“Self-knowledge isn’t necessarily good news”. I think this points to the fact that increasing awareness needs to go hand in hand with increasing compassion and love. As you become aware of unconsciousness and lovelessness in yourself – the initial impulse might be self-judgment and self-hatred. This brings up the importance of self-forgiveness and self-compassion.
For this, I like the ho’oponopono prayer for this. As awareness expands into something not so nice in self or other this acknowledges this and “makes it right”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzA2YyRs8XA
Thank you for everything, I have absolutely no complaints about anything – from ingratitude which is personal ignorance to impersonal gratitude which receives what is. On the most transcendental level, all lovelessness and ignorance is simply ingratitude for what is. Saying thank you and welcoming what is is what brings us back into alignment with the unconditional love that is now. This seems also to be the active principle in the Ho’oponopono prayer.
This is a beautiful long version of the Ho’oponopono prayer. The Hawaiian tradition seems to have a concept of memories storing untruth and ignorance that distort simply being present and this way of seeing things is part of this prayer.
This is a bit meta but explains the Hawaiian concept of memory – which parallels non-duality notion of identification with thought as causing the illusion of personal self. Crucially, being in memory is not be present as presence – cleaning then is emptying out of self-identity with form to render you zero as pure awareness.
Dr Hew Len, goes into depth explaining how past data (memories) that aren’t depersonalized keep us trapped in personal and group cycles of repetition. Letting go of all past data – just being present – as no one – as pure presence means you’re free. Ho’oponopono erases the “past data” returning us to the essence of mind, letting go and forgiving our unconsciousness and letting it go. Letting go of our personal self.
