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Develop Shamatha, which is a calm abiding mind, meditative equipoise, single pointed concentration.

Then engage in analytical meditation, typically known as Vipassanā in the Buddhist tradition, but essentially it involves analytically decomposing whatever you're meditating on.

I realized that before I ever dove into Tibetan philosophy that I was developing these two as I designed and constructed software (as I'm sure a lot of us do).