You wait for the good moment - the infamous first thought - but nothing happens. There is a thought of giving up the whole thing, or else trying to crank something up artificially. But neither of those things works. Then you sort of become distracted by something else that - and when you come back, there it is! The whole thing exists there. That little flicker of gap brings you to first thought.

— Dharma art by Chögyam Trungpa (Dharma ocean series) (Page 11)