Understanding
One’s Confusions
There is no need to bother about confusions,
simply go on living. Live through the confusion, accept and learn; if one tries
to get out of it, one will create more confusion. A confused mind cannot get
out of confusion - it will create more confusion.
The only way is to accept it. Everybody is
confused, otherwise all would have been saints! The whole world is confused.
Confusion is intrinsic to the human mind. The confusion has a very fundamental
reason, there is an ontology to confusion. Man comes from the animals and man
has to become God, that is the confusion. Half belongs to the world of the
animals, the unconscious part, and the other half is trying to become
conscious, absolutely conscious, hence the tension. Both go on trying to
manipulate us, and we are never sure who we are – whether to go this way or to
go that way. In being pulled between these two the confusion arises.
Don’t try to escape from it; live it. This is
life; love it! Get deeper into it, and by getting deeper into it we will be
surprised - our eyes are becoming more and more clear. As we look deeper into our
confusion, it starts sorting itself out.
If one goes deeply into any problem one arrives at
its solution. The solution is hidden in the problem; it is never outside. The
problem is simply an indication that the solution is within us and we are not
looking for it. So go into the confusion; allow it, watch it, see it. And don’t
be in a hurry to get out of it, because whenever one is in a hurry to get out,
one stops understanding. What is the point of understanding something which we
want to drop? And we cannot drop it unless we have understood it; that’s the
dichotomy. Try to understand it; in that very understanding, confusion
disappears.
Clarity comes out of understanding our confusions
and answers come by going deeper into our problems. Certainly, one day it will happen
- all confusion is gone, all problems disappear, and we are left alone. The
beauty of that aloneness is enlightenment. All remains as it is; only now
between us and reality there are no more clouds. Everything is the same – we
are the same, the world is the same – it is just the something between the two,
the confusion, that cloud, is no more there.
Look deep into the confusion. Don’t be worried
about it, don’t be concerned about it, because concern means that we are
getting ready to escape from it. Hence people create devices; they repress it,
they avoid it, they don’t look at it or they start distracting their mind
through some other channels. But all these things are not going to help, they
will make us more and more confused. If we want to avoid one confusion, we will
create another; to avoid that we will create another. Don’t avoid the first
one: go into it, watch it, let it be our meditation. If it is there, there must
be some significance, because nothing exists without any significance.
Gradually we will feel thankful for it, because
looking into it we will become clear, more meditative, more alert, more aware.
Then finally we will thank our confusion, that it helped us, that it was an
opportunity to grow into awareness. It was just an opportunity knocking on our
door to help us to grow into awareness.
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