Our senses become overwhelmed, and our relationship with ourselves and others turns impersonal and generalized—to the point where we grow insensitive and broad-brush in our approach, rather than being present and attentive to what is unfolding within others. We fail to perceive the inner content that moves them—the very things they convey to us, often without even realizing what it is that is fundamentally stirring them up in our samsaric stream of mental activity that consists of the collective processes that manifest locallly within the mind—in its personalized, dualistic, and undifferentiated state. In seclusion, we perceive this more clearly, while simultaneously avoiding the conflicts and confusion that arise within us when these elements manifest together—conflicts and confusion that, outside of meditative seclusion, we are compelled to confront and resolve as we encounter the collective samsaric stream of mental content everywhere around us on a daily basis. Ultimately, it is the collective flow of the mind’s non-localized content that leads it astray, away from our universal ground: our basic face and the self reflective awareness that is the space of the wordless enlightened intent. It is the mind which migrates into objects and argues with its own projections.