What is this world?

What do I want? Why is there confusion? Why is there disturbance? Why is there still a sense of discontentment? Why is there unease? Why is there still uncertainty? Why is resolution still lacking? Why is there still a sense on bondage? Why is the heart still clenched? Why is there still not enough? Why is there still chasing after wealth? Why is there still fear? What is the problem statement of life?
What really is this world and what am I doing here? Who am I? What is this appearance? What is the problem? Why is there struggle?

The process of living life tends to generate confusion and chaos. The abundance of options expands the confusion. Modern life with its peculiar nature only expands confusion. Confusion clouds reality and generates fear and unease. We keep chasing after things, not knowing why we chase them. And even after we gain them, we are still uneasy. We fear losing the things we own. We fear the loss of our lifestyle. We fear the loss of income. We don't know what we really want. Wandering souls. We feel helpless. At the mercy of the external world.

To retain clarity and not get carried away is the only path to sanity.

The words of a sage

The mind of human beings are essentially the same mechanism. 
On the surface of all minds there is an incessant storm of self-referential thoughts. 
They cannot be stopped. 
They are the mind. 
The sense of self and the swirling mnemonic debris are the same phenomenon. 
In the center of all minds is a sublime quiescence. 
Many intuit its presence and attempt to access it through various practices such as meditation or shifting their focus to the "now". 
Long distance runners, surfers and musicians have their unique names for it. 
But it cannot be accessed through intentional effort that originates on the surface. 
The only difference between a sage and a seeker is a sage has one foot in the consensus conceptual overlay and one foot in the sublime quiescense. They experience their perceptual input being beautifully suspended between everything and nothing at all.

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In your travels, you may make it to the edge and find yourself staring into the void. 
But you can't go there because......well..... because there's nothing there. 
And you will have to turn around and walk back into the dream knowing that with all it trials and tribulations....with all its uncertainties and scary things........knowing that it is all a mental fabrication.......it is the only place in the manifested universe that you, and all those you love, have any existence. 
This......this dream of separation is your only home. 
And it is grand far beyond anything you could ever imagine.

~excerpt