ATDTDA (2): "wheel" (41.27)

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

"The Wheel of Life describes the cause of all evil and its effects, 
mirrored in earthly phenomena just as it is experienced by 
everyone from the cradle to the grave. Picture by picture it reminds 
us that everyone is always his or her own judge and responsible 
for their own fate, because, according to Karma, causes and their 
effects are the fruits of one's own deeds."

http://www.buddhanet.net/wheel1.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavacakra

Of course, from some reason, my mind wanders off to Strayhorn's Lyrics for "Lush Life"

(billy strayhorn)

I used to visit all the very gay places
Those come what may places
Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life
To get the feel of life...
>From jazz and cocktails.

The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces
With distingue traces
That used to be there you could see where they'd been washed away
By too many through the day...
Twelve o'clock tales.

Then you came along with your siren of song
To tempt me to madness!
I thought for a while that your poignant smile was tinged with the sadness
Of a great love for me.

Ah yes! I was wrong...
Again,
I was wrong.

Life is lonely again,
And only last year everything seemed so sure.
Now life is awful again,
A troughful of hearts could only be a bore.
A week in paris will ease the bite of it,
All I care is to smile in spite of it.

Ill forget you, I will
While yet you are still burning inside my brain.
Romance is mush,
Stifling those who strive.
Ill live a lush life in some small dive...
And there Ill be, while I rot
With the rest of those whose lives are lonely, too..

That whole "Wheel"/"Axis" thing in a swivel chair
with a mimosa--the T.W.I.T.'s would love it.