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Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen

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The third symbol, called the distance symbol. Practitioners describe it as allowing the work to be directed to a person or situation that is not physically present, or across time.

In practice

Used for absent recipients and for work described as addressing the past or the future.

Taught in

Sources

  1. [A]Usui Reiki Ryōhō no Shōhō — Mikao Usui (1925)
  2. [B]Reiki symbols — Wikipedia contributors (2026)
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