According to Osho:
“Confusion is a great opportunity. The problem with people who are not confused is a big one—they think they know, but they actually do not know. People who believe they have clarity are in real trouble; their clarity is very superficial. In reality, they do not know what clarity means; what they call clarity is simply stupidity.
Idiots are very, very clear—clear in the sense that they lack the intelligence to feel confused. To feel confused requires great intelligence. Only those who are intelligent can feel confusion; the mediocre just move through life, smiling, laughing, accumulating money, struggling for more power and fame. If you look at them, you will feel a little envy; they look so confident, they even look happy.
Confusion is a great opportunity. It simply says that through the mind, there is no way out. If you are truly confused, you are blessed. Now something is possible, something extraordinarily important; you are on the edge. If you are utterly confused, it means that the mind has failed; now the mind cannot continue giving you some form of security. You are coming closer and closer to the death of the mind. And that is the greatest thing that can happen to a person in life, the greatest blessing—because once you have seen that the mind is confused and there is no way out through it, how long will you be able to remain attached to it?
I cannot tell you that you will gain certainty—no, because that is also a word applicable to the mind and the world of the mind. When there is confusion, there is also certainty; when confusion disappears, certainty also disappears. You simply are—pure, neither confused nor certain, only clarity, transparency. And this transparency has beauty; this transparency is grace.
This is the most wonderful moment in human life—when there is neither confusion nor certainty. A person simply is—a mirror, reflecting what is, without direction, going nowhere, without an idea of doing something, without a future, simply totally in the present.
Intelligent people hesitate, consider, waver. Where the wise man whispers, the fool simply recites from the rooftops. Lao Tzu says, ‘I may be the only confused man in the world. Everyone else seems so certain but me.’ He is right. He has such extraordinary intelligence that he cannot be certain about anything. I cannot promise you certainty if you let go of the mind. I can promise you only one thing—that it will be pure. There will be purity, transparency; you will be able to see things exactly as they are.”
— Osho, Simply Seeing, The Book of Wisdom, Talk #4
I see in the above a brilliant alchemical recipe for transforming confusion. It says something quite simple: do not try to get rid of confusion; do not go backward when you can go forward. When you are uncertain, do not seek the security that comes from the clarity of the mind and the categorical nature of beliefs. Instead, seek the support beyond your mind, even if you do not understand with that very same mind what this support looks like.
Trust yourself—that you can bear the confusion, the misunderstanding, the not-knowing. See in them not your inadequacy, but exactly the opposite—an expression of your intelligence. It is your ability to see the two rays of the Just Sun which shine simultaneously in different directions.
Then, give yourself time—enough time. As much as you need for everything that weighs down your head to fall away in a natural way. Do not rush yourself, because impatience is also an expression of a mind that holds beliefs about how fast things should happen.
And, of course, transform this mind; turn confusion into wisdom. If you know that confusion is the work of the Destroyer archetype at the level of the mind, it becomes easier. You realize it carries a hidden blessing—it has come so that you may begin to hear the quiet voice of the heart.
Kameliya Hadzhiyska
