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I wonder where where LiteStep is at

used it (and sometimes SharpE) for a number of years until about idk 20y ago

http://litestep.net

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

https://reddit.com/r/LiteStep/comments/1fjnj9y/litestep_revi...

https://sharpe.sourceforge.net

uh-oh

https://skullvomit.bandcamp.com/track/ai-generated-music-poo...

Scotland is part of GB, so the fairly likely Northern Ireland exit will be the big blow to the "UK"

someone who needs mindfulness might know they need it and thus talk about it

one reflection on that would be the nvc phrase "violence is the tragic expression of unmet needs"

the Buddha taught critical thinking regarding the base teachings, an emphasis that was lost by many later schools of thought

https://youtu.be/47-aixLukSo

Early Buddhist Texts (EBT) are fairly non-religious, e.g. see the Thai forest tradition/BSWA talks

this school of thought even often ignores a fair portion of the abhidama texts ("about dhamma", the meta commentaries) that started to form a number of years after the death of the Buddha

if anyone wants a seriously good deep deep deconstruction of the main mindfulness sutta/sutra from this perspective, podcast kinda form, see https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL70fWqztn7OXdbGqWEOvhOVqf...

body scan is the first pillar of mindfulness

https://suttacentral.net/mn10/en/sujato

anecdotally, I had a late PoTS (postural static tachycardia syndrome, blood vessels don't autonomically constrict correctly depending on posture) diagnosis, then hypermobile EDS (tissue that's more floppy)

I realised on body scan relaxations that

a) a pain arose in most body parts as I tried to gently allow a letting go of tension in that part, like something I had to shake off, kinda like DOMS though also similar to the body tension pain I get as a certain kind of autistic person repeatedly failing a task,

n b) that any however much relaxed part very quickly subconsciously tensed up once again within seconds of my focus moving to a new part. chronic tension from 1) needing to tense for blood to better flow, n 2) trauma. I've had masseurs tell me my muscles fight back, n fwiw prolapse op from the EDS, n I get pregabalin for the tension pain

"immersion" as a better translation than "concentration", suggested by Sujato

(can't remember their exact chat about that EBT translation compared to Bodhi or Brahm in whichever of the miriad of Buddhist Society of Western Australia talk/retreat videos I heard it discussed)

e.g. in https://suttacentral.net/mn44/en/sujato

mindfulness of body sensation, feeling, thought and principle bringing enough equanimity to start ignoring it all really easy, though the moral aspect can't be separated because doing not wholesome actions will leave you thinking about them

maybe the intro etc of absurd.org could somehow happen again. a very artsy artefact of a website that utilised popups (and Java) at certain points

https://web.archive.org/web/20090820110717/http://www.absurd...

I wonder about an AI someday controlling free/open DJing software Mixxx, better than the current AutoDJ at least. there's an OSC PR that could be used

"guiding star" is what popped into my head, search notes that the North Star can be called that, and sailors don't just head towards the North Star, so I guess it kinda works, but "guiding star" has what that phrase means in the name, something to be guided by rather than toward

I also thought "blue skies", but that's more open-ended, just a (nice?) space

(this makes me think of cybernetics vs systems theory, and the "relational turn" with society, but that's enough half-baked thoughts)

((which made me think of https://www.halfbakery.com but this is tangential to the point))

fwiw, from North East Fife (Scotland), it has been ('89/'90) "the Batmobile lost a wheel, and landed in the Tay", the Tay being the big volume river between Fife (the Scottie dog shaped bit on the East) n Dundee/Tayside (with the Tay having come via Perth etc)

I wonder how this might figure in relation to PoTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), either way

PoTs being where the autonomic system doesn't equalise blood pressure, especially when standing up n still for several minutes, this the brain doesn't get enough oxygen, so brain fog, head rushes, grayouts (and fatigue, temperature dysregulation + intolerance)

(I've the hyper-adrenergic variety, hyper-PoTS, where the brain tries to generate pressure in a way that will never generate pressure, leaving it so frustratingly easy to have adrenaline rushes that can last for hours)

I've seen a PoTS professional describe the effects as like kind of a mini stroke

it's getting more attention now due to the long COVID relation, and it seems that maybe microclots have become a prime suspect as a possible cause to many symptoms, though there's so many jigsaw pieces, and discerning correlation n cause n effect etc..

obviously there's many contextual tipping points between that and this study (if generalisable)

apparently I have a strong heart. idk

related;

I've nostrils with the collapsing innner valve, so I can't get deep breaths through my nose (and got getting enough air whilst sorry l asleep is a cause of bruxism)

rhinoplasty then turbinate reduction helped mildly, but apparently having some cartridge inserted would help prop the path open for a more normal use.

so,

both of these leave me feeling out of breath a lot

and it's why I'm a month breather. hopefully a third bit of surgery will finally properly help

some kinda vague anecdata there, some kind of a lens anyway!