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Seiji Takamori was born in Japan - maybe around 1907 - and was ordained as a Zen monk around the age of 19. He became a novice, or apprentice, to a Zen monk, Venerable Takeuchi, who had been trained as a Reiki Master by Dr. Chujiro Hayashi. During this period of training, Seiji witnessed his Master perform healing with the hands on villagers. He persuaded Takeuchi to train him in this healing system, and ultimately was trained by him as a Reiki Master. As part of this training he was taught a specific meditation - Buddho meditation. He was told that this was the meditation that Mikao Usui had practised during his retreat on Mount Kurama, Japan, and where Usui experienced his empowerment. When he practised this meditation, Seiji was filled with an immense energy such as he had never experienced before. Seiji felt that there could be more to this meditation and to the healing practice of Reiki than even his teacher knew.
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With his teacher's permission, Seiji then travelled to India, where he studied
Hindi, Pali, Tibetan and Sanskrit to assist him in his research.
After time with these monks, he was directed to a senior monk living as a hermit in the mountains. He spent spent some years with this monk where he received training in the complete ancient Buddho system of healing and meditation, which had previously been brought to this region by lamas and of which practice Reiki is a simplified form.
Seiji spent many years travelling the world teaching Vipassana meditation.
He passed away in retreat in 1992.
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He then travelled to the Himalayan region looking for a teacher.
There, he eventually found a small group of monks who recognised and practised
what Seiji knew as Reiki.
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Seiji Takamori's only student and sole beneficiary in the practice is Dr. Ranga Premaratna, Ph.D., whom he met in the United States in the last years of his life and whom he trained in all levels of Reiki and the Buddho method.
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