Inner Silence as the key to the power of attention- by Castaneda

[Mornings Son]

He answered that attention, however tenuous, is never passive, because it is made from the same matter which makes up the universe. Even the mere act of exercising the attention implies an energy transfer."It is like the velocity which when being applied to an object, adds mass to it. Likewise, the focus of attention adds reality to things, and that reality has a limit. Beyond that limit, the world we know disintegrates."The secret of the sorcerers' marvels is the channeling of attention. It doesn't matter how they apply it, for good or for bad; what changes is the intention, not the force of the focus. For new seers, the magic of sorcery is not in its results, but in the ways we get to them. Therefore, your best intent as an apprentice is to silence your mind."


How to practice Inner Silence?

I realized that I only know of the zen way - zazen (meditation) to silence the voice in the head. 

What other way are there to reach Inner Silence? 
Does Don Juan give instruction on how to?



(Edit: merged consecutive posts by the same author.)