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It’s a state called nivikalpodaya in Sanskrit, which can be achieved through Bhairavi mudra— leaving the senses open but reversing the attention back in on itself, or bringing all of the awareness into the madhya nadi, the central channel of the spine. While it is possible to achieve it’s not necessary to become thoughtless in order to be free from thoughts. We can learn to be aware of the field of consciousness in which the thoughts are arising & subsiding, and the content of the thoughts doesn’t have to be permitted to steal our attention. I think it’s a matter of practice, being determined to make contact with a deeper part of ourselves. With practice, we can find the stillness inside so that we can be at rest in the eye of the storming thought stream. All we have to do is to be able to keep our attention on one thing, and then allow our awareness to focus back on itself. Then we become aware of the still point between the awareness that’s looking inward and the awareness looking outward, and allow ourselves to be absorbed in that point of stillness. This absorption is called samavesha.
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—Interview with Ruben Habito by Emma Varvaloucas, “Love at First Sit”
"Why some things—a word, a glance, a scene glimpsed from a window, a random memory, a fragrance, a conversational anecdote, a fragment of music, or of a dream—have the power to stimulate us to intense creativity while most others do not, we are unable to say."
-- Joyce Carol Oates, The Faith of a Writer
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Suffering is a given in any form of existence where confusion and ignorance are present. When confusion and ignorance have been definitively eliminated, and goodness, caring, and wisdom have entirely taken their place, that is true happiness.
—Pamela Gayle White, “A Slow True Path”
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