Special Composition

The idea of Connected Systems is simply about recognizing that the world as we experience it is broken down into many, many arbitrary ways of conceptualizing how things work together or against each other. By using Focus and Adaptation in the way we experience these systems, we start to find new meaning in the Relationships that will lead us to ways to Unlearn The Self.

How to approach each of these exercises

• Play with your own perception, seeing systems in different ways, especially moving between each level of systems
  • individual parts - Notice they are discrete and autonomous in their own way - A rock is its own thing, disconnected from the other rocks in a pile.
  • two or more individual parts - How do they relate and compare and contrast; how do they work together; what connects them and separates them
  • similarities and differences between the following, noting how a system is composed and connected to other systems
    • specialized systems (cars driving in one direction together)
    • parallel systems (two lanes of cars)
    • opposing systems (two directions of traffic)
    • "ecology" - many systems that are loosely related (light poles, sidewalks and streets)

Driving

Warning: Never do any Meditative or Mindful exercise if it makes you less attentive to your driving!

• Cars moving with you - all one system, but all individual cars
• Cars moving against you vs with you - two separate systems with opposing objectives, but at the same time, part of the same system of traffic flowing
• Notice other Systems and combinations of Systems, very similar to what you would notice when Walking.