Day 10 : We Came From Nothing, We Return To Nothing
The Balinese have a daily ritual where they would offer prayers and offerings (called ‘canang sari’) to the gods, ancestors and spirits of the land. The offerings are a sacred form of expressing gratitude for what is and a wish for peace and harmony in the world. In the ‘Panca Sembah’ (5-step praying), we pray first without flower to symbolize ‘we came from nothing’, and then in the last step of the prayer again we offer no flower to symbolize ‘we will return to nothing’.
Watching as the incense smoke waft through and disappear into the jungle air that morning, I suddenly saw it quite clearly.
Isn’t this life, in essence?
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