How to Stay Present in Difficult Times?

The world is crumbling all around you? Everything seems to be falling apart? Can we achieve meditative states in all of that? And, without meditation frustrations? (00:15) Don't Fetishize Meditation (02:01) How a Moral Philosophy Will Improve Your Life and Meditation (05:28) What to Do if You Find Meditation Distressing? (08:49) Visualization vs Meditation & How Social Media Relay on Content (13:19) Association vs. Dissociation (15:00) How We Are Reliant on 'The Voice-over' (20:34) What You Want is to Come Back to Reality (23:34) The Media Spiking Your Adrenaline and Traumatizing You (27:47) Take Action in This Reality (30:27) We're Worshiping the Idols Themselves (35:23) The Normalized Narcissism and Dissociative Identity in Our Culture (38:26) People Trapped in Materialism (40:28) Recommending the Cure for All of That (45:17) When You Want to Be Kinder to Others //Q&A Section// (47:35) "Reducing the suffering in the world as much as you can" (49:17) "Why do I feel like I'm wasting time if I'm doing nothing?" (50:33) "Can you speak more to your definition of entitlement?" (55:03) "Sometimes being seen is the least/most anyone ever wanted" (57:51) "Is everything in society made to reduce us to our base instincts, so we become more compliant?" (1:01:28) We Haven't Lost Religion, We Reverted to Fetishism (1:04:20) We Just Need to Come Back to Ourselves