Do Not Defer Awakening to Tomorrow
Time is to be cherished; it cannot be let slip by a misstep. This very moment is the place.
Saying I will begin "when I'm ready," "when I have time," am I letting the best moment — now — slip by?
📝Reflection
Yunmen urged again and again: cherish time, do not let it slip away by a misstep. Whether awakening or practice, it is aimed at us who defer it to "someday when I have time." We always wait for a better moment — once the busy spell ends, once my mind settles, once I am a little more ready. But that "someday" rarely comes, and when it does another excuse arises. The truth Yunmen pointed to is simple: the best time to begin is always only now. Perfect conditions never come, so only the one who begins in the imperfect now ever reaches anything. Time let slip cannot be recovered. So, for this one day at least, guard your time from the most common thief of all — postponement. That is Yunmen's urgent plea.
🌱Apply It Today
Take the smallest of the things you put off today saying "later," and begin it now for just five minutes. The chain of postponement breaks in the first five minutes.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
