This is a little book I carry around with me most of the time; if ever I’m waiting for something, a dental appointment, a train, to meet a friend for coffee, I often dip into it. I usually just open it at random, but for the last little while I’m rereading it from the beginning.
The Dhammapada is a collection of the sayings of the Buddha, it has been transcribed and translated many times, but I have the version by Thomas (Billy) Byrom, published in 1976. The text is divided into 26 different parts, such as Choices, Wakefulness, Mind, and the Fool, Wiseman and Master. It also has sections on Joy, Anger and Violence… and then lovely chapters entitled Out of the Forest, The Dark and The Elephant.
I would really like to learn parts of it by heart… maybe that should be a February 16th resolution!
Lois Elsden 