Thought for the Day: Balinese Saying
Be like the humble rice stalk.
Rice stalks heavy with ripening grain in a Jalan Bisma field. rr photo
As the rice grows in its nutritional value, the further it bows.
Be humble about your gifts.
Salam, Renée
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Our blog was begun as a way to share our experiences in China. From August 2010 to July 2011, my husband, Barry Kristel, and I were at our University of Hawaii Maui College sister school, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University in Lin'an, China, a city considered rural because it has only 500,000 people! We had a wonderful time. Then in February 2012, we returned to teach this time at our other sister school, Shanghai Normal University, in a city of over 21 million people. We've made many discoveries. Did you know that now Chinese girls, at least the ones who go to university, for the most part feel they are luckier than the Chinese boys? Did you know that Shanghai saved over 20,000 European Jews during WWII? Do you know how Chinese university students would deal with problems that come up in Dear Abby letters? What's it like to be on the Great Wall of China? Do you know how many Chinese girls had their feet bound and why? And we have recipes from many of the places we've visited. Among others, you can find instructions on how to fry cicadas from one of my ZAFU students and how to make chocolate-Kahlua waffles from my brother Mike in Gainesville. You can also look back to our earliest entry to see what we experienced in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2006 during the mainly peaceful six months of protest until the Mexican government sent in the troops. Between our stays in China, Barry and I have been on the Mainland U.S. visiting family, friends and Servas hosts as we traveled home to Maui. We share those experiences too. Welcome to our blog! Aloha and Zài Jiàn, Renée and BarryOne response to “Thought for the Day: Balinese Saying”
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"Where in the world are Barry and Renee?" 
Very true! I prefer oriental philosophy than ocidental one, ’cause, it seems, eastern philosophy is more acceptant of life facts, such as birth & death, apart from the fact that the idea of reincarnation is far more comfortable than believing our deceased loved ones are gone forever, but that’s just my viewpoint 😊 Do Hindu & Buddhist Balinese people believe in any concept Heaven and Hell? If yah, how and in wha’ the do believe?
Hope y’all are fine,
R