When the Water Is Still, the Bottom Shows
As still water mirrors clearly, a settled mind at last sees brightly.
Trying to find the answer, am I stirring my mind even more?
📝Reflection
To see the bottom of muddy water by stirring it with your hand makes it less visible. You must leave it still and wait; the silt settles and the bottom shows clearly. The mind is just the same. Before a tangled problem we stir our thoughts endlessly to find the answer, rolling the same worry a hundred times, splitting possibilities into dozens of branches. The more we do, the murkier the water grows. Good judgment, in fact, surfaces only after the mind has settled once — on a walk, or waking from sleep. Stillness is not laziness but the most efficient condition for insight. When the answer will not show, what is needed is not fiercer agonizing but to stop stirring awhile and wait for the silt to settle.
🌱Apply It Today
For a problem with no answer today, instead of rolling it more, let go for ten minutes — walk, or sit blankly. After it settles, the bottom shows.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
