Kamma or Karma is a Sanskrit term that literally means "action" or "doing".

Kamma or Karma is a Sanskrit term that literally means "action" or "doing". In the Buddhist tradition, kamma refers to action driven by intention which leads to future consequences. Those intentions are considered to be the determining factor in the kind of rebirth in samsara, the cycle of rebirth.

Karma and karmaphala are fundamental concepts in Buddhism. The concepts of karma and karmaphala explain how our intentional actions keep us tied to rebirth in samsara, whereas the Buddhist path, as exemplified in the Noble Eightfold Path, shows us the way out of samsara.

Rebirth is a common belief in all Buddhist traditions. It says that birth and death in the six realms occur in successive cycles driven by ignorance, desire, and hatred. The cycle of rebirth called samsara is a beginning less and ever-ongoing process. Liberation from samsara can be attained by following the Buddhist Path. This path leads to vidya, and the stilling of trsna and dvesa. Hereby the ongoing process of rebirth is stopped.

The cycle of rebirth is determined by karma, literally "action". Karma leads to future consequences, karma-phala, "fruit of action". Any given action may cause all sorts of results, but the karmic results are only those results which are a consequence of both the moral quality of the action, and of the intention behind the action. Good moral actions lead to wholesome rebirths, and bad moral actions lead to unwholesome rebirths.

"Our own actions are the causes of whatever we experience ; all beings own their deeds, inherit their deeds, originate from their deeds, are tied to their deeds, their deeds are their refuge. As their deeds are base or noble, so will be their lives." ✨👁🕉🌀🌅✨

Om Shanti Shanti Shanti ~ Shubh Prabhat 🕉✨🙏