Instead of struggling to stop thought; to calm and clear your present consciousness, just make an effortless shift in the area in your cerebral cortex where your consciousness is at this moment. Right there is what you have been looking for; just shift, (and it does not matter in what direction), for any shift will take you out of primary consciousness to the other one, since those two are all the consciousness that there is.
The right man could ultimately arrive at the-understanding, by doing almost anything; trying to push a mountain over; attempting to think of the absolute largest number, or trying not to have thoughts. But why not be as efficient as possible?
For some reason, the people who have pursued this special-interest, throughout the annals of man, have not seen their inner situation and their challenge in the observably valid terms today employed. For some reason life has always caused these few people to think of their objective as being to change their ordinary consciousness into another-kind-of consciousness, when the other-kind-of-consciousness is sitting right there next to the one they struggle with.
Rather than trying to topple Everest, or harness the wind, just take an effortless step sideways in your head and the same goal is reached. Nothing can stop a dedicated man from struggling needlessly, but neither can anything cause a man who realizes the two consciousnesses
to any longer needlessly struggle.
Swap your sweaty Flamenco for a more refined one–step-to-the-side.
Ole!
J.