Karma Is Our Teacher
Life brings up all sort of situations, and our minds bring up all sorts of reactions to those situations. These are all products from our past actions; karma. Karma is our collection of confusion about ourselves and the world in which we dwell. Undoing our confusion is our path. And so, our karmic confusion is our teacher. A physical teacher merely shows us how to look.
We learn from every situation through observing our reactions, looking closer, and closer still. Stopping reacting puts an end to the production of karma; when karma is exhausted, there is no more learning and we have arrived at fruition. Fruition is realising that the confusion was just a collection of ideas that never truly existed in the first place. The whole thing has been an illusion to which we consented…following everyone else.
We may find ourselves in peaceful or wrathful situations, or a bit of both! I once replied to someone about happiness and that person “went crazy at me” 😉 . Was there a right or wrong? We were both learning from our karma. How much we learn may depend on how much we can put up with 😀 We can’t please everyone, and have our own karmic load to deal with.
We receive many knocks and wounds in life, and if we are skilful, they can be our guides – our teachers: “May confusion dawn as wisdom.”
It’s nice to meet with peaceful deities, but it’s faster meeting wrathful ones…if we are ready for them.
Compassion in peaceful company is easy. It takes a massive amount of compassion and empathy to maintain balance in wrathful company. That “massive amount” is a boost …if we are ready for it.
When we get used to this boost, we find we stop reacting. There is still a mental reaction, but it is now a massive boost of clarity in the mind. That’s the light of wisdom.
The Four Dharmas of Gampopa
Grant your blessings so that our mind may follow the Dharma.
Grant your blessings so that the Dharma becomes the path.
Grant your blessings so that the path dispels confusion.
Grant your blessings so that confusion dawns as wisdom.
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 
It’s nice to meet peaceful deities but faster meeting wrathful ones. That explains some of the past I can let go of now knowing what I thought was terrible was actually Love all along. Thanx.
Ha! You prompted todays article…The Wrathful Mirror.