The Search For Enlightenment

You get a very different viewpoint from the saddle of a bicycle, and you tend to have a little more time to take in your surroundings, than whilst driving. We have all seen our local cemeteries, but on my recent travels, they seemed to be a regular, if not constant reminder of our eternal state of impermanence.

Buddhism looks at death in a similar way to sleep, it is not the end of something, it is a period of rest before the beginning of something new.

In the case of sleep, it is the beginning of a new day. Death, on the other hand, is the beginning of a whole new life. So I do not fear death, though I have no great desire to hasten its coming.

I intend to make the most of each and every day, and when death does arrive, as it certainly will, I will enjoy the rest before being reborn into a new and exciting experience.

It would appear however, from the signs above, that the local authority in Keynsham do not share the Buddhist belief in The Wheel of Life, the cycle of birth, death and re-birth.

Dead-end? I don’t think so.