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Constance Greene ([personal profile] greentara) wrote2025-06-24 03:46 pm

[semi-open post: It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes]

Dark is winding its way to an end but Constance has been tolerating it well enough. She is used to eating sparingly and spending long amounts of time indoors, getting lost in threads of research and exploring the corners of the mansion. Having discovered three wooden crates filled with interesting looking papers, she promptly moved them into the room she has co-opted as a meditation room, not wanting to either lose them or bring any dust or debris into her own room.

The room is small and sparse, lit with a small brazier and a handful of candles. There are tatami mats covering the floor, bordered in a light green color that complements the cream wallpaper. A small wooden table holds some meditation supplies and a Tibetan mandala hangs on the wall but otherwise there isn't much else. Some marks on one of the wooden columns indicate that knife practice has also been an occupation of this room.

The brazier is lit and Constance unwittingly has a piece of cobweb stuck in her hair at the moment as she sifts through a handful of papers.
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2025-07-03 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Galahad considers his field of wheat, and how when he meditates it is always the same: how he gathers the stalks into bundles when he wants to clear his mind, or watches the qi-fish flow through it when he wants to think about the connectedness of things. Constance is talking about replacing that field with a room of objects. "It assists your memory of the world?"
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2025-07-04 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
Purposeful, because either one is retrieving an object set inside the room of the memory or placing it.

"Is the method of reaching it very different from Hanguang-jun's?"
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2025-07-06 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"That is another kind of religion?"
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2025-07-07 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
"I understand," he says, already resolving to look up the geopolitical history of Tibet and China the next time he goes to the library. "The meditation is similar, but distinct."
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2025-07-10 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
"He is focused," Galahad agrees, taking her at face value.
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[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2025-07-15 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Galahad tilts his head slightly, inviting the story, although as usual he won't press. His attention is focused on Constance.