The mind does four things to protect the life of the body: it predicts, explains, judges, and chooses. These are its tools for solving problems, the clear and temporary threats that arrive daily in our lives.
But in the face of continuous uncertainty -- the actual fabric of life -- the mind tries to solve the unsolvable. The mind predicts catastrophe, shuttles from theory to theory, makes searing judgments about what's wrong or right -- and becomes paralyzed. Thoughts race, but no truth can be found.
The tools of the mind become a plague when we try to solve the core uncertainty of planetary living. Problem solving mind becomes, inevitably, monkey mind. The the only way forward, toward truth or knowing, lies just beneath the breath. In that stillness lives all that we've learned, in hundreds of lives, and the conversations -- loud and continuous -- of all the souls who love us.
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