The End and the Beginning

You may have not realized it, but my last post marked the last passage of the Dhammapada. I have been so focused on getting though it that I have given little thought as to what I would do when I got to the end. In my daily practice, I read a Dhammapada passage a day, and when I get to the end, I just start at the beginning. I do this because there is always some new insight to gain and also because I do not have the best memory and sometimes the passages seem new to me. I think it easy to think of our lives as linear, we just march through, one day at a time towards an inevitable end. The deal is, though, life is not linear. I think we bounce back and forth between learning the same lessons over and over and learning some new things or approaching the same thing from a different perspective. As I ponder what to do next with the blog, I can promise that you will see some old, some new, and some old with a new twist. I hope you enjoy.