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Saturday, October 1, 2016

Flights of fancy...

...my rant HERE...

The FB post, above/below, inspired by a Tricycle Magazine article, & then went all over the place on the net when my semantic hyper-priming ran a little amok...!!...liked how it's all connected though...& even self-referential...!!


Meditation-en-masse; How colonialism sparked the global Vipassana movement



 ..merge within the moment of eternally radicle inspiration...then just breath...then ecstasy...m.mm.mmm.mmmm... [tetractys]

"How colonialism sparked the global Vipassana movement..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicle

In 1880 Charles Darwin published a book about plants he had studied, The Power of Movement in Plants, where he mentions the radicle..."It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the tip of the radicle thus endowed [..] acts like the brain of one of the lower animals; the brain being situated within the anterior end of the body, receiving impressions from the sense-organs, and directing the several movements".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetractys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_number

Carl Friedrich Gauss is said to have found this relationship in his early youth, by multiplying n/2 pairs of numbers in the sum by the values of each pair n + 1.[1] However, regardless of the truth of this story, Gauss was not the first to discover this formula, and some find it likely that its origin goes back to the Pythagoreans 5th century BC.[2] The two formulae were described by the Irish monk Dicuil in about 816 in his Computus.[3]
The triangular number Tn solves the "handshake problem" of counting the number of handshakes if each person in a room with n + 1 people shakes hands once with each person. In other words, the solution to the handshake problem of n people is Tn−1.[4] The function T is the additive analog of the factorial function, which is the products of integers from 1 to n.
The number of line segments between closest pairs of dots in the triangle can be represented in terms of the number of dots or with a recurrence relation:

L/n = 3 T/n − 1 = 3 ( n 2 ) ; L/n = L/n − 1 + 3 ( n − 1 ), L 1 = 0.

In the limit, the ratio between the two numbers, dots and line segments is

lim n → ∞ Tn/Ln = 1/3 .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N

"One of the most common hieroglyphs, snake, was used in Egyptian writing to stand for a sound like the English ⟨J⟩..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_(mathematics)

"In elementary mathematics, a variable is an alphabetic character representing a number, called the value of the variable, which is either arbitrary or not fully specified or unknown. Making algebraic computations with variables as if they were explicit numbers allows one to solve a range of problems in a single computation. A typical example is the quadratic formula, which allows one to solve every quadratic equation by simply substituting the numeric values of the coefficients of the given equation to the variables that represent them.
The concept of variable is also fundamental in calculus. Typically, a function y = f(x) involves two variables, y and x, representing respectively the value and the argument of the function. The term "variable" comes from the fact that, when the argument (also called the "variable of the function") varies, then the value varies accordingly.[1]
In more advanced mathematics, a variable is a symbol that denotes a mathematical object, which could be a number, a vector, a matrix, or even a function. In this case, the original property of "variability" of a variable is not kept (except, sometimes, for informal explanations).
Similarly, in computer science, a variable is a name (commonly an alphabetic character or a word) representing some value represented in computer memory. In mathematical logic, a variable is either a symbol representing an unspecified term of the theory, or a basic object of the theory, which is manipulated without referring to its possible intuitive interpretation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_equation

"In mathematics, a quadratic form is a homogeneous polynomial of degree two in a number of variables. For example...

4x2 + 2xy − 3

...is a quadratic form in the variables x and y".

...didn't you know...???
...there's no such thing as a Gruffalo...
...ohh!!

...&/or if that doesn't convince you...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrence_relation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski_triangle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

"Chaos theory is the field of study in mathematics that studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions—a response popularly referred to as the butterfly effect.[1] Small differences in initial conditions (such as those due to rounding errors in numerical computation) yield widely diverging outcomes for such dynamical systems, rendering long-term prediction impossible in general.[2] This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future behavior is fully determined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved.[3] In other words, the deterministic nature of these systems does not make them predictable.[4][5] This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos. The theory was summarized by Edward Lorenz as:[6]
Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.
Chaotic behavior exists in many natural systems, such as weather and climate.[7][8] It also occurs spontaneously in some systems with artificial components, such as road traffic.[9] This behavior can be studied through analysis of a chaotic mathematical model, or through analytical techniques such as recurrence plots and Poincaré maps. Chaos theory has applications in several disciplines, including meteorology, sociology, physics, environmental science, computer science, engineering, economics, biology, ecology, and philosophy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory…

...& then each & every ONE of US open our EYES & we are awake...conscious...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness

"Thanks to recent developments in technology, consciousness has become a significant topic of research in psychology, neuropsychology and neuroscience within the past few decades. The primary focus is on understanding what it means biologically and psychologically for information to be present in consciousness—that is, on determining the neural and psychological correlates of consciousness. The majority of experimental studies assess consciousness by asking human subjects for a verbal report of their experiences (e.g., "tell me if you notice anything when I do this"). Issues of interest include phenomena such as subliminal perception, blindsight, denial of impairment, and altered states of consciousness produced by alcohol and other drugs, or spiritual or meditative techniques".

...& each & every ONE of US is in this way with All of YOU, WE, ME, MYSELF, & I...i...i...i...e...i.e...e...philerosophi-e...it is all *altered states of consciousness...we are all that...i am that...

http://philerosophi-e.blogspot.co.nz/…/cannabis-tool-for-gr…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_That

...read...weep...joy...tragedy...hope...peace...all-one...alone...
...together...
...as it is our individual uniqueness that collectively unites us...
...ties us...
...yoga..."In Vedic Sanskrit, yoga (from the root yuj) means "to add", "to join", "to unite", or "to attach", "to bind", "knotted", in its most common literal sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga

...anicca...anitya...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impermanence

"Impermanence, also called Anicca or Anitya,[1] is one of the essential doctrines and a part of three marks of existence in Buddhism.[2][3][4] The doctrine asserts that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is "transient, evanescent, inconstant".[2] All temporal things, whether material or mental, are compounded objects in a continuous change of condition, subject to decline and destruction.[2][5]
Anicca or impermanence is understood in Buddhism as the first of three marks of existence, the other two being dukkha (suffering, pain, unsatisfactoriness) and anatta (non-self, non-soul, no essence).[4][3][6]
All physical and mental events, states Buddhism, come into being and dissolve.[7] Human life embodies this flux in the aging process, the cycle of repeated birth and death (Samsara), nothing lasts, and everything decays. This is applicable to all beings and their environs, including beings who have reincarnated in deva (god) and naraka (hell) realms.[8][9] This is in contrast to nirvana, the reality that is Nicca, or knows no change, decay or death.[2]
Impermanence is intimately associated with the doctrine of anatta, according to which things have no essence, permanent self, or unchanging soul.[10][11] The Buddha taught that because no physical or mental object is permanent, desires for or attachments to either causes suffering (dukkha). Understanding Anicca and Anatta are steps in the Buddhist’s spiritual progress toward enlightenment".

...& the onion snake sheds another skin...

...2+ yr old Z this morning..."the snake is about to bite the apple"...or was it...??..."the snake is about to come out of the apple...??...perhaps it is that the snake is the apple...??

https://www.google.co.nz/search…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism

"Discordianism is a religion and subsequent philosophy based on the veneration or worship of Eris, a.k.a. Discordia, the Goddess of chaos, or archetypes or ideals associated with her. It was founded after the 1963 publication of its holy book, the Principia Discordia,[1] written by Greg Hill with Kerry Wendell Thornley, the two working under the pseudonyms Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst.
The religion has been likened to Zen based on similarities with absurdist interpretations of the Rinzai school, as well as Taoist philosophy.
****Discordianism is centered on the idea that both order and disorder are illusions imposed on the universe by the human nervous system, and that neither of these illusions of apparent order and disorder is any more accurate or objectively true than the other.****
There is some division as to whether it should be regarded as a parody religion, and if so, to what degree.[2] It is difficult to estimate the number of Discordians because they are not required to hold Discordianism as their only belief system,[3] and because there is an encouragement to form schisms and cabals".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_of_Discord

https://www.google.co.nz/search…

....round & round & round she goes, where she stops nobody knows...

Ring, a ring, of rosies,
A pocket full of Posies,
A tissue! A tissue!
...we all fall down...

rise & fall...rise & fall...rise & fall...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_trance

...checking on the timing, as we tumble down the rabbit-hole labyrinth of mind, & if you don't mind it doesn't matter, mind over matter...matters that are beyond mind...matterless mind...mindless matter...is their any difference...??...

...in all of us...

https://www.google.co.nz/…

...chapter 10, "The Rebirth."

...especially from top page 152..."From the foregoing we can see how the opus ends with the idea of a highly paradoxical being that defies rational analysis."

...to finish on pg 158 with...

"The alchemists are as it were the empiricists of the great problem of the 'union of the opposites,' whereas Nicholas of Cusa is its philosopher."

http://www.goodreads.com/…/665806.The_Psychology_of_the_Tra…

http://tricycle.org/magazine/meditation-en-masse/


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