Thursday, June 28, 2007

Contribution & Adventure Trip Notes 6-15 thru 6-19

Day 1 Ubud June 15:
  • Being Aware = Being Alive.
  • Openess & trust Essential to allow contribution. This opens up access to expanded adventure. Thus manager of Gusti's Bungalow suggesting Bike Tour occurs to me as Contribution & opportunity vs. selling & pressure.
  • Contrast to ordinary view - Contribution (as sacrifice) vs Adventure.
  • But openess/trust & view that others are Contribution must be a Choice. If I have to be open just to be polite then no real contribution is possible. eg. the 2nd & 3rd Artist wanting to sell me their stuff, and I pretend to listen & be open when I'm really just wanting to move on.
  • Completion as Access to restoring power. Get complete each day with excess sales people, my talking too much to other tourists, my expenses higher than expected. I read the source document or Budhist handbook to get complete and have compassion for myself & others.

Day 4 Ubud June 19:
Balese people believe everyone has 2 spirits - One God that gives voice saying Yes you can, and One Demon that gives voice saying No you can't.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

James,
You will always be alive so it is wise to be AWARE. Keep on keeping on. Have a great trip. What did you mean about more expenses than expected? Because of the different tours? What kind of paintings are they trying to see you?

Love Peggy