Transforming and protecting our soul nature through healthy food.

What is definitely the healthiest food for the soul? The right answer for me is vegetable. Vegetable is the fastest mental healing medicine if you know how. I just recently did what was commanded by the instinct of myself, to do fasting for two days without eating and just drinking a water. I just did it..!

The whole problem of worldly traits has oppressed my mind and heart at that time. The other sides of the existence of the worldly natures, namely negative things, oppression, injustice, deception, dishonesty, anger, greed, ignorance, betrayal, jealousy, entrapment, hatred, cunning, cruelty, and all the traits of the 12 signs of evil person that will cause the arise of sadness, pain, suffering, weakness, fear, worries, impatient, and disappointment, have almost already penetrated and gotten in into my soul.

Spinach

I have passed that danger. My soul nature was saved by spinach when my instinct told me that I was allowed to eat, but eat wild spinach that grows in the backyard of my guest house. I really followed what my instinct said. I told my son to pick spinach leaves and immediately to cook and eat before we take a nap. Do you know viewers? When I share my feelings with my son, we had the same view. Our soul are like having a new strength.

Thoughts and feelings that were previously filled with unfavorable views which can cause sadness, pain, suffering, weakness, fear, worries, impatient, and disappointment arise, now have vanished with the power of the soul that boldly and miraculously has formed a divine awareness of the right view of life. I have been freed from 8 debilitating traits that will damage my soul.

Mustard greens

Thank you to the miracles of God.
Without Him "God", my son and I are impossible can pass the life that might be this is our destiny to pass it. Facing a lot of obstacle to understand and feel how God would give His knowledges and insights to us through many cases and issues when live the life. And through His ways, God gives His whisper through the universe and come into my heart and mind, He shows me, that every exist problem is a knowledge of the secret to achieve the happiness that has to be known, dive, and understood.

This is one of an insight that has been given by God to me about a miracle of food and I believe that there is still a lot of other uncountable knowledge. People can choose by him/herself about his/her ways of life. But, when you are close and choose to be close to God, He will choose it for you. Like us now, we only follow what God gives us, we are grateful and thankful to Him, and we will no longer feel afraid to see the worldly nature.

Tomorrow, we will continue our lives as a farmer and manage our guest house with full happiness and joyful. We believe, our lives would be better on the God ways.

Love and compassion.
Santosa Laksana

Snails Eating Vegetables In The Farm.

This incident occurred recently in my small farm. I just planted the seeds of vegetables "mustard greens, pakcoy, and swamp cabbage" in these two weeks. The growth of vegetable babies was well, but some leaves were damaged and I have a thought that it was caused by caterpillars because of my experienced before, every damages to the leaves is caused by caterpillars. Without long thinking again, I decided to use a low level pesticide toxic on tomorrow morning to kill the caterpillars.

Actually, I am an organic vegetables farmer and I have an opinion if uses a toxic of pesticide in low level and spraying it with thin thin on the leaves and uses that in early two weeks after planting and used only once for the crops that has the age of 30 days for harvesting season, it would not be affecting the quality result of organic vegetables itself as long as in the grow period, the fertilization of vegetables only uses manure fertilizer, otherwise do not chemical fertilizer.

Fortunately, my son, Kusuma, checked it again in the farm, looked for the caterpillars, he did not find any caterpillars there, on the leaves, even inside of the ground that usually in there the caterpillars hiding, he didn't find it. Because we planted our vegetables in the poly bags, my son decided to shift every poly bag to look what there at under or beside of poly bags was, and BooM....he found all of the snails was hiding on there, Wow..ten until fifteen was hiding and stay in below and beside of poly bags.

He found also, a snail was eating the leaves of mustard greens and that is a proved and made sure us that the snails eating the leaves of vegetables too and its before we never knew it. Finally, the damages of the leaves issues have been resolved. I did not use a toxic of pesticide in its tomorrow morning, I just watered the crops and made a plan to clean and take all of snails from every poly bags we had in the afternoon.

This is a learning for me that to be an organic farmer have to carefully to look every case that happen, so would not be make a mistake when take care the organic crops.

Love and compassion

Santosa Laksana.

Enhancing of my life by making new ideas.

The universe has forced me to do the right things in my life and prevented me from no benefit things that I was doing and I very thanks for that.

My these ideas was resulted from what I experienced before that is my failures when I sold the harvest of vegetable yields to the local market. The idea is, I should manage in the correct way either about my guest house and my farm simultaneously in one day every day. I should use every existing resources to increase the number of visitors to guest house by making an event or making various services that fulfill the wishes of the guests meanwhile I work on farm.

Without realized, I have had a new power to deal with my current situation, I can work diligently on the farm while also making marketing news for guest house along with the preparation of the services that I would invent later. At this time I am starting the new ideas that started from the beginning, I started planting three kinds of vegetables "mustard greens, pakcoy, and swamp cabbage" and I will add again more in the future with various vegetables.

It's before, I couldn't do this thing because I had to plant, nursery, and sell it. I did not have a time to take care the guest house, do marketing, and create something new like now, e.g, creating healthy food menus, preparing firewood for traditional hot bath, guiding tourists to tour the villages, and the last is writing articles about my activities in guest houses and in the garden. I can do all these things now and tasting my vegetable yields because I am not selling it again.

If calculated from I am writing now, the age of my plants is already two weeks old and like a newborn baby, so cute and beautiful. To fulfill our daily lives, I am planting my vegetable with several stages and the distance for planting time is 7 days per 100 poly bags, so that I can harvest the vegetables every day and so on.

When all are already grown, I can serve foreign tourists or local tourists to make breakfast, lunch, and dinner use vegetables from the garden. My son, Kusuma, has learned how to make healthy foods for the guest use fresh vegetables and will create the various kinds of menus and all in IDR Ten Thousand for vegetarian foods and IDR Fifteen Thousand with additions of chicken meat, cow meat or fish meat. Hmmmmm....soo yummmmmy.

Please come to my village and stay in my Guest house. Just knowing the somewhere of Indonesia, the corner of Indonesia, and the one of lifestyle in Indonesia. Please for coming and thanks and have a nice day!

Love and compassion.
Santosa Laksana

Let's share a moment

My week in Santosa's house is now finished. I need to continue my travel and discover other people. But this week was very rich in sharing. It's the thing I'm searching in my journey, share little moments, when people bring me in a place just to take a tea, to see a beautiful landscape, or when they cook for me. And I found what I wanted here. 

Santosa showed me many places around, and was very happy when I met new people like his brother. With his son, Kusuma, we shared really good moments in the kitchen ! He is very talented, he likes cooking and I showed him 3 recipes from France. He cooked me very good dishes every day. I ate new things, different tastes, and we just made a real exchange of our two cultures. I will always remember him enjoying the cake !

They are really good people who want to show you what it is to live in Indonesia and will do a lot of things for you. We talked a lot about life and how to be confident. Hope they will apply my little advises. With Santosa's brother we also had a discussion about tourism in little villages in Indonesia. They really want to see more tourists, they want to show them real life, also be kind and just share. Really simple exchange. So if you're thing is sharing, don't hesitate !

Fanny, Kusuma, and Santosa.

Written by Fanny Clm.

Website: https://hudrume-voyage.com/

Discovering Wonosari area with Fanny

Hi, my name is Fanny, I'm from France and I'm travelling all around Asia for six months. I arrived in Wonosari on the 30/09/18 after discovered Jogjakarta department. I chose to come in Santosa's village because I wanted a real experience of the Indonesian life. I wanted to know more about every day life, what did they eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner, what did they do for free time, habits and everything. After a long trip by train from Yogya, Santosa picked me up at Kepanjen train station and drove me with motorbike to his house. Here I met his son, Kusuma. After they let me know that they are learning English by themselves, and I'm very impressed, they speak very well !
I took a little time to rest and admire the view, directly on the mountains and the village, really beautiful. They offered me dinner, and what a pleasure to eat something different and not again nasi goreng ! Kusuma cooked me rice, vegetables and tofu, and I'm very thankful they cared about my vegetarian and gluten free diet. We talked about life for two hours, differences between France and Indonesia, life here and also a little of psychology, good conversation before to fall asleep.

The first morning, Santosa brought me for a long walk around the village in the forest. We crossed several villages and stopped to a friend house. Here I discovered their little farm and typical Indonesian house, said "hi" to a goat, and shared a good moment with new people. They also cooked me food I didn't know like fried tempeh, very good! We left the house with the arms full of gifts! After this expedition, our legs were a little shaking ! But I have a lot a free time to rest. Sure this night I slept very well.

The second day, even if our legs were painful we went again for a walk in the morning. We crossed other villages, and don't be choked if you come to small cities here because a lot of indonesian took me in photos and were very surprises to see a tourist in this area. We walked next to a school and all schoolchildren looked at me with big round eyes and were happy to say hello to me.

Last day of outside adventures, let's go for a big journey with the motorbike. We began with a waterfall, "coban Baung ". Really calm and nice place to see. After we went to Santosa's brother house, shared a tea with everyone and talk about Indonesian life. Then, we took the motorbike to go to a farm, and to another waterfall. Big trip because we didn't know the road but really nice. After that, Santosa's brother wanted to show me the springs, and told me a little more about habits of people with spring water and forest. We ate good food there and again took photos with people. 

From my arrival to now, I shared a lot of good moments with all these kind people. They really care about people and want tourists see more of this part of Indonesia. 

Written by Fanny Clm.

Website: https://hudrume-voyage.com/