lundi 22 décembre 2014

Important step/period in life of childhood, birth of Trust, gender wayang Anak-anak Sukawati, in Bali



Playing this instruments (Gender Bali) 4 player, each of them mastering left and right hands playing independently in control, and one side couple in complementary mirror with the other couple in front, left hand playing melody in union, right hand play in interlocking melody with others, also with the Wayang in case of shadow play accompaniment; rhythm, so the four is in harmony horizontally to enjoy together a transcending moment of concert, the 4 to serve the shadow of life, story, Wayang, shadow play.

Remembering my childhood in Bali, in the 1950's, awaken my peaceful feeling of well balance, smiling state of mind , energy and body. I regret now not to have the chance to learn it, even I have relative in my village at Banjar Pemedilan Denpasar, bapak Rindi from Tegallinggah, next village teaching gender,
but instead, I learn violin, guitar, and i joint an Orkes Kroncong, directed by my relative family : Bapak Wayan Suda....
The brother of Anak Agung Cakra give my mother a broken violin, and Bapak Suda repair it. But without teacher, my heart was beaten hard when playing the note of violin, so tense, i forgot to breath,  ha haaa.
At the age of 15, in Sumbawa Besar, i made my "guitar", in fact ukulele, made of tin ol Shell oil... with 4 plastic fishing line, .... funny childish proudness, I show off to my friends.  My mother was feeling ashamed that I took a tin ukulele for a guitar. She said:" if you success next years to upper class, I will buy you a guitar". Ha haa, it motivated my studying. As you imagine may be, I got my new guitar, is quiet big for me, and it sound vibrate last looonger than my tin ukulele. Ti was a grand feeling. 
What a waste time of my childhood, I feel now, but the sound of that music awaken something that has been printed as pattern in me.
There are age in childhood, 0-6/7 years, children are/were very receptive ready to adopt a lot of thing, a lot of basic/foundation of future art, future way of pleasure, future job to enjoy in life. In those age, in Bali we consider that age as the age of DEWA, gods/goddess, where the child is living the blooming of their ancestors heritage (the spring of DNA)
The work and the question is to catch ant to cultivate the right personal element/ talent in its right moment in life, understand that NATURE in us has its own season of fertility, its own program, of blooming, of fruiting, of rooting ....
hmmmm
Who is/are the master, the guide ?

Where are those divers schools?

Let's see 3 periods of educational moment in human life, grossly in 10 years step, fundamental basic foundation / life education, and how the years filled by natural program of NATURE ?
  1. there are school of body 0-10 years, free playfulness feeling, without judgement, ready to do and to play "innocently". Period of no ME.
  2. then comes school of emotion, energy of like and dislike, energy sexual as energy of ancestral creation/creativity, school of diversity colors of energy of life 10-20 years, emotional and fleshy love experiences. Good and bad of/for ME.
  3. 20-30 year, school of head/thought/intelligence education., what science to understand and to master, university period, right or wrong for/of Me.
  4. 30- .... School of life, practicing the 3 diplomas.
  5. 30-40 years, earning by working
  6. 40-50 years, crystalizing what has been earned.
  7. 50 years: golden age
  8. 50-60 collecting the knowledge, knowledge as the juice of experiences, the light of fruit of work: wisdom
  9. 60-70 preparation to release material belonging, knowledge transmission 
  10. 70-80 returning the wisdom to future generation, release emotional links  
  11. 80-90 releasing all opinion, like the wind and the current of the ocean flow naturally, the mind has no will.
  12. 90- .... what to say is Sanathana Dharma, eternal law of cosmos, symphonization of the one and the multiple diversity university.
Please take care, and consider that the sex if it is stop there in sex pleasure, only  plaisir d'amour charnelle, it can become a drug, a product of pornography, and in our period of time now we are subject to them .... if we lost control. Beware of pursuit of power too.
to elevate and to transcend that sexual energy of creativity, there are important moment waiting for us, considered as the field of artistic expression/work ...... to review what you carry since .... in head, in energy, in body, in material. 

pondering on Soltice day 21st december 2014
now 22nd dec.

Pondering on Birth of Trust, I found this article somewhere, worth to ponder as fruit of some one's contemplation, consideration:




up-dated 11h24, friday, 5 february 2016

vendredi 5 décembre 2014

Bendul, Bali. Purnama (full moon) January 2011 part2





To see this ceremony with occidental theatrical eyes, dancer as actor of divinity (as character to play or being played by divinity/character), we see here one of the dancer acted as the chief of all, she said:"Pireng, pireng! yén mesolah ten dados ngaur, Ida paang seneng, Ida paang seneng, tilem purnama ngaturing ayah, Ida mesolah, ten dados ngaor nggih?, Dewa Bagus " Listen, listen! to be (behave) in life (mesolah), should not out of good conduct, for divinity (Ida) be content/happy, divinity content, every dead moon and full moon, offering service, not out of good conduct, good-handsome gods."

The music has a magical power in conducting the session of dance, to start and to stop by the music. They ended the session with pray, to gods above (within their belief) every one has to create their own image, description of worshiped-gods.

Balinese gods play their people on earth as stars, planet, zodiac play 3 type-lifes on earth ....

Actor PEMANGKU, actor-SERVANT, to serve and to liberate the ANIMA inside into action, ANIMA manifested out side, take many forms of image. Offerings cultivate beauty and harmony, as art work: sculpture with foods, fruits, leaves, flower, music, dance, theater, mask, natural-magical power, ......
Good harmonious gamelan (orchestra) is mirror of good harmonious society.

Serious goddess discussion here performed in playfulness of a child, let them be free, and it flow naturally.

Something has been relived.... for healthy life, hopefully.

Magnetism and electricity flow in the river of mysterious energy of live manifested, when the stubborn intellect take rest in that sacred holiday, actors-servants carried by mysterious power act in trance. To belief, is one of the key to enter, to give-up, enjoy being taken in a trip.......

and, when we see a trance like this in Bali: