Understanding “Self-Identity through Ho’oponopono”
I have started to practice “Self-identity through Ho’oponopono” in 2006. It have been quite a bit of time now. Before that, during more than 30 years, I had tried almost all from bio-energy to Zen, MT, Rajneesh as a sanyasin then as an Osho follower,…Finally, when I met Dr Hew Len in Tokyo during his first class in Japan, I found that what he was teaching was really a shortcut through all this spiritual stuff.
Spiritual quests : never ending stories
What Morrnah Simeona made of a simple Hawaiian ritual was really the tool we are in need for the present time : simple and straightforward. All religions and spiritual ways, even the most radical like Advaita Vedanta and Krisnamurti’s teachings are still giving ingredients to feed the Mind. Saying “observe the mind”, “live in the present”, “become mindless” gives the impression that you understand how to go out of the trap, but it is useless if you do not have found the key to open the doorless door…
I have experienced so many workshops where people believed they had been reconnected during a decisive weekend, then feeling stuck again Monday morning when they had to go back to work. Looking for “illumination”, “satori”or more simply “being in the present” often looks like a musical festival : you pay, you attend, you enjoy but nothing have changed when you go back home.
Through the practice and the teaching of Ho’oponopono, I have understood that in fact, during our spiritual awakening, nothing changes because the change is not the target but the process. I mean that life does not stop when we get strong insights. Our navigation continues anyway. Nothing never ends, we do not shift in another dimension, we just become able to use new tools and understand why.
The capacity to 100% let go is the key
The difference between “before” and “after” is about the capacity to“let go”. By using what Morrnah Simeona and Ihaleakala Hew Len call “cleaning” we easily get rid of the illusions created by ancestral and personal memories.
Until that point, we were “fighting our lives”. Our identification with the cluster of beliefs we were calling “me” or “I” is just thin air…Our Name, our Job, our dearest beliefs, our religion and even our family are just what is called “ego”.
Our wars, our fights, our conflicts, our joys and our sorrows are rooted in this illusory robot created by us and by our cultures. Self-Identity through Ho’oponopono do not say anything original about the diagnostic, what is original is that it gives a way to take a shortcut to avoid getting stuck deeper in the mind. The danger of spiritual trails is when the mind tries to figure out the way to move beyond its identification with itself.
Spiritual masters like Ramana Maharshi have been showing the same destination, but it is not so easy to get out of the labyrinth. Meditate, listen to silence, ask yourself “who says I when I say I am?”…The mind is so used to play the “mirror game” that spiritual quests can end in a walk through an endless desert. We are in this world to express ourselves fully, not to escape reality by becoming hermits in places where nothing and nobody will bother us. This is an useless escape.
“Clearing” our problems is the Way
We will not learn anything by dropping out. On the contrary, it is in presence of problems that we can check our level of understanding. Self-Identity through Ho’oponopono is teaching techniques as simple as brushing your teeth or washing your face. “Cleaning” is a scrub. This simple ritual have to become part of our everyday routine.
Unfortunately, today, too many “Ho’oponopono fans” are “believers”. They are using a tricky version of “Self- Identity” because they build their whole quest on expectations. It is a total misunderstanding. It makes the veil between their consciousness and “reality” thicker. It brings them back in the rat race.
Ho’oponopono “Morrnah style” do not require any belief. It is a mechanical process leading to absolute freedom. We can reach this state when all, even the word Ho’oponopono , the exotism of Hawaiian islands and even the quest for freedom are erased. To get naked you do not have to add something to your body, the only thing you must do is to take off all your clothes…To be able to wear the outfits of a millionaire you need to get fully nude first, you will not be able to wear a tuxedo on top of your usual everyday jacket.
The easier way to get fully naked is what “Self-Identity” call “cleaning”, which means “erasing”. It is what we are teaching during our classes, it is easy and radical. You will have only to let go all thing popping up in your mind : “let go and let God…”
