kamma (karmaSkt.) = action, work, deed
1a. 'Karma' simply means action, work, or deed. For example, in the
👑8☸ right action (kammanto,
4🏃), just means
action, not "cause and effect associated with that
action". The word that would more accurately capture the law of cause and effect, would be
kamma-s-saka.
1b. In the English language, people usually define or understand 'karma' as the law of cause and effect (vipaka = fruit, result from one's
action).
That is, 'karma' is a natural law of
Dharma that in this life time and future life time(s) (
rebirth), one experiences karmic-results of one's actions that are somewhat commensurate and bears a flavor resembling one's initial
action.
🔬details: comprehensive survey of sutta passages.
also see:
Fortune favors the virtuous, a collection of true stories of karmic consequences and rebirth.
Rebirth is a natural law of
Dharma that after physical death, unless one is an arahant, craving and ignorance leads to being reborn as a new being, in many possible realms of existence commensurate with one's accumulated
karma.
Once again, Rebirth is a natural law of
Dharma, like gravity, rain, and sunshine. It's not a belief or superstition.
If one has developed
☂️🌄, to the level beyond
j4🌕 into
6ab ⚡☸, one can see
karma and
rebirth directly in past lives. Any meditator of any religion, Buddhist, Atheist, skeptic, Christian mystic, Taoist, Hindu, Essene, Catholic who has well developed samadhi can witness karma and rebirth directly for themselves.
🔬details: comprehensive survey of sutta passages.
also see:
Fortune favors the virtuous, a collection of true stories of karmic consequences and rebirth.