The way I was taught about meditation is that you study the "manual" under the guidance of your teacher, figure out what's going on a little bit, then you practice, you study, practice, study, practice. Without a clear view of the whole process, it's possible to just roam and fumble around for decades or lifetimes for that matter. Developing clarity in the "view" means understanding why we should meditate and how do to go about it. So having a clear view is the first step and then actually doing the practice is the second step.
You could have a totally clear view, you could completely get it. You could understand everything fully. But if there is no practice, the whole thing becomes purely theoretical and conceptual. As Charlie Chan's #1 son used to say, "words do not cook rice." It's happened many times in the past that a person's so smart, got such a strong clear view, but no practice. Sometimes their mind can feel like uncooked rice even to the casual observer. So practice is stage two.
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