The Tibetan term for samatha is shiney (wylie: zhi gnas). According to Jamgon Kongtrul, insight may be garnered by an exegesis of the etymology of shamatha and shiney: The Tibetan term is shiné [shi-ne] (SHi-gNas) and the Sanskrit is Shamatha. In the case of the Tibetan, the first syllable, shi, and in the case of the Sanskrit, the first two syllables, shama, refer to "peace" and "pacification". The meaning of peace or pacification in this context is that normally our mind is like a whirlwind of agitation. The agitation is the agitation of thought. Our thoughts are principally an obsessive concern with past, conceptualization about the present, and especially an obsessive concern with the future. This means that usually our mind is not experiencing the present moment at all.