Cempaka Culture and Tourism: No Skimpy Clothes at Borobudur, Temple Relief Statues Excepted

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

No Skimpy Clothes at Borobudur, Temple Relief Statues Excepted

Jakarta Globe, Candra Malik, February 02, 2010

Tourists wearing batik as they walk around Borobudur. This will become the norm as management wants to outlaw skimpy clothing. (Antara Photo)

fComplaints by local worshippers have prompted a crackdown on tourists revealing too much skin at Central Java’s famed Borobudur Temple.

Purnomo Siswo Prasetyo, chief executive of PT Taman Wisata Candi Borobudur, Prambanan and Ratu Boko, the company that manages the site, said on Tuesday the new rule would be enforced to create a more positive image of the temple.

“In addition to being a tourist destination, the temple is also a place of worship for [Buddhists],” Purnomo said.

He added that the “sacredness of the place and collective comfort should be considered.”

“We keep getting complaints from locals upset about tourists who wear skimpy clothing at Borobudur,” Purnomo said. He said he hoped that tourists would respect the social and religious norms observed at the temple.

Pudjo Suwarno, head of the Borobudur Temple Park management unit, said the pilot project, launched on Monday, would be assessed and later expanded to the Prambanan — parts of which have reopened after a 2006 earthquake — and Ratu Boko temples in Klaten, Central Java.

“In spirit, this is a good rule that won’t trouble the tourists,” Pudjo said. “Many of them even love to take picture of themselves wearing a Borobudur Temple sarong. But we’re still going to evaluate the rule before implementing it at the other temples.”

Besides wearing sarongs, initially provided by the temple management, visitors to Borobudur are also required to wear rubber sandals to avoid damage to the temple’s andesite stonework.

“The most appropriate material for footwear is actually woven dry pandanus leaves,” Pudjo told the Jakarta Globe.

The management therefore has encouraged the local community to produce hand-woven sandals for sale or rent.

“In addition to conservation, we hope the new rule will have a positive impact on the [local] economy,” Pudjo said. “We also have to design the appropriate batik motif for the tourist sarongs. Obviously there has to be an image of Borobudur Temple for promotional purposes.”

It is believed Borobudur was built around 800 AD, with construction taking about 75 years. It is unclear when or why the temple was forgotten, but it was not until 1814 that its existence was mentioned to the then governor-general, Thomas Stamford Raffles, who ordered an expedition of 200 men to document it.

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