Living in the dream-like turning of thoughts has always been fraught with deception and problems. And in this age of global communication, it's even more so. Each day it seems there is some new crisis. And with so many different sources telling us what to be afraid of and who to be angry at, it can be dizzying. All this makes it easy to get off-track and lose one’s sense of center and balance. And these days, we see many people spinning-out with extreme polarization, running with ideologies, both far-right and far-left, like they’ve been infected with a psychic poison. We know that what we fill our mind with can make us sick, like an infectious disease. So being ensnared in biased bubbles of beliefs is dangerous, both personally and collectively. The medicine for this mental poisoning is to come out of the mind and live from our center. This is both the refuge from the craziness of this world and the source of right action.
So where do we find our center? How do we find our center? It is always located in the stillness of being, our own consciousness — independent of all mind-talk. To become conscious of our own consciousness puts us on the right track. So simple and an enormous challenge. This is our ongoing choice and humanities evolutionary stepping-stone.