"However industrious you may be,
There is no end to worldly activities;
But if you practice the Dharma,
You will swiftly conclude everything.
However nice they may seem,
Samsaric affairs always end in disaster;
But the fruits of practicing the Dharma
Will never deteriorate.
Since beginningless time
you have collected and encouraged
Karma, negative emotions,
and habitual tendencies,
Which force you to wander in samsara.
If you continue like that,
when will liberation arrive?
If you only see all this
at the moment of death,
It's rather too late -
When the head's already been severed,
What use is any medicine?
Recognizing the suffering of samsara,
Turn toward the peace of nirvana."
(Guru Rinpoche, 8th Century)
Practicing Dharma is Nirvana.
We are Home here and now.
Whatever our tendencies may be,
there is a friend, mission, loved one,
encouraging us to leave our self.
Sometimes we are called to go inwards.
Always and always, we are Home.
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