8. Where Mental Clarity Comes From

You know the saying, "A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind"?

That's like saying, "A quiet mind is a sign of a sick personality."

It's a topsy-turvy saying, which is what makes the saying funny, isn't it? sort of.

A noisy mind is a sign of a sick personality.

Oops!  Did I hit too close to home, with that one?  Sorry.  

A noisy mind is sick because it's an ongoing disturbance.

Meditation is commonly used to quiet the mind.  That works only when we're not doing anything! -- and it's doing it the hard way.

There's a deeper kind of quiet that allows for full participation in experience.  It results from releasing the stress patterns that run our lives, constantly, without our awareness, consent or control.

Another term for this kind of quiet is a high signal to noise ratio -- in case you've heard that expression.  It's the kind of clarity and purity that we get from a high-quality sound system -- or the intensity of a laser.  Imagine someone with a mind, like that.

Less stress, a quieter mind; a quieter mind, more clarity -- and more receptivity to clear ideas.

How do we get there?

Balance our four faculties of intelligence.  

That automatically reveals the hidden sources of mental noise and quiets them.   It's a state of effortless receptivity that happens with balance -- the balancing of our intelligence.

Our attention gets more focussed and more coherent (less noisy).

When it's sufficiently focussed and coherent, we call that quality of thought, ingenuity.

When it approaches a certain level, we call it, genius.

That's all, for today.

Easy, huh?  

Next expostulation in a couple of days, or so.