Our ordinary mind is fickle and changeable, always riding an emotional roller coaster. Today I’m happy, tomorrow I’m suffering. This is the ordinary mind which we have unfortunately made our “home.” But it is a flimsy structure built with the fragile walls of negative emotions. At any moment, it could suddenly fall to pieces. Buddhism teaches us that our original, real home is a state of pure wisdom—a place free from afflictive emotions, free from grasping, a place of profound equanimity. Your real home is a sanctuary of the heart, a place apart from the constant upheaval and suffering of samsaric existence.