Bali Hindu Quotes

Jkt 20/12/2012 Bulan ini bulan desember,spt juga desember thn2 sebelumnya pada bulan ini umat kristiani mempunyai hari besar semacam tradisi tahunan yaitu yg di sebut "Natal" atau Natale (italia) atau Christmas,dan sebagai penganut kirstiani sejak lahir saya selalu menikmati bulan2 desember spt ini tiap tiap tahunnya,saya selalu menikmatinya didalam hati saya,apalagi saat saya masih kanak kanak dulu,karena natal identik dengan hadiah untuk anak2,desember adalah menjadi bulan yg paling saya tunggu2 karena pada bulan itu akan ada sebuah kado yang menunggu saya pd bulan itu,akan ada gemerlap cahaya lampu pohon dan hiasan hiasan natal lainnya,saya akan memakai baju baru juga saya akan tampil dipanggung gereja memainkan fragmen dan drama natal bersama anak2 lainnya yang juga memakai baju baru yg menambah kesan natal semakin saya tunggu, Saya lahir di Indonesia saya tinggal di Indonesia saya bersekolah di Indonesia,negara yg mempunyai beragam agama yg mana agama2 itupun mempunyai Hari besar nya masing2,sejak masih kanak2 saya selalu terharu ketika melihat org lain berdoa entah dengan memakai tata cara agama apa mereka berdoa yg jelas saya selalu merasa ada suatu hal yg berbeda dlm hati saya ketika melihat org berdoa itu,saya bersahabat dgn beberapa teman saya orang2 keturunan yg beragama Budha,sy juga punya beberapa sahabat org Bali dan keturunan India yg beragama Hindu,walaupun jumlah mereka tidak sebanyak sahabat2 saya dari kaum Muslim,Muslim adalah mayoritas di negri ini otomatis muslimlah yg hampir 90% dari mereka setiap harinya berinteraksi dengan saya, lebih dalam lagi saya pun mempunyai banyak family sedarah dari kakek saya yg beragama muslim,tidak heran kalau sy pun menikmati hari raya Idul fitri,dan tidak jauh berbeda dengan natal momen Lebaran adalah menjadi hari yg saya tunggu2 juga, karena setiap tahunnya saya akan berkumpul dgn sanak family dan kerabat merasakan ketupat lebaran dan opor ayamnya juga saya bisa meminta maaf dan bersalaman dengan orang yg pernah bertengkar dengan saya dengan ucapan minal aidin walfaidzin,luar biasa hubungan batin saya dengan muslim sepertinya suatu hal yg tidak bisa terpisahkan,tetapi diluar daripada itu semua terjadi dilema dalam hidup saya ketika saya menyaksikan hal2 lain yg "mengusik mesranya hubungan saya dengan muslim,di saat yg sama berita di media masa sebegitu hebatnya memberitakan hal yang menumbuhkan opini2 perpecahan yang semakin hari semakin jauh dari kata "damai" dimana pandangan yg berbeda tentang Tuhan adalah menjadi alasan untuk pendidikan perang! sehingga seolah olah memaksa manusia siaga satu dan siap untuk membenci saat ada kaum yg berbeda dengan mereka,saya muak dengan ini, Keperdulian saya dgn keharmonisan keduanya Membuat saya tertarik utk "mencari tau tentang isi dari kedua agama ini,dgn hati yg bertanya tanya ada apa sebenarnya yg terjadi di dalamnya?,dengan segala keterbatasan saya bertahun tahun saya mencoba mencari titik temu antara perbedaan dan persamaan antara kristen dan islam,rasa ingin tau saya yg membuat saya sedikit demi sedikit menggali keduanya mulai dari sisi sejarah,segi terminologi,sisi tafsir2 atau doktrin (aqidah) nya,dgn mencari sumber2 yg akurat atau dengan cara bertanya,berdiskusi dll,sy tidak terlalu tau apa tujuan dan visi saya tapi yg jelas saya tertarik untuk mengetahuinya dan kadang saya lelah!saya merasa terlalu jauh memikirkan ini semua,saya merasa agama yg seharusnya memproduksi kedamaian dan cinta thd sesama malah membuat saya pusing dan muak karna saya koq malah pusing memikirkan konflik2 dan benturan2 yg justru disebabkan oleh agama itu sendiri Seiring berjalannya waktu pemahaman saya terhadap natal dan bulan desember itupun mulai terpisah,saya sudah mempunyai pemahaman sendiri mengenai natal,Desember hanyalah salah satu bulan dari 12 bulan yg ada,tetapi damai natal itu sendiri harus berada dalam sanubari dan jiwa dan roh saya setiap hari, "Selamat Natal Damai Selalu Beserta Kita Semua" Amien.........

On a break from the tour, I went south to Bali, a place the choreographer Toni Basil, whom Eno and I had met during the Bush Of Ghosts sessions, had recommended as being transporting and all about performance. I rented a small motorcycle and headed up into the hills, away from the beach resort. I soon discovered that if one saw offerings of flowers and fruit being brought to a village temple compound in the afternoon, one could be pretty certain that some sort of ritual performance would follow there at night. Sure enough, night after night I would catch dances accompanied by gamelan orchestras and shadow-puppet excerpts from the Hindu Ramayana--epic and sometimes ritual performances that blended religious and theatrical elements. (A gamelan is a small orchestra made up mainly of tuned metallic gongs and xylophone-like instruments--the interplay between the parts is beautiful and intricate.) In these latter events some participants would often fall into a trance, but even in trance there were prescribed procedures. It wasn't all thrashing chaos, as a Westerner might expect, but a deeper kind of dance. As In Japanese theater, the performers often wore masks and extreme makeup; their movements, too, were stylized and "unnatural." It began to sink in that this kind of "presentational" theater has more in common with certain kinds of pop-music performance that traditional Western theater did. I was struck by other peripheral aspects of these performances. The audiences, mostly local villagers of all ages, weren't paying attention half the time. People would wander in and out, go get a snack from a cart or leave to smoke a bidi cigarette, and then return to watch some more. This was more like the behavior of audiences in music clubs than in Western theaters, where they were expected to sit quietly and only leave or converse once the show was over. The Balinese "shows" were completely integrated into people's daily lives, or so it seemed to me. There was no attempt to formally separate the ritual and the show from the audience. Everything seemed to flow into everything else. The food, the music, and the dance were all just another part of daily activity. I remembered a story about John Cage, who, when in Japan, asked someone what their religion was. The reply was that they didn't have a strict religion--they danced. Japanese do, of course, have Buddhist and Shinto rituals for weddings, funerals, and marriages, but a weekly thing like going to church or temple doesn't exist. The "religion" is so integrated into the culture that it appears in daily gestures and routines, unsegregated for ordinary life. I was beginning to see that theatricality wasn't necessarily a bad thing. It was part of life in much of the world, and not necessarily phony either.

Since 9/11, the level of terror attacks has only increased. In late 2001, terrorists launched a suicide attack on the Parliament in India, intended to cause anarchy. In 2002, a Passover Seder in a hotel in Netanya, Israel, was bombed, killing 29 and injuring 133. In the same year, a café was suicide bombed in Jerusalem, a Hindu Temple in Ahmedabad, India was attacked, and a Bali nightclub was bombed, killing 202. In 2004, four simultaneous attacks took place in Casablanca, killing 33. On March 11, 2004, multiple bombings took place on trains in Madrid, Spain, killing 191 and injuring 1,460. Al Qaeda claimed credit, particularly so after the near-term Spanish elections turned out of office an administration working with the U.S. in Iraq.

Since 9/11, the level of terror attacks has only increased. In late 2001, terrorists launched a suicide attack on the Parliament in India, intended to cause anarchy. In 2002, a Passover Seder in a hotel in Netanya, Israel, was bombed, killing 29 and injuring 133. In the same year, a café was suicide bombed in Jerusalem, a Hindu Temple in Ahmedabad, India was attacked, and a Bali nightclub was bombed, killing 202. In 2004, four simultaneous attacks took place in Casablanca, killing 33. On March 11, 2004, multiple bombings took place on trains in Madrid, Spain, killing 191 and injuring 1,460. Al Qaeda claimed credit, particularly so after the near-term Spanish elections turned out of office an administration working with the U.S. in Iraq. In 2005, 36 Christians in Demsa, Nigeria, were killed by Muslim militants; al Qaeda bombed London’s Underground, killing 53, and injuring 700; 64 died at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh; 60 died in bombings in Delhi; and 60 died in a series of coordinated attacks on hotels in Amman, Jordan.

Balinese Dance The antithesis of Balinese mellow is Balinese dance. It's amazing how people who relish lounging in bales (open-sided pavilions) can also produce art that demands methodical precision. A performer of the Legong, the most beautiful dance, spends years learning minutely choreographed movements from her eyeballs to her toes. Each movement has a meaning and the language flows with a grace that is hypnotic. Clad in silk and ikat, the dancers tell stories rich with the very essence of Balinese Hindu beliefs and lore. Every night there are multiple shows in Ubud.

Foreword Reviews Magazine. Foreword Reviews. Summer 2014 issue. "By way of introduction to Vivienne Kruger’s Balinese Food, bear in mind that eight degrees south of the equator, this modest-sized lava rich, emerald green island rests among the 17,508 remote, culturally distinct constellation of Indonesian islands. It is home to three million mortals who believe they are protected by an unfathomable number of Bali-Hindu goddesses and gods that inhabit the island’s sacred mountain peaks. The Balinese are unlike almost any other island people in that they are suspicious, even distrustful of the sea, believing mischievous spirits and negative powers dwell there—the underworld, as it were. Yes, they eat seafood, they just mostly let other Indonesians do the fetching. Fittingly, Kruger’s masterful use of language; dogged, on the ground conversations with thousands of Balinese cooks and farmers; and disarming humanity leads to a culinary-minded compendium unlike almost any other. Bali, you got the scribe you deserved. What made Kruger’s work even more impressive is the fact that almost nothing about Balinese food history has been written down over the years. She writes: “Like so many other traditions in Bali, cooking techniques and eating habits are passed down verbally by elders to their children and grandchildren who help in the kitchen. However, Indonesia has an old orally transmitted food culture because the pleasure of storytelling is entwined with the pleasure and effort of cooking and eating.” Balinese Food is framed around twenty-one chapters, including the all-important Sacred Ceremonial Cuisine, Traditional Village Foods, the Cult of Rice, Balinese Pig, Balinese Duck, and specialized cooking techniques like saté, banana leaf wrappers, and the use of bumbu, a sacred, powerful dry spice paste mixture. In the chapter Seafood in Bali, she lists a popular, fragrant accompaniment called Sambal Matah—chopped shallots, red chilies, coconut oil, and kaffir lime juice—that is always served raw and fresh, in this case, alongside a simple recipe for grilled tuna. An outstanding achievement in the realm of island cooking and Indonesian history, Balinese Food showcases the Balinese people in the most flattering of ways.

What has been missed out here is that the Indian traders of eastern India have discovered the Monsoon patterns many centuries before Hippalus. It was their knowledge of the wind patterns in the Eastern Sea that helped them navigate to Southeast Asia with the retreating Monsoon in late October and sail back to India with the advancing Monsoon in May. The event of starting off the sea voyage is still symbolically celebrated in Odisha as the festival of Bali Jatra (voyage to Bali). The festival is celebrated on the full moon of the Hindu month of Kartik (fifteen days after Diwali).

Thanks so much. I'm really enjoying the book. I've known a lot about Bali over my 37 years of going there ... but I didn't always know WHY those things were that way culturally, so it's been a fun read !!" Danielle Surkatty, Member of the Organizing Committee, Living in Indonesia, A Site for Expatriates. March 2014 "Such a handsome book! Tuttle did a great job on the design, both inside and out. I've only had a chance to skim the contents but look forward to reading it all. Of course, I'm no authority on food, Balinese or otherwise, but I think I'm a good judge of books. Yours is first rate." Cordially, Dr. Alden Vaughan, Professor of American History, Columbia University, New York. March 2014 "Dr. Vivienne Kruger Ph.D has emerged on a growing list of champions of Balinese cuisine with the publication of Balinese Food: The Traditional Cuisine and Food Culture of Bali (Tuttle Publishing, 2014). Vivienne Kruger’s long connection to Bali, her love of Balinese food and academic eye for detail has resulted in a book that breaks new ground in its study of Balinese culture, the Island's delicious food and the accompanying ancient traditional cooking methods." A Taste of Bali. From the Bookshelf - Balinese Food: The Traditional Cuisine and Food Culture of Bali (2/22/2014) Bali Update, Feb. 24, 2014. Edition 912. Bali Discovery "Balinese Food: The Traditional Cuisine & Food Culture of Bali. Just when you thought you knew a lot about Bali, along comes this in-depth look at the cuisine and how it fits into everyday culture. In Balinese Food the author brings to life Bali's time-honored and authentic village cooking traditions. In over 20 detailed chapters, she explores how the islands intricate culinary art is an inextricable part of Bali's Hindu religion, its culture and its community life. This book provides a detailed roadmap for those who wish to make their own exciting exploration of the exotic world of Balinese cooking!" Living in Indonesia. A Site for Expatriates. Recommended Publications.