Ulrich E. Duprée - Hooponopono

Ulrich Emil Dupre

Hooponopono The Hawaiian forgiveness ritual as the key to your lifes fulfilment

The Book

Hooponopono is the Hawaiian ritual of forgiveness. It proceeds from an understanding of the unity of everything in the world, which is true even though we feel ourselves to be separate. Because of this unity or oneness, nothing can happen in our own world without creating a resonance in the observer. It follows that we can only influence problems in the external world if we heal the corresponding inner resonance. To accomplish this, Hooponopono relies on four magic sentences: I am sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. Thank you. In this little book Ulrich Emil Dupre describes Hooponopono in a simple way that everyone can immediately transform into their own experience.

The Author

Ulrich Emil Dupre, born 1962, is a spiritual seeker and teacher, author and seminar leader. He has studied Christian and Far Eastern philosophies and has lived, among other places, in a Hindu monastery. If you ask him about his profession, he will perhaps answer that he is a builder of bridges who has had a concrete encounter with an angel. Further information available at www.hooponoponosecret.com

First Edition 2012

Ulrich Emil Dupre

Hooponopono The Hawaiian forgiveness ritual as the key to your lifes fulfilment

This English edition 2012 Earthdancer GmbH

English translation 2012 Tony Mitton

Editing of the translated text: Claudine Eleanor Bloomfield

Originally published as

Hooponopono Das hawaiianische Vergebungsritual World Copyright 2011 Schirner Verlag, Darmstadt

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ISBN 978-1-84409-099-5

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Dear Reader:

This book is about forgiveness. What is more appropriate than to begin with a dramatic story of sacrifice? It was shortly before Christmas 1970 and I was eight years old when my father died on the carpet in front of me. Why? Was it fair? Did it have any meaning? In my search for answers to these questions, I got to know my first spiritual teacher, the theologian and psychoanalyst Doctor and Professor Joachim Scharfenberg. I have to thank him and his wife, amongst others, for my first glimpses into the world of the Pythagoreans and that of Rudolf Steiner. Since then I have lived as an independent, a traveller, quiet researcher, seminar leader and also a monk.

In my life I have had the good fortune to be able to walk with great souls and thereby gain an intensive knowledge of two spiritual paths: Christian teachings from my familys side and Hinduism as a kind of adopted spiritual home. These two paths appear outwardly so different, and yet they are the scenery of the same theatre, which in all times and cultures reveals a single truth.

In the course of my search for answers and for the Source of all Being, I have found in the Hawaiian forgiveness ritual of Hooponopono a further key to open doors, and for this I am deeply grateful. At this point I should like to express my thanks and deepest respect for all those who, all across the world, have left various keys behind them, and will do so in the future too.

Protected by the remoteness of a small group of islands in the middle of the Ocean of Peace, a simple but very effective method has survived the centuries. I should like to acquaint you with this blossom from Hawaii, which is quite tender and fragile, even holy, and so exists as the most effective method of solving conflicts and problems. Welcome to the world of the Hooponopono.

The roots of Hooponopono reach far back into the past, thousands of years back, perhaps even to the time of Atlantis, Lemuria and the High Vedic Culture. Hooponopono belongs to a system of ancient Hawaiian teaching called the Huna. Hu means knowledge, and na represents wisdom, and the guardians of this ancient teaching are called kahunas Huna experts. Only to know something without then using it really makes nonsense of it, because wisdom is revealed by what a person does, not by what they know. Hooponopono also comes alive when it is used, and so I invite you into this little book and thereby to walk in a world full of wisdom, wonder and beauty; a world whose existence you have always suspected, but could never grasp until now.

The Hawaiians call their group of islands The Land of Aloha, The Land of Love. Aloha contains the essence of the Huna teaching of knowledge and wisdom, and it forms the basis of Hooponopono. Aloha means, I see the divine in you, and I see the divine in myself. This carries the understanding that you and I, your neighbour and the President in the White House, all of us travel a common road, and that there is only one power in the Universe, namely the energy of unconditional love, mana aloha in Hawaiian. Aloha has only a single commandment: never to harm, always to help. The command to harm no one begins with not harming oneself. And thus, to love your neighbour as yourself. Mana aloha is the essence of Gods energy, the energy that penetrates and informs everything. The wise Hindu monks with whom I was allowed to live called this energy bhakti, meaning devotion, and the Tibetan monks whom I also encountered called it compassion. By this, they did not merely have in mind an emotion, but a directly experienced energy that influences the environment and creates a new reality. Hooponopono is this compassion in action, and therefore it is the theme of this book.

According to a story from humankinds beginnings, the problems of the world arose when we fell into the error of thinking that instead of only one power, there were two: good and evil. Instead of compassion and its logical consequence, the realisation that all is one, judgment and condemnation entered human thinking. Humankind took a step away from unity into separation the first so-called advance in our history.

Hooponopono is a simple way of arriving at unity, inner peace and returning to harmony. Hooponopono implies solving a problem from the ground up and applying the solution to useful ends. It expresses the deep need to live once again in harmony with oneself and with humanity, nature and God. Hoo means to make and pono is translated right or correct. It follows that ponopono would be rightly right and so hooponopono quite simply represents to make rightly right. To make anything rightly right means to join oneself again with ones Higher Self and the Source of All Being to be in ones own centre, returned to harmony, and balanced once again so that one is able to realign the environment and reshape reality. To make rightly right means an intention, after veering off course, to bring oneself back onto the right road, becoming sound in body and spirit and achieving happiness and wellbeing.