THE EQUINOX
BEGIN. END. OBJECT. TIME, NO. OF BREAKS.
10.21am. 10.23a.m. Red Cross 2m. Ios. Several breaks of
the kind, “Oh,
how well I’m
doing it.”
Seem quite to have forgotten what very long times I used to do.
White tri- 10 m. 20 breaks.
angle
[This about harmonic of good; 20 m. 10 breaks is a good per-
formance,]
Apas-Akasa
[Very difficult: slightest noise is utterly disturbing.]
10.55am. Intam. RedCross 6m. 7 breaks.
[But it is to be observed that a break may be of varying length. I
doubt if this was as good as White Triangle supra.]
11.44am. 11.56am. Whitetri- 12m. 10 breaks,
angle
[Above observation perhaps unimportant, as limit of variability is more
or less constant (presumably) between 1901 and now.
It will be useless to attempt to devise any means of measuring the
length of a break. The only possible suggestion is to count the links in
thought back to the object. But I do not think it is worth the trouble.]
Note in White Triangle above:
I get considerably toward identification of self and object. This is
probably a good result of my philosophy-work.
It will perhaps be more scientific if in these tests (and perhaps even in
work) to stick to one or two objects and always go on to a special
number of breaks—say 10. Then success will vary as time.*]
July 3.14 p.m. 3.20pm. White tri- 6m. 30s. 6 breaks. Dis-
2nd. angle turbed by car-
penter.
10.40 p.m. 11.9 p.m. White tri- 29 m. 23 breaks,
angle
[A “break ” shall be defined as: “a consciousness of the cessation of
the object consciousness.”
A simple outside thought arising shall not constitute a “break,” since
it may exist simultaneously with the object-consciousness.
* This, though a good system is a very difficult one to carry out,
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