📕 subnode [[@flancian/numbers]]
in 📚 node [[numbers]]
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#pull [[meditation technique]] [[braids]] [[randomness]]
- A kind of [[mind palace]] I've been developing.
- It's distributed around the [[Agora of Flancia]]; the following is an excerpt.
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#push [[mind palace]]
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[[Flancia mind palace]] -> [[Flancia book]]
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#0 Start here: [[breath is the palace of the Buddhas]]
- (Gloria a la luz de la consciencia!)
- #1 Flancia: on the [[self]], the [[dualistic]] trending towards the [[non dualistic]]
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#2 [[fork]]
- (En Flancia hay un Ágora.)
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#3 [[merge]]
- a [[triangle]]
- #4 [[2 2]], fork fork
- #5 [[focus]], [[light]]: five pips as in the face of a [[die]]
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#6 [[2 3]],
- [[fork]] then [[merge]]
- (Indeed as we fork we'll merge.)
- [[yoga with x]], [[x with y]]
- #7 [[Avalokitasvara]], the [[commons]] (with compassion)
- #8 [[2 2 2]], [[the eightfold path]]
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#9 [[3 3]], [[loving kindness]]
- May you be happy!
- #10 [[2 5]], [[right view]]
- #11 [[right resolve]]
- #12 [[2 3 2]], [[fork merge fork]], [[right speech]]
- #13 [[right conduct]], [[simulation]]
- #14 [[2 7]], two [[commons]], [[right livelihood]]
- #15 [[3 5]], [[right effort]], [[merge lights]]
- #16 [[2 2 2 2]], [[right mindfulness]]
- #17 [[maitreya]]
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- #31 [[las jaras]]
- #32 [[fork^2]] [[fork^3]]
- #33 merge our right resolves
- #34 [[two maitreyas]]
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#0 Start here: [[breath is the palace of the Buddhas]]
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[[Flancia mind palace]] -> [[Flancia book]]
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pushed from garden/flancian/meditation technique.md by @flancian
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#push [[numbers]]
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While meditating I sometimes do variations on [[box breathing]] combined with [[counting]].
- It's maybe a bit idiosyncratic but it helps me focus; I'll write more about it in this node.
- It's important to let go of the process after a while, instead of becoming [[attached]] to the counting.
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While I [[breathe]], I sometimes visualize a box.
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I started by using [[single time]] to count with the help of this box.
- On breathing in, I count and optionally visualize a number inside or near the box as I go up the leftmost edge.
- On not yet breathing out, I go right through the upper edge.
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On breathing out, I go down the rightmost edge.
- While I do this, optionally, I [[factorize]] the number or evaluate it according to some well known function.
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If the number is known to be prime, optionally, I calculate its multiples until I start another breath.
- If some multiple is known to be interesting, I stop there and make a mental note of where I stopped.
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[[119]] is known to be interesting, for example, because it was the first multiple of [[17]] which I found interesting in one particular run through this process.
- It was the first number that I couldn't decide as prime or composite based on some procedure simpler than knowing it was a multiple of 17.
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On occasion I find it useful to [[double time]].
- That means, to count up both when [[inhaling]] and [[exhaling]].
- This can feel more engaging, which makes it easier to maintain focus.
- It also lets one make use of our body's natural [[parity bit]]: breathing in and out follow each other like odd and even numbers.
- I start counting at one, so odd numbers happen when inhaling and even numbers when exhaling.
- Interesting noting related to a number takes place on two consecutive edges.
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I started by using [[single time]] to count with the help of this box.
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While meditating I sometimes do variations on [[box breathing]] combined with [[counting]].
📖 stoas
- public document at doc.anagora.org/numbers
- video call at meet.jit.si/numbers