An insight from Bali: Embody the message of LOVE!

Going to Bali was such an amazing experience for me. Life changing. Why?

Well, I could probably write a dozen blogs about it and will, but the first thing that comes to mind is that the people of Bali truly live a life of devotion and service.

Our tour guide Agung is a shining example of what I’m talking about. Aside from one trip to Jakarta, Agung has never traveled outside of Bali.

He LOVES Bali. He LOVES people. He is the leader of his village and truly lives with an open heart. He’s never heard of The Daily Love. He’s never even heard of Oprah.

And yet this man lives what TDL stands for, to a T. No self-help books. No therapy.

It’s the culture.

He knows nothing but a life of devotion. I spent a lot of time talking with Agung asking him questions. After a few days of being with him, I anointed him in my mind as my current spiritual teacher.

So many people I know in the “self-help” field, including myself, have a lot of knowledge. But very few of us fully practice what we preach. I know I’m still a huge work in progress.

Agung doesn’t have a blog. He doesn’t have a product to sell. He simply IS of service.

In all of our conversations we talked about “flow”, living with an “open heart”, how Love is more important than money, and that your mind can be your most powerful medicine.

Everything Agung mentioned felt like what I had just heard so many experts share at the Hay House conference that I had spoken at just a few weeks earlier.

Two of the greatest things that Agung demonstrated for me is what a contribution and service-based mindset and heart-set really are. Ever since I went to a Tony Robbins’ event a few years ago, I’ve been trying to learn how to trade the need for significance for contribution, and the Uni-verse sent me a fantastic teacher.

The message that Agung was demonstrating for me was “embody the message.” This is a tall task and one that I know I will never fully master, because there is always another layer.

Part of embodying the message for me is the constant and always present need to have physical health. So this year I am committed to taking both Vinyasa and Kundalini Yoga teacher training as well as continuing with gym workouts and adding in boxing.

But, more than that, the message of Love, the example of Love and service that Agung and many other Balinese people demonstrated for me will live with me forever.

I feel as if a new seed and reference point of Love has been planted in me and I am so grateful for my time with Agung and excited to return to Bali soon!

How can you embody your message of Love even more today?

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Love,

Mastin

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Mastin Kipp is the founder and CEO of The Daily Love. Follow him on Twitter here.

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ahaafrica

Bali is beautiful! I found it’s people “radiant in love” as they serve in their communities and are deeply rooted in faith which translates in their words, actions and deeds. I didn’t need to speak Balinese as they spoke the language of love. Love translates to love!

Today’s message needs further reflection before I can honestly say how I can embody my message of Love more but with all the “outside noise” I think I need to “filter” more, listen to the Divine within and then work from a place of feelings. Feelings are our sign posts to where we need to be heading and from there, Love will lead and guide.
StrongHeart

I think it must be easy to find and feel love in a place like Bali. I think the real spiritual path to love though is putting yourself in the midst of people who hate, putting yourself up against what is difficult to understand or which challenges your long-held beliefs and still maintain an openness and peacefulness within you. Very few people have the courage to do that, but those who do are my true spiritual teachers.
- gardener62
  
  Great comment.
- emnemn
  
  I couldn’t agree more, StrongHeart. Well said.
gardener62

I understand the yoga & the weight training but why boxing? It is so violent. . .
Marketing Fun With Mike

What a great post! Thanks for the morning motivation to love and spread happiness and put that at the forefront of my life even more every single day. It seems your journey was truly special and it’s great to hear about the wonderful people of Bali.
Boxing is actually an incredible workout that I do myself 1-2x times a week but as for the violence I just spar with a bag and mix in j jacks, j rope, pushups, pullups, situps, etc so there is a way to be a “boxer” without even stepping in the ring. Either way whatever you do will get you in tip top shape!
Newenglandsouljourneys

Love your post today! Glad you found the teacher in Bali. I can’t help but wonder if the lady who berated you about following the( I think she said) ” the money god” was a similar teacher for you as the one in Bali. She didn’t say it very nicely but maybe what she was pushing you to ask yourself is if you embody what you teach. We all struggle with “walk the talk”. I think you are doing a terrific job don’t get me wrong, but we also have to be open to teachers that are well…. a little harsh. Some of my best spiritual teachers have been the most difficult people and the most exasperating but they always set me straight if I was open to it. I now look at them with grace and a new light. Peace and light to you.
Sumara Marie

Live devotion
http://twitter.com/marshamusic marsha shandur

This was lovely! Thank you.
Osage Dior

Practice what you preach…it is definitely a positive message…do first, then teach of the outcome through your experience…I am currently attempting a 30 day water fast, so that I can renew my spiritual, physical, mental, political and emotional body. For the last two days I have taken bites or plates of food…Usually…I would start over…but I am not, I am just going to continue with the water fast from here…It is symbolic for life journey…You have to keep moving…despite any obstacles, until you reach your goal…I am going to get my water bottle right now…so I can practice what I plan to preach…and become closer to a clean body so I can start over with a fruitarian or vegan diet as a birthday present to me on April 16…Thanks for the inspiration…
Paul Morales

To me love is the greatest power, and the greatest gift is unconditional love. I practice this daily not only with others but with myself. Love looks different sometimes, and that is hard for some people to understand. It’s about me meeting everyone where they are at in their life, regardless of how I may want to judge, I have to leave judgement out and let love fill in.
Drew

SO Beautiful Mastin….. Your level of life and Love and absorption is truly inspiring. Keep it up buddy!
Much Love
Drew
Nori Matsumoto

Welcome back!
http://www.are-you-there-kathleen-its-me-god.blogspot.com/ Kathleen Reynolds Chelquist

I am so excited for you Mastin to experience “Love” through a person who wants nothing in return. Who “simply IS of service.” Not easy to find. Especially, where I live. Because I am experiencing LOVE every day with my teacher, CInnamon Lofton, I have wanted the whole world to know that it is IS possible for us to align ourselves with who we really are. My service is to be her student and remember that…I am HER. She is my face in the mirror. Agung is your face in the mirror. Since I have been given the gift to see Unconditional Love in human form, I know I have a responsibility to pay it forward. Can I really be that BIG???? Just yesterday, I wanted to abort my whole Love Mission. I was humbled yet again, crying, and thinking…. “F-it! I AM DONE. I am exhausted.” And, then I was willing to pull up my wisdom from divinity and know. Know that I had been selling… Love. And, Love is not for sale. Love is something to be experienced by the thirsty; not sold by the desperate. Just another “layer” peeled to uncover the gem that I am.

The Daily Commenter,
Kathleen
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http://www.facebook.com/jennifer.vonfreymann Jennifer von Freymann

Dear Mastin,
I LOVE YOU!
Jennifer
Jerry Brady Elevate Institute

Very Cool Sir that the Big U is moving on your behalf ! It is great to see your growth and the ability take each thought captive and filter it through “LOVE” ! Im sure you have noticed in the last few weeks the changes happening within you as your bolgs have refocused on “Operating From Love”. As you stated “I feel as if a new seed and reference point of Love has been planted in me”- so nice to hear these words.Have Fun,Joy,Happiness in allowing it to grow within “YOU”. I have found it is Simplicity that works the best . But that does not mean “EASY” as Im sure you know. Hope to someday meet and speak with you . As always I will keep you and The Daily Love in my thoughts each moment as I too grow in a deeper understanding of wow to “Operate From Love”
With Love Jerry Brady
http://www.facebook.com/ellie.pappas.5 Ellie Pappas

Every since I started Meditating on what my point of service is, I feel that Im an instrument with a message. in those moments where I’m typing away I feel my higher being. But I am still human.. Being in tuch with my source is a discipline and awareness to be exercised each day! I hope you will enjoy my blog at lionoflove.com!
http://www.wonderful-quotes.com/ Jeanette Viscomi

I love this blog.

“Love is my religion – I could die for that.” John Keats

http://www.wonderful-quotes.com
charles mcdermott

love is the answer to all our ills
Joy

Thank you so much for this blog and sharing Agung’s message. So inspiring.
Marina

Martin, thank your for such inspiring story! <3
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=614084539 Amy Rorke

Re: “It’s the culture”.

I love your page Mastin and by no means want to take away anything from the important message that you learned and now share with us – BUT – I would like to add an important edge to a discussion which has broadly catagorised Bali.
I work in Community Development and have actually spent 5 months living in a Children’s Home there – learning more about another side of “the culture” that too many people are so quick to deem as good, or even more dramatically, as better than our own.
On the tiny dot of an island as Bali, there are numerous deep, terrible cultural issues that are too dark to get into on this page. It is important to balance it all out. Agung may have embodied the message but if you dug a little deeper, I am 100% certain that he would have practises and ideas abhorrent to people in the West. Ideas concerning women and children’s rights, animal rights and the way that money and health is distributed within a family. When discussing anything on this planet, it’s very important not to put any culture on a pedestal (which I feel a slight siding here). Bali is a beautiful place indeed, the people are friendly and the environment is beautiful… but scratch the surface and you will see something different. Foreigners travelling there will hopefully be mindful of the poverty that lies under that surface – as well as the pressure that tourism puts on a tiny island with limited water and electricity resources. I really liked your post and thanks for your message. I think Agung is a special man and it doesn’t surprise me at all that you found him there. I just felt that the catagory of “Bali” needed a little bit of balance. Thanks again x