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Someone stole a check from our company and cashed it.

 

It was written from a store called the Rainbow Grocery.

 

The check was for over a thousand dollars.

 

The whole thing caused some hardship,

 

but it gave birth to this song.

 

Such a deal!

The LAW of KARMA
and
The Rainbow Grocery Reggae

Lawof Karma and Rainbow Grocery - Peter Malakoff
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Wassup my Brother?

Im gonna lay down a track for you my mon

You know how ders a check dat a crazy man don took

Well I wrote a poem bout it

an put it in my book

Its called

Don't Fuck Wit de Law of Karma

Heres how it goes

 

Front and back it seems to be

dat check ain't his

an money ain't free

 

Ders a price for everyting

everybody's got to pay

It must be now or later

if you ever want to play

 

If you take from others

what ain't rightly yours

it may give you quick advantage

but wont even de scores

 

You see de Lord is our collector

an He's never denied

A lot of people tempted

a lot of people dey cried

 

So if you want to be happy and if you want to be free

Never take another's mon's money from de Rainbow Grocery

 

an

Don't fuck wit de Law of Karma mon

just don't do it

you know

its like a waste of time

cuz de Law will get you in the end

 

You remember one time de Gandhi mon

I remember he say:

 

'God created the Law of Karma

an den He jus' walked away'

 

He retired mon

What else He need to do?

Take care of everything

 

All over de world

People know dis truth

What you do unto others

Shall be done unto you

 

For every ting a man has done

There shall be just reward

I believe its very difficult to judge another

unless you are de Lord

 

So, I'm tellin' you now

 

Don't fuck with the Law of Karma

Don't fuck wit it man

You can fuck wit' anything else

but don't fuck wit dat

 

Its been known for thousands of years

only recently forgot

It will make a big big difference

help everybody out a lot

 

Dat's why I keep singing

again an again an again

 

Don't fuck with the Law of Karma

its at the root of all sin

 

Jus don't mess wit it man

You got to leave it alone

Jus don't touch it

 

Do righteous actions

dey grow all on their own

 

No sense in bawlin' mon

a moanin' and a groan'

 

Put your feet on the righteous path

an walk your way home

 

Don't fuck with the Law of Karma

Don't try to hurt somebody

Be kind to all beings

 

 

Der is no Truth but de one Truth

An dat Truth is de Truth of God

Its really very simple

not at all odd

 

Don't fuck with the Law of Karma

Its like fuckin' wit God mon

jus don touch it

leave it alone

 

Everybody be happy

Man woman child in der home

When everybody got de true wealth

den dey wont need no loan

 

Don't fuck with the Law of Karma

 

You see I wrote this poem

an I laid down the tracks

Its in the big book now mon

I cain't take it back

 

You know wen a ting happens to you

or you jus cant find a way?

Don't get reactive to it

jus remember what I say

 

Don't fuck with the Law of Karma

jus leave it alone mon

Keep your hands off it

 

Do righteous actions all de time mon

It will take you all the way home

 

But as for the Law of Karma

Im tellin' ya

Don't touch it

leave it alone

 

Everybody be happy

Happy as dey can be

Know de Law of Karma will find us all

On land or on de sea

It'll find you everywhere mon

 

I want dis song to be a blessin

even wit de crazy man

Don't fuck with the Law of Karma

don fuck wit it mon

 

I wrote this poem now

and Ive laid down the tracks

Now its in de big book mon

it ain't comin' back

Don't fuck with the Law of Karma

Don fuck with it man

 

Dis is P Biggi mon

signin' off from Jah-maica

I gone a foreign

All is Irieites

Itinually

I an I

All praise to de Irator

 

Rastaman

I com here for to drink milk

Na' to count de cow

So don't fuck with the Law of Karma

 

Jus' leave it alone

Don't fuck wit it mon

 

 

Blessin's on all beings

May all beings be happy

 

All praise to de Irator

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TIBETAN WHEEL OF LIFE:  

 

 I visited Ladakh in 2016. It is the Indian part of the Tibetan Plateau, containing many of the oldest Buddhist monasteries on the Tibetan Plateau. At the entrance of every monastery, on the right-hand wall, is painted an image called the ‘Wheel of Life,’ a comprehensive summary of Buddha’s teaching in picture form made for a predominantly illiterate culture. 

 

The Wheel of Life illustrates the co-dependently (one thing always depending on another) arising, inevitable, always and only temporary, ever alternating, ‘good,’ ‘bad,’ pleasurable and painful karmas of birth and death, youth and old age, disease and health, heaven and hell. 

The Wheel of Life illustrates the karmas (actions and destinies) of men, gods, demi-gods, demons, and animals, portraying the path of every sentient being that is bound upon this wheel. The Wheel is held in the hands of the ‘demon’ ‘Kala’ or time, a demon crowned with five skulls, representing the five elements (ether, air, fire, water, and earth) of which all and everything exists.

 

After Buddha was enlightened underneath the Bodhi tree, he thought he would not teach because what he had to say was not understood or interesting to others. In the Pali Canon, it is recorded that Buddha said:

 

“This Dharma I have realized is profound, hard to see and difficult to understand, full of peace and sublime, unattainable by mere reasoning, subtle and capable of being experienced only by the wise . . . But this generation delights in worldliness (attachment), takes delight in worldliness, and rejoices in worldliness. It is hard for such people to see this truth, namely, inevitable conditionality (everything includes its opposite) and co-dependent origination (nothing has a self-nature; it is all caused by a combination of other things; there is no 'self), and it is hard to see the truth, namely; that the stilling of all desires, the relinquishing of all attachments, the destruction of craving, dispassion, and cessation is Nirvana. If I were to teach the Dharma, others would not understand me, and that would be wearying and troublesome.

Seeing his hesitation, the gods implored him to teach, if only for the sake of the few who might be prepared and to help others know the truth of Reality. It was only at their urging that Buddha acquiesced and began his teaching mission to ‘Turn the Wheel of the Dharma.’ 

 

His very first Teaching was 'The Four Noble Truths’ and the very first ‘Truth’: ’Life is Dukkha (suffering).’ Suffering was inevitable and inherent in this world, and without awakening to this Truth, no one would ever be interested in the Teaching of freedom from suffering. (This is why Buddha was hesitant to teach.) 

 

If one were not clear that every life was limited and all beings and things were bound to the wheel of cause and effect, a wheel held by time, that they were going to die and lose everything and everyone, then they would be primarily motivated to seek pleasure and/or fulfill their various desires. Buddha did not teach ‘Buddhism,’ for the sake of any kind of fulfillment of the 'self'; rather, he taught the transcendence of 'self.' Buddha taught that a person must first discover that the ‘Truth’ of life is inevitable suffering because only then, impressed with the suffering nature of all of existence, would they ever be moved to practice the Way. (See: The Cure of the Mustard Seed)

An Example from the Wheel of Life: 

The image above displays only the center of the Wheel of Life, which shows people rising up to the pure realms by doing good deeds, helping each other, giving to others, and practicing as monks. However, because the fruits of every action are limited, the fruits of their actions are eventually exhausted. Then, they fall from their exalted state. This is why it is called the 'Wheel of Life,’ it is always turning like a wheel where what was up turns into what is down, and what is down becomes up; on and on it goes. This is why there are Buddhas shown to the upper right and upper left of the image, indicating that the Buddha’s teaching is not merely a benign mortal teaching of how to succeed in life (on the wheel); instead, it is a Transcendental Teaching, and its Truth exists outside and beyond the Wheel of Life.

Everything I have written is done in recognition of this Wheel. . .

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