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What is the purpose of confusion?

Confusion is a necessary chaos that shakes you free from borrowed beliefs, creating a fertile ground for authentic clarity to emerge through direct experience and meditation.

— Osho
According to Osho, confusion is a deliberate device: he ‘spreads’ it to shake you out of second-hand certainties, collapse borrowed beliefs, and expose the mind’s mechanical grip. When old conclusions wobble, a space of not-knowing opens—ripening awareness, honesty, and receptivity. Through this creative disorientation, you rely on direct experience and meditation, and authentic clarity arises as lived insight.

Confusion knocks down your borrowed answers so your own clear seeing can grow.

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