The Healing Power of Being Here
/We have a traditional Teaching which is one of the Pillars we live by in our Lineage.
The Teaching of Pono.
To be Pono is to live in right alignment Spiritually, Mentally, Emotionally, Physically. It encompasses your whole being and extends beyond your Physical Self.
Living Pono requires living Pono with everything around us and to recognise that each thing we can see, taste. feel, each element of the Earth, the Skies, the Water, the Winds, the Oceans – everything that shares our Planet and our Cosmos – has both a Spirit and a Name.
Which means It is the same as you and I. It is sentient to put it another way. It feels.
Of course we are not the only ones to recognise this Spirit in all that is. Most First Nations people have a similar Teaching – which goes to show you that Pono is an ancient Truth that was once known and lived by all.
Living Pono is a 24/7, 365 day donʻt-take- your- foot-off-the-pedal commitment to being full Present. To be fully on Purpose – which is to be Here. Which I have shared before over in the Hālau and through the Socials.
Anything that prevents you from Living Pono is a Pōhaku – a Stone. We use the Pōhaku as a metaphor to explain the heaviness, the weight, the immovable nature of Stone. Stone blocks your Inner Light, your Light of Aloha, which is unconditional love for yourself and all things.
You cannot say you unconditionally love all things in this Universe if you do not love yourself as well. In fact, you cannot be Pono without Self Love. If you are not in Self Love then you create an imbalance within yourself and not only within yourself – within All Things. Because All Things require you to be in balance, in alignment – Pono – so All Things can exist within that too.
All Other Things rely on you to do your part. To attend to yourself with love, care and compassion – and when you do, this love, care and compassion is also experienced by All Things because you are in a Pilina, a Relationship with them, simply because you exist in each of the same spaces they do: Spiritually, Mentally, Emotionally, Physically.
There are so many parts to Living Pono – like a Rubiks Cube, the parts must move around until each part matches and is aligned to create the whole. Living Pono is not a single act but a series of acts repeated over and over again. Each time, refinement happens at the Universal Level, which is also the Universal Level of You too.
It is movement in tandem. It is relationship. One canʻt really move without the other. Which is also why Living Pono is our collective Kuleana/responsibility which starts with each individual doing their hana/their inner work to create the state of Pono within them, their families, their communities and on it goes.
When we Live Pono, we embrace Essence rather than Form. We see difference in shapes, in Form, but we donʻt let it be recognition of difference, but rather sameness through the recognititon of Essence. When we Live Pono we are communicating from our Spiritual Essence to the Spiritual Essence of another.
We create a movement that extends into the Universe of such powerful Mana that it has the potential to exist in the Phsyical World long after we have departed it. We leave this vibration behind. It is our legacy. It is what enables our Generations to continue. And if we do this well, to Live Pono themselves. This is how we can heal the human world.
The human world needs healing but has become blinded to how to do it. People aren’t blind to the level of commitment to themselves it takes – it just that they don’t want to sustain that commitment for life. That’s what we mean when we say blind to the how.
Right now each one of us can be part of The Great Awakening. The non-human world doesnʻt need healing because it continues to live in a Pono relationship. It persists in trying to have this relationship with us so that we can recognise itʻs interdependence on us, it’s familial relationship to us.
But if we continue not to hear – and, just say humankind ceased to exist, everything else could survive and live without us. But does it want to? Clearly that answer is NO, because if it did want to it could have wiped us out Generations ago. And still can...
But no, it continues to try and teach us the right way to live. That’s why we recognise all living things as our Kūpuna, our Elders. Take a walk around your garden, peek outside your window and really see the abundance of life that moves in harmony with the very next thing it touches. It helps each thing to grow and recognises it’s unique place in that growth. And it grows too because it is giving and receiving. Reciprocity.
We can be like that too – our world is showing us. We need to learn to listen. We need to learn to not be afraid of change and of things we donʻt quite understand. We need to relearn to Trust and that we donʻt have to think 2,3,4 steps ahead. We just have to be Present. We just have to decide to be Here.
We just have to recognise to be fully HERE is our great work, and the Teaching of Pono is one of the ways we learn to be fully conscious of the magnitude of embracing a simple, yet noble Truth - our Life Purpose is to be humbly Here.
