Meditation Is Not for the Faint-Hearted

It is difficult to speak of the timeless beauty and richness of the present moment when things are moving so fast. But the faster things move, the more important it is for us to dip into or even inhabit the timeless. Otherwise, we can lose touch with dimensions of our humanity that make all the difference between happiness and misery, between wisdom and folly, between well-being and the erosive turmoil in the mind, in the body, and in the world that we will be referring to as “dis-ease.” Because our discontent truly is a disease, even when it does not appear as such. Sometimes we colloquially refer to those kinds of feelings and conditions, to that “dis-ease” we feel so much of the time, as “stress.” It is usually painful. It weighs on us. And it always carries a feeling of underlying dissatisfaction. …