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PTArtwork from Chapter 6
Here is a list of all the artwork quoted in the chapter. It is displayed in colour in the sequence it appears in the book for those who want to listen to the book on Kindle and see the illustrations here.
Bound by One Last Fetter
Artist: AI Generated for this edition at least.
Source; License: Source: Gemini. Copyright: André Cesta. Reproduction is allowed provided mention to the book source is made as caption.
Chapter: 6 My Personal Journey
Description: Notice that different students with different dispositions may require slightly different approaches. Lama Tashi Nyima sometimes makes the image that some students are like a strong elephant who grew up tied to the same tiny rope he had as a baby elephant. These students are now big elephants that can break the chain or rope, but out of habit they still stay bounded by it. They are still hanging on that tiny string.
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It is your job as student to find out what those fetters are, and what works best for you to break those bounds. You feel some material hunger or lust? Retreats and fasting? Have you tried it? How does it feel? Search for hints by looking at your shadow and what makes your mind move (agitations of the mind c.f. chapter 3). For instance: do you eat mindlessly, in a hurry and are always hungry? Are you always materially hungry or lustful? Perhaps, a more thorough look at motivations, diet, fasting, sleep, exercise would help. How about offering food?
Optimisation Landscape
Artist: AI Generated for this edition at least.
Source; License: Source: Gemini. Copyright: André Cesta. Reproduction is allowed provided mention to the book source is made as caption.
Chapter: 6 My Personal Journey
Description: If you do not understand enough about optimization … no problem. Just think of a mountainous landscape. There is usually one peak that is higher than all the rest. Such as the Mt. Everest in the Himalayas; or Mt. Olympus in the Greek mythology. All the other peaks are local maxima; only Everest is the global maxima. The maximum of all maxima. The highest peak from ocean level.
Book Excerpt
An example application of optimization would be to try to make the sweetest yogurt that tastes like honey, like Greek yogurt. The optimisation variable space is the time fermenting; the amount of milk; how much you churn it; the temperature; etc. The optimisation surface has a peak of sweetest yogurt. On that peak the optimal amount of fermentation time; churning is applied, not less not more from any variable; or you descend from the peak. The peak is where all these variables are at their best tuning point.