The goal of meditation techniques based on Eastern beliefs is not to think. One Zen teaching states that truth is beyond words (but of course, words must be used to say this!). Every source I encountered taught that a person cannot enter a mystical state, develop psychic powers, or have true spiritual progress through reason. Such a belief supports the idea that truth is whatever you experience. This embrace of the nonrational assumes that truth can only be realized without reason or thought. Yet