BURN BABY BURN (PDF-1160)

Above title a line from the disco song by The Trammps of 1978, and here I am referring

to our karmic burn rate. We are certainly all slaves to our own karma, usually creating it

as fast as we can. I always liked the album title of singer-songwriter Neil Young, "Rust

Never Sleeps," only here it would be "Karma Never Sleeps."

Since I was originally raised on the Ten Commandments, when I wandered into

Buddhism and learned about the law of Karma, cause and effect, I was always on the

watch not to accumulate karma of the "Do Not Kill," "Do Not Steal," and so on variety. It

never occurred to me until somewhat late in the game that I was already accumulating a

myriad of karma of a lesser kind. I call it micro-karma and I was on the lookout for big

mistakes while trampling on the grass and stepping on ants. I am reminded of the quote

from the poet/occultist Aleister Crowley, "To snatch at a gnat, and swallow a camel."

That's about right.