How to Achieve No-Thought in the Mind Consciousness While the Manas Engages in Meditative Inquiry

The mind consciousness needs to think through the problem carefully, understand it clearly, and condense the entire meaning of the problem into a single point, deeply suspended in the heart of the manas. In this way, the problem is handed over to the manas. At this point, the mind consciousness may think or may not think; sometimes thinking is needed, and sometimes it needs to be quiet and refrain from thinking. It is best to cooperate with the manas and not scatter the attention of either oneself or the manas, because if the mind consciousness is busy with other matters, it will inevitably transmit information to the manas, increasing the manas's burden and making it unable to concentrate, so that it cannot deliberate (manana) out the correct result.