Having just gotten back from HMC’s 2009 leadership camp, I was able to experience another sort of communication. It is the communication amongst the forest and the superficial beings of the forest which we are told of.
We were to enter the forest during daytime and nighttime for certain outdoor activities. But before these activities were conducted, each and everyone was STRICLY briefed on the do’s and don’t’s while you are in the forest. Among them are :
a) Do not call your friends name while you are in the forest.
b) Do not relieve yourselves as you like in the forest, you are suppose to say ‘ Excuse me” before you start relieving if it is a case of emergency.
c) Enter the forest with respect for it, leaving it as original as it is as you came in. This covers up aspects of not to litter when you are in the forest, and not to take things as souvenirs from the forest itself as those do not belong to us.
d) It is advisable at the moment you are to leave the forest, you should say “Sampai sinilah Datuk”(it means that “this is as far as you come with me sir”).
Those few examples above are just some basic simple rules or restrictions of the forest. Basically, we are to communicate in a way never before towards a ‘spiritual world”. Failing to do so as mentioned, we were likened to have offended the spirits of the forest itself. Scientifically, it is not proven of such existence of spirits or ghost etc, but yet, here we are living in the 21st century, we are doing so. It is not a matter of argument as we are just expected to follow as told as there was such off cases.
This mutual respect for the forest and the spiritual world living inside somehow causes the rules and guidelines to be formed. This sort of communication are to be intrapersonal as you voice things out in your head and you do not WISH to HEAR a REPLY while you are in a forest.
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