I am often asked by my friends, What is Ho’oponopono? If you Google, you will read that it is a Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness…
It’s a mantra/prayer where you chant the following phrases- I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you’ as a form of mental and spiritual cleaning that could be compared to Buddhist techniques for clearing karma. It has been defined as a forgiveness and reconciliation practice, cleansing of ‘errors of thought’ – the origin of problems and sickness in the physical world, according to the Hawaiian worldview.
The literal translation is ‘to put to right.’ it’s about taking complete responsibility of everything around you, every suffering you or others go through; everything that you witness. It’s about accepting that everything around you is a result of your vibration and in some ways whatever you go through is your doing, you have attracted it for yourself is some way…
To me, Ho’oponopono is the Essence of Life. It embodies the principle of ‘As Within so Without.’
Here is one more analogy to help you understand the Principles and Practise of Ho’oponopono…
A monk decides to meditate alone, away from his monastery. He takes his boat out to the middle of the lake, moors it there, closes his eyes and begins his meditation.
After a few hours of undisturbed silence, he suddenly feels the bump of another boat colliding with his own. With his eyes still closed, he senses his anger rising, and by the time he opens his eyes, he is ready to scream at the boatman who dared disturb his meditation.
But when he opens his eyes, he sees it’s an empty boat that had probably got untethered and floated to the middle of the lake.
At that moment, the monk achieves self-realization, and understands that the anger is within him; it merely needs the bump of an external object to provoke it out of him.
From then on, whenever he comes across someone who irritates him or provokes him to anger, he reminds himself,
“The other person is merely an empty boat.”
“The Anger is within me.”
Just like that, we have to understand that everything outside us is simply a trigger for our internal problems, nature, suffering, karma (call it whatever) to rise to the surface. All these triggers are opportunities for growth and self-transformation. Don’t blame the outside world for what’s wrong with your reality, change it yourself, own your power. You have it in you!
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