Light My Fire

I found a noteworthy passage in the Dammapada this morning...

Like herdsmand driving their cows into
the fields,
Old age and death will drive you
before them.

But the fool is his mischief forgets
And he lights the fire
Wherein one day he must burn.

This second part of this early passage clearly illustrates my own personal view of karma. Meaning, "Action," karma is a way of saying that we often (if not always) create our own problems. Saying to someone, "It's your karma," is just like saying, "It's your own doing." Like the fool who lights the fire that later burns him, so too all of our actions have an equal and opposite reaction.