Albert Herdianto Widjojo
Salak is the fruit of a kind of palm plant that can and is usually eaten. If I do not mistake, in English called snake fruit because its skin is similar to snake scales while its scientific name is Salacca zalacca.
Salak fruit has a variety of flavors; sweet, sour, to sepat (when food has the effect of putting your teeth on edge or drying your mouth, like green bananas) depending on the type. A struggle is needed to get the salak from the tree full of thorns are very tight. Salak bark is also hard and sharp although thin, behind the sharpness there is a unique delicacy.
If we just want to analogy how to get salak with success will be easy to understand it. Simply put, if we want to get a good and sweet salak need careful planning and preparation by reading the salak harvest cycles, when the right harvest of salak so as to get maximum results, and also with caution and precision, just like to reach the dream. So also with the results of all efforts that can feel sweet, sour, and sepat like salak. Sweet for the results we achieve satisfactorily, acid for less maximal results in reaching it, and sepat for failing to plan or do it. This means to get the goal we want to achieve required struggle and hard work but we do not know for sure the results of what we do is.
Beyond that, in spirituality laden with figurative language, in Java salak can mean “suluk siloka”. Suluk is the journey of true principles, culture core values, courtesy, etiquette, manners, both to the Divine and to fellow beings. It also means educating and arranging the mind, heart, and consciousness to be the graceful, beautiful and good attitude to anyone and anything. This is different from philosophy because the dominant philosophy in the brain so that it is more of a knowledge or insight. Salak can also mean “Salik” or a person who undergoes spiritual discipline in the path of Sufism or Divine mystic.
Siloka is a figurative language or Sasmita that is difficult to learn if a person is still dominated by their thoughts. Those who are more honed in their spiritual intelligence will find it easier to translate precisely the language of siloka or natural signs in accordance with the circumstances.
In the seeds of salak there is the core of salak which becomes the symbol of connectedness with the Divine, as the hard salak seed that must be destroyed with a hammer to find its essence, as well as the mind’s ego to be solved with certain spiritual activities until we can realize the core of our heart. As the salak is of various kinds; sweet, sour, sepat, etc. so too is the spiritual journey, the diversity to be grateful for because of it all forms faith on the basis of a strong consciousness.
Salak skin is brown to blackish brown, spiked but neatly arranged to form a beautiful natural skin. The skin is the wrapper of everything, the law of all things, the Shari’a of various religions, all the guidance, the rules, and the manners of life. When all that is peeled, its white content is the emblem of the light of life. Again, Quality is seen in the core, not on the terrace.
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I started to flinch when I saw the word snake lol. I thought i would have to be very ill and in need of a miracle to eat this fruit lol.
I really really LOL read your comment! May the miracle come to you but without that ill at all!
Very interesting indeed! I have never seen this before, I wonder how it tastes.
Unfortunately, it tastes cannot be described with words… Hehe…
Haha, now I am even more curious.
Be careful, curiosity can cause acne!
I feel young enough to be curious and old enough not to worry about acne. 😀
That is a very nice paradigm for my example!
I have never seen anything like this before.Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for your visit and comment, Branka. I am delighted for I can introduce this fruit and add a drop of knowledge to you.
Albert i’ve missed several of your posts, I am so sorry. I love the snake fruit picture!!!
Oops… That’s okay, Coach… Do not worry… I myself is also limited in terms of time lately, so have not been able to visit your posts these past few days. Thanks for your visit and comments, Doc.
Thanks, Albert. I need to break out more time for reading blogs I love to read. There is enough stress in my life, I don’t need to add any by not enjoying!
We should indeed do everything with pleasure, so there is no need to do unpleasant things, especially during the stressful times. Wish you all the best, Coach!
true! Finding happiness in what and who we are is the journey! tripping and falling sadly is often the result of our journey!
You’re right! Happiness is the way, on it, every step is the result and every result is the step, in every fall and rise.
I got my nickname “doc” from an event. The person passing out awards at the end gave me the Doc award. It is not, she said, how far you fall but how high you bounce!
That’s great, Scott, then what’s your response about that?
muted laugh
Well I am stuck for words Albert.
Hahaha… Well, Silence is often better, is not it? Ok, Scott. Thanks
How interesting, I had to go back to your cover photo to make sure that it is not a snake.
Are you now convinced that it is not a snake?
Haha. After looking closely I could see the fruit. ?
Hopefully, after seeing this fruit you also dare to snake. Hehe…
Nope, that is highly unlikely 😉
In that case, I have given us useless suggestions… Hehehehehe….
Very interesting, thank you for sharing!
Thank’s, Mommy. The fruit is indeed interesting, just I do not know for sure in which country does this fruit tree grows beside my country?
Very interesting snake fruit. It looks different and I am sure tastes the same. Thanks for sharing!
Looks different? Which one?
It tastes unique and contains very little water. It tastes the same, but it can be different depending on the type, harvest time etc.
The photos, I have never seen anything like this before.
Oh, I see… A unique fruit, is not it?
Very unique indeed Albert.
Actually, salak is very easy to plant from seeds, but I do not know how well it adapts to different climates.
Your nature has many interesting things
Yes, my friend. That’s the luck side of tropical nature