these last few weeks i'm feeling seriously out of my groove: slow, annoyed, achy, reclusive, uncertain. when i experience funks like this, i tend to (conveniently) blame karma. i'm just paying a karmic debt and it will cycle through, back to normal, right?
pema chödrön urges us to look at karma differently, from a less passive position, one that requires us to pay attention, listen, learn, open and grow:
"the idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings 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."
that damn soft spot. it's going to be the
