Dhammapada December

Outside of work, it's been a long time since I've written anything in a blog, journal, or diary. For the last two years, I have enjoyed listening to the lectures of Alan Watts as well as reading some of his writings and his insights into consciousness and existence have me thinking back to the semester I read the Dhammapada.

For those not familiar, the Dhammapada is one of the most widely read Buddhist scriptures and contains sayings attributed to the Buddha. I have come to believe that a strong function of any scriptures is to get the reader or listener to reflect critically on their own experience and in so doing, they project their own meaning onto the text. So, that is what I propose to do in December - blog about how I reflect on the collection of 26 groupings in the Dhammapada as translated by Thomas Byrom.

There are 26 groupings of sayings that cover a lot of ground that I will attempt to explore in the coming days.

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