What is clarity according to the Balanced View Training? What are short moments of clarity?
What is a short moment of clarity? To know the answer to that question, stop thinking—just for a moment. What remains? A sense of alertness and clarity remains. This is what clarity is: clarity and alertness that is open like a cloudless sky. Just as a rainbow appears within space, thoughts, emotions, sensations and other experiences appear within the openness and alertness of clarity. Just as space and a rainbow are inseparable, thoughts, emotions, sensations and other experiences are inseparable from clarity. When we stop thinking for a moment, we introduce ourselves to clarity, and before long we begin to notice that the clarity that is present when we are not thinking is also present when we are thinking. All thoughts appear and vanish naturally like the flight path of a bird in the sky. The peaceful clarity and alertness that is identified when we stop thinking is the basis of all thoughts. It saturates all thoughts without exception. This is truly amazing! This is similar to the
