Disorder is Order

29 th October 2007

My 2 nd full day in Ubud brings with it spiritual enlightening that has it’s good and it’s bad. I talked to an interesting Frenchman yesterday that has a bookshop and restaurant in the main street called Rendevousdoux (of course it would be called Rendezvous something). Life was explained in a 15 minute reverie that put Anglo- French relationships into much warmer waters than they had been for years. Thierry has a description for everything that is happening. In summary everything we experience is the process. The process rolls, non stop. The process content builds the future. It may feel barren at times but that is one of the most creative phases of the process. The phase that pre exists doing must be rich and deep with experience. Anyone can walk to the station because the route is defined. Arriving at the decision to take the train and where to take the train to will come out of phase that pre exists the doing. Disorder is order I heard several times which tasted like a consolation pill. Bless him.

Ubud, the heart of the Balinese arts and handicraft industry, offered relaxation over coffee or beer depending on the time of day at several pleasant locations with padi field vista’s. One late afternoon coffee hangs particularly dreamily in my mind as I recall the sun setting across the padi fields at the back to front café. My term. I think it was called Kita. But the kitchen and the mess was at the street side so it didn’t look particularly attractive from the street. One sat at the back and gazed across the padi field to enjoy the food and drink and on this occasion the long shadows and oblique rays of a warm setting sun.

I left Ubud on the 31 st October with the intention of staying a night or two at Padang Bai…an hours bus ride from Ubud on the east coast. My immediate impression at Padang Bai was one of an untidy ferry traffic processing town which I, uninspired, left behind an hour later on another bus heading for Candidasa. Koonikov was the other intrepid bus passenger. Yep just two passengers.