we feel with others and yearn to ease their pain. This closeness with others has been referred to by mystics as atonement; by Hindus as yoga. The Japanese speak of it as the " perfect interfusion," when mind and senses are silent, the human is harmonized with nature, and the spirit within blends with the cosmic forces. 
The idea that the transcendent powers of the divine are close and dear to us all, whether characterized as the self-essence, as a goddess, or as a mother, protector, and friend has great appeal. Even more appealing is the realization that the whole cosmos is nothing but divinity. 

This idea was Kwan Yin's contribution to Buddhist metaphysics according to the Mahaprajnaparamita Hsin Ching sutra (Sutra of the Heart of Highest Wisdom). In it Buddha's basic teaching is restated, that there is no permanent self in man: each is but a conglomeration of skandhas, "bundles" of physical, psycho-emotional, mental, and spiritual energies held together during earth-life by "the shining ray of the Buddha within." 

Kwan Yin, in keeping with her vow: 'A guard would I be to them who have no protection, a guide to the voyager, a ship, a well, a spring, a bridge for the seeker of the Other Shore," is frequently cast in the role of guiding devotees to the "Pure Land." The idea isn't that one need go anywhere. According to the Lotus Sutra the Pure Land is within ourselves. The altruistic qualities that Kwan Yin represents are within the heart of every being: "In every corner of the world she manifests her countless forms."