Just as water must be clear and calm if one is to see the gravel of the stream bed, the mind must be clear and calm before one can see one's motives. Attitudes and opinions like turgid water make clarity impossible.
It has been said "There is no in sight: there is only out sight." Our powers of observation are our only source of information, and we intuit such meaning as pattern recognition permits. If our mind is colored and roiled by attitudes and opinions the "out sight" that determines the effectiveness of observation will be correspondingly truncated, and our powers of intuition will labor under half-truths and supposition. Bitter and sweet are properties independent of our opinions.
Meditation clarifies and stills the mind. Even the finest dust of predisposition can be recognized and swept from the doors of perception. Observation is then aware, and intuition achieves clairvoyance.
The waves are the water.
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