Right now, we have to be vigilant.
This is a pivotal moment, one where we could gain everything or lose it all. The stakes are high because you have an opportunity that many people never encounter: the chance to discover your true nature through Dharma. If you live your life without revealing that true nature, you lose something far greater than worldly success or material wealth. In fact, there’s no greater loss than knowing about a practice that can awaken our buddha potential and yet failing to follow through with it.
Think about that for a moment.
If you’ve been introduced to a meditation practice that could change your mind and your life, but you don’t fully commit to it, you’re missing the point entirely. That’s a dreadful scenario. Sure, killing someone is considered a grave negative karma, but if you waste your opportunity to accomplish what truly matters—awakening to your true nature—it’s as if you’re cutting off your own life force, spiritually speaking. You’re cutting off an opportunity that carries long-term consequences, not just in this life but across many lifetimes.
It sounds harsh, but it’s the truth: if you have the knowledge and understanding of how to meditate and you don’t apply yourself, you’re doing yourself a great disservice. Time moves on. We age. We die. And we experience immense loss—all because we let excuses and distractions keep us from something we already knew how to do.
It’s easy to think that we’re just strolling leisurely through life, but in reality, we’re in a dangerous situation. Samsara isn’t a peaceful garden—it’s a swamp filled with sinkholes. If we don’t recognize where we are, if we don’t acknowledge the urgency of our predicament, we’ll continue to get stuck, deeper and deeper. We need to take stock, understand that we’re in samsara, and forge a path out. And that path is Dharma.
There is no other way out. The Dharma is the only path that can guide us out of the swamp, out of the cycle of suffering. So, now is the time to familiarize ourselves with that path, to understand how to make progress, and to apply ourselves.
Don’t lose out. The opportunity is here, but it won’t last forever. If you wait, if you let it pass by, the loss will be immeasurable.
