Knowra Karma in Buddhism Karma in Buddhism Karma is the ethical principle that intentional actions shape future experience, including rebirth. Its effects arise through causal conditions, not through judgment by a creator deity.
Cetanā : Cetanā is the intention or volition that directs mental activity and action. The Buddha identifies intention as the defining feature of karma.
Four Noble Truths : The Four Noble Truths describe suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path to its cessation. Karma operates within the account of suffering and its causes.
Niyama : Niyama is a classification of natural conditional orders in Theravāda Buddhist thought, including karmic and physical processes. It situates karma among several kinds of causation rather than making it the cause of everything.
Five precepts : The five precepts are basic Buddhist training commitments to refrain from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, false speech, and intoxicants. They translate concern about harmful action into concrete ethical restraints.
Vipāka : Vipāka is the ripening or result of past actions in Buddhist accounts of causation. It names the maturation of karmic causes into experience.
Noble Eightfold Path : The Noble Eightfold Path is the Buddhist training in understanding, ethics, and mental cultivation leading toward liberation. Its ethical and mental disciplines cultivate wholesome intentions and action.
Fatalism : Fatalism is the view that outcomes are fixed and unavoidable regardless of present choices. Buddhist karma allows present intention and practice to affect future conditions.
Dāna : Dāna is the practice of giving, a form of generosity cultivated in Buddhist communities. Giving is a common practice for cultivating wholesome intention and merit.
Dependent origination : Dependent origination is the principle that phenomena arise through conditions rather than independently. It places karmic effects within conditional processes rather than a fixed moral ledger.
Anattā : Anattā is the Buddhist teaching that no permanent, independent self exists. It rules out an enduring soul as the bearer of karmic results.
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