I wrote this for a by-request, private (only private as not everyone on Google+ wishes to receive spiritually-oriented posts) Google+ circle (join me there).
At the end of this post, I add in more about 100% responsibility aspect of Ho'oponopono. I'll also write more soon as far as my 'reactions' and how I cleaned them. Okay, here's what I wrote:
Below is an excerpt from a first-hand account from an Occupy Wall Street protester at Brooklyn Bridge today. Accounts vary, but anywhere between 500-700 people were arrested as the police appeared to pen in the marchers by blocking both ends of the bridge. (I'm not sure of the actual story as I was not reporting from the field.)
Exactly one year ago today I was living in NYC.
I'm not sure if I were there today I would take part in the Occupy Wall Street protest.
I can certainly identify with many of the frustrations of the protesters there today. I was broke, I was running out of options: tried and tired all the grant proposal crayon inside the line forms, tried potential investors (long story, 'twas a media venture), tried X and Y and Z's and Kickstarter campaign and plain hustle. Gave up. Try the government. Trudged to the food stamp office, uh-huh so they'd alert my landlord, and that would send them red flags (I was month-to-month, not on a lease) -- so there goes that. I'd never felt so powerless. So I left NYC before rent was due up again. I did not Make It in America. Near penniless with just enough for airfare, I moved in with family.
So yeah, I can certainly identify.... and yet.... I am not 1%. I am not 99%.
I am the 100%, and I don't see that message conveyed much.
Except I just did when I read this. There are instances... for instance, that one woman.. .you'll recognize her when you get to that point in the story below (and this again is an excerpt of a longer piece at http://carlygsdrafts.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/on-the-occupywallstreet-arrests-tonight-on-the-brooklyn-bridge/) conveys the I am the 100% (and no, I don't believe she was flirting, btw):
"We stood there for a while, and when it started to rain, we got under an umbrella with an older, white couple who looked to be in their mid-sixties or so. Then they walked up to a police officer, spoke to him, and he motioned for them to approach the ranking officer in front who was standing with a bullhorn. We then saw this couple walk out of the netted area and leave.
At this point, Rebecca and I walked up to the same ranking officer and politely requested to leave. We were told no and to get back in the crowd. We overheard two officers holding the netting asking each other what they were going to do with all these people. They obviously had no idea what the leadership’s strategy was, if any. We then went under the umbrella of a group of young women who were in their teens and twenties and were talking to a detective (or someone with the NYPD who was wearing an overcoat). He asked us some very leading questions: “Are you all together?”, “So no one told you to disperse?”, “Did you know you would end up here?” We said we had no idea what was happening. Then he told us to talk to the same ranking officer with the bullhorn. This time when we approached, the cops gave him a signal and he motioned for us to all pass through. Just like that.
As we were leaving, I asked one of the women what she had said to the officers before we came over and why they had let us go. She said she had struck up a conversation with an officer and told him he was “beautiful” and a “beautiful person” and that the “love and good vibes” she had sent his way seemed to have an impact on him."
Alas, in the next sentence the writer belittles the magic and power of the 100%, the compassion of unconditional love and remarks in response to the truthfulness of that woman, "Oh, I’m sure."
It's so easy to be jaded. Dig deeper. Be still. Feel the undercurrent.
Be sure of love. It's there's 100%.
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What does the 100% mean in terms of Ho'oponopono? Well, Dr. Len keeps repeating 100% responsibility for everything pretty much all the time, so if you follow this blog you've already heard that. Yet most people focus on the "responsibility" part of 100% responsibility. (And recall, responsibility isn't fault--don't guilt-trip on this.) In fact, just in writing this down I also was struck with idea that actually Ho'oponopono restores my ability to respond. Usually, I am operating from unconscious patterning, programming, conditioning, memories whatever you name it---it's reactionary. I might call it responding, but the truth is it is very automated, even repetitive (if you've ever caught yourself repeating patterns or cycles you know what I mean) and thus reacting rather than responding.
100% responsibility. Well, eventually the idea goes as that conditioning loosens up, I'll respond 100% of the time rather than blindly follow the commands of the unconscious, I'll be tuned to the vast present moment's Infinite intelligence.
100% is 100%. No wriggle room. Just consider it a little more next time you try Ho'oponopono. Sit with the idea of 100%. To me, it feels whole as in Wholeness. Totality. One. Nothing is left excluded. 99% is denying a part of the Whole.
I also like what Saul Maraney wrote in terms of 100% responsibility and Ho'oponopono:
By "taking 100% responsibility for whatever is going on in our lives, we are in essence saying to The Divine: “I am 100% responsible, the problem is within me, and I would like You to convert whatever that memory, debt [this could catch the attention of protestors?], block, error or problem is to nothing.”
And when The Divinity converts the block or memory to nothing, we return to back to our original state which is Zero or clarity.
Dr Hew Len says that only when we have clarity, can The Divinity provide us with insight, inspiration and whatever is perfect for us." (This last excerpt copyright © Saul Maraney - 2008. All Rights Reserved.)
I am the 100%.
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