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A practice of mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.

This is the 13th in the Robot Enlightenment Series and my "M" project in the Alphabet Superset Challenge.

I have been waiting for meditation to come up in the series. Without getting into a lot of detail, I was on a journey of self-discovery to help with feelings of hopelessness and suffering when I was first introduced to meditation. I hated the whole idea (and hated even more the practice of sitting still and focusing on one thing for any amount of time), but I was willing to try anything to feel something different – something better. I credit meditation for the first breakthroughs where I began to see that there was more to me than a bundle of thoughts and ideas forever battling inside me. Meditation forced open the very first crack or space between the person I thought I was and the awareness that I discovered that I am. Meditation helped me to start to understand the thoughts and feelings that brought me so much suffering and pain – the identification with a person and the perception of a world of negativity. Meditation helped me to allow thoughts and feelings to pass without having to be those thoughts and feelings…

I wanted to bring a sense of that calm and awareness into one of my robots. At first I wanted to focus on just a simple and subtle movement of breath, but in the process of making the mechanism for the shoulders to “breathe”, I accidently drilled too close to the heart exposing the cavity inside. Instead of starting over, I decided to accentuate the internal mechanism and make it look more like a beating heart inside the robot. I think it added more than I could have originally hoped for and may be the best part of the whole piece.

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