Wordless thinking is especially applied in the martial arts - where, indeed,
"empty mind" is part of the training.
Responses to specific attacks may be unaccompanied by words -- but they are
hardly simple minded -- and may actually require quite a few words to
explain.
A fine example being the fight scenes as described in a translation of an 18th
Century Qing novel, "The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee" :
"Djao sprang towards Ma Joong swift as an arrow, aiming a long blow at his
heart region, using the stance called "a tiger clawing at sheep". But Ma Joong
dodged the blow by withdrawing one step to the left, a trick called "enticing
the tiger out of his forest"; at the same time he hit Djao's outstretched arm
a sharp blow with two fingers exactly on the vein inside the elbow. Djao's
right arm was temporarily lamed, his attack was stemmed, and he was trying to
regain his stance when Ma Joong followed up his success with a sharp blow
below Djao's ribs. Now Djao was fully aware that he had an expert opponent and
went on strictly according to rules. Using his lamed arm to protect his body,
he quickly caught Ma's right wrist with his left arm. But before Djao could
twist his arm and place a kick, Ma countered with the trick called "Phoenix
bird spreading its wings"; he sprang two feet in the air, thus loosening
Djao's grip, at the same time aiming a left kick at his face. Djao, however,
had expected this move; he quickly ducked between Ma's legs before he had come
down, and threw him on the floor with a crash"
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"I picture an engineer in the bowels of a ship just hit by a torpedo. He's
struggling to reduce the inflow of water, and to get his engines starting
again. He "grasps" what's happening, "understands" what must be done -- all of
which mental activity occurs without his verbalizing any of it.
Movie-makers take advantage of this awareness of how thoughts always come
before verbalizing -- indeed are very often not verbalized at all. Our hero,
about to be garretted, kicks backward into the crotch of the villain, flips
him over the shoulder, stomps on his neck. The audience "grasps" it all,
verbalizes none of it. "
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