A Bug Free Mind Andy Shaw PDF Review 1 A Bug Free Mind Andy Shaw PDF Review 1 | Page 62

When you practice silencing your mind, at some point you attain no-
mind; it is when you literally think of nothing. No thoughts of any kind - the
Zen people call this ‘Satori’, but that’s far too clever for me so I’ll stick with no-
mind. This does not mean you are asleep or in a trance, no you are just fully
present, fully alert and fully aware. You will probably have experienced glimpses
of this throughout your life and they have passed probably without much notice.
However, the technique of silencing the mind’s chatter together with some other
techniques which I am about to show you will create the by-product of no-mind
in the same way as continued practice of the martial arts creates the by-product
of Chi.
This no-mind isn’t something you have to be super-human to get either,
all it is, is you switching your thinking off. I have taught both my children to do
this, so you can learn it too; admittedly they didn’t have as much insane chatter
going on as we adults, but there was still junk in their minds.
When you decide you are going to bring in no-mind, don’t try, just bring
it in and silence your mind. I suggest you find your favourite spot in the house
and that it is very quiet when you first do this so that there are no external
distractions.
Once you do it, see how long you can hold it for. I play a game with
David practicing how fast you can bring it in and how long you can hold it for?
It takes him a few seconds to silence his mind before bringing it in and he can
usually hold it for about a minute, which is of course fine. In fact the power of
this is so great that once you can control it and bring it in on demand anywhere,
you only need to hold it for a few moments to completely regain control and
effectively restart your hard drive.
I practiced bringing in no mind in all sorts of condit ions; on the train, in
the car, in shops, in a bar, while playing music, while playing heavy metal music.
I kept practicing and in the end there was no place that I could not still my mind
in an instant. Now I haven’t kept this up to that level, as I just don’t need that
level, but I trained hard enough that I could actually do that.
No-mind will just happen when you are ready. Don’t struggle with it, and
don’t force it, just allow it to happen when you feel you would like to be able to.
I suggest you keep returning to this chapter, as if you get this and can
turn it on whenever you ‘want’ to, then you cannot not notice the immediate
change in your reality. This hidden obstacle will never be invisible again. Spend
plenty of time building your foundation; you can’t put the roof on a house until
you have built the walls, and your walls need to have a solid foundation…
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