49The kahuna-kapua met up with him as he was walking the beach.
"This is really weird." I asked him.
"What's that"
"When I seek the Silence, my mind is filled with all sorts of thoughts. Old movies I'd watched, other situations I'd been in. Tons of stuff moving through my head."
"Well, of course. The harder you try to quiet the mind, the more stuff fills it."
"But that's no good. I should have a quiet mind so I can listen for inspiration."
"Yes, but you don't get there by forcing everything to be quiet. That just causes more noise."
"Oh - the old thing of you can't negate a negative."
"Right. The more you work at changing something, the more is persists. Allowing something to be, to accept its essence is always the first step - after deciding to be there at all..."
"In order to ge
