I might have not found out about Ho'oponopono if not for A Course in Miracles. They both appeared in my life about the same time.
A Course in Miracles was my introduction to non-duality (okay, I tried to read the Tao Te Ching yet back then I couldn't make heads nor tails of it).
The more I learn about Dr. Hew Len and how he applies Ho'oponopono, the more I notice he knows Oneness. He repeats and insists that there is no Other -- no Otherness. There's nothing outside of your Self that is being cleared. Also he speaks of Ho'oponopono as simply clearing memory and conditioning/programming so we not resusitating and propping up a dead image or self-concept, but rather living vitally from the "zero state" of Divinity.
I happened to read a blog post today that also spoke to the unbelieavable idea that clearing or healing oneself, heals All. That's why I speak of clearing our shared patterns, but even I am at times too timid to just call it what it is, a singular pattern of conditioned thought/feeling--as in Truth, there is not really a concept of sharing when all is One Being.
("All" is only unbelievable from the standpoint of a separate self, however.) In the post, the author reminds: "Beingness is all-inclusive." And thus, why this powerful statement rings true: "Your own healing is all that is required to heal the world of all its suffering."
Here's a few other reminders:
"Attempts to heal others are avoidance strategies. By focusing on others we escape the only healing there can be – our own. “Others,” or better, the idea of otherness, exists only in the unhealed mind. When it is healed there are no “others”. Beingness is all-inclusive. There is no specialness in being, therefore the ego hates it." - "What is Healing?," A Guided Journey Through A Course in Miracles blog
"It is much like when you have a dream at night and are identified with some character and think you are different from all the others. When you wake up from your dream in the morning, you realize that you are not the character in the dream. You are the dreamer. Everything in the dream came from you. This is a metaphor for spiritual awakening, because when you wake up spiritually, you realize you are not the body-mind.
. . . Look at the implications of the awareness that there is no other. When you wake up, you wake up out of this "me and you." If you realize what that means, it just takes your breath away.
. . . Many people ask, "How do I integrate my spirituality into everyday life?" You don't. You can't. How could you integrate it? You can't stuff the infinite into your limited life. Instead, you give your life to the divine impulse. There is no integration. There's only realization, and that realization is a;ways a perfect destroyer. It is a destroyer of all sense of separateness, a destroyer of that which is not true. Throw your life into Truth. Don't try to stuff Truth into your life.
. . . In order to do this, you have to open to the possibility that all you have learned is wrong. Otherwise, how can you discover what actually is? When you become completely open, the Truth becomes the most apparent thing. Spiritual people always think the Truth is hidden from them. It is not hidden. What gets in the way is the idea of what it is going to be. Find that place of what actually is. There is only the One manifesting as everything. Ponder and meditate on this until you realize it for yourself through and through. Wake up to what you are." - Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing
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