[Don Salmon]

not sure if my reply was clear – I was just apologizing for leaving the codes in (I copied this practice from an email where I used various colors). The code could be a nice part of the practice, taking it simply as more mind stuff that appears in Silence.

By the way, if you want a Christian version of this, the Desert Fathers of the 3rd century used a wheel as symbolic of awareness. They placed Christ in the Center of the wheel, and that was supposed to turn the monk’s attention to the presence of Christ at the heart of our Being, an infinite, boundless Silence from which proceeds the Word which “creates” both our individual self and the entire universe.