Heart Awakener – HiRa Hosèn

by Kristine Wilkerson
images by Shakinah Abir

Hira Hosèn

Laughs as we begin our conversation.

She had just completed a call with Jirka Rysavy, Founder, Chairman and CEO of GAIA the glob-al conscious media and community company. He had asked her the same question I started with:

KRISTINE: Who are you?

HIRA: There is no answer to this question other than I am infinite potential. I am infinite awareness. We all have a personality, but our true essence is infinite space.

KRISTINE: Where did you grow up?

HIRA: I grew up in a very small village in Holland on a farm. In that time, already when I was very young, about the age of your granddaughter (three and a half),I saw things. I saw golden light around people; especially around children. I had those gifts, but at six or seven those gifts were all closed. I felt deserted until I was about 25. I was pretty lost. Then slowly, slowly Ibegan remembering who I am, where I am from, whatmy mission is in life.

KRISTINE: What is your mission?

HIRA: I am here to help bring in ascension; the awakening to our true nature; the remembering of our true nature.

KRISTINE: What do you mean by ascension?

HIRA: Expansion of awareness. When our vibrational signature is at a higher frequency, we feel joy and happiness.

KRISTINE: I know you became a Zen Buddhist Nun in the Japanese Soto Zen lineage brought to the West by Zen Master Deshimaru. What guided you to that path?

HIRA: Yes, I took the ordination of Bodhisattva 15 years ago then became a nun 12 years ago. Many experiences led me there. About 20 years ago I felt called to travel in India for half a year meeting the most amazing people. I call this my Karmic travel period. When I returned to Amsterdam, one of my best friends said “let’s check out this Zen Dojo where they teach you how to meditate”. And, I really wanted to learn how to meditate. I had meditated in my own way as a young child and I wanted to know more. It was a very profound question inside of me. So we went.

It was at this dojo that I met my teacher, the Soto Zen community and my husband, Zenmonk Kosho. He was already a Zen Monk at that time; since he was 18. Now he is a Zen Master.

So, my life then became that way of life; study, meditation, peace. These along with love became my life. For ten years, my husband and I lived together in a beautiful ancient Zen temple in France. The first week after I was ordained a Zen Nun in 2007, I became pregnant. Basically it was the first thing I did as a nun. It is so me.

When we conceived, I saw a huge ball of light around my husband and my husband saw me with wings. It was truly amazing. When she was in my belly about three months. I was reading a book by Dr. Joshua David Stone about ascension. Reading about the Mahatma. Suddenly my whole body felt on fire. It was my daughter telling me that was her name. Mahatma is now almost 11.

We left our beautiful temple in 2016.

KRISTINE: After 10 years, why?

HIRA: When you live in a community, especially one with strict hierarchy, it can be difficult to find your way in a loving way. For me it became too much. My husband was very happy. I was not. I’ll write a book one day, Burn Out of a Zen Nun In a Zen Temple (Laughter) I know it’s hilarious. But, basically I was giving away too much of my personal power and energy.

KRISTINE: Your time there was complete?

HIRA: Yes, my time was complete but for my husband it was very difficult, and for my daughter, too. She is still missing that place. It was like heaven for her. It was very beautiful in the mountains of France. There were deer, eagles, animals, nature, rivers. The transition was very hard, a very difficult period. Going back into society, after ten years in the temple, needing to make a living, pay rent and taxes, it was huge. It’s been two and half years since we left, I feel now we have made it through. We are doing well. And, even though we don’t live in the temple I am still a nun completely.

I no longer practice in the dojo. I’m no longer wearing the clothes. But I do my practice every day. I do mudras and meditation. It is different in that I am not sitting in full lotus for eight hours not moving a hair like before. It has become the practice of the moment, the practice of presence. I cannot describe how much my experiences living in the Zen temple with the practices, discipline and sitting in meditation for long periods of time gave me. If I did not do my practices every day it would not be possible to be where I am now.

KRISTINE: I know, during the time you were in the temple, you also became a teacher with Drunvalo Melchezdek’s School of Remembering, how did that unfold?

HIRA: It’s interesting because I went to my first workshop with Drunvalo in 2010 but the path actually started way back in 2000. I went to Egypt in 2000. I had a very strong calling to be with the pyramids. It was so strong I thought I was a bit crazy. So I said to the Universe, “I’m not going to buy flight tickets, if I’m supposed to be there, you are going to bring me.” That was my deal. Around Christmas, a week before the new millennium, a girl came into the coffee shop where I worked. She sat down and I literally saw her face turn into the Sphinx. I knew this was my call. I went to her and I told her the story of feeling called to Egypt. She said, “Oh My Gosh, my boss has this huge company in Egypt and he just had an accident so he can’t go.” She said, “I’m sure he can arrange a flight for you. And he has a house where the windows open and you look at the pyramids.” It all worked out.

I went. On January 1, 2000, a girlfriend and I climbed and spent the night on top of the Great Pyramid. It was a transformational experience. (That’s a whole other story.) When we came down there was this young man walking by and he said to me “hold on’. He put his hand on my shoulder, and says, “Never forget the word ‘merkaba’.” I had never heard the word before. I even Googled it, there was nothing. Then I went journeying through the Sinai with the Bedouin. Whole story short, I went back to Amsterdam and one of my best friends says, “read this book”. It was Drunvalo Melchizedek’s book the Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life. I opened it on the word ‘merkaba’. Once I started reading I had such a relief flood my body. You can’t image it. I felt understood. I thought, “I am not crazy”. I felt that all the experiences in my life made sense. I felt like I belonged. I realized the gate I was trying to create in the pyramid was already there. I thought I had to build it, but it was already built.

It took me awhile to go to one of Drunvalo’s workshops because of life circumstances; I had my baby; we didn’t have the finances. When we finally had a little extra money my husband said, “For your birthday I’m sending you to the Drunvalo workshop in America, in Sedona.” I started crying and he said. “You love this information. It was important to you even before we met. So it is my gift to you.” At this workshop Drunvalo invited me to become a teacher in his new school. The invitation went straight into my heart. I knew I was to become a teacher of this “School of Remembering”. It was complete guidance. You know, “complete guidance”… knowing from the universe, feeling from inside that you are a part of it. Then following that guidance, being bold, being brave, being courageous, following that flow.

I received my certification in 2011, and spent time practicing it. I knew the information from my heart. I knew I could embody this teaching. I started teaching it in 2012.

KRISTINE: What is the core of that teaching?

HIRA: The core is living in your heart, in the two sacred spaces in the heart; and learning to activate your light body, the merkaba. Yes, the word the young man told me to never forget back at the Great Pyramid.

KRISTINE: Now, do you balance your work and home?

HIRA: When I became a teacher in the “School of Remembering”, it was clear to choose that career. Beautiful teachings. Beautiful work. All the workshops were full every month; each, in another country. I was gone every two weeks for six years. When Mahatma was eight she told me she didn’t feel I was there for her. That was not the feeling I wanted for my daughter. I took a half-year off and shifted my life. For one, I started teaching the workshops only once a year.

Since then my work has evolved in many ways. Now I don’t really say I teach because that infers people follow me. I guide or lead in a way that creates awareness and opportunities for people in their own power to awaken through sacred travel, experiences, workshops, I’ve created in person and online programs, as well as videos providing information on meditation, ascension, and light activations.

KRISTINE: Do you work with men and women?

HIRA: Yes, but mainly with women. The divine feminine is being awakened. Now it’s time for the women to rise up. Time to stand in our power, but not in an aggressive way. Some women, as this female energy starts to awaken, begin to get aggressive. This is not female energy at all. It’s a masculinized female. Female energy is much more about softness, much more about smoothness. That is why I am here, to bring in the ascension in a smooth way. Doesn’t matter if it comes in two generations. I’d be happy. It doesn’t need to be tomorrow ortoday.

KRISTINE: Thank you for being a part of this “Women of Distinction” edition of CWithin.

HIRA: Yes you are a part of this awakening. I love how you are weaving it together. When you invited me to participate what drew me was not so much the “Woman of Distinction” it was when you said: “My success is in presence.” For me that is what is important.

KRISTINE: Why important? What does presence mean to you?

HIRA: I sat in my meditation about this. It starts with presence itself. It’s not only a presence of being in a body having a certain type of life experience. My focus is mostly a presence of awareness. Presence comes from awareness.

Once I am aware of a thought about a situation I am in, and at the same time, aware of the situation itself, I pull it into source, for the truth. The awareness of the presence is what creates the magic. My daily practice is from the Bön lineage transmitted by a Tibetan teacher called Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Like many other Buddhists traditions, they use three doors to awakening. The first door is the stillness of the body. The second door is the silence of the speech. And, the third door opens into the spaciousness of the mind, the infinite spirit in the heart. The place of stillness, silence and spaciousness I hold as much as possible. It is from this place that I seek to experience as much as possible.

When you become aware of the body being in that stillness, the body being the source, like an instrument of source, then the body gets charged and becomes presence. Same with communication, if you want your communication to be present in the moment, not changed or manipulated, then the best way is to be aware of the silence and to communicate from that awareness of silence. When you are aware of silence everything changes. What you are going to say in the next seconds changes. Presence can be different. It can be presence of the body, presence of the speech or communication, presence of the mind. How do you perceive the things? For example, do you perceive your body as bones and structure or are you aware your body is pure space? That awareness of space, silence, stillness is changing your presence in those three different fields.

So then you can ask what creates the presence of a woman. And you can look at the archetypal energy. For women I would say it is wisdom. Wisdom does not need to be a very serious thing. It can be very playful and beautiful. It’s actually the opposite of seriousness. It’s a woman who behaves with childlike openness. Tome that’s connection to wisdom.

I believe our success is in PRESENCE. And, I thankyou for weaving me in.

‘Ascension’ is essentially about being aware. Raising our vibrational signature. An expansion of awareness. It means living our life through the compassion, forgiveness and wisdom of our Heart. It’s about a merge in consciousness, becoming a collective of ‘beingness’, a return to our divine presence & essence within.

Hira Hosèn

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Visit Hira’s website
tantraoftheheart.com

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