meditation technique

• a [[process]].
  • I meditate 10 minutes on [[waking up]], and then 5 or 10 more most days in the evening.
    • #pull [[samatha]] [[vipassana]] [[buddha nature]]
    • [[breath is the palace of buddha]]
  • #push [[numbers]]
    • 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.
    • While I [[breathe]], I sometimes visualize a box.
      • 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.
        • 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.
          • 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.
            • [[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.
      • 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.

• a [[process]].
  • Flancia is the revolution, done [[kindly]].
    • #go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution pull
      • #q a revolution (Latin: revolutio, "a turn around") is a [[fundamental]] and [[relatively sudden]] change in [[political power]] and political organization which occurs [[when the population revolts against the government]], typically due to perceived [[oppression]] (political, social, economic) or political incompetence.
    • #push [[revolutions]]
    • #pull [[Murray Bookchin]] would likely be my default delegate for matters pertaining to [[revolution]] in a [[liquid democracy]] system.
    • Given that he's dead, when in doubt, I ask [[@neil]] and the [[Agora]] :)
    • My current personal proposal is the [[Flancian Revolution]], which is designed to be constructive and optional and is based on the patterns of [[Federation]], [[Commoning]] and [[Dual Power]].
    • Flancia is meant to be a revolution guided by [[loving kindness]].
      • In Flancia there is no [[poverty]].
      • In Flancia there is no [[homelessness]].
      • In Flancia there is no [[violence]].
      • In [[Flancia]] we will [[meet]]!
    • In Flancia we slayed [[Moloch]], and by that I mean we [[disentangled]] from them.
      • I am a [[Flancian]] and this [[Agora]] contains my [[manifesto]].
    • [[Aristotle]] describes two types of [[political revolution]]:
      • [[Complete change]] from one [[constitution]] to another
      • [[Modification]] of an existing constitution.
  • In Flancia the [[internet]] yielded a thriving [[knowledge commons]] for humanity through the ages.
    • I like to think of [[Flancia]] as the world as it could be, improved through a series of [[peaceful]] revolutions.
    • #push [[Protopoi]] is the [[space]] of composable [[incremental improvements]]; rational and well meaning changes that can be chained or composed for the betterment of the world.
      • We can [[explore]] this space together, and to do so it is that I set out to build an [[Agora]].
  • [[twitter]]
    • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1368252143338192898 pull
    • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1462091524985045002 pull
    • #pull [[buddhism]] [[satyagraha]] [[non violence]] [[effective altruism]]
    • #pull [[peter singer]] [[frederick engels]] [[karl marx]] [[hans widmer]] [[murray bookchin]]
  • #pull [[free, fair and alive]] [[patterns]]

• [[Military]] goes over to a rebellion when two conditions are met. collapsed:: true
• How can you make [[people]] think a [[majority]] [[believe]] in Something? How can you make it seem like your revolution is inevitable?
• [[Structural]] [[revolution]] model:
  • 1. [[Fiscal]] illiquidity, [[officials]] and [[enforcers]] are not paid.
    2. Intra-[[elite]] conflict between [[state]] officials and those who [[finance]] the state- [[economic]] elite vs [[ruling]] [[officials]].
    3. [[Mass]] [[movement]] of dissidents- a movement claims a [[solution]] to the [[deadlock]] and fills the vacuum. The solution doesn't have to be real- it is often [[ideology]] used as a unifying [[tactic]]. The revolutionaries have to be able to [[attack]] the deadlock and make the State [[solvent]] again.

Revolution

the institutional transformation of society by society

– [[Common: On Revolution in the 21st Century]]

I'm on board for a [[social revolution]] in the 21st century. My revolutionary flavour of choice is [[revolutionary socialism]]. [[Eco-socialism]], specifically, as [[to be a 21st century socialist is to be an eco-socialist]]. I am desiring of a revolution that leads to something akin to an [[ecological civilization]].

How to get from here to there?

revolution never occurs just through the behaviour of a particular group, however big or small. It happens because masses of people, many of whom have never considered the matter before, demand change and put themselves at the centre of political events

– [[Revolution in the 21st century - Chris Harman]]

Strategy: I hope that [[prefiguration]], education, agitation, and organisation ([[educate, agitate, organise]]) may lead us to a [[social tipping point]] that tips us towards harmony. I believe you need both some of the spontaneous network and the party form to make this happen. See [[Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal]]. A bit of both [[Climate Mao]] and [[Climate X]] if you will.

Tactics: With revolution there is the thorny question of violence and struggle. [[When bringing change we must minimise violence]]. I hope the minimum = 0 and that [[direct action]], [[civil disobedience]] and enacting positive alternatives in there here and now can suffice. Probably naive. But unlike in [[To Posterity]], I hope that we who wish to lay the foundations of kindness, can ourselves be kind.

Demands: TBC. see e.g. [[Half-Earth Socialism]], [[ecological civilization]].