When you encounter a situation where there is nothing you can do, what is the very first thing you do?

For example, if a cherished family member appears before you and that person is suffering from illness, what would you say?

We might start thinking about how we can support that person’s problem and look for words to encourage “that person.”

Unconsciously, when we see the reality that someone other than ourselves is troubled or suffering, we spontaneously build a wall between “that person” and “me.”

Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len says that even if this is not intentional, as long as we keep that wall, we are actually continuing to share the problem.

Even if we throw words to the “person” on the other side of the wall, we are simply reliving replayed memories.

When we return to the path of cleaning, we can shift the locus of the problem from “that person” back to “me.”

However, this is not about blaming yourself and saying, “Ah, it’s my fault this happened.” It is about returning to the awareness that right now, here, you are experiencing this and encountering the memory within yourself again, and that you are being given an opportunity to clean.

By returning to “me,” we can regain the role and purpose that the Divinity has given to each of us.