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0 Glory be to the light of consciousness!

"Gloria a la luz de tu consciencia, [[Lady Burup]]!"

Y a todas las nuestras.

1 Flancia as a Pattern Language

After some investigation I've found Flancia resembles a [[Pattern Language]]. This is its index.

Flancia can also be thought of as a [[Mind Palace]] encoded numerically, with a focus on prime numbers and their composition into compounds.

2 Fork

As we fork we'll merge, as we meet we'll part, as we flow we'll [[focus]] (5).

An [[action]]. Fork a thing, a thought, a work of art or a piece of software.

Fork yourself if you want to. You can try to fork yourself into two versions with slightly different sets of beliefs, for example. You do this every time you consider both viewpoints in a debate.

3 Merge

As you [[fork]], you can [[merge]]. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

4 2,2 Fork, Fork.

Two things, in succession, or compounded.

A square, as one you draw or one you visualize while you breathe.

Maybe sometimes counting. Optionally factoring, optionally remembering things.

(Breath is the palace of the Buddha.)

5 Focus

"As we [[fork]] we'll [[merge]], As we [[merge]] we'll [[focus]]. As we [[flow]] we'll focus."

Whose recursive application may be seen to lead to [[Flow]] (25) and [[Flow with Compassion]] (35):

6 2,3 As we fork we'll merge

"As we flow we'll merge, As we merge we'll fork."

"As we fork we'll merge, As we merge we'll flow."

In the default number-based memory palace in the Agora of Flancia 2 means [[fork]], 3 means [[merge]]. 2 followed by a 3 make me think of [[flow]], as in [[yoga]], which is why in [[6]] I keep [[Yoga with X]] (the project.)

7 Avalokitasvara, or the [[Commons]] of [[Compassion]]

And why we'll be [[monks in space]]:

As we flow we'll burn, As we burn we'll warm and glow.

Like a rainbow folding, Like Maitreya burning."

[[Avalokiteshvara]] is seven syllables, but their mantra has six: [[Om Mani Padme Hum]].

This also contains the [[Commons]] (which should be run with [[Compassion]], and here we explore in the shape of an [[Agora]].)

8 2,2,2 The Eightfold Path

The Gautama Buddha found it, and before and after him others.

9 3,3 May you be happy!

May you be free from suffering!

10 2,5 Right View

11 Right Resolve

"Ay! QuiΓ©n fuera Una flecha derecha Volando hacia el corazΓ³n de [[Moloch]]."

12 2,3,2 Right Speech

13 Right Conduct

14 2,7 Right Livelihood

15 3,5 Right Effort

16 2,2,2,2 Right Mindfulness

17 Right Concentration, or One Maitreya

18 3,3,2 May you be free from suffering!

"As we fork we'll merge and merge."

19 The Revolution

20 2,5,2

21 3,7 Building bridges

22 2,11

23 [[Lady Burup]]

24 2,3,2,2

25 5,5

Focus sequenced, squared, composed; [[Flow]].

26 2,13

27 3,3,3 May you be happy!

28 7,2,2 Four [[Commons]], Four [[Bodhisattvas]]

29 Drishti

Where is my [[light]]? Where is my [[focus]]?

30 2,3,5 As we fork we'll focus, we'll [[merge]]

"As we [[fork]] we'll [[merge]], As we [[merge]] we'll [[focus]]."

31 Las Jaras

Idiosyncratic. It happened to me: I found a card lying on the grass in a park, and it answered a question I had asked.

Also the highest number you can count up to with one hand if you use binary encoding.

32 2,2,2,2,2

Maybe fork and keep forking, like a [[fork]] reactor (not a bomb).

Fork five times while thinking of your [[focus]].

33 3,11

Merge our Right Resolves.

34 17,2 [[Dos Maitreyas]]

Fork Maitreya, you get [[Two Maitreyas]].

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(A directory).

I always assumed that, when people dedicated their work, they all first finished the thing and then wrote the dedication. That would mean dedicating (say) a book as a finished object; something concrete that one has put together and can be offered with few reservations.

Belatedly I've come to realize I'm not that kind of person, so I find myself dedicating a draft instead. Writing these lines as I write them now means dedicating a set of ideas first, and my clumsy implementation of these ideas second -- the latter amounting currently to little more than my well meaning but lofty aspirations.

It seems appropriate, then, to dedicate this fuzzy unfinished thing to a loosely defined group instead of a concrete list of individuals.

To my friends!

-- Flancian, mostly written 2019-2020 (with only light editing since).

7 -- Open Letter to the Agora

X -- [The mines](/mine) (dormant blog)

Y -- Other projects

Thank you for reading; if you liked what you found here, consider joining Flancia Meet some day.

May you be happy!

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2017-2023

See the writing in https://flancia.org, in eternal wait of being edited into something more legible :) If I don't get there properly before I die, please feed it all into a well-intentioned AI in the commons and make what you can of it, or otherwise feel free to use it in any way you can.

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2024

For all I talk about the [[Agora]] as of late, I sometimes feel I don't talk about Flancia enough; it is, after all, to help "build Flancia" that I built an Agora -- meaning mine and [[your Flancia]] more generally -- to help advance all projects that are alike in some particular way: projects that are [[free, fair, alive]] and well meaning, which are for the [[common good]] or for the [[benefit of all sentient beings]].

But in some sense I talk about Flancia a significant chunk of my time, as a lot of what I do has to do with Flancia directly and indirectly. And that is very well as I find it.

I am writing these words in early August. I am finding time to work on the Agora, being either writing, meeting people or coding, and that pleases me. This also manifests in some way through Social.coop. My personal life goes well. I feel like my style of living working on Flancia on my free time is sustainable and enjoyable. I remain committed to the original plan as drafted (however imperfectly/under-edited) in my diaries at https://flancia.org.

I hope to work on the Flancia and the Agora and dedicate myself to others as I can until at least [[2030]] as originally considered, maybe [[2040]] if I live longer, perhaps even until [[2053]] or later if I'm really lucky :)

While I do so, I strive to maintain a sort of custom [[Bodhisattva]] vow.

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