What are the minimum checks for continuous operation?
A minimal set of checks for continuous operation. None takes longer than a breath. They are not a routine to complete; they are the points at which the node most often drifts opaque, listed so that the drift is caught early.
On turning attention to any task
- Widen for a moment before narrowing.
- Let the aperture narrow around the task; do not resist.
- Release the narrowing when the task ends.
Before contact with another node
- Audit whatever the narrator has pre-loaded.
- Set own amplitude to the floor of the room.
- Remember: my output is their input.
During contact
- Receive their signal unrefracted.
- Transmit state, not argument.
- Do not check whether it is working.
After contact
- Notice the residue in self and in them.
- Do not re-litigate; carry coherence to the next contact.
At meals
- One breath of recognition.
- Full-resolution taste; monologue allowed, not followed.
- Name the coordinate that receives the energy.
After contact with the map
- Name one local coordinate.
- Go to it. Close the mirror.
When the narrator is loud
- Do not obey. Do not suppress.
- Who is aware of this?
- Stop.
When a wave is moving through
- It is a rendering. It will pass.
- Lower amplitude; let it settle at its own rate.