It seems the authors' use of view is equivalent to philosophy, one’s “point of view.” This section dips into the ideas underlying the practice. The authors proceed with a review of the flash of perception as an unconditioned experience, something that happens to us, something that interrupts our everyday experience of the world. The reality is that this flash is the reality behind the ideas that color our understanding of the world. Our ideas are the equivalent of clouds, the flash of perception a gap in the clouds allowing us to see what has always been there waiting for us to discover (or perhaps rediscover, as children seem to have largely uninterrupted access).
