Love and Oneness
These days I see the World and society in the violent, chaotic, destructive state it seems to be
And I see my life, my skills and neuroses as they are
One of my ongoing questions to my diary .... to myself, to God, to the I Ching, ..... is ...
What can I do to make the world a safer and better place?
What can be right and effective action for me as I am, in the world as it is?
Quickly I become aware of the immensity and complexity.... and of how little I truly know
And I see my life, my skills and neuroses as they are
One of my ongoing questions to my diary .... to myself, to God, to the I Ching, ..... is ...
What can I do to make the world a safer and better place?
What can be right and effective action for me as I am, in the world as it is?
Quickly I become aware of the immensity and complexity.... and of how little I truly know
Usually my, and others, actions come out of an arrogance where
I think I see a problem clearly .... and then look to find a solution
From my limited awareness I do something to try and make a better world
I feel better for a moment
Until I realise that I have only plastered over the cracks
and I have just displaced the problem elsewhere, even adding to it.
So this morning in my meditation, I came once again to my beloved Ho'oponopono.
At least this is some inner work I can do from my deep ignorance:
- I'm sorry for any ways I hurt you, your culture or your ancestors, I take full responsibility
- Please forgive me, let there be forgiveness, ... we are all innocent, doing the best we can
- Thank you. Thank you for being in my life and all I learn from this
- I love you. I love you, as you are, in all your complexity, ...
I began, as usual, with close family and relationships, parents, siblings, lovers, .... children, ...
I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you
Moving on to friends and clients, then to the people in the wider world, as they came into my head.
I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you
Everywhere at every level I find my own thoughts of violence: envy, blame, vengeance, lust, murder, ...
I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you
So many decades of therapies and Spiritual practice and I still have so much violence inside
I am fully aware that there is no difference between me and the violence I perceive in the world..... - we are ONE
Suddenly I have a direct experience of all the Ho'oponopono energy of love and oneness
Violence is only possible when there is separation, when there is an other.
I continue Ho'oponopono with the fascist dictators and despots of the world.
I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you.
And now I can't find my violence. I can't find any violence. I find oneness, peace and love.
Now over an hour, I finish by gently holding myself in this love for a while,
checking for any inner incoherence .... none
And now, late in the day, the feeling remains. Wisps of violence appear and evaporate into the oneness.
What a Onederful World
I think I see a problem clearly .... and then look to find a solution
From my limited awareness I do something to try and make a better world
I feel better for a moment
Until I realise that I have only plastered over the cracks
and I have just displaced the problem elsewhere, even adding to it.
So this morning in my meditation, I came once again to my beloved Ho'oponopono.
At least this is some inner work I can do from my deep ignorance:
- I'm sorry for any ways I hurt you, your culture or your ancestors, I take full responsibility
- Please forgive me, let there be forgiveness, ... we are all innocent, doing the best we can
- Thank you. Thank you for being in my life and all I learn from this
- I love you. I love you, as you are, in all your complexity, ...
I began, as usual, with close family and relationships, parents, siblings, lovers, .... children, ...
I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you
Moving on to friends and clients, then to the people in the wider world, as they came into my head.
I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you
Everywhere at every level I find my own thoughts of violence: envy, blame, vengeance, lust, murder, ...
I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you
So many decades of therapies and Spiritual practice and I still have so much violence inside
I am fully aware that there is no difference between me and the violence I perceive in the world..... - we are ONE
Suddenly I have a direct experience of all the Ho'oponopono energy of love and oneness
Violence is only possible when there is separation, when there is an other.
I continue Ho'oponopono with the fascist dictators and despots of the world.
I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you.
And now I can't find my violence. I can't find any violence. I find oneness, peace and love.
Now over an hour, I finish by gently holding myself in this love for a while,
checking for any inner incoherence .... none
And now, late in the day, the feeling remains. Wisps of violence appear and evaporate into the oneness.
What a Onederful World