1/2/2019 - Sri Lanka Day 3
泥土中的寶藏 Gems from the Soil
We’ve achieved a lot and personally it’s such a fruitful day for me.
Since I am in the soap and skincare product making, I am as well into natural remedies, herbs, essential oils, spice...etc. Reading books about essential oils, aromatherapy and herbal healthcare.
Sri Lanka is known as an agricultural country. Spice, rubber, coffee and tea are top world grower/supplier. The orientation week involved a day tour to visit the Spice and Tea garden, we get to see and learn from the local doctor about these gems from the soil.
I am especially fascinated by the spice garden. I have essential oils and spices at home in tiny little bottle sitting on my kitchen spice rack. Today, I see most of them first time in their original form. I am not a big fan of cinnamon but the aroma of the spice wood crumbled off the tree then into my palm, smells exceptionally soothing to my scent as compared to it on a cinnamon roll. As we walk along the spice garden corridor, sandalwood planted a few step away from the pepper tree, king coconut tree stand tall among all others, ripen bright orange yellow cocoa fruits hung on the tree which you won’t missed, then turmeric,aloe vera, nutmeg, ginger and numerous plants that I’ve never heard of which can cure lots of diseases and common health issues. After many stops at different plants and explaining each of their functions, we were stops at a shaded patio setup with at least 25 different natural remedies derived from the plants in the garden. Each of us get to try them and received a massage with the oil on the neck, head and back followed by a face massage with the sandalwood oil cream. The only guy in our group get to tried the hair removal cream on his hairy leg with a spot shaved without blade. The power of nature is amazing.
Tea garden is actually built on the hillside. Actually the entire Kandy is built on hills, I haven’t seen a structure built on flat land yet.
Sri Lanka is famous for its Ceylon tea, we get to see it from tea to cup by walking up the hill top led by the local dog🐶 (yes, dogs are everywhere in Kandy and they are owned by no one). This dog happened to choose the tea factory as its home and volunteered to escort us up where the tea trees are planted.
Ranawana Royal Temple Kandy’s oldest temple, stood the tallest walking statue of Buddha and others small Buddha’. Worshippers need to covered ourselves, no shoulder and tight leggings permitted, nor hat and shoes allowed. As a respect to the culture, we all walk up the hills bare foot and it is quite a challenge and my sport watch recorded a record high that 52 floors climbed throughout the day. Over 100 Buddha statues stood on the hill along the stair pathways up to the top where the tallest one located. Psalm 121 instantly sung in my mind, psalmist sees the gods/idols on the hill and wrote “我要向高山舉目，我的幫助從何而來，我的幫助從造天地的耶和華而來”. When the surroundings filled with
unpromising hope, recognizing the true God solidified the collapsing circumstances.
Insights: The one true God who created the world, who design every plants and human, which both originated from soil, draws between them a linkage. According to 河馬教授（張文亮）human only knows a very small percentage of all the plant species and every plant has its curing power. A lot of fatal illness without a curing remedy today might have an answer in God’s creation right from the beginning, we just didn’t get to discover it yet. Human needs plants, for food as well as for medication reason, ironically doing a lots of harm to the earth, making it a bad place for it to prosper, extinguishing the source of antidote for our sickness. Sigh...我的心呀！謙卑吧！脫下腳上的鞋吧。We are created by Him and made with soil. Walk bare foot up the hill, plead the creator for forgiveness, He hold the curing power for our body and our inner spirit. HE IS EVERY QUESTIONS ANSWER.
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