Even though we are now not going to talk it in detail, this paper attempts to discuss the problems as formulated below.
a How does Balinese engagement deal with to the cosmologyspirituality of sustainability?
b What does the form of the cosmologyspirituality of THK in relation to the Balinese wisdom and teachings of Hinduism?
c Does THK and WTO share a comment notion?
CHAPTER II RESULT OF ANALYSIS
2.1. Balinese Engagement in the CosmologySpirituality of Sustainability
Talking about both cosmology and spirituality of sustainability, the ideology of THK is worth to be mentioned first.THK is a principle concept in the life of Balinase
people for obtaining prosperous, welfare and happy life. It consists of three inseparable domains, viz. Parhyangan, Pawongan and Palemahan. To obtain welfare and happy life,
human being should be able to keep realizing relationship to the godsancestor, to other
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human beings, according to this tradition, should be able to keep realizing the relationships to 1 Godgodsancestor, 2 other human beings, and 3 environments.
Keeping harmonious relationship to the Godancestor, people practice his teachings, building temples, shrines, etc. Thousand of temples are available in Bali as forms of his
faith in the existence of Supreme Reality. Every house compound, village, regency, has its own temple. Similarly many clans have its own temples. In addition to it, some
professional groups like farmer, trader, artist, etc have their own temple. Looking it from its function, thus, there are at least four group of temples available in Bali namely:
1 Family temple, it is sacred place for worshipping God for a family or clan. 2 Village temple, it is sacred place for worshipping the aspects of the God, Viz.
Brahma God as creator---Utpathi, Visnu God as maintainer---Sthiti , and Isvara God as destroyer---Pralina --- altogether known as Tri Murti by
members of village 3 Public temples, it is sacred place for worshiping nine manifestations of the
Almighty God, respectively as a guardians of nine directions according to Ballinese cosmology. One of these temples is the mother temple of Besakih.
Everyone can worship in here. 4 Functional temples, it is sacred place for worshipping gods by professional
group like farmer, trader and so forth
To sum up, we may see that these temples are built for worshiping and glorifying God, gods and ancestor. For this action, ritual and festival are performed as forms of
religious faith and expressions to the Almighty. By this way, we may see that spirituality of sustainability come to be well maintained.
We are now going to talk about the action that concerns with the cosmology of sustainability or maintaining the nature or environment in which man live in. Man can
not live without nature; he take a lot from nature. For a theist he believes that the nature including its content was created by the God. The nature and all its heterogeneities belong
to the God. Even according to the teaching of Hinduism, the Almighty exist in any of His creation. Accordingly, no wonder that the element of the nature like mountain, land,
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woods, beach, lake, sea, etc., are as manifestations of Him; He pervades all. They are, hence, respected and honored by the Hindu Balinese. Its believed each of them have their
owns guardian respectively that can cause inconvenient, uncomfortable, even danger to the mankind if they are not properly used or exploited.
There is in Bali an irrigation association called Subak which physically concerns to the cosmology of sustainability, particularly to sustain natural resources like water
resources for irrigation. The farmers in Bali do their best to maintain the natural resources. Otherwise, when it is overused due to under controlled desires of man, the
natural resources can be exhausted even causing natural calamities. They are in a join cooperation cultivate land, arrange water distributions and maintaining natural resources
in proper condition. They keep harmonious relationship with one and another, with the nature or environment and with the God as it is described in the concept of THK. All
these imply to the cosmology of sustainability and constitute to welfare of human being.
2.2. CosmologySpirituality of THK In relation to the Local Wisdom and Hindu Teaching.
