Meditation for Applied and Sustained Thinking

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Being a great force, thought carries tremendous power. It becomes a matter of

great moment to know how to use this power in the highest possible way and to

the greatest possible effect. This can best be done by the practice of

meditation.

 

Applied thinking applies the mind to the object and sustained thinking keeps it

continually engaged; rapture brings about the expanding and bliss of the

developing mind whose motives for non-distraction have been accomplished by

those two kinds of thinking.

 

Meditation can arise when applied and sustained thinking, rapture, bliss and

collectedness of mind arise.