Everything in Bali is about the Art of Harmony

The Balinese understand that everything in life is created from the same energy, form the same source—God

to the Balinese the purpose of life is to live in harmon y with the energy of life and they will then be in harmony and oneness with The Creator.

As one explores the island of Bali it quickly becomes evident that everything is no only in harmon y with life but is also manifested as a piece of the art and beauty of life. This is visible in not only the ceremonies but in the every day life.

Everything is in balance, peace, and oneness with the energy of life.

Learned — Keys for Peace to Live By

We are continueing to keep the Bali Blog open. From time to time we will be posting photos, wisdoms keys and stories that reflect how we have found the peace of Bali where ever we are. For Bali is a sacred place in the back of our hearts. By sharing our true-life wisdoms of what works, it is our hope that you too can find that place in your heart that is Bali and learn to always liver there also.

A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

As part of David's celebration for his 80th birthday he and Pam created a personal message of The Keys to Walking the Path of Peace that they have lived by for the fifteen years that they have been together.

As a result their relationship has been a constant journey of going deeper and deeper into the an inner state of balance, peace and love. This inner state is reflected in their outer world of oneness with life. 

Learned—Keys for Peace to Live By

  July 30, 2015 

 Pam and David Cooper

 David’s 80 th birthday

• Would you rather struggle to maintain control just to be right, or sail with the flow and be happy.

• Live in fear and you become fear and project fear to others and it comes back to you.

• Earth is the school and love is the lesson. 

• To Love means no one is hurt by your my thoughts, words or actions

• The chaos in the world is our teacher. Without the chaos we can never learn to love. 

• It’s easy to love the lovables. Our journey is to learn to love the unloveables.

• Love is free of all judgements, agenda and expectations. 

• What we focus on we create more of in our life.

• Stop searching for love and become love and give it away.

When I turn my fears over to God

THINGS ALWAYS WORK OUT FOR ME
Balinese spiritual belief

When fear is in my face

I reach out and put my arms around it.

I bring it into my heart and give 
the fear and the outcome up to God.

I enter the sacred chamber

in the back of my heart. 

There I become One

with my higher self.

The back door opens and I am 

One with the heart of God.

God takes my fears and shows me 

the way to walk through the event in peace.

Balance, harmony and oneness returns to my life, 

as myeline is filed with peace and miracles.

And things always work out for me.

Shared with our love,

Pam and David

The Power of Our Magic Heart

Mountains of Life

Greetings on a new day dawning

From David's new soon to be released e-Book

The Mystical Mountains of Banff.

Wisdoms and Photos about Life

Life — It's all about Love

WISDOM FROM A WISE ELDER

                                              Grandfather  Bear Heart

                                                                1918 — 2008

Balinese — Walking the Path of Peace

The following posts will set forth some of the different keys that are a part of

the Balinese way for Walking the Path of Peace.

The first key is that they believe that everything in the universe is created from the same energy from the same source — God the Creator. Thus to live in peace is to remember that the energy of life and creation is their teacher.  Their task is to learn how to live in harmony with the energy of life by exploring what works and what does not work.  They then alway follow the model of physically and spiritually walking the path not talking about walking the path.

The keys to walking the path of peace are the lost ancient secrets of life that were hidden many years ago. Most have forgotten that they existed. However the Balinese appear to be the only collective on earth that have continued to walk the path of the ancients today

The secrets have been passed down from generation to generation through their stories, ceremonies as well as their rituals and beliefs.  From my travels Bali is the only culture in the world that still lives in harmony with this ancient model for life.

 There is very little written about the how to for it is up to each to discover what works and what does not work. In addition it is important for their parents  to pass these secrets on to their children.

When I first arrived in Bali in 1991 and asked many Balinese what is the purpose of life, they each replied:

To live a good enough life so that when I die I will be reborn as a Balinese.

If I live a really good live I will be reborn to the same village.

If I live a really, really good life I will be reborn to the same family.

My next question was, how do you live a good life. To which they all replied.

By serving God first.

The next question was how does one serve God. To which they all answered,  

By serving our family second, 

our village third and  

 the rest of the world fourth.

It was then that I saw that Bali was a collective where each person lived their life focused on the We and the Us of life, instead of the I and the Me of life. Instantly it all made sense, everyone in Bali is in harmony, for even the so called stumbling blocks when the veil is lifted and viewed as moment that were out of balance, they simply shift their inner world and the outer stumbled blocks become major steeping stones that move them forward on their path of peace.

Immediately the keys of peace are clear

Never point our finger to give directions or to blame.

Never stand with our hands on our hips.

 Always focus on the we and us . . . instead of the I and me.

Always accept that our outer would is a reflection of their inner world.

When our outer world is in chaos it is always  because our inner world is in chaos.

The only way to change our outer world is to first change our inner world.

When, we own the inner chaos and change our inner world to peace 

our outer world will also become one of peace.

The Journey Continues

EXPLORING THE PATH OF PEACE

We stepped out of our silver bird that we call our Time Machine having arrived safely back home in Florida. We awoke up the next morning to a beautiful sunrise of celebration of the completion of another fantastic trip exploring the path of peace of Bali.

During our many hours sitting in the plane we discussed how to keep this blog active for we have had over 5,000 hits from the United States and fifteen additional counties.  We both feel that the focus of the Blog on Bali is more then a journey of exploring a unique culture. It is about the fact that Bali is different. It is the only culture that lives the model of peace begins within and live always from their heart. A model that most of the rest of the world talks about doing but few accomplish the shift.

Most countries and individuals spend their time pointing their fingers at others as the cause of the conflict and chaos in their life.  They generally spend their time complaining and sometimes doing battle with others to get them to change. Others simply totally ignore what is happening as they wait for the magic moment when the galactic beings descend and with their magic wands bring peace to the earth.

Become like the flowers 

let your beauty radiate

the compassion that you are.

With the interest that appears to be taking place with this blog to explore other ways, it appears that our viewers are of a new group that is forming. A group of individuals that acknowledge that pointing the finger at others and waiting for peace to come is not working. They are beginning to realize that their outer would is a reflection of their inner world, just as the Balinese believe and live. To change our outer world all one has to do is to change our inner world. Thus peace is an inside job and each of us are responsible for being a positive part of the movement.

It is time to build a bridge between our heart and our mind.

We believe that is what is taking place, not only with this blog but with other groups and individuals around the world. We would like to share more of our stories and wisdoms which have been gained from our twenty-four year quest to find the answer to the big questions — how to walk the path of peace.

So we will begin to publish simple posts that are from out true-life adventure journal of what works and what does not work.  If the hits on this blog continue we will continue to post the wisdom of inner peace.

Each day we have a choice to choose

the path of peace or the path of fear.

Which will you choose?

We plan to have our first Path of Peace post in a few days and  will try to post something new once or twice a week.  So please keep checking back. If there has not been a new post then check some of the old posts that you simply skimmed over for there is a lot of info already posted.

Don't Say Good-bye Say So Long

We have complete our thirty days in Bali with our final ceremony for safe journey.

Tonight  with the setting of the sun, we get on the big silver bird, we call our time machine, and will wake up in Florida our home.

Fear not, we will keep the Bali Blog open for we have been receiving 500 to 600 hits per day.  This makes us feel excited that others in the world are interested in finding, exploring and walking The Path of Peace.

Once we are home and have access to our big comuter we will continue to share stories of the magic of Bali in hope that the reader will be able to take the model set forth in the stories and apply it to their life.

The one thing we have learned is you do not have to come to Bali to find peace. For the energy of peace is simply the energy of creation of which all things are manifested. This energy is around us everyday, all day. All one has to do is to let go their fears and become One with the energy of creation — nature and they will be at peace.

So please keep us on your list of sites you check regularly. About Sunday 11 Oct we should be posting again.

You can also Follow us on Twitter @ThePathofPeace

Please be patient with us for this is a new adventure of sharing through blogs, twitter and face book and soon a new web page, for up to this time  all sharing has been face to face.

Now it is off to the time machine to take us to our next magical adventure. 

When we arrive to where we are going we will check back in with more wisdoms from our true-life adventures. 


In closing we remember the message from the stone age temple site:

Don't say good-by say so long.


Pam and David, 
The Playful explorers of 
the ancient mysteries of life.

Buddhist Temple — Bali

Bali is called the Way Shower for Peace. 

The Balinese belief is that their outer world is a reflection of their inner world. To bring peace to their outer world they simply bring peace to their inner world. As a result, after the two Bali bombing they focused on bringing more love into their hearts instead of doing battle with the bombers. 

The Balinese went each night to their temples to increase the peace in their hearts. After the second bombing and more prayers for inner peace, balance was returned to the hearts of the people. The island of Bali became an island of calm surrounded by a sea of chaos.

This peace is evident in Bali for the Balinese, Muslims, Christians and the Chinese are all living in peace with each other, honoring the others ways of life and religions.

This is evident when one visits the buddhist temple on the North shore of Bali.

There are many water gardens in the Temple. This water lilly is a symbol of the open heart.

A balinese priest honoring the golden sleeping Buddha

 The repelica of Borobudur Stupa, near Yogyakarta, Java 

The symbol of

— A Place of Peace and Power —

This replica has recently been finished and is now a major focus of the Buddhist Temple in Bali. 

It creates a a site for prayers and meditation for Peace.

Divine Love

The Sacred Pink Lotus is

The Symbol of 

DIVINE LOVE

From the garden at
The Buddhist Monastery — Bali

Surrendering to Love

Each year we visit the temple of Pura Ulun Danu, Tamblingan. Our feeling is that the site dates back to the stone age as a sacred site. To reach the temple we have to cross the lake by canoes and then climb a long steep set of stairs. As we reached the center of the lake we felt the power of the energy of the site welcoming us.

Reaching the shore on the far side of the lake we stepped out of our canoe and stood at the steps that would lead up to the ancient sacred site. As we began our journey up the steps I noticed that the energy had increased, as it has each year.  It was clear that it was going to be a difficult climb for me for as I went up each step it felt as if the energy was pushing me back. 

Each step up began and ended with a prayer to get permission and then to physically open the  vale and step though. As I neared the top I had to sit and rest. As I rested I thought, I can't make it. I need to go back down. 

Instantly another voice arrived that said, If you have enough energy to go backdown, you have enough energy to continue the climb. I stood and asked permission to continue and the path opened. Standing tall I climbed the remaining steps and entered the temple. The resistant was gone.

In the temple the energy  had doubled in power since last year.  Yet it was still the power of the still point — the point where nothing appears to be happening yet total creation is present. 

Being in the power was like being home with God. The awareness was that there was nothing to do except to absorb, enjoy and become one with the energy of God’s love.

With the completion of our prayers  I stood in front of the alter and said my good-bye. For having just celebrated my 80th birthday I felt this might be our last trip to Bali. Instantly that voice within me boomed forth. 

Do not say good-bye. Say so long. I AM everywhere.

As I stood at the top of the steps Pam looked at me and said, You look different. Without thinking my reply was, I am.  I’ve been loved.

Returning  across the lake to our transport a new awareness arrived, The energy I had felt as we crossed the lake to the tenmple as well as I climbed the stairs to me felt overwhelming. Now I realized that in fact it was simply God’s love welcoming me.

A deep inner laugh let me know that not only have I been struggling and resisting God’s love for years but also the love from others because it was not what I believe love is.

Once again I marveled at the simplicity of life when I let go my judgements and simply open to receive and become one with whatever is happening to me.

I AM

As we were paddling our canoe back across the lake from the ancient stone age temple to the temple on the opposite shore where we parked our car this cloud appeared above us.

The message in my heart was, 

I Am — Everywhere. 

When you need help simply look up and ask.

Then move forward in love doing what needs to be done . . . with love.

Always know that I am always there for you.

And things will return to balance and Oneness of Life.

Full Moon in Bali

Kupu Kupu Butterflies

Taking some time to enjoy the uniqueness of nature at the Bali Butterfly Park.  These butterflies emerged from their cocoon this morning.  Maybe that is why they were so cooperative to be place upon me.  The park is filled with plants to support the different phases of their life.   A two week like span is all these butterflies have.  

This is the famous Kupa Kupa.  It is the largest butterfly in Bali.  Look at that wing span.  Awesome.

Family Temple Anniversary Ceremony

This it the family that adopted David in 1991 when he moved to Bali to recover from his illnesses.

The anniversary of the temple is celebrated every three years. This year it was a high celebration, thus many high offerings and rituals were performed.