Losing to Gain

“you have to ‘lose your mind’
before you can come to your senses.”

“You now see everything through a veil of associations
about things,
projected over a direct,
simple awareness.
‘You’ve seen it all before’:
it’s like watching a movie for the twentieth time.
You see only memory of things,
so you become bored,
trapped in your mind.
This is why you have to ‘lose your mind’
before you can come to your senses.”

Way Of The Peaceful Warrior (page 159)