Moments of extreme clarity

Everything falls in place during meditation. But reality bites when u open your eyes. And already the intuition u felt is swept away. This is also the play of Maya. She does not like u to reach the goal, teasing you sometimes with sleep sometimes with dullness of mind, as happens after your lucid thinking. It is amazing. But u can give up fighting that. The veil opens when it chooses. We are lucky to catch a glimpse. But the veil slips back. And u feel you had only dreamt it all.

U can remember. U can do. You cannot both remember and do. The mind can accommodate only one task. If you remember and things get done any case. Here u can think of what u do when you struggle with a musical note you wish to catch. Sometimes getting the right attitude can help u catch the tune faster, without effort. Sometimes mulling a lot and splitting the tune into its technical aspects will help you get the tune.
If you use the first trick (drawing similar parallels to how we may train that slippery mind) of attitude, there is one catch. Sometimes you get the tune right, sometimes wrong. So, that is why while the attitude may help u catch on to a tune fast, you must still clean it up technically and break it up.

If you use the second tech (again using the same analogy for what u wish to do with your mind), then the problem here is that you split up the tune so much that the whole attempt sounds jerky. The breaks in the sound pattern are more pronounced and they jar. And this break in tune can make u sound nervous and actually tuneless.

So clearly using just one tech does not work, though each has its strengths. So also with the mind-watching.

Do u just remember? Do you just do? The thing is that as with the musical note, both aspects have to be constantly a reference in our minds as we perfect our skills at that task.  U may try them individually initially. Then together. The main focus, u remember while singing, is that of the attitude. the tune falls around it gracefully. As u swing into the attitude, you must remember also the technical breaks.
But you must not seek to do. You must just remember. This is the toughest part of the whole attempt actually and again a big hurdle. Because when we remember we also seek to do. That can cause that jerky, nervous singing.  Remembering calmly is all that is required. The doing happens around it.

Now, if we could do that in the living that will be another place we have reached in our minds. Free.