BULLET TRAIN TO NIRVANA

A bullet train is a super-speed express that whizzes to its destination at hundreds of miles per hour. Nirvana is a Buddhist word for ultimate free-dom, liberation and joy in this life. Sometimes, instead of a bullet train to bliss and freedom, we find ourselves on a very slow moving suburban train that stops every few miles. I once found myself on such a train in India; it took several hours to go about a hundred miles on this train. If our goal is inner realization, fulfillment and peace, yet our mode of spiritual travel is very slow and filled with delays and distractions, we may need to choose a fast track means to our destination. Decide to move forward now, regardless of cost. The pace of the journey may leave us gasping and breathless, but the sheer joy of the momentum will propel us to our journey's end.