Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host Thomas Mekonki. Thank you so much for listening today.

The topic today is confusion, what I like to call divine confusion.

And the way I work with confusion is in the context of a

polarity, which is clarity and confusion. So let me go slow for a minute here to lay out a framework

for you. I often talk about polarity.

And by polarity, I mean pairs of opposites that seem to be opposite on the surface, but when we investigate them more closely, we realize that they're not actually opposites in the end. They are interdependent opposites that depend on each other so fully that they can't actually

be what they are without each other.

You've seen maybe the classic yin-yong symbol of the white field and the black field and

the white seed in the black field and the black seed in the white field.

The one is in the other.

This polarity practice is a kind of,

we could say, a wisdom and inside a philosophy that dates back thousands of years in human

culture. And I want to talk about the polarity of clarity and confusion today because what I find

is that socially we tend to have very strong

prejudices towards one quality or the other. In this case with clarity and confusion, I find in

myself and the students I work with so often that when they have a clear idea or when a clear insight comes up in their

practice, they feel elated. It feels so good to be clear and to know what I know. And when

confusion comes up on the cushion, when confusion comes up in life, it feels like, oh, I'm just,

I'm in this bad place.

And if I just work a little harder, eventually I'll come to some kind of clarity.

In other words, we're polarized.

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