Life right now feels as if it is being lived on brrowed time or, perhaps more appropriately, borrowed merit. This morning on my way in to work I decided to use my 27 bead bone mala as a means of reflecting on the inevitability of my death.Over the course of my trip the reflection strayed in other Dhamma topics but seemed to stick on the reflection on the truth of the law of kamma. In other words, despite how bad it may seem right now if I allow my precepts to slip I will have to pay for it.
Where does that leave me? In short, I am benefiting, even now, from past good kamma but I am not doing much to create favorable conditions in the future. With the diminution of my formal practice I have noticed a concurrent weakening of my mindfulness and a disturbing trend to take liberties with precepts which is why I felt the need to sober myself up this morning with a reflection on death, impermanence and kamma. May it do me some good.
Cattāri Brahmavihārā 
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