Peace Is Not a Place to Reach, but Something to Choose Again, Right Now

Many of those who practice Ho’oponopono may be seeking peace as a goal.

It can feel as though, if only we could arrive at that place, everything — all that is happening now, and all that we have suffered through for so long — would be healed within that peace. Perhaps some of you continue your cleaning while holding on to such a hope.

But what I would like to share here is this: SITH Ho’oponopono is not a means of heading toward some far-off peace. It is a process of restoring peace within yourself, moment by moment.

It is not some grand goal that exists elsewhere, to be reached someday. Right where you are, within what is happening right now, you come to find peace. And in that process, the memories that have accumulated since the very moment the universe was born are set free, one by one.

Whether we are cleaning or not, problems keep coming, one after another. Isn’t that something we all know?

So here, I would like to ask you one question.

Will you simply watch it, react to it, and go on suffering? Will you live while pretending not to see it? Or will you use this life to clean that problem and to be set free from its true cause?

This is not about which is good or bad. That is not something anyone can judge.

But you, reading these words right now, are surely aware of some problem and feel a wish to do something about it. If so, here is a proposal. As an option for freedom, I would like to introduce you to SITH Ho’oponopono.

I myself am often tripped up by stress. That has nothing to do with the many years I have spent cleaning. Cleaning does not mean that everything turns into a "happily ever after."

Back when Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len was still alive, I once said this to him:

"You always seem to be in the flow."

Then, with a mischievous smile, Dr. Hew Len said:

"If there is stress that you feel, then it is within me as well. I, too, am constantly assailed by memories."

Those words have stayed with me deeply, even now.

At the time, I believed that Dr. Hew Len was more accomplished in cleaning than anyone else. And of course, I still hold him in deep respect.

But when it comes to cleaning, no one is superior to anyone else. Each of us, in every moment, is given the opportunity to encounter our memories and to clean.

When we look around the world now, far too much is happening. It is complex and chaotic — a situation in which we can so easily be overwhelmed. In every country, it feels almost like a pressure cooker in which stress has built up.

Within all of this, will you feel powerless, simply exposed to stress, and go on receiving its effects throughout your life? Or will you choose for yourself and begin to clean in response to it? And in that process, will you once again entrust the helm not to stress, but to Divinity?

The choice to decide this is always given to you.