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eat_pray_love英文版Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.*
--Sheryl Louise Moller
* Except when attempting to solve emergency Balinese real estate transactions, such as described
in Book 3.
Eat, Pray, Love
Introduction
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How This Book Works
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The 109th Bead
When you're traveling in India--especially through holy sites and Ashrams--you see a lot
of people wearing beads around their necks. You also see a lot of old photographs of
naked, skinny and intimidating Yogis (or sometimes even plump, kindly and radiant
Yogis) wearing beads, too. These strings of beads are called japa malas. They have been
used in India for centuries to assist devout Hindus and Buddhists in staying focused
during prayerful meditation. The necklace is held in one hand and fingered in a circle--
one bead touched for every repetition of mantra. When the medieval Crusaders drove
East for the holy wars, they witnessed worshippers praying with these japa malas,
admired the technique, and brought the idea home to Europe as rosary.
The traditional japa mala is strung with 108 beads. Amid the more esoteric circles of
Eastern philosophers, the number 108 is held to be most auspicious, a perfect three-digit
multiple of three, ponents adding up to nine, which is three threes. And three, of
course, is the number representing supreme balance, as anyone who has ever studied
either the Holy Trinity or a simple barstool can plainly see. Being as this whole book is
about my efforts to find balance, I have decided to structure it like a japa mala, dividing
my story into 108 tales, or beads. This string of 108 tales is further divided into three
sections about Italy, India and Indonesia--the three countries I visited during this year of
self-inquiry. This division means that there are 36 tales in each section, which appeals to
me on a personal level because I am writing all this during my thirty-sixth year.
Now before I get too Louis Farrakhan here with this numerology busines