Pantai Mas - Bali - About Pantai Mas

ABOUT PANTAI MAS

Pantai Mas is a special place, containing a magical reflection of the essence of every religion and culture. Pantai Mas is beautifully situated on the north coast of Bali, in between the sea, the rice fields and the mountains. A lot of love and hard work has been put into turning the place from a ramshackle ruin into the paradise it is today.

Pantai Mas was founded in 2003 by Evert Halbesma. In the past years Pantai Mas has taken the shape it has today, with the efforts and cooperation of many people, from Bali, The Netherlands, USA, Canada, Taiwan, etc. These people continue to dedicate themselves – paid or unpaid, individually or as a group – towards the development and the progress of Pantai Mas and its projects.

Pantai Mas has by now taken on a special role in the region, a role that is also acknowledged and stimulated by the government. For example, organic farming and enterprise are stimulated and Pantai Mas is a centre for spiritual development. Pantai Mas also plays a part in keeping and guarding the traditional culture of Bali.

Besides that, many people find their way to Pantai Mas for support in emotional, social and family problems. People from all over Bali, but also from countries all over the world.

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At Pantai Mas spirituality is experienced as an individual path of transformation and purification, the path of the heart,
of love in all it's forms,
of becoming conscious, of continually loosening the ties of unusable conditionings and deformations.
So that eventually the personal will merges with the Divine Will.
Becomes one.
For us spirituality doesn't signify ‘floating in the sky'
or seperation
and there are no strict meditation practices or a retreating
from daily life or society.
Also no elevated master with crowds of followers.
We advocate a spritiual path that corresponds with
human nature,
towards a reachable ideal of a fully realised human being,
leading a modest life of service in society.
Practical approach and mysticism go hand in hand, just as human and holy, social and spiritual.
Spirituality as it is experienced here is socially engaged, open,
accesible and sensitive.

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Pantai Mas before becoming...

... was a dream, a vision floating towards reality. It is now the meeting place of many energies around the same source, the union of many hearts within the same reality.

Evert once had a dream of a place that would reflect the aspirations of the heart. A place of dignity, happiness and love, of meeting and encounters, where peace flows with the sounds of the wind, the ocean, the flowers under the palm trees and the stars. A timeless area of universal energy that stimulates all senses, true reflection of the essence of every religion and culture.

Pantai Mas' ultimate objective is like the pathway of the Buddhists, to complete the transformation of the inner, into compassion and altruism, and into the desire to be there for others.

Pantai Mas is that serene garden where the soul of the heart is cultivated.

Jro M. Shri Siddhi Mandhi