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1.  Go To Ubud- Yes, Ubud is touristy, but that is also where I found most of the healers to be.  It’s also where I found other like-minded spiritual seekers to be.  It was nice to find a community of people to be around who I could talk about the deeper things of life with.  While the Balinese people themselves are very spiritual no matter where in Bali you are, it’s a lot harder to feel it in Kuta or Seminyak which seem more oriented to partiers and shoppers than to those who are looking for a spiritual experience.

2.  Visit The Healers- The healers of Bali are very powerful.  The healers, called balians, dedicate their lives to healing after discovering that they have the gift of healing. Visiting these healers should not be thought of as a tourist activity, but only as something you should do if you are serious about letting go of your ego and progressing to the next step of love.  Visiting them wasn’t always easy, as I was forced to look at my own self and let go of many layers of pain and facades that I had put up in my own life. These were some very powerful healers.  I realized how “attached” that I had been to the story of who I was and that it was preventing me from offering my gifts to the world.  Soon after, my return from Bali, I knew that I needed to get rid of most of my possessions, quit my job, move out of the US, and follow a more authentic path.  I warn you that visiting the healers of Bali will change your life!

3.  Practice Yoga, Meditation, Ecstatic Dance- These activities are available just about everywhere in Bali, and performing these activities aided in the healing work that I was doing and helped me to further find myself.

4.  Spend Time With The Local People- Most of the people in Bali speak English, so it makes it very easy to get to know them.  The Balinese look at everything with a spiritual point of view.  They have a strong connection to nature and to each other. They spend a lot of their time just visiting and being with one another.  They are the happiest people that I know, and there is nothing like a Balinese smile.  I got invited to a baby’s three-month ceremony, and it touched my heart to the sacredness with which the Balinese treat their children.

5.  Get Out Of Ubud- Spend some time by yourself.  Get out and explore the untouched parts of Bali.  See the volcanoes, the rice fields, the black sand beaches.  There are so many glorious things to see in Bali that will awaken your heart. After my spiritual experience in Ubud, I booked a hilltop room that overlooked the beach in Amed.  It was nice to go inward after spending time with so many others in Ubud.  I had time to ponder my own deepest fears.  In Bali, I realized that my deepest fear had always been going through this life and not having had one person who really knew me. It was there, I realized I should have been more afraid of going through this life without having known myself.

Arthur Zang

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Arthur Zang:

This Cameroonian engineer is the inventor of a medical tablet that could save lives across rural Africa and beyond. Arthur Zang’s Cardiopad enables patients in remote, rural areas to undergo heart examinations and have results beamed wirelessly to specialists for interpretation, skipping an often expensive trip into the city for Africa.

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“You don’t measure love in time. You measure love in transformation. Sometimes the longest connections yield very little growth, while the briefest of encounters change everything. The heart doesn’t wear a watch – it’s timeless. It doesn’t care how long you know someone. It doesn’t care if you had a 40 year anniversary if there is no juice in the connection. What the heart cares about is resonance. Resonance that opens it, resonance that enlivens it, resonance that calls it home. And when it finds it, the transformation begins…”

~Jeff Brown

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The Noble Eightfold Path describes the way to the end of suffering, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama. It is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things. Together with the Four Noble Truths it constitutes the gist of Buddhism. Great emphasis is put on the practical aspect, because it is only through practice that one can attain a higher level of existence and finally reach Nirvana. The eight aspects of the path are not to be understood as a sequence of single steps, instead they are highly interdependent principles that have to be seen in relationship with each other.

The Eightfold Path:
1. Right View
Right view is the beginning and the end of the path, it simply means to see and to understand things as they really are and to realise the Four Noble Truth. As such, right view is the cognitive aspect of wisdom. It means to see things through, to grasp the impermanent and imperfect nature of worldly objects and ideas, and to understand the law of karma and karmic conditioning. Right view is not necessarily an intellectual capacity, just as wisdom is not just a matter of intelligence. Instead, right view is attained, sustained, and enhanced through all capacities of mind. It begins with the intuitive insight that all beings are subject to suffering and it ends with complete understanding of the true nature of all things. Since our view of the world forms our thoughts and our actions, right view yields right thoughts and right actions.

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