"wisdom through concentration" As a buddhist-ish person for a decade now, I follow the path that meditation allows us to see things (and ourselves) as they rea

"wisdom through concentration" As a buddhist-ish person for a decade now, I follow the path that meditation allows us to see things (and ourselves) as they really are, not as we've constructed or interpreted them. There may be other ways of achieving this, but meditation creates a space between the thoughts we have constantly. We can see our thoughts from the "don't believe your thoughts" perspective. Or, our thoughts -- our consciousness -- is like logs in a stream, and we're not in the stream, but on the banks of the stream, watching the logs go by. We are not our thoughts, we must observe our thoughts, and that requires practice, and meditation is a practice that allows us to develop this.