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November 19, 2021 · Friday

The quote

“Set Maat in your heart and your tongue will speak it. The two are not different.”

— Anonymous scribe · Maat

The concept

Hoʻoponopono

The Hawaiian art of cleaning memory, four phrases that repair what is broken inside.

In the late 1970s a Hawaiian woman named Morrnah Simeona took the ancient family-reconciliation practice of hoʻoponopono and stripped it down to a self-administered version with four phrases, I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love…

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A practice for today

When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of Hoʻoponopono. The Hawaiian art of cleaning memory, four phrases that repair what is broken inside.

From the Bhagavad Gita

Verse 2.22

वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि। तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णान्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही॥

“As a person sheds worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, so does the embodied self shed worn-out bodies and take on new ones.”

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