On Being

Our minds constantly seek to be something in the future:  to be rich, to be doing something, to be with someone. Yet ironically the mind shies away from just being. To sit in the present and observe life is a challenge.  Thus I'm coming to view the mind as an organ of future thought and memory reorganizing. I'm not sure what to call the faculty that peacefully observes the present without needing to judge and categorize it. Meditation brings out this Observer.