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Furthermore, Nasroen explained:

Budi is based on the ability to feel the feelings of
others. Feeling that other people are fellow brothers and

sisters, other people's joy and pain is our pleasure and pain

too. So the mind is to do something to others as we do good
to ourselves. And that is impossible nor is it good. Based

on this wisdom, the relationship between fellow members
of the community will be close, not based on the calculation

of profit and loss. With this mind, there will be good deeds
for each other, reciprocating the favor. Because someone

according to Minang custom does not want to be in debt,

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because the debt of gratitude is brought to death.
This is expressed in the adage petitih adat

The end of the world you hereafter,
the end of the custom at the Balairung,

ameh baok balaie banana,
cook sabua in the crate,

ameh dapek dibaie's debt,

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indebtedness cut to death.

32 Nasroen, Basic Customary Philosophy, p. 159
33 Idrus Hakimy, Mustika Series, p. 58, which means: the end of the
world in the hereafter, the end of the custom at the hall, golden bananas are
carried to sail, a ripe seed is in a chest, the golden forest can be paid, and debts
of gratitude are brought to death.