What is the origin of Pono as a philosophy and Ka Hana Pono & Hooponopono as a practice?
The Hawaiians of old made no distinctions between nature, each other, ancestors, Spirit forces, or anything else. Lokahi, the sense of connection with all things, is Pono. Ka Hana Pono is the means by which one brings the philosophy into every day life. Ho’oponopono is the time-honored, therapeutic practice of putting one’s self back into right relationship with everything. The belief system behind the Pono, with Ka Hana Pono as a practice, and Ho’oponopono as a tool for realignment to restore harmony, were such important parts of the ancient Hawaiian tradition, that each successive wave of influence that arrived on these islands found they could not eliminate it, so instead co-opted it, and changed it to fit their own agendas and philosophies. The Tahitians in the 1200’s, headed by war chief Pa’ao, brought the first wave of foreign influences. They established a ruling hierarchy and commoner and slave classes, division of land, the concept of war to protect and enlarge territorial own
