ATDTDA (2): "wheel" (41.27)

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What came to my mind was the karmic wheel:

"With this ability to enter deeply into the lives of another it is 
not surprising that the insights expressed in his teachings 
gained a wide audience and universal acceptance. Buddha, 
noticing this, proposed that a picture should be made 
representing Maudgalyayana's teachings, so that his 
message could be made available to even those who did 
not have direct access to him. Thus was born the esoteric 
image known as 'The Wheel of Life.' This diagram serves 
as a powerful inspiration to spiritual aspirants and is painted 
to the left of all Tibetan monasteries, offering an opportunity 
to both monks and pilgrims alike, to look deeply into their 
own inner beings."


http://tinyurl.com/3a2pvy

"The first part contains information on the life of the Buddha, 
Buddhism, and on Tibetan Buddhism and its present leader, 
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama. The sacred Kalachakra teaching 
is then introduced, and a 12-day initiation ceremony 
conducted by the Dalai Lama in New York in 1991 is 
described. The Kalachakra mandala, or Wheel of Time 
mandala, is discussed, complete with a visual guide to help 
readers understand the path to enlightenment."

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Dalai-Lama-Secrets-Wheel/dp/0525450637

"Karma is far greater than the sum total of an individual's actions. 
It includes the effects of causes, actions and fruits and the 
impressions created in sub conscious mind by these actions. 
The cause and effect relationship between actions and their 
fruits is the basis of law of karma. You can make the karmic 
wheel work in your favor. More… "

http://mysticalguide.com/soul/messages/9/430.html

Of course, there's always Las Vegas:

http://www.oaklandfamilyservices.com/images/Roulette%20Wheel.jpg

Situated in the book in there somewhere, some T.W.I.T. is:

http://www.psyche.com/psyche/images/tarot/medium/major/wheel_med.jpg

Tim Strzechowski: "It's nothing supernatural.  Most people have a wheel riding 
up on a wire, or some rails in the street, some kind of guide or groove, to keep 
them moving in the direction of their destiny.  But you keep bouncing free.  
Avoiding penance and thereby definition" (p. 41).

"wheel" of course suggests the Ferris wheel

The passage resonates with "yo-yo" connotations / Benny Profane

Sort of reminds me of a toy I had as a kid, can't recall the name of it, but it 
was a bent wire on a handle onto which you placed a wheel and it magnetically 
rolled up and down the wire, yo-yo-like.  I can picture it.