What is the law of Kamma, simply put? Buddhism?

volitional actions and their consequences.

one of five ways in which the law of cause an effect works itself out.

the laws of non living matter (physics)

the laws of living mater (biology, genes)

karma, volitional action

mind (personally not sure about that one)

Dharma, which is everything else and everything already said working as the Dharma as a dynamo or something....ultimate reality?

Pema Chodron, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, explains it as an imprint. It is not some outside power, nor something enforced on us. It IS us.

That everything we do, the positive and the negative both, sets imprints within us.

That these imprints remain there until they "ripen".

When these imprints ripen, WE then draw to us, automatically, someone or something that is similar to the nature of those imprints we have made within ourselves.

Or, we ourselves are drawn to someone or something that is similar to the nature of who we are.

In part, modern science agrees with karma.

Any neuroscientist will tell you that every thought, every action, every emotion, either sets a new biochemical pathway (imprint) in your brain, or reinforces (strengthens) an already-existing pathway.

And any psychologist will tell you that we are always unconscious giving off subliminal signals, signals that are the nature of our own internal unconscious issues, and that others are always picking them up unconsciously too. In other words, no matter what we consciously try to express, we are always expressing our unconscious (our imprints) as well .. and others are always reading them.

Therefore, whatever the content of our imprints is, some people will be drawn to us, some will not like us ... just on some gut-level that they can't even say "why".

In fact, in Buddhism we ARE our karma. We are the sum total of all imprints, all habits. We constantly make ourselves and our own reality, our own future through EVERY thought, action and feeling that we have. The fact that there is consistency, and that we appear to be a consistent personality, is only that we tend to run in habits and patterns ... whatever our dominant imprints are, that is what we are most likely to think, do, feel next. Unless, of course, we consciously select alternative patterns.

According to Buddhism, we are nothing more than consciousness overlaid with habits .. not really at all the solid personality we think we perceive. And this is why Buddhism says "we" don't really exist .. what they are saying is that we are not what/who we think we are.

kamma vipaka

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the law of kamma

kamma - cause

vipaka - effect

cause and effect as you've known. the law of nature put in a single line is cause and effect.

it is the law or cause and effect. simply put if you do a bad action you will get a bad result in return at some point in time, vice versa a good action will result in a good result.

Galatians 6:7.

When you do bad things, bad things happen to you. When you do good things, good things happen to you. Couldn't be much simpler.