I know! You can watch them doing it: choosing to go to sleep, get ready, lights out. And when they are waiting patiently (sometimes they do) then you can see they have rather few thoughts bothering them. The neutrons are escaping. The piano string quickly fades to quiescence. That's a superpower.
The dog laying down metaphor is spot on.
I often look at my dog. With envy.
I know! You can watch them doing it: choosing to go to sleep, get ready, lights out. And when they are waiting patiently (sometimes they do) then you can see they have rather few thoughts bothering them. The neutrons are escaping. The piano string quickly fades to quiescence. That's a superpower.
The photo is Lucy when she was a pup nearly 5 years ago. She features also in a number of my youtubes e.g. this podcast teaser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHWKMsAQvDQ