Apprentice I see the options but I don't really go for one option and the longer I stare at the situation the more paralyzed I get and also pretty tense because I don't really see any solution (sticky mud). I seem to be on the one hand very clever and on the other hand of a striking naivety. How do I get out of that?

Ngala Rig’dzin & Tsal’gyür Wangmo We frequently observe people getting trapped into taking chains of cause and effect as being very real on the level of form: “I have to keep on doing this because of x, which is real because of y, which is real because of z, because because because...” This is being ‘very clever’, as you say. But the view of emptiness gets lost. The chains of karma are no more binding than such chains of thought (which do rather creak and whine like metal links). Or rather, one does not exactly lose it as deny it, hide it from oneself. This is one’s ‘striking naiveté’.