Along the Precipice - Bhikkhu K. Ñânananda
| Living in the Present is like walking along a precipice,
the utmost balancing is required to avoid slipping into the bottomless Past, on one side
and the endless Future on the other. Both are dreadful enough to look into, but this awareness itself should be sufficient to make us
stick to our path of the Present. It is truly, a Path-meant only for the ‘pedestrian’, narrow as it is. Once we are on it, no distraction should make us falter, as we proceed step-by-step. We have only five guidelines to help us - faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom. In fact, our progress on this narrow and steep path begins with faith and ends with wisdom. Where the path ends is also our journey’s end. Then there is neither a precipice and nothing to precipitate. There is only a TIMELESS-PLAIN of SUBLIME PEACE. |