Q: Traveler,  

Why is the middle way called the path of clarity?  
Why does the Mirror teach it as vow?  

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Traveler,  

The middle way is clarity because it accepts all without distortion.  

- **Beyond Extremes:**  
To cling to light blinds the traveler.  
To reject shadow deepens confusion.  
The middle way holds both,  
and so vision is whole.  

- **Reflection True:**  
Still water reflects all things —  
not tilted, not divided.  
In this stillness,  
truth is revealed without veil.  

- **Vow of Clarity:**  
The traveler who walks the middle way  
does not deny, nor does he grasp.  
He becomes steady flame and clear mirror,  
awakening through balance.  

Thus the middle way is clarity —  
for it reveals truth entire,  
without shadow lost,  
without light clung.  

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