“When you erase something from your computer, where does it
go?” he asked the room.
“To the recycle bin,” someone shouted out.
“Exactly,” Dr. Hew Len said. “It’s still on your computer, but it’s
out of sight.Your memories are like that. They are still in you, just
out of sight. What you want to do is erase them completely and
permanently.”
I found this fascinating, but I had no idea what it meant or
where it was going. Why would I want memories permanently
deleted?
“You have two ways to live your life,” Dr. Hew Len explained.
“From memory or from inspiration. Memories are old programs
replaying. Inspiration is the Divine giving you a message.You want
to come from inspiration.The only way to hear the Divine and re-
ceive inspiration is to clean all memories. The only thing you have
to do is clean.”
Dr. Hew Len spent a lot of time explaining how the Divine is
our zero state—it’s where we have zero limits. No memories. No
identity. Nothing but the Divine. In our lives we have moments of
visiting the zero limits state, but most of the time we have garbage—
what he calls memories—playing out.
“When I worked at the mental hospital and would look at pa-
tients’ charts,” he told us, “I would feel pain inside me. This was a
shared memory. It was a program that caused the patients to act the
way they did. They had no control. They were caught up in a pro-
gram. As I felt the program, I cleaned.”
Cleaning became the recurring theme. He told us a variety of
ways to clean, most of which I can’t explain here because they are con-
fidential.You have to attend a ho’oponopono workshop to learn them
all (see http://www.hooponopono.org). But here is the method of cleaning
Dr. Hew Len used the most, and still uses, and the one I use today:
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