💥 Why Did I Leave All Beliefs — Even Ho’oponopono?

Patrice Julien
2 min readFeb 21, 2025

Because living in Zero State isn’t about believing in it.
It’s not about endlessly hunting memories like cockroaches hiding in the walls. 🪳

Memories aren’t pests. They’re thin air.
Like your ego.
Like all the stories you tell yourself.
Like the endless “healing journeys” that make you think you’re broken in the first place.

👉 You don’t need to “clean” anything.
👉 You don’t need to “chase” anything.
👉 You don’t need to “fix” yourself.

You. Are.

That’s it. Period. Full stop.

🌟 1. Zero State Isn’t Something You Reach. It’s What’s Left When You Stop Playing Games.

All the beliefs?
The spiritual tools?
The mantras?
The “I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you” loops?

They’re fine…
Until they turn into another layer of noise.

Because even the idea of “cleaning memories” implies there’s something wrong with you.
Like you’re some cluttered hard drive that needs defragging. 💾💣

But here’s the kicker:
You’re not the hard drive.
You’re the electricity running through it. ⚡

The Zero State isn’t achieved through effort.
It’s not earned through 10,000 “I love you’s.”
It’s not at the end of some mental scavenger hunt.

It’s what remains when you stop the damn search.

🧠 2. Memories, Ego, Stories — It’s All Smoke.

We treat our past like it’s set in stone.
We treat our traumas, our fears, our labels as if they’re unmovable.

But it’s all air.
Thoughts, feelings, identities — all vapor. 💨

The only reason they feel heavy?
Because you buy into them.
You carry them around like luggage at an airport you forgot to leave. 🧳

But the truth?
👉 None of it has weight unless you give it some.

🎯 3. The Ultimate Twist: There’s Nothing To Heal.

Boom. There it is. đź’Ą

You’re not broken.
You never were.

The only reason you “heal” is because you bought the idea that you’re wounded.

And yes, Ho’oponopono helped people. It gave them a tool to pause, breathe, and soften.
But if it becomes another belief system — another thing to “do” to be “better” — it’s the same hamster wheel in a different color. 🎡

True Zero State?
It’s when the cleaning cloth drops because there was never dust to begin with.

💡 4. So What’s Left?

You. Pure. Undefined. Untouched.

No backstory.
No trauma badge.
No spiritual gold stars.

Just awareness. Presence. Life.

It’s not mystical. It’s not esoteric. It’s the most raw, obvious thing ever.
So obvious you overlook it every damn day.

You. Are.

No fluff. No filter. No bullshit.

⚡ 5. The Final Word:

The real freedom isn’t in fixing yourself.
It’s in realizing you were never broken.

Not the ego’s version of freedom — the one that feels like “Look how spiritual I am now!” —
But the deep, quiet knowing that you’re already whole.

You don’t need the spiritual toolkit anymore.
Not even Ho’oponopono.
Because Zero isn’t a practice. It’s the default.

You just forgot.

And now you remember.

That’s it. You Are. Period. 🚀

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Patrice Julien
Patrice Julien

Written by Patrice Julien

Patrice Julien & his Wife Yuri run a retreat center by the sea in Miyazu, Japan. Patrice writes Self-Help books and gives trainings in Zen and Ho'oponopono.

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