#platform/youtube #channel/bodhi-light  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 this is how you become more creative than your normal self what is contemplation contemplation explained in the Buddhist sutras Buddhist teachings is to place your mind at one place 製心 一處 that's in the one of the sutras 遺教經 where the Buddha says if you put your mind in one place you park your mind in one place there's nothing that you cannot not do meaning what first of all 製心 一處 that's Chinese 製 is to place 製心 you place your mind in one place meaning that you control your mind and restricted to one place very much like detention centers nowadays they collect people and put them in detentions there meaning they place in one place there they cannot get out that's tough but that's what happens in your mind you learn to develop skills to not allow your mind to wonder 一處 is one place one location so right there okay and that's what contemplation is contemplation is a skill to have one thought only and not allow another thought to arise this is a skill that prevents you from not allowing another thought to rise and focus on one thought only that's what contemplation is there's no magic behind it it's just a skill this is this is how it works let's say you are an artist and you say i want to create a new statue it's abstract 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 all the thoughts arise you say no go away another thought arises no go away and he says it's almost lunch time no go away what are we gonna have for lunch forget it so you sit there and you contemplate you look at the one thought there and all the thought arises you chop it off another thoughts arises you will top it off 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 Chan training and this is how you what is called out there think out of the box that's a recipe for thinking out of the box right now the worldly people have no way of doing that okay they say i need to come up with a new design and then they sit there they they have a cup of coffee oh coffee is nice where did it come from oh it's a Vietnamese coffee then they say Vietnamese coffee is very bad for you Master YongHua says very bad for you so you hop on your ev you say let's go get some more more better coffee hopping your ev and then another thought rise Master YongHua also says ev is very bad for you the thought keep on coming coming coming whereas you if you have the skills you say let's come up with a new design here you focus on that design design design design and a thought arises oops i need some coffee what do you do you chop off that thought i'm hungry chop it off mommy you dad boy you can chop off everything chop off everything a noise comes in you chop it off a noise comes in you chop it off anything else you can ignore you can ignore and you only maintain this and you only maintain this one thought that is contemplation this is how you become more creative than your normal self because you normal self comparatively speaking let's say you Catholic you you say i come to need design and you say lord please help me what is that another thought right you chop it up go away lord Catholic get it see another thought Jesus has been so long it has been a while nothing happened drop it off go away Jesus girlfriend comes back you got that and that's contemplation this is how you are able to create with your mind in a way that you weren't able to do before there's a technique behind it same thing you want to create music same thing because you are influenced by all sorts of things all you have to do is learn to chop it off chop it off chop it off chop it off chop it off eventually all you have left after a while is that the one thought that's when you see oh what you guys don't realize that when you concentrate on that creative process you're constantly distracted by noise by your son by your stomach by your girlfriend i'm coming where are you you love me you see that this is why you lack creativity because you cannot sustain your creativity for any substantial length of time that's why you are just like your normal self whereas the creative process requires you to steal your mind and shift gear shift your mind to a different gear a higher level more creative state of mind but you can't because you're constantly distracted and 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 that's why i submit to you that when you have Chan skills you control your creativity you have you are so much more creative than before that's when your best comes out you don't allow others to distract you ordinary people are have no choices because they have no skills to avoid distractions to eliminate distractions