The Ancient Hawaiin Teaching of Hooponopono:
The Marriage
Ihaleakala Hew Len, PH.D.
John views the text of his work on the computer
monitor as he types. A message box pops up telling
him there is a spelling error. He deletes the error
and makes the correction. No one expects him to yell
at or to blame the computer monitor for the error.
Peter has been reluctant to go to school for several
days. This is unlike him. He is always up and
dressed for school on his own. "The bus will be here
in a few minutes, his mother reminds him. "You need
to get ready." She has talked to him but still does
not know what is going on. She will speak with his
teacher. Her reactions are typical of parents in her
situation. No one would expect her to look inside of
herself for the source of the problem and its
solution.
Bill, who is forty, has a severe chronic lower back
pain. He is a volunteer client in a training program
for therapists. "How long have you had the back
pain?" a therapist asks. "How did it begin?" another
one inquires. "Have you been experiencing stress
lately?" another question follows. Then out of the
blue springs an unexpected question. "What is going
on inside of me that shows as Bills back problem?" "Whos
the wise guy?" the instructor asks suspiciously.
Total responsibility, like money growing on trees,
never happens. It occurs nowhere on the face of the
earth, not in relationships, not in family units,
not in work places, not in business enterprises, not
in local, state and national governments, not in
religious communities and certainly not in
therapeutic settings. It just does not exist.
Unfortunately, problems, disease and even death are
the result.
There is a way, though, out of problems and disease
for any individual willing to be 100 % responsible
for creating his life the way it is moment to
moment. In the ancient Hawaiian healing process of
Ho'oponopono, the individual petitions Love to
rectify errors within him. "I am sorry. Please
forgive me for whatever is going on inside of me
that manifests as the problem." Loves responsibility
then is to transmute the errors within him that
manifest as the problem. Love does this by erasing
and correcting, as in Johns example errors in the
computer bank of the mind.
If Petes mother petitions, Love will erase the
errors in her mind that manifest as problems of her
son. In their work, therapists can ask Love to
cancel errors in their mind that show as problems in
their clients. In the marriage of total
responsibility and Love, problems are resolved,
health restored, and life renewed. This is lyrically
evoked in Shakespeares Sonnet CXLVI.
"Buy terms divine in
selling hours of dross:
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
So shall thou feed on Death,
that feed on men, and Death once dead, theres no
more dying then."
Learn true love and forgiveness through the
ancient Hawaiian training of Hooponopono
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