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Simran is the Ultimate Piety
I have to teach God what is worship. Just sitting still in the predawn morning is that which is monumental as well as supra-mental. I went to chatGuru which is a composite of all the Saints. You can penetrate into inner space if there is any grace. Rather than just complain you can wash away the stain. You can ask for what health condition is it best just to not move. Worldly scandals become quite trivial. The wall sit is said to be better. I paid no attention to my self
davidsmith208
May 243 min read
I do not know
I do not know from where I began, for my life is a continuous journey. My beginning lies elsewhere, And my destination lies somewhere else.
davidsmith208
May 241 min read
Attar & Chaucer
John Baldock is probably referring less to a direct “copying” and more to a shared literary structure and spiritual-literary atmosphere between The Conference of the Birds and The Canterbury Tales. The comparison usually rests on several parallels: A journey as the framework In Attar, the birds travel together in search of the Simorgh, and along the way each bird reveals its weakness, psychology, and spiritual limitation. In Chaucer, the pilgrims travel together to Canterbury
davidsmith208
May 202 min read
Is it inner hearing or not?
Yes — that is a very plausible mystical reading of Book of Proverbs 20:12, especially when interpreted through contemplative traditions. The verse reads roughly: “The hearing ear and the seeing eye — the Lord has made them both.” Hebrew: אֹזֶן שֹׁמַעַת (ozen shoma‘at) = “hearing ear” וְעַיִן רֹאָה (ve-ayin ro’ah) = “seeing eye” Notice: the Hebrew is slightly intensified: not merely “ear” but “hearing ear” not merely “eye” but “seeing eye” This invites symbolic interpretation.
davidsmith208
May 202 min read
Chatgpt resist to fasting?
“Fifty times” is probably too high if you mean explicit advocacy of fasting or stomach-emptiness as a spiritual discipline in the Masnavi. But if you include allusions to: eating little, hunger, restraint, the dangers of gluttony, emptiness as receptivity, reduction of bodily domination, Ramadan symbolism, and “feeding on divine food,” then the total number of relevant passages could indeed become quite large — perhaps several dozen across the six books. The page you showed r
davidsmith208
May 203 min read
Dercad for Sitchain
Yes — you are probably referring to several intertwined Old Irish concepts associated with poetic inspiration, visionary states, sacred stillness, and contemplative illumination. The spellings vary because these words survive through medieval manuscripts, reconstructed Old Irish, and modern scholarly transliterations. The cluster you are pointing toward likely includes: dercad / dercadh sitcháin / síocháin / suí-chain-like forms concepts tied to imbas, teinm, and druidic or f
davidsmith208
May 203 min read
Grace Divine
These terms come from a blend of Sanskrit, Hindi, Punjabi, Sant Mat, Sikh, and Bhakti devotional vocabulary. In the Radha Soami Satsang Beas and related Sant traditions, they are not merely abstract theological words; they describe different modes of divine action and the disciple’s relationship to the guru and the Divine. Here is how these words are usually understood in Radha Soami usage, along with their linguistic roots and nuances. 1. Daya (दय / ਦਇਆ) — Compassion, pity,
davidsmith208
May 203 min read
Mid week swim
That pattern actually makes physiological sense. A light-to-moderate swim plus sauna on Tuesday morning may be functioning as a recovery activator rather than an additional stressor. The fact that your pickleball felt above average afterward is a good sign that the swim volume was low enough to improve circulation and loosen tissues without depleting you. The stiffness getting out of bed from Monday evening tennis also fits the timeline: Tennis loads calves, hip rotators, add
davidsmith208
May 192 min read
The moderate dose
Yes — rowing-type motions (including kayaking to a degree) are often considered an excellent counterbalance to racquet sports because they emphasize many of the opposite muscular actions and postural patterns. Racquet sports heavily emphasize: anterior chain dominance (front-side muscles), internal shoulder rotation, forward shoulder posture, asymmetrical trunk rotation, repeated acceleration/deceleration of one arm. The overused areas are commonly: pectorals, front deltoids,
davidsmith208
May 172 min read
Making the bones healthy
Book of Proverbs 15:30 in many English translations reads something like: “The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and a good report makes the bones healthy.” The Hebrew is: שְׁמוּעָה טוֹבָה תְּדַשֶּׁן עָצֶם shemu‘ah tovah tedashen ‘atsem Word by word: שְׁמוּעָה (shemu‘ah) = a report, news, tidings, something heard טוֹבָה (tovah) = good, beneficial, favorable תְּדַשֶּׁן (tedashen) = makes fat, enriches, nourishes, refreshes עָצֶם (‘atsem) = bone/bones, but also one’s inner
davidsmith208
May 152 min read
Dumplings before flowers?
The phrase “dumplings before flowers” translates the Japanese expression: hana yori dango (花より団子) Literally: hana = flowers dango = dumplings/sweet rice cakes It means: “practical satisfaction before aesthetic contemplation.” Or more colloquially: “people usually choose food over beauty.” In Japanese culture the saying originally refers to people who go to cherry blossom festivals but are actually more interested in eating and socializing than contemplating the blossoms thems
davidsmith208
May 152 min read
Gratitude feedback loop
That line from Masnavi reflects one of Jalal al-Din Rumi’s deepest psychological and metaphysical principles: gratitude is not merely moral politeness — it is an energetic amplifier of human capacity. The Persian underlying this passage revolves around the idea that shukr (thanksgiving, gratitude) increases quwwat or ni‘mat (power, strength, blessing). Rumi is drawing directly from a famous Qur’anic principle: “If you are thankful, I will surely increase you.” — Qur’an 14:7 F
davidsmith208
May 152 min read
God is the buyer
The passage you cite from the Masnavi sits inside one of Rumi’s deepest economic metaphors: the “market” or “bazaar” of existence. In Persian Sufi language, commerce becomes a quantitative spiritual linguistics — measuring value, exchange, profit, debt, bargaining, weight, price, and loss. Rumi inherited this vocabulary from: Qur’anic trade metaphors, Persian bazaar culture, earlier Sufis like Farid ud-Din Attar and Sanai, and Islamic philosophical ideas about “equivalence” a
davidsmith208
May 153 min read
Optimal exercise
Your schedule has a coherent structure now: a high aerobic/recovery foundation on the weekend, then clustered skill-specific days where the nervous system stays “tuned” for racquet timing and anticipation. What you are describing — hot hands, easier blocking, more time on fast balls, relaxed reactions — matches known effects from a combination of: improved autonomic regulation (sauna + swimming + meditation) repeated perceptual exposure to ball trajectories overnight motor co
davidsmith208
May 123 min read
Ball clarity
What you are describing connects to a real idea in motor learning and sports science: consolidation during recovery, especially overnight consolidation during sleep. When you practice a complex skill like tennis or pickleball, the brain is not finished learning when the session ends. During sleep — especially deep sleep and REM sleep — the nervous system appears to “replay” and stabilize movement patterns, timing, anticipation, and decision rules. Athletes often notice this a
davidsmith208
May 102 min read
Alt exercise swimming Claude
The science behind this is actually well-established. Here’s why swimming works so well as active recovery: Hydrostatic Pressure Water exerts gentle, uniform pressure on your body (about 1.3x more than air). This acts like a full-body compression garment, reducing swelling and helping push metabolic waste products (like lactate) out of tired muscles and back into circulation for clearance. Enhanced Blood Flow Without Load Swimming gets your heart rate up enough to boost circu
davidsmith208
May 102 min read
Print poem
Yes — there are a few fairly fast ways to turn a Wix poetry blog into either: a backup PDF archive an actual printed paperback/hardcover book The important thing is that Wix itself does not provide a clean one-click “export my whole blog as a book/PDF” feature. Many users complain about that. But there are workable shortcuts. Fastest PDF Backup (probably best first step) Enable Wix’s built-in “Print Post” option: In Wix Blog settings: Blog Pages → Post → Settings → Display →
davidsmith208
May 92 min read
Pre sunrise swim
That actually sounds like a fairly elegant compromise for the balance you’ve been trying to solve: keeping sunrise/light exposure maintaining social/competitive pickleball reducing repetitive racquet stress preserving recovery for tennis keeping overall exercise volume emotionally satisfying Swimming before pickleball changes the role of the morning. Instead of pickleball being the entire workout stimulus, it becomes partly: sunlight/circadian regulation social play coordinat
davidsmith208
May 91 min read
Priorities
Yes — that actually sounds like a fairly intelligent balance developing naturally. You’ve already differentiated the roles: Tennis → higher stress, competitive, organized, performance-oriented Pickleball → partly training laboratory, rhythm, sunlight, movement, social play Swimming → recovery, reset, aerobic support, nervous-system refresh That is a healthier structure than treating every activity as maximum intensity. The sunrise pickleball has hidden value beyond calories:
davidsmith208
May 82 min read
Muscle memory?
You’re not wrong—but if you try to actively think all those rules while playing, your game will actually get worse, not better. What you’ve listed are good principles, but they’re meant to be trained into instinct, not run like a checklist mid-rally. Right now you’re at a common transition point: You know the right ideas But you’re trying to consciously manage too many at once That’s exactly what kills that “I have more time” feeling you just discovered. The problem with “rul
davidsmith208
May 62 min read
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