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When I am confused, what do I do? I look at myself. Who is the entity that is looking at myself? He is part of the confusion.

When I am confused, what do I do? I look at myself. Who is the entity that is looking at myself? He is part of the confusion.

From Public Discussion 1, Saanen, 3 August 1966

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When I am confused, what do I do? I look at myself. Who is the entity that is looking at myself? He is part of the confusion. Therefore why don’t I stop looking at myself? When I am lost in a jungle, what do I do? I don’t go around like a squirrel or a monkey all over the place. I stop. I take stock of where I am. Psychologically, we are afraid, confused and all the rest of it, and being incapable of resolving it, not knowing what to do with it, we invent an idea. But you cannot understand the confusion if you have an idea. Therefore drop the idea. Drop it. First drop the idea, the ideal, the purpose, and be sure that you have dropped it completely so that it doesn’t interfere and come back in another way. This is what I mean by stopping.

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