Karma

Digital Prayer Wheels:

Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying the mantra (prayer) Om Mani Padme Hum, invites the blessings of Chenrezig, the embodiment of compassion. They also believe you can produce the same effect by spinning the written form of the mantra around in a prayer wheel (called "Mani wheels" by the Tibetans). The effect is said to be multiplied when more copies of the mantra are included, and spinning the Mani wheels faster increases the benefit as well.

His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, has said that having the mantra on your computer works the same as a traditional Mani wheel.

Right now, your hard drive is serving as a Mani wheel, because there are several copies of the mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum" on this page, and they are all stored on your hard drive in the cache for your browser.

On her page titled "Click Here for Good Karma" Deb Platt suggests:

"To set your very own prayer wheel in motion, all you have to do is download this mantra to your computer's hard disk. Once downloaded, your hard disk drive will spin the mantra for you. Nowadays hard disk drives spin their disks somewhere between 3600 and 7200 revolutions per minute, with a typical rate of 5400 rpm. Given those rotation speeds, you'll soon be purifying loads of negative karma."

This is very interesting. From what I can tell, "Karma" sounds very just to many people, and I have seen it spring up all over the place. The idea of Karma seems to be: All the bad stuff you do is kept track of, and an equal amount of bad stuff will happen to you, and the same for the good stuff. This hard drive prayer wheel allows people to "purify loads of negative karma." So the bad stuff you have done can be erased by an ultra fast prayer wheel with lots of Om Mani Padme Hum s on it. Weird