Karma

Marko playing ball.


PEOPLE GET INTO A HEAVY-DUTY sin and guilt trip, feeling

that if things are going wrong, that means
that they did something 
bad and they are being punished.
That's not the idea at all. The idea 
of karma is that you continually get
the teachings that you need to 
open your heart. To the degree
that you didn't understand in the 
past how to stop protecting
your soft spot, how to stop armoring 
your heart, you're given
this gift of teachings in the form
of your life, 
to give you everything
you need to open further."

~Pema Chödrön on karma,
from "Start Where You Are"