Koshin Reiki Association Books
The Koshin Reiki Association publishes works that support historically grounded understanding, disciplined practice, and responsible transmission of Reiki.
These publications are not manuals, certifications, or technique-based guides. They are reference texts intended to clarify practice, preserve source materials, and support long-term engagement with Reiki as a path of cultivation rather than a system of methods.
The Association’s primary publishing effort is the Right-Minded Reiki Instructional Series, a growing body of short, focused volumes drawn from early Reiki sources and lived teaching experience.
Mikao Usui's Instructions to Reiki Students
This book presents the only complete English language translation of the surviving writing of Reiki’s founder, Mikao Usui. Published around 1926 in old Japanese, the Kokai Denju Setsumei has been kept private for a century, available only to members of the secretive Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai.
In it, Usui explains why he created his Reiki system and what he intended it to train. It shows that Reiki was not designed primarily as a healing method, but as a disciplined path for cultivating the heart-mind and restoring unity between spirit and body. Everything else in later Reiki culture grows out of, or departs from, this original purpose.
Reiki as A Path of Self-Cultivation
This book clarifies that Reiki, as Mikao Usui understood it, is a system for forming the practitioner rather than a method for producing effects. It shows that practices such as reiju, the Precepts, meditation, poetry contemplation, and self-treatment exist to purify kokoro so that Reiki can function without interference. Healing arises not from technique or intention, but from the steadiness and ethical condition of the person who practices. In doing so, the book corrects the modern habit of treating Reiki as something one uses, restoring it as a path one must actually live.
Practicing the Reiki Precepts
Practicing the Reiki Precepts restores the complete, signed teaching of Mikao Usui’s Precepts as they were presented in early Reiki training. This chapbook places the original document within its historical Taisho-era context and shows the Precepts not as inspirational slogans, but as disciplined, lived tools for refining kokoro — the integrated heart-mind. Through careful historical framing and disciplined analysis, this volume reveals how the Precepts function as conditioning tools within the structure of early Reiki education: repeated recitation, daily self-treatment, ethical refinement, and contemplative practice. The book is an essential foundation for serious practitioners who wish to understand and work with the Precepts as part of sustained, authentic Reiki cultivation.
Mastering the Reiki Meditation
This book presents the only complete English language translation of the surviving writing of Reiki’s founder, Mikao Usui. Published around 1926 in old Japanese, the Kokai Denju Setsumei has been kept private for a century, available only to members of the secretive Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai.
In it, Usui explains why he created his Reiki system and what he intended it to train. It shows that Reiki was not designed primarily as a healing method, but as a disciplined path for cultivating the heart-mind and restoring unity between spirit and body. Everything else in later Reiki culture grows out of, or departs from, this original purpose.
Purifying the Heart-Mind with Waka
This book presents many of the waka poems Mikao Usui selected for Reiki training as a disciplined contemplative practice for purifying kokoro, not as literature to be analyzed or explained. It shows that these poems were used through repetition and quiet contact to refine attention, restraint, and ethical clarity over time. Rather than offering interpretation or instruction, the book preserves the original training function of the poems by giving them space to work directly on the practitioner. In doing so, it restores waka contemplation as a living practice of self-cultivation rather than a source of meaning or insight to be extracted.
Forthcoming Publications in 2026
- Training and Discipline in Early Reiki Practice
A historical examination of how Reiki was taught, practiced, and sustained during its early development. - Pilgrimage as Practice: Mount Kurama
A reflective account of pilgrimage as embodied practice, rooted in repeated walking of Mount Kurama and long-term engagement with place.