The Big Choice
THE BIG CHOICE
Time to realise
that fundamental question
your inner voice asks
will never be “Yes or no?”
But rather “Now or later?”
Posted on April 27, 2017, in Tanka and tagged Death, Existence, Identity, Life, Realisation, Religion, Spirituality, Truth. Bookmark the permalink. 15 Comments.
Ben Naga 
better now than later me think, Ben, later might never come. Good question poem.
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Thank you, Francina.
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This is both profound and powerful, Ben. A stark realization that somehow brings relief…
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If this post brings even one soul relief then praise be. And as ever you are both mindful and generous. Are you familiar with the Mahayana “Six Perfections”
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-six-perfections-449611
Please understand that this has nothing to do with proselyting. Truth is truth is truth and adapts itself to accommodate itself to circumstance yet without losing its essence.
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Sounds familiar – will check the link. Thank you, Ben.
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I did a little more work on this comment after the initial posting. Sorry.
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No apologies needed, my friend. I checked the link and it is something I’ve read about before. Will go back later and read in detail to refresh my memory. 😆
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Whether consciously or not I think this knowledge has continued to live within us, Betty. Then whenever we come across this kind of truth something lights up within us and we are drawn closer.
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I agree – it’s what makes us resonate. Years ago a very special teacher taught about the seven steps or stages of everything from the physical to the most abstract spiritually symbolic. The seven roughly correspond to Plato’s seven “forms”. Though there are only six Mahayana perfections, I think they would also correspond. The 7th is the highest, most ineffable, and it embodies the other six. My old poem “Octave” was my feeble attempt to show the spiraling in our evolution from one stage of awareness to the next – higher and higher until we reach a state beyond cosmic consciousness. And no doubt this all corresponds to your own ideas and conceptions. Same path, just different semantics.
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“Same path, just different semantics.” What a shame it is when folk start killing one another over words. 😦
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If only humanity could reach a state of understanding beyond words… where we realize our Oneness.
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The door is always ajar but then there are so many enticing distractions …
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If everyone would sit under a tree every day and meditate for just ten minutes perhaps the world would become a different place. We all need our own Bodhi tree… 🌲
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Sorry, that comment ended up way too long! 😳
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Not at all.
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