The nature of awareness being outside of thought can only reveal itself in silence, in a perfect surrender of the mind, and renunciation even of such lofty concepts as truth, beauty or goodness. This is not a means, and so must be without purpose or expectation of any outcome. If such a 'fasting of the mind' can only be imperfectly realised, nonetheless as a background to experience a frameless frame, the disturbances of experience take on a very different colouring, now in the absence of any anchor, a strange equalisation and seriousness.