Intention, Silence, and the Mind That Continues Working
Intention, Silence, and the Mind That Continues Working For some time I have been experimenting with something very simple: form a clear intention, and then become silent. I did not initially think of this as a method. I noticed it in different situations at different times—while searching for something I had lost, struggling with a difficult chess position, facing a technical problem that seemed beyond me, and more recently while trying to remember dreams. Only gradually did I begin to see a common pattern. Intention → effort → reaching the limit of deliberate thought → silence → something sometimes emerges. I want to emphasize the word sometimes . This is not a technique that produces answers with 100 percent precision. Nor do I know exactly what is happening. That uncertainty is precisely why it interests me. The Recent Dream Experiment Recently I developed a strong intention to remember my dreams. For a long time dreams could disappear within seconds of waking. ...