Composting Your Karma: Opening to Inner Wisdom

Your karma is not your true self, and your habit force can be altered. In order to aspire to the highest wisdom, there has to be direct intuition, completely seeing into this moment. This means that everything, even the things we sometimes consider incorrect or tainted, are themselves pointing to your true self. When we can truly understand this, within our own wisdom and efforts, there will be no more obstacles, no more obstructions, only directly looking into things.

Composting your karma means to take the residual, undigested events and habits and digest them. Just as a compost pile needs tending, so does our karma. Rather than feeling hindered by our karma, we can attend to it. The product in our heathy garden com-post is humus, the living part of soil. The product of our composted, digested karma is learned lessons. As we learn our lessons, we be-come more and more aware. We learn to openly question, and we learn to listen. These lessons open us up to our innate compassion and wisdom. We become the Buddha we already are.

Composting Our Karma: Turning Confusion into Lessons for Awakening Our Innate Wisdom 
By Barbara Rhodes (Zen Master Soeng Hyang) edited by Elizabeth S. R. Goldstein 
Publisher: Shambhala 2024