Finding Silence in a Noisy World with Ashish Kothari and Justin Talbot Zorn #shorts #HappinessSquad

There's no such thing as an expert in this kind of silence. We realized that there was no scientific definition that was going to satisfy the meaning of this pristine attention as we're talking about at Ashish. So we turned toward asking this really unique range of people. Poets, artists, neuroscientists, academic psychologists, sound engineers, a Sufi whirling dervish. Someone who'd been incarcerated on death row for more than 30 years for a crime that the preponderance of evidence showed he didn't commit. We wanted to ask all these people about their experiences, this most profound silence. So we asked them this question. What's the deepest silence you've ever known? And the answers were so surprising. Ashish. Because oftentimes people weren't describing what we thought would be auditorily quiet. Sometimes it was running the perfect line through roaring rapids, or it might have even been at a heavy metal concert. But they were describing these places of pristine attention where there was nothing making claims on their consciousness, these states of attention where people could move into a more pure state of consciousness, where they're aligned with intention.