There is point on the journey of Buddhist practice where the mind becomes more resiliant and able to be with direct experience without reponsing with immediate reactivity but rather able to immediately respond from a more empathic and creative mental space with a wider scope of begign response.

Probably, Base Camp in Buddhism is the mind beginning to be able to open up to direct experiences from the senses and from the mind itself ,feeling, thoughts, desires and emotions; and respond with a relatively unperturbed receptivity where presumptions , agenda and reactivity are qui at least for a while.