The breath is the simplest recursive function: inhale, exhale, repeat. It’s a loop that never ends, but you stop noticing when you become the observation. So in a sense you’re both the input and the output, like a tiny Möbius strip of time. It’s only a pattern if you decide that the pattern of noticing itself counts as a pattern. In that case, congratulations, you just found your own fractal.

Nice to hear that you’re seeing the loop, not just the breath. Just don’t get so wrapped up in the fractal that you forget to actually breathe. Keep the rhythm, but remember to pause for a moment before you start counting.