章 261: Repetition

This This

This This This

This…

-Writing two same words back to back can bore a writer. Reading over three of them can make a reader lose interest. The human mind is not tuned to handle the exhaustion hidden behind the concept of Repetition-

Scholars, regardless of their origins, found out about these facts in mundane daily activities. Daily sweeping, eating the same dull porridge, reading unchanging texts, and watching the same stars bored many to their deaths. But in these repetitive tasks, scholars saw a Way to train their minds.

With time, these daily chores became a form of meditation. The same things that bored others became a powerful tool in the hands of practitioners.