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June 30, 2024 · Sunday

The quote

“Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? Branches about to blossom, or a garden strewn with faded flowers, are worthier of our admiration.”

Yoshida Kenko · Wabi-Sabi

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

Before bed tonight, name one thing where the lesson of Hoʻoponopono. The Hawaiian art of cleaning memory, four phrases that repair what is broken inside.

From the Bhagavad Gita

Verse 2.62

ध्यायतो विषयान्पुंसः सङ्गस्तेषूपजायते। सङ्गात्संजायते कामः कामात्क्रोधोऽभिजायते॥

“When a person dwells on the objects of the senses, attachment to them is born. From attachment, desire arises. From desire, anger is born.”

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