Bob Schwartz

Many are feeling dislocated and lost right now. Even the rich and powerful may look around at all the gold they have attached to every available surface in their house and still feel dislocated and lost.

I think about what simple single solution there might to all of the challenges we are currently facing. Not surprisingly, there isn’t one.

But there may be simple help for that feeling of being dislocated and lost in all this.

Most days I place a mat on the floor, place a cushion on the mat, and sit on it. I meditate, but what I am saying here is that you don’t have to.

All you have to do is get a mat and cushion, place them on the floor, and sit. No special position or meditation needed. Just sit there, for however long you are comfortable. This is your place, right there, right now. You are not dislocated or lost because, to repeat, you are right there.

What you do and say and think after that sitting is entirely up to you. Hopefully you are not feeling as dislocated and lost, but maybe you are, for a little while, or maybe for the rest of the day.

But for a moment, there is a place for you, a place you sat and can sit again. Your place.