Friday, April 20, 2007

The Island of Paradise is turning into "The Island of Hell"

For many many years people around the world call Bali as Island of Paradise, others call The Island of Thousand Temples or a Living Museum. But now Bali is really in pain. With the development of mass tourism industry has turned Bali into island of thousand hotels, which has taken a lot of rice field which actually the source of life of the island. Without rice field Bali will not mean anything. This situation if it is not taken care seriously Bali will not Bali anymore.Balinese should be able to say enough is enough. Balinese should not always only using mind in responding to the globalization. Mind is very limited if it is not completed with feeling. The combination of mind and feeling will be able to understand the unseen.Balinese should now be doing a very deep contemplation in order to be able to undertand what they have done wrong. For many years Balinese undertand that mony is everything, which is absolutly wrong. Yes, money is very important like air but if we cannot manage it, is will manage us, it will drive us creasy. This is what being happened now in Bali.There is only one way for Balinese to survive. The way is love. To love Bali as it is. To love means to do something for nothing, to do everything for the sake of Bali, for the sake of Motherland. The law of cause and effect is applied to everything. It means that if we love something it will result in love even we do not expect it.How can we do this? First we have to love ourself. It is not possible for someone to love someone else if he does not have love. It's like someone want to give some money to someone else. He must have some money first, then he can give it to someone.To love Bali means to do our job in whatever field as an offering to Bali, to Motherland, to mother that gives life to everything.

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