This generation is all tangled up like a nest of matted hair. But who can unravel the tangle?“Tangled within, tangled without: these people are tangled in tangles. I ask you this, Gotama: Who can untangle this tangle?” “A wise person grounded in ethics, developing the mind and wisdom, a keen and alert mendicant, they can untangle this tangle. Those who have discarded greed, hate, and ignorance—the perfected ones with defilements ended—they have untangled the tangle. And where name and form cease with nothing left over; as well as impingement and perception of form: it’s there that the tangle is cut.”