after hearin
g about 15 coconuts fall, i finally saw someone quickly coming down the trunk of a coconut tree that must have been 3 (?) stories high...so nimble that within a minute he was already down on the ground and moving a tall piece of bamboo 6-8 meters long that had littler pieces of bamboo coming out as rungs on each side of the pole. that is his ladder! he places it "in the direction" of a Palm tree and when he gets to the top of it he climbs over to the nearest coconut tree and continues using mainly his toes to grasp the slight bulges on the trunk that god has so appropriately placed at intervals and has also given the palm trees a bit of a sway to them from the wind, so that it is as if he is walking up a palm tree and not actually holding on and climbing it like a monkey, unless it is a straight one.so up he
goes, with his machete knife and then cuts off each coconut and leaf that need to be removed. and lets them fall to the ground. so madie (the gardener/maintenance/former fisherman/lovely person) explained to me when i asked if someone can die from it hitting them, and he said yes, but whenever the balinese walk under a coconut tree they look to see if they are old coconuts or new ones and if they are old, then they move aside so it won't fall on them by "chance"..and this morning when the fishermen brought one of the boats in and didn't realize there was someone up in the tree throwing down the coconuts, and they heard a thump next to the boat they all first jumped, then laughed (nice response instead of anger!) and moved aside looking up to see what direction they were falling in...later everything was divided; young coconuts for their milk, old coconuts for their oil, and for the coconut milk and for the dried coconut for cooking and the shells used
for making buttons, spoons, for fuel for burning the bricks, and the leaves also used for making roofs and walls and doors, and the thicker stem is cut off and placed in a bundle for firewood.or by the fishermen for placing their boats on them so the bottoms won't get scratched from the stones on the shore as they shove the boats inland each time and not to forget also the very old coconuts that were up there and already started sprouting, coming out of the large nut and will be planted for another coconut tree in the resort, or by madie or in the little nursery that jochan has here where he shares all of his plants and trees with his friends that also have nice gardens and so they give to each other whenever they visit, needing only to put it in the ground and presto! they grow...the earth is so wet and fertile! the huge garden here has all grown in only 2 years time with huge trees that have fruits and flowers and have tripled their size....madie and jochans green thumbs!anyways, back to the coconuts...at the moment, a group of fishermen were walking by and carried off the 2 metre long heavy "leaves'" that had been removed and were laying on the shore...it is interesting that they just throw everything down on the ground, and know that someone who needs it will come along and take it just like what happened now, so that each young strong man walked off with a leaf on his back to be carried to someone or someplace by communal effort, which reminds me of how nice it is to see my grown up kids always getting their friends together to help set up a wedding, or build a patio or move someones house...it is so nice to see this camaraderie. and earlier when another fisherman collected the stems he made a nice bundle, placing them all at just the right angle so they would sit nicely one on top of the other, and then he just looked around at his feet and found just the piece of rope that he needs to tie it together (and then places it on his back and walks barefoot to either the a "building store" that can sell it to people, or takes it home)...i too love knowing that the universe always provides me with exactly what i need,whether it is a piece of string or an idea, to do what is necessary, if i just look around for it and believe i will find it.
i understood why the coconuts need such big thick multi layered shells on them, since they are falling from so high up onto the ground! and it is magnificent to watch these experienced people of the land as they chop away the shell, and know to the millimeter when to stop so that only a little prick of the tip of the machete knife will bring the burst of fresh clear coconut water out into their mouth instead of it spilling out onto the ground by mistake. and then scooping out the thin soft lining of this big green shelled coconut which the balinese then eat with some salt. the older drier brown coconuts have the familiar brown haired smaller nut inside which is familiar to westerners as "a coconut" and this only has a little bit of water left in it since it has all shrunk and the water was absorbed and used to build the coconut meat inside which is sliced and squeezed and placed in a pot on the fire to heat up at which point the oil from it rises to the top and is skimmed off thus giving coconut oil for cooking, making your hair black and shiny, for massage oil, for drinking for health, and the actual white coconut milk that we know is just water that has been poured through the ground coconut meat, and then the meat itself is dried and used for sweets, cakes, etc.
and what amazes me even more than this is that i wanted to show you all a coconut
that had sprouted, so i walked over to the pile, took a photo, downloaded onto my laptop which is working with a modem which is a little piece of metal that jochan gave me, and i sit here by the sea, put it on my laptop and then tell the blogspot to put the picture together with this story, and then i press a little white button on my keyboard and it appears in your room at home seconds later...and before i started to write this blog about the coconuts i was reading rav laitmans daily blog about kabbalah and our calling in life to discover our creator and become like him in bestowal rather than in desiring...and that every single thing here in this material world is just a reflection of the higher worlds and so this "magic" that happens without any film, or wires or anything and enables me to communicate with all of you that are in my heart, but by pressing these buttons we connect...it all just makes me feel that ANYTHING is possible!! I love it...the coconut and the photo too!
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