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Worldly people don't understand.
They think you have to think out of the box.
Thinking out of the box means that you have to perfect and develop your contemplation skill.
Contemplation is to place your mind at one place.
Contemplation is a skill to have one thought only and not allow another thought to arise.
Let's say you are an artist and you say I want to create a new statue and you define the parameters. It has to be this tall.
It has to be white.
It cannot have too many colors and so forth.
And then the next thing you do is you sit there, you cross your legs as we train you to do and you focus on those parameters.
That's all.
And you keep on sitting there and focus on that.
And when other thoughts arise, you say, "No, go away." It's almost lunch time.
No, go away.
So you sit there and you contemplate.
You look at the one thought there and all the thought arises, you chop it off.
Another thought arises, you top shelf, chop it off.
And that's the skill.
The skill you're doing here, you're learning how to chop it off.
Anything that arises, you chop it off.
That's child training.
And this is how you think out of the