Liberation

Liberation is Not in the Distant Future

But Right Here Right Now

Have you liberated yourself from the annoyances in the present?

If not,

Then what are the manifestations of your practice?

Have you liberated yourself from your obsessions in the present?

If not,

then how do you better your merits?

Have you liberated yourself from the rightness and wrongnessin the present?

If not,

then where does the Buddhist perfection you talk about begin?

Have you liberated yourself from judgments and criticisms in the present?

If not,

Then how can benevolence, empathy, delight, and generosity in your mind arise?

The awareness of the present nurtures liberation.

Without it,

The state of liberation could never be attained, for it would have no concrete foundation.

Please bear in mind,

Do not always gaze into the future and overlook the present.

Khenpo Jamyang